Thomasnet Suppliers Scraper: US & Canadian Manufacturers, Distributors & Service Companies

US and Canadian industrial suppliers from Thomasnet (thomasnet.com) for a product or service keyword, nationwide, around ZIP or postal codes, or across whole US states and Canadian provinces: company type, address, phone, website, annual sales and employee bands, year founded, categories, materials and industries served. It reads Thomasnet's public pages over plain HTTP (no browser), you pay only for suppliers delivered, and a run that delivers nothing because of an error or a block ends as Failed, never as a green empty run.

What you get

• Company name, primary company type (Manufacturer, Custom Manufacturer, Distributor, Service Company, Finishing Service Company, Manufacturers' Rep, Turnkey Systems Integrator, ...) and other activities it lists
• Street address, city, state or province, ZIP or postal code, country, latitude and longitude; distance from the searched ZIP or postal code. For companies with several locations (isMultiLocation: true) Thomasnet's search card shows either the main location's address or a branch's, and the distance is to the location nearest the search, which is not always the address shown; the actor delivers the card as Thomasnet shows it
• Phone number as listed on Thomasnet, and website. For advertisers the listed phone is usually a Thomasnet call-tracking number that forwards to the company (in our checks of 6 advertisers it differed from the number on the company's own website); branches of multi-location companies often show the main location's number
• Annual sales band, employee band, year founded
• The Thomasnet categories that matched your search (a search card shows up to 5), the category that matched best, materials worked, industries served, production scale (prototype, short run, high volume, ...)
• Listing flags: Thomasnet tier (e.g. VERIFIED), advertiser, claimed profile, top responder, Xometry partner, branch of a multi-location company
• With Add company profile details: the category headings the public profile page lists (allCategories, up to 25; Thomasnet's "Company Profile Section" placeholder heading is left out), the company's own description, how many certifications it lists by type (quality, registration, diversity), social media and blog links, and its Thomasnet product families
• One record per supplier, as JSON, CSV or Excel, or through the API. A supplier found by several searches in one run is delivered and charged once, with the address, distance and search fields of the first search that found it.
• A run summary (OUTPUT_SUMMARY in the run's key-value store): what was requested, delivered and charged; per search how many suppliers Thomasnet reports and how many it shows; which inputs failed or were ignored and why; whether the run moved to residential proxy; why the run stopped.

What it does not return: certification names and ownership/diversity status (Thomasnet shows them only to signed-in users; you get the counts), key personnel and other named employees, emails, press releases, anything behind Thomasnet's login.

How Thomasnet limits visitors, and how the actor deals with it

Thomasnet shows a visitor who is not signed in the first page of a search: about 25 suppliers, in Thomasnet's own ranking (advertisers first). The second page and every filter (company type, certification, location served) ask the visitor to register. This actor does not sign in, so:

• A nationwide search returns about 25 suppliers per term (in run 3Tum7zbNfK5UFlSWt Thomasnet reported 7,199 suppliers for "gear cutting" and showed 26, of which 25 were distinct).
• ZIP codes narrow a search to an area, the way Thomasnet's own location box does: about 25 suppliers per term per ZIP code, all near it.
• States run one ZIP-code search per main industrial city of the state (1 to 13 cities, e.g. 11 for Texas, 8 for New Jersey, 5 for Rhode Island) and keep the suppliers whose address is in the state. In small states and next to state lines each city uses a smaller radius of its own (5 miles in DC, 8-15 in Rhode Island), so the 25 suppliers Thomasnet shows stay mostly in the state. Two terms across Texas gave 317 distinct Texas suppliers in 38 seconds (tST5NMY13L4UZRS3G); "cnc machining" in DC and Rhode Island gave 62 (IL1S1IfA843JY6V27); "injection molding" in New Jersey and Connecticut gave 138 (24ESPsfh4dLHvWMjN). Suppliers found outside the state are skipped, not charged, and counted in the status message.
• Canadian provinces work the same way (Ontario 13 cities, Quebec 9, British Columbia 6, Alberta 7, and 1-3 in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island). "cnc machining" in Ontario and Alberta plus the Montreal postal code H4T 1A1 gave 330 distinct suppliers in 34 seconds (C8e6V0jLLMfp0YU5i: 227 in Ontario, 78 in Alberta, 25 near Montreal). Canadian postal codes are searched by their first 3 characters (M5V 2T6 becomes M5V), which is what Thomasnet's location box understands; a full postal code finds nothing there.
• More specific terms (e.g. "swiss cnc machining" next to "cnc machining") and more ZIP codes with a smaller radius reach further. The status message says when a search had more suppliers than Thomasnet shows.

How to use

1. Type what the suppliers make or do into Products or services, e.g. cnc machining, injection molding, ball valves. Several entries are fine.
2. Optional: add Near ZIP / postal codes (with Radius) or US states / Canadian provinces (TX, Ohio, Washington DC, Ontario, QC). Without them, the search is nationwide. For states, raise Maximum suppliers per search (it counts per term and state together).
3. Or paste Thomasnet pages into Thomasnet URLs: a search URL, a category page (thomasnet.com/suppliers/usa/cnc-machining-45330503) or a company profile.
4. Set Maximum suppliers per search and press Start. Download the results from the Output tab, or read them from the API.

Input

Field	Type	Default	What it does
searchTerms	list of text	none	Products or services, as typed in Thomasnet's search box. One search per term, and per ZIP code or state when given.
startUrls	list of URLs	none	thomasnet.com search URLs, category pages or company profiles, used as they are (an old-style what= search URL is read as searchterm=; a URL that repeats one of your terms is fetched once). URLs with filters or a page number above 1 need a Thomasnet account: that search fails with a message saying so (0fq3g7GJARhSAUpqY). Other sites' URLs are ignored and listed in the summary.
zipCodes	list of text	none	US ZIP codes (5 digits) or Canadian postal codes (M5V 2T6 or M5V). Each term is searched around each one.
states	list of text	none	US states, DC and Canadian provinces by code or name (TX, Texas, DC, Washington DC, ON, Ontario, Québec). Each term is searched around the state's or province's main industrial cities; only suppliers with an address there are kept.
radiusMiles	number	50	Radius around each ZIP code or state city, 1-500 miles. Some state cities use a smaller radius of their own (see above).
maxItems	number	100	Stop each search (one term with one ZIP code, one term with one state, or one URL) after this many suppliers. A state search can find a few hundred: raise it for big states.
includeProfileDetails	yes/no	no	Open each supplier's profile and add the category headings it lists, the company's own description, certification counts, social links and product families. One more page per supplier; no extra charge.
onlyNew	yes/no	no	Deliver and charge only suppliers earlier runs with the same searches did not deliver. See "Monitoring".
monitorKey	text	empty	Name of the monitor memory, to keep two schedules apart.
proxyConfiguration	proxy	off	Not needed: see the FAQ.

Input values that cannot be used (a ZIP code that is not 5 digits nor a Canadian postal code, a state or province that does not exist, a Canadian territory in states) fail the run in about a second, before any charge but the start fee; the message says what to change. Search terms longer than 200 characters are ignored and listed in the summary.

This input was run as z51scTOrq7YfbWcUN on 2026-10-20 (60 Ohio suppliers with profile details, 44 seconds):

{
  "searchTerms": ["cnc machining"],
  "states": ["Ohio"],
  "maxItems": 60,
  "includeProfileDetails": true
}

Example result

Taken from run z51scTOrq7YfbWcUN on 2026-10-20, unedited:

{
  "id": "30114506",
  "name": "Miles Products, Inc.",
  "supplierType": "Custom Manufacturer",
  "supplierTypeCode": "C",
  "additionalActivities": ["Custom Manufacturer - Instant Quote"],
  "description": "Custom manufacturer of thermoplastics. Capabilities include injection molding, machining, additive manufacturing, 3D printing, and vacuum forming. Additional services such as designing, engineering, labeling, and part decorating are also provided. Prototypes and production runs are available. Serves the commercial trucking, healthcare, medical, and transportation industries.",
  "street": "4492 Vicky Drive",
  "city": "Brunswick",
  "state": "OH",
  "stateName": "Ohio",
  "postalCode": "44212",
  "country": "USA",
  "latitude": 41.23928022,
  "longitude": -81.8322881,
  "phone": "(801) 717-5870",
  "website": "http://milesproducts.com",
  "annualSales": "Under $1 Mil",
  "employees": "1-9",
  "yearFounded": 1986,
  "thomasTier": "VERIFIED",
  "isAdvertiser": true,
  "isClaimed": true,
  "isTopResponder": true,
  "xometryPartner": false,
  "isMultiLocation": false,
  "mainLocationName": null,
  "mainLocationId": null,
  "logoUrl": "https://cdn.thomasnet.com/ccp/30114506/372529.png",
  "profileUrl": "https://www.thomasnet.com/company/miles-products-inc-30114506/profile",
  "categories": ["CNC Machining", "General Contract Machining", "Special Machining", "Machining", "Precision Machining"],
  "matchedCategory": "CNC Machining",
  "materials": ["Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS)", "Aluminum", "Any Metal", "Exotic Metals", "Graphite", "Nylon", "Plastics", "Polycarbonate", "Steel"],
  "industries": ["Aerospace", "Automotive", "Consumer Goods", "Electrical", "Electronics", "Medical and Dental", "Military"],
  "productionScale": ["High Volume", "Low Volume", "Production Runs", "Prototype", "Short Run"],
  "catalogItems": [],
  "distanceMiles": 18.5,
  "allCategories": [],
  "companyDescription": "Since 1979 Miles Products has built its reputation on know-how, service, and reliability. Success demands strategy and teamwork. Our network and dedicated customer service can help your team develop, produce and launch the next big breakthrough. We are dedicated to made in USA and North American manufacturing for the great design, quality and logistics it provides.",
  "certificationCount": 18,
  "certificationCountsByType": { "QUALITY": 6, "DIVERSITY": 1, "REGISTRATION": 11 },
  "socialLinks": [
    { "type": "BLOGS", "url": "https://milesproducts.com/blog" },
    { "type": "YOUTUBE", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkK5aHDa_HbpZ-4IPUW8W9g" }
  ],
  "productFamilies": ["Additive Manufacturing Services", "Assemblies", "Automotive Parts", "Bins", "Casting Services", "Connector Parts", "Connectors", "Containers", "Drafting Services", "Electrical Components", "Electronic Components", "Electronics Contract Manufacturing Services", "Fabrication Services", "Foams", "Food", "Food Contract Manufacturing & Private Labeling", "Forming Services", "Job Shop Services", "Machining", "Manufacturing Services"],
  "locationTypes": [],
  "detailsFetched": true,
  "searchTerm": "cnc machining",
  "searchLocation": "Cleveland, OH (ZIP 44113) +50 mi",
  "searchRank": 15,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-20T13:43:47.141Z"
}

Field	Meaning
id	Thomasnet's company id; stable between runs.
supplierType, supplierTypeCode	Primary company type as Thomasnet lists it, and its one-letter code.
supplierType, supplierTypeCode (null)	Some listings have no primary type; their activities are still in additionalActivities (12 of 317 in the Texas run).
phone	As listed on Thomasnet; for advertisers (isAdvertiser: true) usually a call-tracking number that forwards to the company.
annualSales, employees	Bands as Thomasnet shows them (text, e.g. $5 - 9.9 Mil, 50-99); null where Thomasnet shows "N/A".
categories	The Thomasnet categories of this company that matched the search (up to 5 on a search card).
allCategories	With profile details: the category headings the public profile page lists, each name once, without the "Company Profile Section" placeholder heading that Thomasnet's profile data includes (the page shows at most 25 headings, so up to 25 names; empty when the profile lists none: 4 of 10 profiles in Ex4mJlCAVMd1dq8xG); null without details.
distanceMiles	Distance from the searched ZIP or postal code (ZIP and state searches). For multi-location companies it is measured to the location nearest the search, which may not be the address shown.
isMultiLocation	The company has several locations. Its address may be the main location or a branch, as Thomasnet's card shows it; in a state search a company is kept only if the address shown is in the state, so a company whose card shows an out-of-state main address is skipped there even if it has a branch in the state.
certificationCount, certificationCountsByType	With profile details: how many certifications the profile lists, by type. Names are for signed-in users only.
searchTerm, searchLocation, searchRank	Which search found the supplier (its term, and the ZIP/postal code or city searched; searchLocation is null for a nationwide search), and its position in Thomasnet's ranking for that search. For a pasted search URL they come from the URL (searchterm, and zip + radius when present); for a pasted category page or profile searchTerm and searchLocation are null.
detailsFetched	true when the profile details were added.

Fields the site does not provide for a given supplier are null (or an empty list), never missing; Thomasnet's "N/A" and "NONE" placeholders are null too. Fill rates with real values:

Field	Ohio, 60 suppliers with details (z51scTOrq7YfbWcUN)	Texas, 317 suppliers (tST5NMY13L4UZRS3G)
Phone	60 (100%)	302 (95%)
Street, coordinates	60 (100%)	317 (100%)
Website	54 (90%)	233 (74%)
Annual sales band	47 (78%)	190 (60%)
Employee band	49 (82%)	221 (70%)
Year founded	51 (85%)	212 (67%)
Company's own description (details only)	33 (55%)	not requested

Pricing

Pay per event. You pay for suppliers delivered, not for time, memory or proxy traffic.

Event	Free	Bronze	Silver	Gold and above
Actor start (once per run at the default 256 MB)	$0.003	$0.003	$0.003	$0.003
Supplier delivered	$0.0048	$0.004	$0.0036	$0.0032

Worked example on Bronze: two terms across Texas, 317 suppliers = 317 × $0.004 + $0.003 = $1.271. 1,000 suppliers cost $4.003. Profile details add nothing to the price.

• Suppliers that could not be delivered are not charged. A supplier found by several searches in one run is delivered and charged once.
• The maximum total charge you set for a run is respected: with $0.031 the actor delivered exactly 7 suppliers (start fee + 7 × $0.004) and ended Succeeded, saying so (eZjBUepLordJV8ghz).

Reliability and failure behaviour

What happened	Run status	Status message (from the runs named)
Suppliers delivered	Succeeded	Scraped 75 suppliers from 3 queries (aBQ0O9NmekVnG3Xbe)
Thomasnet has no suppliers for the term	Succeeded	0 results: Thomasnet has no suppliers for this query (5iw3DZmTcoLEqgdYg)
State search found suppliers only outside the state	Succeeded	0 suppliers: the 5 suppliers Thomasnet listed did not match the requested area — 5 suppliers found near … were outside … and skipped (not charged) (offline simulation)
Some searches worked, some failed	Succeeded	Scraped 6 suppliers from 3 queries — 1 of 3 queries failed ("…": Thomasnet shows this page only to signed-in users …) (fJDkFfGYaKBMy6No4)
Nothing delivered because of blocking	Failed	No suppliers delivered: Thomasnet blocked every attempt; try again later. No suppliers were charged (the start fee applies). (offline simulation; not met live)
Input the actor cannot use	Failed, about 1 s	"Narnia" in "states" is not a US state or Canadian province: … (OiVEVgPsCSE8dfAgd); Nothing to do: none of the 1 entries in the input is usable … (h7eXx73yVsOdZRJYb)
Maximum charge reached	Succeeded	Scraped 7 suppliers from 1 query — stopped at the maximum charge set for this run (IrTie3bDtRZmBb43D)
Run timeout close	Succeeded	Scraped 95 suppliers from 2 queries — stopped just before the run timeout; raise the timeout to get the rest (15-second timeout, k6mPscCiQKL1oG5he)

• With profile details on, a run that reaches its timeout while profiles are loading still delivers that page; the suppliers whose profile was not reached have detailsFetched: false (w3fptRXC0cXI5ns2W, 12-second timeout: 25 delivered, 10 with details).
• Thomasnet uses DataDome bot protection. Without a proxy chosen, the actor sends requests directly; as soon as one is refused it continues through Apify's US residential proxy on a fresh address per retry (up to 6 retries). In the test runs on 2026-10-20 most short searches went through directly; some runs met 1 to 5 refusals (z51scTOrq7YfbWcUN, tST5NMY13L4UZRS3G, 6CkEmYFtag6Rjajbm, 0fq3g7GJARhSAUpqY); each moved to residential proxy and delivered everything requested.
• Results are saved page by page. A run that is aborted, times out or is resurrected keeps what was delivered and never delivers or charges the same supplier twice. An aborted run says Aborted by the user after 25 suppliers delivered (7fYfh2yMcYRcT8Rbz).
• In all 59 test runs on 2026-10-20 and 2026-10-24 (counters re-read after the runs settled) the suppliers charged equalled the suppliers in the dataset.

Limits

• About 25 suppliers per search (see above). A state search covers the 25 suppliers Thomasnet shows around each of the state's main cities, not every supplier in the state; cities without an entry in the list are reached through ZIP codes.
• States are US states, DC and the ten Canadian provinces. The territories (Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut) are not accepted in states (the run fails at once with a message naming a postal area to use); put their postal areas in zipCodes instead, e.g. Y1A (Whitehorse), X1A (Yellowknife), X0A (Iqaluit). Thomasnet lists very few suppliers there ("steel" within 500 miles of Y1A: 7, all in Alaska; of X1A: 1, in Alberta; checked 2026-10-24). Radius is in miles for Canadian searches too.
• Profile details take one more page per supplier: 60 suppliers with details took 44 seconds, 317 without took 38.
• Fill rates vary by company: small companies often have no sales band, employee band or own description.

Monitoring: only new suppliers

1. Turn on Only new suppliers and save the input as a task.
2. Schedule the task (weekly suits a supplier directory).
3. The first run delivers what it finds (up to the maximum). Every later run delivers and charges only suppliers not delivered before for the same search; a run with nothing new ends as Succeeded with 0 new suppliers… and charges only the start event (3Tum7zbNfK5UFlSWt delivered 25, then 9CdTVRbvfqkCMH2sf delivered 0).

The memory is a key-value store named thomasnet-suppliers-scraper-monitor in your own account (one record per search and monitor name, at most 10,000 ids each). Suppliers cut off by the maximum per search or by your charge limit are not marked as seen: the next run delivers (and charges) them, so with a maximum below what a search finds, later runs also deliver suppliers that were already listed but not delivered yet, not only new listings (YSd6k8JtSMVXcXZUL delivered 10, then 4fVfvaaScOWHgzOZZ 10 more and 2lhngwYUcN3XZaSpZ 5 more of the same search). Set the maximum above what a search finds if you want later runs to deliver only new listings. Changing the radius starts a new memory for that search. Delete the store or change Monitor name to start over.

FAQ

Do I need a proxy? No. Leave it off: the actor moves to US residential proxy by itself when Thomasnet refuses a request, at no extra cost to you. Apify's datacenter proxy is refused at times (it was refused in our first probes and went through in run QBu1LsOQobzS2UQBM); if you choose it, the actor still switches to residential when it is refused.

Why do I get about 25 suppliers when Thomasnet says there are thousands? Thomasnet shows the rest only to signed-in users, and this actor does not sign in. Use ZIP codes, states or more specific terms.

Why are certification names missing? They are behind Thomasnet's sign-in. With profile details you get the number of certifications per type.

Can I run it from code? Yes: the API, the Apify clients for JavaScript and Python, Make, Zapier, n8n. The Output tab shows the URLs.

What happens when Thomasnet changes its pages? Runs fail loudly instead of returning empty data; report the run id under Issues.

Legal and responsible use

This actor collects business listing data that Thomasnet shows publicly without a login: company names, company addresses, the phone numbers listed for companies, websites, company size bands and capabilities. It does not extract key personnel or other named employees, and it does not sign in or reach anything behind Thomasnet's registration wall. Company descriptions are written by Thomasnet or the company and are delivered as they are.

Thomasnet's terms of use forbid scraping and building databases from its content for third parties, and its robots.txt asks crawlers not to fetch search URLs. You are responsible for how you use the data: respect those terms, copyright and database rights, and data-protection and anti-spam law (GDPR, CAN-SPAM, Canada's CASL and PIPEDA, and others) in your country and the country of the data. Do not use the output for unsolicited marketing to individuals. If you are unsure, ask a lawyer before you build on it.

Changelog

• 2026-10-24 0.1.15: Thomasnet's "Company Profile Section" placeholder heading is no longer listed in allCategories (or in categories of a pasted profile); records from a pasted search URL carry its search term in searchTerm (and its ZIP + radius in searchLocation) instead of null.

• 2026-10-24 0.1.12: allCategories with profile details; Canadian territories in states fail with a message pointing to postal areas; search terms over 200 characters are ignored; the radius is part of a state search's "only new" memory; the status message after an abort says so; default memory 256 MB.

• 2026-10-24 0.1.10: Canadian provinces in "states" (Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia, Alberta and the other six) and Canadian postal codes in "zipCodes".

• 2026-10-20 0.1.9: state searches use a smaller radius per city in small states and near state lines, and more cities in small states (DC and Rhode Island: 2 suppliers before, 62 after); "N/A"/"NONE" placeholders are null; a pasted page-2 URL fails with the sign-in message instead of returning page 1; old what= search URLs work; a timeout during profile details no longer drops the page.

• 2026-10-20 0.1: first version: keyword, ZIP code, state and URL searches; profile details; only-new monitoring; automatic move to residential proxy when Thomasnet refuses a request.

Support

Open an issue on the actor's Issues tab with the run id.