📇 Trade Show Exhibitors Scraper — Expos, Fairs & Salons (MCP)

Paste any trade show, expo, fair or salon URL — get the full exhibitor list: name, booth/stand, hall, category, country, description, website, emails & socials. Auto-discovers the exhibitor pages and the official PDF lists by itself. Monitor mode returns only new exhibitors every edition. No API key. MCP-ready.

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✨ Why this one

Ingredient	What it means for you
🔒 Hard-to-get data	Exhibitor directories are platform-locked, JS-heavy or PDF-only. Competitors charge a $0.50 minimum per run and support ~20 predefined platforms. We read any self-hosted directory + PDFs, with no run minimum — pay per row only.
🛠️ Hardest problems, solved	Auto-discovery (nav links, sitemap, 17 common paths), booth extraction from noisy card fragments (Stand A1.23, Hall 3, Booth 5B21, Padiglione 4…), multi-strategy extraction (JSON-LD → profile links → cards → suffix fallback), plus the killer nobody has: direct PDF exhibitor lists.
⚙️ Automation	onlyNew mode + a schedule = "warn me when the exhibitor list of the next edition drops". Contact enrichment on click. MCP-ready from day one.
🧠 SEO built for AI agents	Every row is a structured exhibitor-extracted event — LLM agents can call us via MCP and only pay for what they use.

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🚀 Quick start (3 clicks)

1. Open the actor → Try for free
2. Paste a trade show URL (homepage is fine, we find the list):
   • https://www.global-industrie.com → 1 100+ exhibitors (official PDF auto-detected)
   • or the direct exhibitor list page → source: url
3. 💾 Export CSV / JSON / Excel — or trigger it from n8n, Make, Zapier or your AI agent

MCP: https://mcp.apify.com/?actors=amygraphics/trade-show-exhibitors-scraper → Claude / ChatGPT / Gemini can now ask "give me the exhibitors of Salon X" themselves.

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📦 What each row contains

Field	Example
exhibitorName	BÖLLHOFF
booth	A1.23
hall	Hall 3
category	Home robotics
country	France (60+ countries detected, EN/FR/DE/ES/IT/NL spellings)
website	https://acme-robotics.de
description	"We build autonomous warehouse robots…"
emails / phones / socials	from profile pages (optional pass)
profileUrl	deep link to the exhibitor profile
eventName / eventUrl	which show this came from
isNew	true only for never-seen-before exhibitors (monitor mode)

No field named type (platform quirk, avoided by design).

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🔁 Automation recipes

Recipe 1 — edition watchdog (the money one)

Run weekly with mode: onlyNew on your 10 target shows → wake up to "34 new exhibitors at SIAL 2027" = 34 fresh sales targets, weeks before your competitors notice.

Recipe 2 — niche prospecting

keywordFilter: robotics on 6 industrial fairs → a curated list of exhibitors in your niche with booths + contacts when available.

Recipe 3 — event intel dashboard

includeDetails: true → description, website, email & socials per exhibitor → plug the dataset into your CRM (Pipedrive / HubSpot via Make) as "Companies at show X".

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🆚 Competition — why users switch here

Actor	Platforms	Monitor	Min. per run	Booths
skython/exhibitor-list-scraper (leader, 5.0★)	~20 hardcoded (MapYourShow, messe-*)	❌	$0.50 run minimum	✓
memo23/mapyourshow-exhibitor-scraper	MapYourShow only	❌	per event	✓
cleanscrape/event-exhibitor-monitor	MapYourShow only	✓	per event	✓
us	ANY self-hosted directory + official PDF lists	✓	$0.001 + per row	✓

Fair note: actors needing MapYourShow's private JSON are deliberately not supported — mapyourshow.com/robots.txt disallows it, and this actor respects robots.txt. Everything that is legally crawlable, we take.

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🧪 Input reference

Key	Default	What it does
startUrls	[global-industrie.com]	One or many events (auto = homepage, url = list page)
source	auto	auto=browse to the list ourselves · url=the page you gave IS the list
mode	full	onlyNew = differential edition monitoring
maxExhibitors	300	Raise to 5 000 for big halls
includeDetails	false	Enrich every profile (description, website, emails, socials)
maxDetails	120	Cap the enrichment pass
keywordFilter	—	e.g. robotics, packaging
extractEmails	true	Contact extraction during enrichment
requestDelaySecs / requestTimeoutSecs	0 / 30	Politeness & network tuning
respectRobots	true	Keep it on; use a proxy for bot-walled directories instead
proxyConfiguration	—	RESIDENTIAL only if the host blocks datacenter IPs

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⚖️ Fair use

• Business contact data from public pages: comply with GDPR/CCPA (B2B outreach stays legal, spam doesn't). Turn extractEmails off if you don't need it.
• We honor robots.txt + per-host Crawl-delay unconditionally. respectRobots: false exists for code the site owner explicitly allows you to crawl faster (e.g. your own directory); it never bypasses logins.

🏗️ Architecture

Fetcher (gzip · retries · proxy → robots parser with Crawl-delay) → discovery (links / sitemap / common paths + PDF lists) → extractors (JSON-LD, profile-links, cards with anti-wrapper segmentation, suffix fallback, PDF stream decoder) → dedupe + validation (LOW-nav filters, country/booth patterns) → optional profile enrichment + cleanup (site-wide footer contacts dropped) → monitor KV (trade-show-exhibitors-seen) → PPE exhibitor-extracted events.

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💰 Pricing

• $0.001 — actor start (1 GB)
• $0.001 — per exhibitor extracted (exhibitor-extracted)
• Monitor runs charge only NEW exhibitors — 0 new = only the start event.

Rows	Cost
100 exhibitors	~$0.10
1 100 (big salon, PDF)	~$1.10
Edition delta (34 new)	~$0.04

Compare: the leader's $0.50 minimum charges you $0.50 even for 12 exhibitors.

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