Europages Company Scraper

Returns: one row per company with name, city, countryCode, homepage, phone, employeeCount, foundingYear, supplierTypes. Input: {"keywords":["packaging"],"countries":["DE"],"maxItems":20,"includeCompanyDetails":false} Best for: B2B lead lists, supplier sourcing, market mapping by country and industry.

{
  "id": "646917",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.europages.co.uk/en/company/vkf-renzel-gmbh-646917",
  "name": "VKF Renzel GmbH",
  "city": "Isselburg",
  "countryCode": "DE",
  "homepage": "https://www.vkf-renzel.de/",
  "employeeCount": "500-999",
  "supplierTypes": [
    "production",
    "service",
    "distribution",
    "wholesaler"
  ]
}

What does Europages Company Scraper do?

Europages Company Scraper is a Europages scraper and Europages API alternative that turns the public Europages B2B directory into structured rows. You give it one or more search keywords, optionally a list of countries, and it returns the matching company profiles: name, description, full address, website, phone number, employee band, founding year, supplier types, map coordinates and the Europages page where the company can be contacted.

It reads the public search result pages and, when you ask for it, the public company pages. It does not log in, it does not use a browser, and it supports Apify Proxy. Each successful page decodes its embedded Nuxt payload once and reuses that data for extraction. Search-only runs avoid the extra company-page requests; detail runs make one additional request per company at a modest request rate. The Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Europages.

Typical uses are building lists of suppliers or manufacturers in a given country, finding distributors for a product category, mapping the companies active in an industry, and feeding a CRM or enrichment pipeline with company names, websites and phone numbers.

What data can you get?

Search-only results also include productCount, logoUrl, and responseRate when Europages exposes them. A null on the detail page does not erase a value available in the search result. These fields are nullable; unavailable values stay null.

Every record has a stable id (the Europages company ID) and a sourceUrl (the Europages company page). Fields that a company has not published are returned as null. The fields marked "only with" are added when you switch on the matching option.

Field	Type	Description
id	string	Europages company ID, unique per company
sourceUrl	string	Europages company page the record came from
name	string	Company name
description	string	Company profile text
street	string	Street address
postalCode	string	Postal code
city	string	City
countryCode	string	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code
homepage	string	Company website
phone	string	Company phone number
employeeCount	string	Employee count band such as 20-49
foundingYear	number	Year the company was founded
supplierTypes	array	Supplier types such as production, service, wholesaler, distribution
distributionArea	string	Distribution area such as national or international
latitude	number	Latitude of the company address
longitude	number	Longitude of the company address
contactPageUrl	string	Europages company page, which carries the contact form
mainBusinessArea	string	Main business category (only with company details)
vatId	string	VAT identification number (only with company details)
contacts	array	Business contact persons with name, role and phone (only with company details)
keywords	array	Europages keywords listed on the company page (only with company details)
certificates	array	Certificate names, when the company lists any (only with company details)
paymentMethods	array	Accepted payment method codes and additional labels (company details only); null when unpublished
paymentTerms	array	Payment terms, when listed (only with company details)
incoterms	array	Incoterms, when listed (only with company details)
productCount	number	Number of products reported in search data or the company page, when present
faxNumber	string	Fax number, when present (only with company details)
logoUrl	string	Logo image URL from search data or company details, when present
responseRate	number	Response rate reported in search data or company details, when present
sector	string	Industry sector classified by AI (only with sector enrichment)
catalogUrl	string or null	Public catalog URL from a company detail page.
documents	array or null	Public document links, titles, filenames and MIME types.
averageResponseTime	string or null	Source response-time label.
isQuickResponder	boolean or null	Source quick-responder flag.

The search result pages do not expose an email address or a revenue figure, so this Actor does not return them. To contact a company, use contactPageUrl, which is the Europages company page with its contact form.

Company details include public catalog and document links, response-time labels and quick-responder flags when available. Files are not downloaded. These signals help compare suppliers; they do not promise response speed.

How to use

1. Open the Actor on Apify and go to the Input tab.
2. Enter one or more keywords, for example packaging or cnc machining.
3. Optionally add country codes such as DE or FR to keep only companies from those countries.
4. Set maxItems to the number of companies you need.
5. Company details are on by default (main business area, VAT ID and contact persons). This opens one extra page per company; switch includeCompanyDetails off for a faster search-only run.
6. Start the run and download the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel or via the API.

You can also keep only certain supplier types with supplierTypes (for example ["production"]); companies whose supplierTypes do not include one of them are skipped. Fields that a company has not filled in on its page are returned as null.

Keywords are turned into the Europages search URL by replacing spaces with hyphens. The country filter is sent to Europages. Search result totals may change between requests. The number of matching companies depends on how specific the keyword is: a narrow term in a single country can match only a handful of companies, while a broad term across all countries returns far more. The search backend of the directory is not fully deterministic, so totals can differ slightly between runs.

You can also paste Europages URLs into startUrls. A search URL such as https://www.europages.co.uk/en/search/packaging.html?countries=DE is paged through automatically. A company URL such as https://www.europages.co.uk/en/company/<slug> returns that single company with its details.

To continue a supplier search, set startPage to the next page you want, or supply a search URL with ?page=2. The URL’s valid page number takes precedence. Set maxPages to bound pages fetched per search, including the starting page. For example, startPage: 2 and maxPages: 1 reads only page 2; maxItems still caps saved companies across all targets. These controls skip earlier pages but do not provide a stable cursor: Europages can reorder results between runs. Pages past the results return no companies. Direct company URLs ignore pagination controls.

Input

Field	Type	Description
keywords	array	Products, services or industries to search, e.g. packaging. Required unless startUrls is given.
countries	array	ISO 2-letter country codes to keep, e.g. DE, FR. Empty means all countries.
startUrls	array	URL objects, e.g. [{"url":"https://www.europages.co.uk/en/search/packaging.html"}], used alongside keywords.
startPage	integer	First search page, 1-200, default 1; a valid URL page query overrides it.
maxPages	integer	Pages per search target, 1-200, default 200; searches stop by page 200.
maxItems	integer	Maximum companies to save, default 50.
includeCompanyDetails	boolean	Open each company page to add main business area, VAT ID and contacts. Default true.
employeeCounts	array	Employee bands to keep, e.g. 20-49. Empty means all sizes.
supplierTypes	array	Supplier types to keep, e.g. production, wholesaler. Empty means all types.
enrichSector	boolean	Classify each company into an industry sector with a third-party AI processor. Default false.
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify Proxy settings. Datacenter proxy is the default.

Example input:

{
  "keywords": ["cnc machining"],
  "countries": ["FR", "IT"],
  "includeCompanyDetails": true,
  "maxItems": 30
}

For an AI agent’s first call, use the opening input example: it searches packaging companies in Germany, saves up to 20 unique companies, and skips extra company-page requests. The editor prefill is a convenience for the Input tab; API callers must supply keywords or startUrls explicitly. Both target lists share one result limit, so an earlier search can consume the budget before later targets run.

The filters apply to search results. A search URL with its own countries query takes precedence over the top-level country list; otherwise that list is added to the search. Direct company URLs fetch that profile and its details even when includeCompanyDetails is false, and do not apply country, employee-band or supplier-type filters. For a URL-only call, omit keywords to avoid adding a second search.

If a run returns no companies, first try a broader keyword or remove employee and supplier filters. Use a path-based search URL such as /en/search/packaging.html; the query-only ?q= form is not supported. For a missing company, replace the URL with its current public profile. For persistent blocks, inspect the warning and adjust proxyConfiguration before retrying. Empty targets produce no placeholder records, and other targets can still return results.

The maxItems limit is exact: when 7 companies exist and you ask for 7, you get 7 and you are charged for 7. Duplicate companies that appear on several pages or under several keywords are saved once.

Output

Each run writes one dataset item per company. This is a real record from a run with includeCompanyDetails switched off:

{
  "id": "646917",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.europages.co.uk/en/company/vkf-renzel-gmbh-646917",
  "name": "VKF Renzel GmbH",
  "street": "Im Geer 15",
  "postalCode": "46419",
  "city": "Isselburg",
  "countryCode": "DE",
  "homepage": "https://www.vkf-renzel.de/",
  "phone": "+4928749100",
  "employeeCount": "500-999",
  "foundingYear": 1985,
  "supplierTypes": [
    "production",
    "service",
    "distribution",
    "wholesaler"
  ],
  "distributionArea": "international",
  "latitude": 51.82045,
  "longitude": 6.44758,
  "contactPageUrl": "https://www.europages.co.uk/en/company/vkf-renzel-gmbh-646917"
}

With includeCompanyDetails on, the record also carries mainBusinessArea, vatId and contacts. A VAT ID or a contact person is only present when the company has published one, so these fields are empty for many companies. The description field is omitted from this example for readability but is returned in full when available.

The same company’s detail run returned these additional fields:

{
  "catalogUrl": "https://wlw-1-company-facts-media20191122174836234900000006.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/6462285d-eca7-4b41-97d2-74a0b8d5adbd.pdf",
  "documents": [
    {
      "url": "https://wlw-1-company-facts-media20191122174836234900000006.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/6462285d-eca7-4b41-97d2-74a0b8d5adbd.pdf",
      "title": "Catalog",
      "filename": "Leistungsspektrum-de (2).pdf",
      "mimeType": "application/pdf"
    }
  ],
  "averageResponseTime": null,
  "isQuickResponder": true
}

How much does it cost?

The Actor is charged per result: each company saved to the dataset counts as one result. If you switch on AI sector classification, each company that was classified successfully is charged as an enriched result in addition. Companies where the classification failed are not charged as enriched. See the Pricing tab of the Actor for the current rates. Because the maxItems limit is exact, you can cap the cost of any run by setting it.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

The Actor can be called by AI agents through the Apify MCP server. Add this to your MCP client configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=axiomworks/europages-company-scraper"
    }
  }
}

Example prompts:

• "Find 30 packaging companies in Germany on Europages and list their websites and phone numbers."
• "Search Europages for CNC machining suppliers in France and Italy, with company details, and group them by employee band."
• "Get the Europages profile for this company URL and tell me its main business area."

Integrations and API

You can start the Actor from code and read the results from the dataset. Replace <TOKEN> with your Apify API token.

Python:

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("axiomworks/europages-company-scraper").call(
    run_input={"keywords": ["packaging"], "countries": ["DE"], "maxItems": 50}
)
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item["name"], item["city"], item["homepage"])

JavaScript:

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<TOKEN>' });
const run = await client.actor('axiomworks/europages-company-scraper').call({
    keywords: ['packaging'],
    countries: ['DE'],
    maxItems: 50,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items.length);

cURL:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/axiomworks~europages-company-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"keywords": ["packaging"], "countries": ["DE"], "maxItems": 50}'

You can also connect the dataset to Google Sheets, Make, Zapier, n8n or a webhook, and schedule the Actor to refresh a supplier list every week.

FAQ

How many companies can I get per keyword? It depends on the keyword and the countries. Europages returns 30 companies per page and the Actor reads every page until maxItems is reached or the results end. Narrow keywords combined with a country filter can match only a few companies.

Why is the email address missing? Europages does not show email addresses in its public listings. It shows a contact form on each company page, and contactPageUrl points to it.

Why are VAT ID and contacts often empty? They are only available on the company page, and only when the company filled them in. They are fetched while includeCompanyDetails is on (the default).

Does it need a login or a browser? No. It reads public pages only, with plain HTTP requests through Apify Proxy.

What happens when a request is blocked? The Actor retries with backoff on a fresh proxy session. If a page still cannot be loaded, it logs a warning and continues. It does not solve CAPTCHAs.

Is my data sent to a third party? Only when you switch on enrichSector. In that case the company description and main business area are sent to a third-party AI processor to pick the sector. Without that option, no data leaves the Actor except the requests to the directory.

Can I filter by company size? Yes, use employeeCounts with the bands as they appear in the output, for example 20-49. The filter is applied to the band returned by the directory.

Is it legal to scrape Europages?

The Actor collects only information that anyone can see on public Europages pages without logging in. Company names, addresses and phone numbers are business information, but contact persons named on company pages are personal data under the GDPR and similar laws. If you store or use them, you need a lawful basis, and you should respect opt-out requests. The website's terms of use and robots.txt may restrict automated access, and that is your responsibility to review for your use case. This is general information, not legal advice; ask a lawyer if you are unsure.

Feedback

If a field is missing, a run fails or you need another output field, open an issue from the Actor page on Apify. Please include the run link and the input you used so the problem can be reproduced.