Nextdoor Business Scraper

Returns: one row per Nextdoor business with name, phone, email, website, fullAddress, primaryCategory, faveCount and pageUrl. Input: {"category": "Handyman", "location": "San Francisco, CA", "maxItems": 50} Best for: local lead lists for agencies and home-services marketers, competitor mapping by city, enriching a CRM with Nextdoor contact details.

{
    "name": "George Turner Construction",
    "phone": "+14152467309",
    "email": "george@georgeturnerconstruction.com",
    "website": "http://georgeturnerconstruction.com",
    "fullAddress": "Hawthorne Road, Bolinas, CA",
    "primaryCategory": "Carpenter",
    "searchRank": 4
}

What does Nextdoor Business Scraper do?

Nextdoor Business Scraper is a Nextdoor scraper for local business leads. Give it a service category and a US city ("Plumber" in "Houston, TX"), and it reads Nextdoor's public business directory for that search, then opens every business page it finds and returns one clean record per business: name, phone number, contact email, website, address, categories, neighbor faves, followers, opening hours and, where Nextdoor has written one, its AI summary of what neighbors say. It works without a Nextdoor account and without logging in: it only reads the public directory and business pages that anyone can open in a browser.

You can also skip the search and give it Nextdoor URLs directly, either directory URLs such as https://nextdoor.com/topics/handyman/san-francisco/ca/ or business page URLs such as https://nextdoor.com/pages/sf-pro-handyman-san-francisco-ca/, or simply a list of business slugs. Mixed inputs share one maxItems budget, so you always know the maximum number of rows a run can return.

Think of it as an unofficial Nextdoor API for business data. Typical jobs are building prospect lists of small local service businesses (handymen, plumbers, cleaners, roofers, landscapers), checking which competitors neighbors recommend in a given city, and filling in missing phone numbers and emails for businesses you already track.

What data can you get from Nextdoor?

Every record has the same fields. A field is null when the business doesn't publish that detail on its public page (many sole traders list a phone but no website, for example).

Field	Description	Example
id	Nextdoor's numeric business ID (string), unique within a run	52876676
name	Business name as shown on Nextdoor	George Turner Construction
slug	URL slug of the business page	george-turner-construction-bolinas-ca
pageUrl	Nextdoor's canonical page URL	https://nextdoor.com/page/george-turner-construction-bolinas-ca
phone	Phone number in E.164 format	+14152467309
phoneFormatted	Phone number as displayed	(415) 246-7309
email	Contact email listed on the page	george@georgeturnerconstruction.com
website	Business website	http://georgeturnerconstruction.com
description	The business's own description; about a third of businesses write one, the rest are null	I'm a Bolinas resident, a carpenter by trade...
fullAddress	Address line shown on the page (sometimes only city and state)	Hawthorne Road, Bolinas, CA
street	Street number and street name	Hawthorne Road
city	City	Bolinas
state	Two-letter state code	CA
postalCode	ZIP code	94924
country	Two-letter country code	US
primaryCategory	The category Nextdoor displays	Carpenter
categories	All categories the business is listed under	["Carpenter", "Handyman", "General contractor"]
faveCount	Neighbor "faves" (recommendations)	0
followerCount	Page followers	0
openStatus	Open or closed status at scrape time	Closed until Tue 9:00 AM
openingHours	One {day, hours} entry per day for the next week	[{"day": "Tuesday", "hours": "9:00 AM–5:00 PM"}]
logoUrl	Logo or profile photo URL	https://us1-photo.nextdoor.com/business_logo/...png
aiSummary	Nextdoor's AI summary of neighbor recommendations; only businesses with enough recommendations have one (roughly one in eight), the rest are null	Local homeowners seeking a skilled carpenter...
searchCategory	Directory category the row came from (null for business URLs)	Handyman
searchLocation	Directory location key (null for business URLs)	san-francisco--ca
searchRank	1-based position in the directory results (null for business URLs)	4
scrapedAt	ISO 8601 UTC time of scraping	2026-10-20T00:05:37.000Z
sourceUrl	Business page the record was read from	https://nextdoor.com/pages/george-turner-construction-bolinas-ca/

How often each field is filled depends on the businesses, not on the scraper. In a test run of "Plumber" in Houston, every row had a name, category, faves and follower count, about three quarters had a phone number and address, and a little over half had an email address.

How to use Nextdoor Business Scraper

1. Open Nextdoor Business Scraper in Apify Console and go to the Input tab.
2. Type a category, for example Handyman, and a location in City, ST form, for example San Francisco, CA. Full state names (Houston, Texas) work as well.
3. Set maxItems to the number of businesses you want. Directory pages hold six businesses each, and the scraper keeps paging until it has enough or Nextdoor has no more.
4. Click Start. Each business page is opened at a polite pace (about one request per second), so 50 businesses take roughly a minute.
5. When the run finishes, open the Output tab and export the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML, or pull it through the API.

Nextdoor's directory widens outward from the city: a search for San Francisco also lists businesses from neighboring towns, and some results sit in nearby categories. The searchRank column keeps Nextdoor's order, so you can cut the list wherever relevance drops.

Categories in other languages work if Nextdoor has businesses for them: Limpieza in Miami, FL returns cleaning businesses. If you already know the businesses you need, put their URLs or slugs into businesses. Each one returns exactly one row.

The default proxy is Apify's datacenter proxy. Nextdoor limits how many business pages one IP address may open; when it refuses, the scraper retries on a fresh IP automatically. If a run still reports blocks, switch proxyConfiguration to residential proxies.

Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
category	string	With location	Business category or service, e.g. Handyman, Plumber, House cleaning, Limpieza.
location	string	With category	US city and state, e.g. San Francisco, CA.
startUrls	array	No	Nextdoor directory URLs (/topics/<category>/<city>/<state>/) and/or business URLs (/pages/<slug>/ or /page/<slug>). us.nextdoor.com URLs work too.
businesses	array of strings	No	Business page URLs or bare slugs such as sf-pro-handyman-san-francisco-ca.
maxItems	integer	No	Maximum number of businesses in total across all targets, 1-10000, default 50.
proxyConfiguration	object	No	Proxy settings. Default: Apify Proxy (datacenter).

Give at least one of: category with location, startUrls, or businesses. Business pages and slugs are fetched first; directory searches then fill whatever is left of maxItems.

{
    "category": "Plumber",
    "location": "Houston, TX",
    "startUrls": [
        { "url": "https://nextdoor.com/topics/limpieza/miami/fl/" }
    ],
    "businesses": [
        "https://nextdoor.com/pages/sf-pro-handyman-san-francisco-ca/",
        "handyman-heroes-berkeley-ca"
    ],
    "maxItems": 60,
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true }
}

What happens with targets that don't work: a city Nextdoor has no directory for, a business page that was removed or a category with no listings is skipped with a warning in the log, and the run carries on with the other targets. If nothing at all comes back, the run still finishes successfully with 0 results and a status message that says what to change. Only input that can never work, such as a non-Nextdoor URL or a location without a state, stops the run with an error before it starts.

Output

Real records from a run of {"category": "Handyman", "location": "San Francisco, CA"}:

[
    {
        "id": "52876676",
        "name": "George Turner Construction",
        "slug": "george-turner-construction-bolinas-ca",
        "pageUrl": "https://nextdoor.com/page/george-turner-construction-bolinas-ca",
        "phone": "+14152467309",
        "phoneFormatted": "(415) 246-7309",
        "email": "george@georgeturnerconstruction.com",
        "website": "http://georgeturnerconstruction.com",
        "description": "I'm a Bolinas resident, a carpenter by trade with a background in building science and a commitment to fine craftsmanship. ...",
        "fullAddress": "Hawthorne Road, Bolinas, CA",
        "street": "Hawthorne Road",
        "city": "Bolinas",
        "state": "CA",
        "postalCode": "94924",
        "country": "US",
        "primaryCategory": "Carpenter",
        "categories": ["Carpenter", "Handyman", "General contractor"],
        "faveCount": 0,
        "followerCount": 0,
        "openStatus": "Closed until Tue 9:00 AM",
        "openingHours": [
            { "day": "Tuesday", "hours": "9:00 AM–5:00 PM" },
            { "day": "Wednesday", "hours": "9:00 AM–5:00 PM" },
            { "day": "Thursday", "hours": "9:00 AM–5:00 PM" },
            { "day": "Friday", "hours": "9:00 AM–5:00 PM" },
            { "day": "Saturday", "hours": "Closed" },
            { "day": "Sunday", "hours": "Closed" },
            { "day": "Monday", "hours": "9:00 AM–5:00 PM" }
        ],
        "logoUrl": "https://us1-photo.nextdoor.com/business_logo/f6/14/f6148fb6fd1303b2a6f46a877e822968.png",
        "aiSummary": "Local homeowners seeking a skilled carpenter, handyman, or general contractor in Bolinas are encouraged to consider George Turner Construction. ...",
        "searchCategory": "Handyman",
        "searchLocation": "san-francisco--ca",
        "searchRank": 4,
        "scrapedAt": "2026-10-20T00:05:37.000Z",
        "sourceUrl": "https://nextdoor.com/pages/george-turner-construction-bolinas-ca/"
    },
    {
        "id": "33294270",
        "name": "Marin Hearthstone",
        "slug": "marin-hearthstone-muir-beach-ca",
        "pageUrl": "https://nextdoor.com/page/marin-hearthstone-muir-beach-ca",
        "phone": "+14152649615",
        "phoneFormatted": "(415) 264-9615",
        "email": "kathleen.johnston.ca@gmail.com",
        "website": "http://www.marinhearthstone.com",
        "description": "Marin Hearthstone is here to manage your home care needs, whether it be handyman projects, home repairs or small remodels, ...",
        "fullAddress": "Muir Beach, CA",
        "street": null,
        "city": null,
        "state": null,
        "postalCode": null,
        "country": null,
        "primaryCategory": "Handyman",
        "categories": ["Handyman"],
        "faveCount": 0,
        "followerCount": 0,
        "openStatus": null,
        "openingHours": [],
        "logoUrl": "https://us1-photo.nextdoor.com/business_logo/c9/75/c97506f555c73da83d7f191ea5dff1f0.jpg",
        "aiSummary": null,
        "searchCategory": "Handyman",
        "searchLocation": "san-francisco--ca",
        "searchRank": 3,
        "scrapedAt": "2026-10-20T00:05:34.000Z",
        "sourceUrl": "https://nextdoor.com/pages/marin-hearthstone-muir-beach-ca/"
    }
]

Long texts are shortened with "..." here for reading; the dataset holds them in full. You can download the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, RSS or HTML from the Output tab or through the API.

How much does it cost to scrape Nextdoor?

Nextdoor Business Scraper is charged per result. You pay only for the businesses returned, and maxItems caps how many that can be. Targets that fail or return nothing cost nothing. See the Pricing tab for the current price.

If you set a maximum cost per run in the run options, the scraper stops cleanly when that limit is reached and keeps everything it collected so far; the status message then tells you the limit was hit.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

Connect Nextdoor Business Scraper to Claude, Cursor or any MCP client through the Apify MCP server:

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=axiomworks/nextdoor-business-leads-scraper"
        }
    }
}

Example prompts:

1. "Find 30 handymen on Nextdoor in San Francisco, CA and give me a table with name, phone and email."
2. "Get the Nextdoor business pages for these three slugs and tell me which ones list a website."
3. "List plumbers Nextdoor shows for Houston, TX, sorted by neighbor faves, and flag the ones with no phone number."

The input schema is written for agents: the fields that need each other (category and location) say so, maxItems is a shared budget across all targets, and a dead or blocked target returns 0 rows with a clear status message instead of an error.

Integrations and API

Run Nextdoor Business Scraper from your own code with the Apify API. Set APIFY_TOKEN to your Apify API token (send it in the Authorization header, never in the URL).

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("axiomworks/nextdoor-business-leads-scraper").call(
    run_input={"category": "Handyman", "location": "San Francisco, CA", "maxItems": 50}
)
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item["name"], item["phone"], item["email"])

JavaScript

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' });
const run = await client.actor('axiomworks/nextdoor-business-leads-scraper').call({
    category: 'Handyman',
    location: 'San Francisco, CA',
    maxItems: 50,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();

cURL

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/axiomworks~nextdoor-business-leads-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"category": "Handyman", "location": "San Francisco, CA", "maxItems": 50}'

On the Integrations tab you can send results to Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets, Slack or any webhook when a run finishes, and the Schedule feature reruns a search daily or weekly so new local businesses show up in your sheet automatically.

FAQ

Do I need a Nextdoor account? No. The scraper reads only Nextdoor's public directory and business pages, which load without logging in. It never signs in and never reads neighborhood posts or member profiles.

Why are some businesses from other towns? That is how Nextdoor's directory works: results widen outward from the city you search. A San Francisco search, for example, includes businesses from Muir Beach and Bolinas. Use searchRank, city or fullAddress to filter.

Why is the phone, email or address empty for some rows? Each business chooses what to publish. Sole traders often list only a phone number, and some hide their address. The scraper outputs null instead of guessing.

Why did my run return 0 results? The city may not have a Nextdoor directory under that spelling (the status message says so), the category may have no listings there, or Nextdoor may have blocked the requests. Check the spelling, try a nearby larger city or a broader category, or switch to residential proxies.

How many businesses can one search return? As many as Nextdoor lists for that search, up to maxItems. The scraper pages through the directory six businesses at a time until Nextdoor reports no more pages.

Does it work outside the United States? No. Nextdoor's public business directory pages exist for US cities only; UK and other country sites don't offer the same public directory.

How fresh is the data? Every run reads the live pages, so the data is as current as Nextdoor's pages at the time of the run (see scrapedAt).

Can I get reviews or recommendation texts? Not at the moment. The scraper returns the fave count and, for businesses that have one, Nextdoor's AI summary of recommendations. Open an issue if you need more.

Is it legal to scrape Nextdoor?

Nextdoor Business Scraper collects only data that businesses publish on public Nextdoor pages, without logging in. Some businesses are sole traders whose page shows a personal name, phone number or email address, so treat the output as personal data where the law says so: you are responsible for using it in line with the GDPR, CCPA, anti-spam rules and Nextdoor's terms. This is not legal advice; ask a lawyer if you're unsure about your use case.

Nextdoor Business Scraper is an independent tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Nextdoor.

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