Thomson Local Real-Time Data

Free trial: free Apify plans get a 2-result sample per run. Upgrade to a paid plan for full, unlimited exports.

Live Thomson Local UK business directory intelligence: keyword + location search, full business profiles, and lead enrichment with websites and emails. Every record streams to your dataset the moment it is collected — no waiting for the run to finish.

Who is this for?

• Lead-gen agencies & SDR teams building UK outreach lists (plumbers, electricians, solicitors, restaurants…)
• Local SEO tools & rank trackers that need fresh business listings with phones and addresses
• CRMs & data enrichment pipelines that append websites, emails, and socials to company rows
• Market researchers sizing local trades (“how many plumbers list in Bristol vs Leeds?”)
• AI agents that answer “find me X near Y with a phone number” in real time

Use cases

1. Build a cold-outreach list: plumbers in Bristol with phone + website + email.
2. Enrich an existing company list with missing websites and contact emails.
3. Monitor new listings per trade/location for sales territory planning.
4. Feed a CRM nightly via webhook (JSON or Slack) as records stream in.
5. Power an AI assistant that looks up local businesses live over MCP.

Features

Checkbox	What it does	Default
🔍 Business search	Keyword + location rows (e.g. “plumbers” + “Bristol”)	✅ on
📄 Business details enrich	Full profile merged into the same row (description, hours, extra contacts, photos)	✅ on
📇 Lead details enrich	Flags lead-ready rows; website/phones/socials added where available	off
📧 Email discovery	Reads each business's own website for a contact email	off
🔗 Scrape By URL	Collect pasted Thomson Local business page links	off
📣 Webhook (JSON/Slack)	POST every record to your URL as it streams	off
🌐 Connection	Apify Residential (GB) by default	GB

Enrichment works in place: the same row gains fields (businessDetails: true). No second row, no dropped records — every discovered business lands in the dataset.

Input reference

• enableSearch (boolean, default true) — master switch for Business search.
• searchTasks (array) — rows of { keyword, location, maxResults }. Example: { "keyword": "plumbers", "location": "Bristol", "maxResults": 10 }.
• maxResultsPerTask (int, default 10) — fallback cap per row.
• maxPagesPerTask (int, default 5) — page cap per row (25 results per page).
• enableBusinessDetails (boolean, default true) — full-profile enrich.
• enableContactDiscovery (boolean, default false) — lead-details enrich.
• fetchEmails (boolean, default false) — website email read.
• maxReviewsPerBusiness (int 0–20, default 3).
• enableScrapeByUrl (boolean, default false) + scrapeUrls (string list) — pasted business page links.
• maxItems (int, default 10000) — global safety cap.
• delayBetweenRequestsMs (0–5000, default 800), concurrency (1–8, default 4).
• webhookUrl (string), webhookFormat (json | slack).
• proxyConfiguration — defaults to Apify Residential GB.

Legacy flat keys keyword/trade + location still work for single-task runs.

First run? Leave the defaults and click Start — you get plumbers in Bristol in seconds.

Output fields

Each dataset row (type: "business", platform: "thomsonlocal"):

name, profileUrl, businessId, phone, phones, strapline, description, primaryCategory, categories, rating, ratingScale, reviewCount, reviews[], address, streetAddress, town, postcode, latitude, longitude, openingHours[], imageUrl, photos[], website, websiteDomain, email, emails[], socials, facebookUrl, instagramUrl, linkedinUrl, twitterUrl, listingType, sponsored, businessDetails, contactDiscovery, emailDiscovery, searchKeywords, searchLocation, searchTaskIndex, searchTaskLabel, position, featureType, scrapedAt

The run OUTPUT object reports totalPushed, tasksRequested, tasksCompleted, businessDetailsEnabled, contactDiscoveryEnabled, emailsEnabled, errors[], spendingLimitReached, paywall{...}.

Webhooks

Set webhookUrl (+ webhookFormat: json|slack) and every saved record is POSTed to your endpoint as it streams — ideal for Zapier/Make/n8n/CRM intake. Delivery is fire-and-forget: failures are logged, never fatal, and the dataset write always succeeds.

MCP / AI-agent usage

Run this Actor through the Apify MCP server so your agent can call it as a tool. Example question:

“Find 10 plumbers in Bristol on Thomson Local with phone numbers and websites, and enrich the first 3 with emails.”

FAQ

• Which connection does it use? Apify Residential (GB default) on the platform — best for this UK directory. Local runs can use an owner-managed residential route via .env.
• How fresh is the data? Every run reads the live directory — results reflect what is published right now.
• What does the free trial include? 2 results per run on free Apify plans (same schema as paid). Upgrade for unlimited exports.
• Do partial records get dropped? Never. Every discovered business is exported; enrichment only adds fields.
• Pay-per-event? Monetization event result (configurable via PPE_EVENT_NAME). The run respects the user's spending limit and stops gracefully with a summary.