🎯 Yelp B2B Lead Extractor

The most reliable Yelp scraper on Apify — Extract verified business leads with emails, phone numbers, and social media profiles in minutes.

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🚀 What This Actor Does

Turn Yelp search results into actionable B2B leads. Simply enter a keyword (like "Plumbers") and location (like "Miami, FL"), and get a complete spreadsheet of business contacts ready for outreach.

✨ Data Extracted

Field	Description
Business Name	Official business name from Yelp
Phone Number	Direct business phone
Website	Official business website URL
Email Addresses	Extracted from business websites
Social Media	Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter links
Rating	Yelp star rating (1-5)
Review Count	Number of Yelp reviews
Address	Street address
City	City location
Yelp URL	Direct link to Yelp business page

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💼 Perfect For

• Sales Teams — Build targeted prospect lists by industry and location
• Marketing Agencies — Find local businesses for outreach campaigns
• Lead Generation — Automate B2B lead collection at scale
• Market Research — Analyze business density and competition
• Recruiters — Find companies in specific industries

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🎯 Why Choose This Actor?

✅ Built for Reliability

Yelp aggressively blocks scrapers. This actor uses smart proxy rotation across 7 countries where Yelp has less blocking, automatically retrying until successful.

✅ Deep Email Extraction

Doesn't just grab Yelp data — actually visits each business website to find email addresses in headers, footers, and contact pages.

✅ Complete Contact Profiles

Get everything you need for outreach: phone, email, website, AND social media links — all in one export.

✅ Residential Proxies Only

Uses premium residential proxies (real ISP IPs) to avoid detection. Datacenter proxies don't work with Yelp — this actor handles it automatically.

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📥 Input

Field	Required	Description
keyword	✅ Yes	What to search for (e.g., "Dentists", "Restaurants", "HVAC")
location	✅ Yes	City and state (e.g., "Austin, TX", "Los Angeles, CA")
maxResults	No	Number of businesses to extract (default: 20, max: 100)

Example Input

{
  "keyword": "Plumbers",
  "location": "Miami, FL",
  "maxResults": 50
}

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📤 Output

Results are saved to the Apify Dataset in JSON format. Each business includes:

{
  "name": "ABC Plumbing Services",
  "phone": "(305) 555-1234",
  "website": "https://abcplumbing.com",
  "emails": "info@abcplumbing.com, service@abcplumbing.com",
  "social_links": "https://facebook.com/abcplumbing, https://instagram.com/abcplumbing",
  "rating": "4.5",
  "reviews": "127",
  "address": "123 Main Street",
  "city": "Miami",
  "yelp_url": "https://www.yelp.com/biz/abc-plumbing-services-miami",
  "website_status": "ok"
}

Export Options

• JSON — Raw data for developers
• CSV — Open in Excel or Google Sheets
• Excel — Direct .xlsx download

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⚡ How It Works

1. Smart Location Loading — Loads Yelp with location pre-set to avoid blocks
2. Human-Like Search — Types keywords naturally with realistic delays
3. Batch Processing — Opens multiple business pages simultaneously for speed
4. Deep Website Crawl — Visits each business website to extract emails
5. Automatic Retry — Rotates through 7 proxy countries if blocked

Proxy Countries Used

🇧🇷 Brazil • 🇮🇹 Italy • 🇫🇷 France • 🇵🇹 Portugal • 🇩🇪 Germany • 🇮🇪 Ireland • 🇪🇸 Spain

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⚠️ Requirements

This actor requires residential proxies to work. Residential proxies are billed separately based on data transfer.

• ✅ Apify account with residential proxy access
• ✅ Sufficient proxy credits

Note: The actor will fail if you don't have residential proxy access enabled. Check your Apify subscription settings.

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📊 Performance

Metric	Typical Value
Speed	~20 businesses in 3-5 minutes
Success Rate	85-95% (depends on Yelp blocks)
Email Find Rate	40-60% of businesses with websites
Memory Usage	2-4 GB

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💡 Tips for Best Results

1. Be Specific — "Emergency Plumber" works better than just "Plumber"
2. Include State — Always include state code (e.g., "TX", "CA", "FL")
3. Start Small — Test with 10-20 results before running larger jobs
4. Check Credits — Residential proxies use data transfer credits

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🔒 Legal & Ethical Use

This actor is designed for legitimate business purposes such as sales prospecting and market research. Users are responsible for:

• Complying with Yelp's Terms of Service
• Following applicable data protection laws (GDPR, CCPA, etc.)
• Using extracted data ethically and responsibly
• Not spamming or harassing businesses

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🛠️ Troubleshooting

"All proxy countries failed"

→ Check that residential proxies are enabled in your Apify account

"No results found"

→ Try a different location or more general keyword

Low email extraction rate

→ Many small businesses don't list emails publicly — this is normal

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📞 Support

Having issues? Check the run logs for detailed step-by-step progress. Each step is logged so you can see exactly where any problems occur.

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🏷️ Tags

yelp lead-generation b2b email-extractor business-scraper sales-leads contact-finder web-scraping playwright

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Made with ❤️ for sales teams who hate manual prospecting