Benelux Trade Fair Exhibitors — NL & BE expo exhibitor lists

Turn the exhibitor list of any Dutch or Belgian trade fair into a clean spreadsheet in minutes. Benelux Trade Fair Exhibitors extracts company name, website, booth, hall, country, product categories, products, a short description and the exhibitor profile link from the fairs at RAI Amsterdam, Jaarbeurs Utrecht, Rotterdam Ahoy, Brussels Expo, Antwerp Expo, Flanders Expo (Ghent), Evenementenhal (Hardenberg, Gorinchem, Venray) and Brabanthallen ('s-Hertogenbosch), and from any other fair that uses the same platforms.

Paste a fair URL, or just type a name like horecava, metstrade or solids-antwerp, and get deduplicated, company-level records you can export to Excel, CSV, JSON or straight into your CRM.

Who is this trade fair exhibitor scraper for?

• Sales and business development teams who want a lead list of every company exhibiting at a Benelux trade show, before, during or after the event.
• Exhibitors planning which stands to visit, or checking which competitors booked a booth.
• Market researchers and analysts who track which companies, countries and product categories show up at fairs year after year.
• Event agencies, stand builders and suppliers (logistics, catering, AV, hostesses) looking for exhibitors to offer their services to.
• Investors and journalists who want a quick overview of a sector in the Netherlands or Belgium.

What does Benelux Trade Fair Exhibitors do?

1. Recognises the platform behind the fair website and uses a dedicated extractor:
   • RAI platform (RAI Amsterdam fairs such as Metstrade, Horecava, Intertraffic, Aquatech, GreenTech): reads the public exhibitor list the website itself uses, 200 exhibitors per request. It is fast and includes the country of every exhibitor.
   • Easyfairs platform (Antwerp Expo, Flanders Expo, Evenementenhal, Brabanthallen and many other Easyfairs fairs): reads the server-rendered exhibitor pages of the fair website. It includes booth, country, categories and teaser text.
   • Generic extractor (Jaarbeurs, Ahoy, Brussels Expo and other organiser sites): recognises exhibitor tables, repeated exhibitor rows, "Company (booth)" lists, schema.org data and lists of profile links. It follows pagination automatically.
2. Optionally opens each exhibitor profile (includeDetails) to add the company website, products and the full category list.
3. Normalises and deduplicates the data: ISO country codes, halls derived from stand numbers (stand 08.772 → hall 8), websites cleaned of social-media and tracking links, and duplicates removed (the same company listed twice, or under several letters).
4. Keeps it company-level. No contact persons, e-mail addresses or phone numbers are collected. They are actively removed from descriptions.
5. Crawls politely. It checks robots.txt before every request, honours Crawl-delay, spaces requests to the same site, retries carefully on errors, and uses a proxy only if you enable one.

Supported trade fairs

You can use these names directly in the input. Any other fair works by URL.

Name to type	Fair	Venue	Platform
metstrade	Metstrade (marine equipment)	RAI Amsterdam	RAI
horecava	Horecava (hospitality)	RAI Amsterdam	RAI
intertraffic	Intertraffic Amsterdam	RAI Amsterdam	RAI
aquatech	Aquatech Amsterdam (water)	RAI Amsterdam	RAI
greentech	GreenTech Amsterdam (horticulture)	RAI Amsterdam	RAI
solids-antwerp	Solids Antwerp (bulk solids)	Antwerp Expo	Easyfairs
horeca-expo	Horeca Expo	Flanders Expo, Ghent	Easyfairs
recreatie-vakbeurs	Recreatie Vakbeurs	Evenementenhal Hardenberg	Easyfairs
rmv	Rundvee & Mechanisatie Vakdagen	Evenementenhal Hardenberg	Easyfairs
empack	Empack Den Bosch (packaging)	Brabanthallen	Easyfairs
batibouw	Batibouw (construction)	Brussels Expo	Generic
bouwbeurs	BouwBeurs (construction)	Jaarbeurs Utrecht	Generic
not	NOT, Nationale Onderwijs Tentoonstelling	Jaarbeurs Utrecht	Generic
infratech	InfraTech	Rotterdam Ahoy	Generic
europort	Europort (maritime)	Rotterdam Ahoy	Generic
vakbeurs-foodspecialiteiten	Vakbeurs Foodspecialiteiten	Evenementenhal Gorinchem	Generic

Other fairs: paste the URL of the exhibitor list (for example https://www.example-fair.nl/exposanten). If you paste the fair's home page, the actor looks for the "Exhibitors" / "Exposanten" link itself. Fairs whose exhibitor list is rendered only in the browser by JavaScript, or sits behind a login, cannot be read. The run log tells you when that happens.

How to use it

1. Click Try for free and open the Input tab.
2. Add one or more fairs: names from the table above or exhibitor-list URLs.
3. Set Max results (the total for the run; this is also your cost cap).
4. Optionally switch on Open exhibitor profile pages for websites and products.
5. Click Start, then download the results as Excel, CSV or JSON, or connect them to Google Sheets, Make, Zapier or your CRM through the Apify API.

Input example

{
    "fairs": ["horecava", "https://www.solids-antwerp.be/en/exhibitors/", "batibouw"],
    "maxResults": 500,
    "maxResultsPerFair": 0,
    "includeDetails": false
}

Field	Default	Description
fairs	–	Fair names (see table) and/or exhibitor-list URLs. Up to 50 per run.
maxResults	500	Maximum exhibitors for the whole run, across all fairs.
maxResultsPerFair	0 (no limit)	Cap per fair, handy for sampling several fairs.
includeDetails	false	Open every exhibitor profile for website, products and all categories.
maxPagesPerFair	200	Safety limit on list pages per fair.
requestDelayMs	500	Minimum pause between requests to one site. A larger robots.txt Crawl-delay always wins.
proxyConfiguration	off	Not needed for the supported fairs.

Output example

A real record from Metstrade (list mode, without profile details):

{
    "id": "rai:metstrade.com:282-33722",
    "fairName": "Metstrade",
    "fairUrl": "https://www.metstrade.com/exhibitors",
    "venue": "RAI Amsterdam, Amsterdam",
    "platform": "rai",
    "companyName": "2MV Composites B.V.",
    "website": null,
    "booth": "08.772",
    "stands": ["08.772"],
    "hall": "8",
    "country": "NL",
    "countryName": "Netherlands",
    "categories": [],
    "products": [],
    "description": null,
    "profileUrl": "https://www.metstrade.com/exhibitors/2mv-composites-b-v",
    "logoUrl": null,
    "detailsFetched": false,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-24T20:05:24.791Z"
}

With includeDetails: true the same record also gets website, products, categories and description when the exhibitor filled them in, and detailsFetched becomes true.

The Overview table in the Output tab shows fair, company, website, booth, hall, country, categories, description and profile link. A JSON RUN_SUMMARY in the key-value store lists, per fair, the platform detected, the number of exhibitors found against the number listed, requests made, and any warnings.

Which fields do you get per platform?

Field	RAI	Easyfairs	Generic
Company name, profile URL	✅	✅	✅ (profile URL when the site links one)
Booth / stand, hall	✅	✅ (booth)	✅ when listed
Country	✅	✅	when listed
Categories	with details	✅	when listed
Short description	✅ (when the exhibitor filled it in)	✅	with details (meta description)
Website	with details	with details	when listed / with details
Products	with details	with details	–

Speed

• RAI fairs are fast: about 1,700 exhibitors (Metstrade) in roughly a minute without details. With details, allow about 1–2 seconds per exhibitor.
• Easyfairs fairs ask crawlers to wait 10 seconds between requests (robots.txt Crawl-delay: 10), and we respect that. One list page holds 15 exhibitors, so 500 exhibitors take about 6–8 minutes, and with details add 10 seconds per exhibitor. Start the run and come back later, or schedule it.
• Generic sites usually publish the whole list on one page or a few pages: seconds to a minute.

Pricing

This actor uses pay per event: you pay a small amount per exhibitor in your dataset, and platform usage is included.

Event	Price (Free plan)	Bronze	Silver	Gold
Exhibitor result	$0.004	$0.0036	$0.0032	$0.0028
Actor start (per run)	$0.005

Cost table (Free plan prices)

What you scrape	Results	Cost
Quick sample of one fair	25	$0.105
A mid-size fair (e.g. Horecava, Intertraffic)	500	$2.005
A large fair (e.g. Metstrade)	1,759	$7.04
Five Benelux fairs in one run	3,000	$12.005

Bill-shock protection: a run never fetches more than maxResults (default 500, so at most $2.005 per run on the Free plan) and stops cleanly at your maximum cost per run. Fetching profile pages (includeDetails) costs nothing extra per result. It only takes longer.

FAQ

Can it scrape any trade fair in the Netherlands or Belgium?

Every fair on the RAI or Easyfairs platform works out of the box, including fairs that are not in the table. For other organisers the generic extractor reads most exhibitor lists that are published as normal web pages. Lists that only appear after JavaScript runs in the browser, inside a floor-plan app, or behind a login are not supported yet.

Does it return e-mail addresses or contact persons?

No. This actor deliberately returns company-level information only: name, website, booth, country, categories and a short description. E-mail addresses and phone numbers are removed even when an exhibitor put them in its description. Contact the companies through their own website.

Why are some fields empty?

Fairs publish different information, and exhibitors do not always fill in their profiles. Switch on includeDetails to get the website and products. The run summary shows per fair which platform was used.

How are duplicates handled?

Within a fair, an exhibitor that appears more than once (for example with two stands, or in several category or letter views) is returned once with all its stands. The same company at two different fairs appears once per fair, so you can see where it exhibits.

How fresh is the data?

Every run reads the fair website live. Exhibitor lists grow in the months before a fair, so schedule a weekly run to pick up new exhibitors.

My fair is not supported. What now?

Run it once with the URL of the exhibitor list. If you get no results, open an issue on the actor page with the URL, and we will look at adding it.

Is it legal to use this data?

This actor collects publicly available, company-level information that fair organisers publish so that visitors can find exhibitors. It respects robots.txt and crawl delays, identifies itself with a clear User-Agent, and does not collect personal data such as names of contact persons, personal e-mail addresses or phone numbers. Even so, you are responsible for how you use the results. Respect the fair website's terms of use and database rights (the EU Database Directive protects substantial extractions). Comply with the GDPR and the ePrivacy rules when you contact companies, for example for B2B e-mail marketing in the Netherlands and Belgium. Do not republish the lists as your own database. If in doubt, ask a lawyer. Read more in Apify's blog post Is web scraping legal?.

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