📇 local.ch Scraper — Swiss Business Contacts & B2B Leads

Extract B2B business contact data from local.ch, Switzerland's leading business directory and digital phone book. Search any business type — restaurants, dentists, law firms, hotels, garages, trustees — across one or many Swiss cities and get clean, structured records with phone, email, website, address and geo-coordinates on every listing. It's targeted Swiss prospect data without the manual copy-paste: names, numbers and emails ready for outreach, ranked the way you search. Export to JSON/CSV/Excel, run on a schedule, call via API, or connect to Make, Zapier or n8n.

📇 What is the local.ch Scraper?

It turns any local.ch search into a structured contact dataset. Give it a business type (e.g. restaurant, Zahnarzt, Treuhand) and one or more Swiss cities, and it returns every matching business with its name, address, phone, email and website. The scraper reads local.ch's embedded structured data directly (no fragile HTML parsing), visits each detail page to pull complete contact details, and routes through residential proxies so it works reliably — so sales teams, agencies and data platforms can build targeted Swiss lead lists without browsing the directory by hand.

What data does it extract?

• Business name and category (derived from the listing)
• Phone, email and website (from each detail page)
• Full address line, plus street, postal_code and city separately
• Country (CH)
• Latitude & longitude geo-coordinates
• Source (localch) and the original listing URL (source_url)
• scraped_at ISO timestamp

⬇️ Input

Configure a search by business type and one or more Swiss cities:

Field	Description
source	Directory to scrape — localch (local.ch, Switzerland)
searchQuery	Business type or keyword, e.g. restaurant, Zahnarzt, hotel, Treuhand, Coiffeur, Garage
cities	One or more Swiss cities, e.g. ["zurich", "geneva", "basel", "bern", "lausanne"]
maxResults	Maximum contacts to return across all cities (1–50000)
maxPages	Result pages to scrape per city (each page ~20–50 results)
includeContactDetails	Visit each detail page to extract phone, email and website (slower, complete data)
useApifyProxy	Route through Apify residential proxy — required, local.ch blocks datacenter IPs
minDelay / maxDelay	Min/max delay (seconds) between requests

Example input

{
  "source": "localch",
  "searchQuery": "restaurant",
  "cities": ["zurich", "geneva"],
  "maxResults": 100,
  "maxPages": 3,
  "includeContactDetails": true,
  "useApifyProxy": true
}

⬆️ Output

Every business is one clean row (view as a table, or export JSON / CSV / Excel):

{
  "name": "Hotel Helmhaus",
  "phone": "+41442669595",
  "email": "info@helmhaus.ch",
  "website": "https://www.helmhaus.ch/",
  "address": "Schifflände 30, 8001 Zürich",
  "street": "Schifflände 30",
  "city": "Zürich",
  "postal_code": "8001",
  "country": "CH",
  "category": "Hotel",
  "latitude": "47.3705",
  "longitude": "8.5430",
  "source": "localch",
  "source_url": "https://www.local.ch/en/d/zurich/8001/hotel/hotel-helmhaus-...",
  "scraped_at": "2026-06-26T15:30:00.000Z"
}

💡 Use cases

• 🎯 B2B lead generation: build targeted prospect lists by industry and city, with phone, email and website ready for outreach.
• 📞 Sales prospecting: export contact details for cold-call and cold-email campaigns across the Swiss market.
• 🗺️ Market research: map competitor density and category coverage across Swiss cities and regions.
• 🗂️ CRM enrichment: append verified contact details and addresses to existing Swiss business records.

❓ FAQ

How do I scrape business contacts from local.ch? Enter a business type in searchQuery, add one or more Swiss cities in cities, then Run. You get structured records with name, address, phone, email, website and geo-coordinates.

Which contact fields do I get? Name, full address (plus street, postal code and city), phone, email, website, category, latitude/longitude and the source listing URL. Phone, email and website are pulled from each detail page.

Do I get email addresses? Yes, when a business publishes one on its local.ch detail page. Keep includeContactDetails on so the scraper visits detail pages for phone, email and website. Not every listing has all three.

Can I search multiple cities at once? Yes — add several cities to cities (e.g. zurich, geneva, basel, bern, lausanne) and the scraper works through them in one run, up to your maxResults cap.

Do I need an API key? No. The scraper reads public local.ch data — just give it a business type and cities. You only need an Apify account to run it.

Why is the Apify proxy required? local.ch blocks datacenter IPs, so keep useApifyProxy enabled to route through Apify residential proxies. The scraper rotates sessions and retries automatically for reliable access.

How many results can it return? Up to your maxResults cap (max 50000); it paginates each city automatically up to maxPages per city.

How do I write Swiss city names? Use the plain city name in lowercase, e.g. zurich, geneva, basel, bern, lausanne, winterthur, lucerne, st-gallen.

Can I run it on a schedule or via API? Yes — schedule recurring runs in Apify, call it via the API/SDK, or connect it to Make, Zapier or n8n.

Is scraping local.ch legal? It extracts publicly available directory data. Use it responsibly and in line with local.ch's terms and applicable data-protection law (including the Swiss FADP and GDPR). Use collected contact data only for lawful purposes.

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