Gelbe Seiten Scraper — German Yellow Pages Business Data

Extract business listings from Gelbe Seiten (gelbeseiten.de) — Germany's largest business directory with millions of companies.

Built for B2B lead generation, sales prospecting, market research, and local-business data platforms targeting the DACH region.

What you get

• Complete business records — name, address, phone, email, fax, website, category
• Search by business type + city (e.g., Klempner in München)
• B2B-ready contact data for outreach and CRM enrichment
• Apify DE proxy support out of the box
• Auto-pagination across result pages
• Pre-built dataset Overview in Apify Console for instant inspection

Why this scraper (vs. alternatives)

	Build your own	Generic scraper	This actor
Maintenance	You patch every site change	Often broken	Patched on every update
Email + fax + website extraction	Manual	Partial	Built-in
German city + category search	Manual	No	Native
DE proxy	Costs $50+/mo	Bring your own	Supported

Input

Field	Type	Description
searchQuery	string	Business type or name (e.g., "Zahnarzt", "Restaurant", "Klempner")
location	string	German city (e.g., "Berlin", "München", "Hamburg")
maxResults	int	Maximum number of businesses to return
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify proxy (DE recommended)

Example Input

{
  "searchQuery": "Restaurant",
  "location": "München",
  "maxResults": 200
}

Output (sample)

{
  "name": "Ristorante La Bella Vita",
  "category": "Italienisches Restaurant",
  "street": "Leopoldstraße 25",
  "plz": "80802",
  "city": "München",
  "phone": "+498912345678",
  "fax": "+498912345679",
  "email": "info@labellavita-muenchen.de",
  "website": "https://www.labellavita-muenchen.de",
  "url": "https://www.gelbeseiten.de/gsbiz/...",
  "scraped_at": "2026-05-28T14:00:00+00:00"
}

Use cases

• B2B lead generation — build targeted prospect lists by industry + city
• Sales prospecting — find local businesses for outreach (software, services, supplies)
• CRM enrichment — fill in phone/email/website for known companies
• Market research — analyze business density per category and region
• Local-data platforms — power "find a business" directories
• Competitive intel — map competitors in a specific market

Pricing

Pay-Per-Event:

• $0.004 per business listing
• $0.00005 actor-start fee

Example runs

Use case	Listings	Cost
Single category, one city	100	$0.40
Lead-gen sweep (5 cities)	500	$2.00
Full market dataset	2,000	$8.00

Tips

• Use the DE proxy to avoid rate-limits
• German search terms work best (Klempner not plumber)
• For cities with umlauts (München, Köln), pass them with umlauts intact
• Schedule recurring runs from the Apify Console to keep lead lists fresh
• Combine with our other DACH B2B actors for full coverage

FAQ

Q: Does it extract email addresses?
A: Yes — when publicly listed on the business profile.

Q: How fresh is the data?
A: Real-time. Each run fetches the current directory state.

Q: Can I search nationwide?
A: Search is city-scoped. Run multiple cities to cover a region.

Q: Will my IP get blocked?
A: Use the DE residential proxy (recommended) to stay under rate-limits.

Related actors

For full DACH B2B + local-data coverage:

• anwalt-de-scraper — German lawyers
• jameda-scraper — German doctors
• kleinanzeigen-scraper — German marketplace listings

Legal & compliance

This scraper only retrieves publicly accessible business listings. You are responsible for:

• Respecting gelbeseiten.de's Terms of Service
• GDPR-compliant handling of contact data (business data, but no spam; honor opt-outs)
• Not republishing scraped data in ways that infringe IP rights

Support & feature requests

Open an issue on the Actor page or contact via Apify Console messaging. Custom features welcome.