Saudi & Arab Companies Directory Scraper — 19K+ Company Profiles

Scrapes from a directory of 19,000+ companies and investors across the Arab world, sourced from Sharikat Mubasher (sharikatmubasher.com) — with the large majority (17,000+) headquartered in Saudi Arabia, making it an especially deep source of Saudi (KSA) company data. Given a set of filters — headquarter country, industry, city, and more — the scraper collects every matching company from the 19K+ catalog and returns structured data for each one, including contact details, industry classification, funding stage, and full bilingual (English + Arabic) fields.

The scraper covers company profiles headquartered across the Arab League countries, including:

• 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia (SA)
• 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates (AE)
• 🇪🇬 Egypt (EG)
• 🇰🇼 Kuwait (KW)
• 🇶🇦 Qatar (QA)
• 🇧🇭 Bahrain (BH)
• 🇴🇲 Oman (OM)
• …and the rest of the Arab League markets.

Why use this scraper?

With over 19,000 company and investor profiles — the large majority (17,000+) based in Saudi Arabia — this is one of the largest structured sources of Saudi and Arab-world company data available. That information is fragmented, frequently bilingual, and spread across profiles that are tedious to collect by hand — industry classifications, funding stages, contact details, and geographic focus vary widely from company to company and change over time.

This scraper turns all 19K+ profiles into clean, structured records, enabling use cases such as:

• 📊 Market and competitor research at scale — across 19K+ companies, with deep coverage of the Saudi (KSA) market (17K+ companies) plus the UAE, Egypt, and other Arab markets.
• 💼 Building lead lists and CRM data enriched with contacts, industries, and locations.
• 💰 Sourcing and tracking startups and investors by funding stage and fintech category.
• 🗂️ Constructing company directories, comparison tools, and B2B databases.
• 📈 Monitoring how companies, sectors, and funding activity evolve over time.
• 🤖 Powering analytics pipelines, enrichment services, and AI applications.

By returning normalized profiles — with English and Arabic fields side by side — the scraper removes the need to manually collect and organize data from the source directory.

Input

Instead of a start URL, the scraper is driven by filters that mirror the website's own search. Every filter is optional: leave a field empty to skip that filter, and leave everything empty to scrape all companies.

Field	Type	Description
name	string	Free-text search on the company name. Leave empty to not filter by name.
country	string	Headquarter country code. Leave empty to include companies from all countries.
companyType	string	Listing status: Listed or Non Listed.
industry	string	Industry group (e.g. Financials - Non-Banks).
subIndustry	string	Sub-industry group (e.g. Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing).
city	string	City filter. Only applied when country is Saudi Arabia — ignored for any other country.
maxItems	number	Maximum number of companies to scrape.
proxyConfiguration	object	Optional proxy settings.

ℹ️ City is Saudi Arabia only. The city list contains Saudi cities, so a city is only applied when the headquarter is set to Saudi Arabia. If a city is selected with any other (or no) country, it is safely ignored.

Example input

{
  "country": "SA",
  "companyType": "Listed",
  "subIndustry": "Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing",
  "city": "Riyadh",
  "maxItems": 5,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}

Output

Each scraped company is stored as one record in the dataset. Text fields are returned in both English and Arabic (Arabic fields carry an Ar suffix) and are null when the source provides no value.

Example output

{
  "url": "https://en.sharikatmubasher.com/company-profile-detail-view/worldwide-insuretech-solutions-and-services-ltd-307782",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-26T09:14:03.117Z",
  "companyId": 307782,
  "name": "Worldwide InsureTech Solutions and Services Ltd",
  "nameAr": null,
  "description": "Worldwide InsureTech Solutions and Services Ltd Known as WIS is a Private Company, Operates within the Fintch Services Sector. WIS Established in 2014 and Based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.",
  "descriptionAr": null,
  "website": "www.wisconnectz.com",
  "email": "customersupport@wis.co.ae",
  "phone": "+971 56 1169399",
  "address": "Office 2806, Jumeirah Business Centre 5, Cluster W, Jumeirah Lakes Towers, PO Box 32430, Dubai United Arab Emirates.",
  "addressAr": null,
  "industry": "Financials - Non-Banks",
  "industryAr": "القطاع المالي - غير المصرفي",
  "subIndustry": "Fintech Services",
  "subIndustryAr": "خدمات التكنولوجيا المالية",
  "legalForm": "Limited Liability Co",
  "legalFormAr": "شركه ذات مسئوليه محدوده",
  "companyType": null,
  "businessTypes": ["B2B"],
  "businessTypesAr": ["B2B"],
  "country": "United Arab Emirates",
  "countryAr": "الإمارات العربية المتحدة",
  "countryCode": "AE",
  "city": "Dubai",
  "cityAr": "دبى",
  "region": "MENA",
  "geographicalFocus": "GCC",
  "geographicalFocusAr": null,
  "geographicalExpansion": ["AE"],
  "geographicalExpansionCountries": ["United Arab Emirates"],
  "geographicalExpansionCountriesAr": ["الإمارات العربية المتحدة"],
  "establishedDate": "2014-01-01",
  "employeeRange": "1-10",
  "logoUrl": "static-resources/company-logo/307782.png",
  "isFintech": true,
  "fintechCategory": "Insurtech",
  "fintechCategoryAr": "تكنولوجيا التأمين",
  "developmentStage": "SEED",
  "developmentStageAr": "مرحلة التمويل الأولية",
  "fundingStatus": "Active"
}

Field reference

Field	Type	Description
url	string	Company profile page URL.
scrapedAt	string (ISO 8601)	Timestamp of when the company was scraped.
companyId	number	The directory's company identifier.
name / nameAr	string | null	Company name in English / Arabic.
description / descriptionAr	string | null	Main activity description in English / Arabic.
website	string | null	Company website.
email	string | null	Contact email.
phone	string | null	Contact phone number.
address / addressAr	string | null	Physical address in English / Arabic.
industry / industryAr	string | null	Industry group in English / Arabic.
subIndustry / subIndustryAr	string | null	Sub-industry group in English / Arabic.
legalForm / legalFormAr	string | null	Legal form (e.g. Limited Liability Co) in English / Arabic.
companyType	string | null	Company type / listing status.
businessTypes / businessTypesAr	string[]	Business types (e.g. B2B, B2C) in English / Arabic.
country / countryAr	string | null	Headquarter country name in English / Arabic.
countryCode	string | null	Headquarter country code (e.g. AE).
city / cityAr	string | null	Headquarter city in English / Arabic.
region	string | null	Region code (e.g. MENA).
geographicalFocus / …Ar	string | null	Primary geographic market focus in English / Arabic.
geographicalExpansion	string[]	Country codes the company has expanded into.
geographicalExpansionCountries / …Ar	string[]	Expansion country names in English / Arabic.
establishedDate	string | null	Date the company was established.
employeeRange	string | null	Employee count range (e.g. 1-10).
logoUrl	string | null	Path to the company logo.
isFintech	boolean	Whether the company is classified as a fintech.
fintechCategory / …Ar	string | null	Fintech sub-category (e.g. Insurtech) in English / Arabic.
developmentStage / …Ar	string | null	Funding / development stage (e.g. SEED) in English / Arabic.
fundingStatus	string | null	Funding status (e.g. Active).

❓ FAQ

Which countries can I scrape? Companies headquartered across the Arab League markets — including Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and Oman. Pick a headquarter country to narrow results, or leave it empty to include every country.

Do I need to provide a URL? No. Instead of URLs, you choose filters — country, industry, sub-industry, company type, city, and company name — just like the website's own search. Every filter is optional.

Why is my city filter being ignored? The city list only contains Saudi cities, so a city is applied only when the headquarter country is Saudi Arabia. If you select a city together with a different country (or no country), the city is safely skipped and the run continues.

Are the results available in Arabic? Yes. Most text fields are returned in both English and Arabic. Arabic values use an Ar suffix (e.g. nameAr, industryAr) and are null when the source provides no Arabic value.

Can I find startups and investors by funding stage? Yes. Each record includes developmentStage, fundingStatus, and isFintech / fintechCategory, so you can filter and sort companies by funding maturity and fintech vertical after scraping.

How many companies are available? The directory holds more than 19,000 company and investor profiles across the Arab world, of which over 17,000 are headquartered in Saudi Arabia — making it a particularly rich source for the KSA market. You can scrape the full catalog or any subset of it.

How many companies can I scrape per run? Use maxItems to cap the run. Leave it empty to scrape all companies that match your filters — up to the full 19K+ directory. The scraper paginates automatically until the limit or the last page is reached.

Can I schedule regular runs? Yes. Schedule the actor on Apify to refresh company data, track new entries, and monitor how sectors and funding activity change over time.

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