# GoodFirms Agency Directory Scraper — Rating, Rate & Employees (`bovi/goodfirms-agency-directory`) Actor Search the GoodFirms B2B agency directory by category. Returns each listed agency's rating, review count, hourly rate, employee range, location, founding year, website, and (best-effort) email/phone/full address/services. - **URL**: https://apify.com/bovi/goodfirms-agency-directory.md - **Developed by:** [Vitalii Bondarev](https://apify.com/bovi) (community) - **Categories:** Lead generation, Business - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing from $4.32 / 1,000 agency records This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events. Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have. Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows. In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours, and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store. In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server. Actors are written with capital "A". ## How to integrate an Actor? If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects. You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready. The best way to integrate Actors is as follows. In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): ```bash npm install apify-client ``` In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): ```bash pip install apify-client ``` In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): ````bash # MacOS / Linux curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash # Windows irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex ```bash In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md). If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below. For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README # Actor input Schema ## `categories` (type: `array`): GoodFirms category URL slugs to scrape, exactly as they appear at goodfirms.co/ (e.g. 'seo-agencies', 'ecommerce-development-companies', 'cloud-computing-companies', 'devops-companies', 'advertising-companies'). This is NOT a free-text keyword search — the slug must be a real GoodFirms category URL segment, not a guessed one (e.g. 'web-design-companies' does not exist even though it reads naturally). Browse goodfirms.co and copy the last path segment of a category page's URL to find a valid slug. Each category is scraped independently. ## `maxItems` (type: `integer`): Maximum number of agency records to return per category. ## `maxPages` (type: `integer`): How many category-listing pages (~48 agencies/page) to fetch per category before stopping. ## `fetchDetails` (type: `boolean`): If true (recommended), visits each company's own GoodFirms profile page for bonus fields: email, phone, full street address, and services offered. The core fields (name, website, rating, review count, hourly rate, employees, location) are already complete from the category listing alone, so turning this off only drops the bonus fields, never a whole record — but the run is faster with it off. ## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`): Proxy settings. Use Apify Proxy with the RESIDENTIAL group for reliable access to GoodFirms. ## Actor input object example ```json { "categories": [ "seo-agencies", "ecommerce-development-companies" ], "maxItems": 20, "maxPages": 3, "fetchDetails": true, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": [ "RESIDENTIAL" ] } } ```` # Actor output Schema ## `results` (type: `string`): Dataset containing GoodFirms Agency Directory records (companyName, website, rating, reviewCount, hourlyRate, employees, location, foundedYear, shortDescription, phone, email, services, profileUrl). # API You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup. ## JavaScript example ```javascript import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client'; // Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token // Replace the '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "categories": [ "seo-agencies", "ecommerce-development-companies" ], "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": [ "RESIDENTIAL" ] } }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("bovi/goodfirms-agency-directory").call(input); // Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any) console.log('Results from dataset'); console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`); const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems(); items.forEach((item) => { console.dir(item); }); // 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs ``` ## Python example ```python from apify_client import ApifyClient # Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token # Replace '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "categories": [ "seo-agencies", "ecommerce-development-companies", ], "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"], }, } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("bovi/goodfirms-agency-directory").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"]) for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "categories": [ "seo-agencies", "ecommerce-development-companies" ], "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": [ "RESIDENTIAL" ] } }' | apify call bovi/goodfirms-agency-directory --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=bovi/goodfirms-agency-directory", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "GoodFirms Agency Directory Scraper — Rating, Rate & Employees", "description": "Search the GoodFirms B2B agency directory by category. Returns each listed agency's rating, review count, hourly rate, employee range, location, founding year, website, and (best-effort) email/phone/full address/services.", "version": "0.1", "x-build-id": "Vlz50njwKcRkAZm5j" }, "servers": [ { "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2" } ], "paths": { "/acts/bovi~goodfirms-agency-directory/run-sync-get-dataset-items": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-bovi-goodfirms-agency-directory", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } }, "/acts/bovi~goodfirms-agency-directory/runs": { "post": { "operationId": "runs-sync-bovi-goodfirms-agency-directory", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK", "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema" } } } } } } }, "/acts/bovi~goodfirms-agency-directory/run-sync": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-bovi-goodfirms-agency-directory", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } } }, "components": { "schemas": { "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "required": [ "categories" ], "properties": { "categories": { "title": "Category slugs", "type": "array", "description": "GoodFirms category URL slugs to scrape, exactly as they appear at goodfirms.co/ (e.g. 'seo-agencies', 'ecommerce-development-companies', 'cloud-computing-companies', 'devops-companies', 'advertising-companies'). This is NOT a free-text keyword search — the slug must be a real GoodFirms category URL segment, not a guessed one (e.g. 'web-design-companies' does not exist even though it reads naturally). Browse goodfirms.co and copy the last path segment of a category page's URL to find a valid slug. Each category is scraped independently.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "maxItems": { "title": "Max items per category", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 2000, "type": "integer", "description": "Maximum number of agency records to return per category.", "default": 20 }, "maxPages": { "title": "Max listing pages per category", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 100, "type": "integer", "description": "How many category-listing pages (~48 agencies/page) to fetch per category before stopping.", "default": 3 }, "fetchDetails": { "title": "Fetch full company profile (email, phone, full address, services)", "type": "boolean", "description": "If true (recommended), visits each company's own GoodFirms profile page for bonus fields: email, phone, full street address, and services offered. The core fields (name, website, rating, review count, hourly rate, employees, location) are already complete from the category listing alone, so turning this off only drops the bonus fields, never a whole record — but the run is faster with it off.", "default": true }, "proxyConfiguration": { "title": "Proxy configuration", "type": "object", "description": "Proxy settings. Use Apify Proxy with the RESIDENTIAL group for reliable access to GoodFirms." } } }, "runsResponseSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "data": { "type": "object", "properties": { "id": { "type": "string" }, "actId": { "type": "string" }, "userId": { "type": "string" }, "startedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "finishedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "status": { "type": "string", "example": "READY" }, "meta": { "type": "object", "properties": { "origin": { "type": "string", "example": "API" }, "userAgent": { "type": "string" } } }, "stats": { "type": "object", "properties": { "inputBodyLen": { "type": "integer", "example": 2000 }, "rebootCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "restartCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "resurrectCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "computeUnits": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "options": { "type": "object", "properties": { "build": { "type": "string", "example": "latest" }, "timeoutSecs": { "type": "integer", "example": 300 }, "memoryMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 1024 }, "diskMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 2048 } } }, "buildId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultKeyValueStoreId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultDatasetId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultRequestQueueId": { "type": "string" }, "buildNumber": { "type": "string", "example": "1.0.0" }, "containerUrl": { "type": "string" }, "usage": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 1 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "usageTotalUsd": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "usageUsd": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } } } } } } } } } ```