# Herold.at Business Listings Scraper (`bovi/herold-scraper`) Actor

Collect Austrian business listings from herold.at by category, location, or search URL. Extract contact details, address, ratings, and optional profile information.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/bovi/herold-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Vitalii Bondarev](https://apify.com/bovi) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Business, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.40 / 1,000 herold.at business listings scrapers

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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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.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## 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.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Herold.at Business Listings Scraper

Collect public business listings from Herold.at, Austria's online directory. Search by business category and Austrian city or region, or provide one or more Herold.at search-result URLs. The actor follows result-page links and stops when it reaches the configured result limit.

### What it collects

Each record can include the Herold business ID and profile URL, business name, verified status, average rating and review count, description, street address, postal code, region, phone, email, website, and logo URL when those values appear on the result page. Enable profile details to also collect coordinates, structured opening hours, payment methods, founding year, and the reviews visible on the business profile. Optional fields are omitted when Herold does not provide them.

### Input

Choose search mode to combine category slugs with location slugs. Leave locations empty to use the Austria-wide category page. Choose URL mode to crawl provided HTTPS search URLs on herold.at. The optional filters keep verified or rated businesses and can apply a minimum rating. Set maxPages to limit pagination for each search; maxResults is the overall output cap and defaults to 50. Profile detail fetching is off by default. A proxy is optional and is used only when the input enables the Apify proxy.

### Example output

The values below describe the record shape. Optional values only appear when they were present on the Herold page.

```
{
  "id": "<Herold business ID>",
  "url": "<Herold profile URL>",
  "name": "<business name>",
  "verified": "<true or false>",
  "rating": "<number when present>",
  "review_count": "<integer when present>",
  "street_address": "<street address>",
  "postal_code": "<postal code>",
  "address_region": "<Austrian region>",
  "phone": "<phone number>",
  "email": "<email address>",
  "website": "<business website>",
  "source": "herold.at",
  "scraped_at": "<UTC timestamp>"
}
```

### Pricing

The actor writes one dataset item for each business record and does not add a separate actor charge. The champion listing specifies a reference price of $0.0015 per result on the FREE pricing tier; the applicable Apify price can vary by account tier.

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

Search from category and location slugs, or crawl one or more Herold.at search URLs.

## `categories` (type: `array`):

Herold category slugs, for example restaurant, elektriker, installateur, frisör, zahnarzt, or rechtsanwalt.

## `locations` (type: `array`):

Herold city or region slugs, for example wien or salzburg. Leave empty for an Austria-wide category page.

## `urls` (type: `array`):

One or more HTTPS Herold.at search result URLs. Used when Search mode is Search URLs.

## `verifiedOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Keep only results marked Verifiziert by Herold.

## `ratedOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Keep only businesses with at least one Herold rating.

## `minRating` (type: `number`):

Keep businesses whose average Herold rating meets this threshold.

## `maxPages` (type: `integer`):

Maximum result pages to visit for each search. Use 0 to follow pagination until maxResults is reached.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of business records to collect across all searches.

## `fetchDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Also visit each business profile for coordinates, opening hours, payment methods, founding year, and visible reviews.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Optional Apify proxy settings. Leave unset or set useApifyProxy to false to connect directly.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "search",
  "categories": [
    "restaurant"
  ],
  "locations": [
    "wien"
  ],
  "urls": [
    "https://www.herold.at/gelbe-seiten/wien/restaurant/"
  ],
  "verifiedOnly": false,
  "ratedOnly": false,
  "maxPages": 0,
  "maxResults": 50,
  "fetchDetails": false,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Dataset with the scraped business records.

# 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 '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "mode": "search",
    "categories": [
        "restaurant"
    ],
    "locations": [
        "wien"
    ],
    "urls": [
        "https://www.herold.at/gelbe-seiten/wien/restaurant/"
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ]
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("bovi/herold-scraper").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 '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "mode": "search",
    "categories": ["restaurant"],
    "locations": ["wien"],
    "urls": ["https://www.herold.at/gelbe-seiten/wien/restaurant/"],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("bovi/herold-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "mode": "search",
  "categories": [
    "restaurant"
  ],
  "locations": [
    "wien"
  ],
  "urls": [
    "https://www.herold.at/gelbe-seiten/wien/restaurant/"
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}' |
apify call bovi/herold-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,bovi/herold-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/0cGwUd3MadtenwpQW/builds/e6mOKtPvjaxh4IshO/openapi.json