Yellow Pages Scraper — US Local Business Directory

Pay-per-result: $1.50/1K businesses scraped. Phone numbers and ratings included. No proxy, no monthly fee.

Yellow Pages still indexes 20 million+ US local businesses. This scraper gives you clean, structured leads — name, phone, address, website, categories, rating — in seconds. Pay only for results you get.

Scrape yellowpages.com search results into clean, lead-gen-ready JSON. Extract business name, phone, address, website, categories, rating, review count, and years in business — with a parse_confidence score on every record.

What you get

Field	Description
business_name	Full business name
phone	Primary phone number
street	Street address
city	City
state	State (2-letter code)
zip	ZIP code
website	Business website URL (external, not a YP redirect)
categories	List of YP business categories
rating	Star rating (1.0–5.0, half-star precision)
review_count	Number of reviews
years_in_business	Years in business (from YP badge)
yp_url	Canonical Yellow Pages listing URL
is_ad	Whether this is a sponsored listing
parse_confidence	Parse quality score (1.0 = perfect)
warnings	List of machine-readable quality codes

Input

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
searchTerms	string	"plumbers"	Business type or keyword
location	string	"Austin, TX"	City, state, or ZIP
maxResults	integer	30	Max records to return
includeAds	boolean	false	Include sponsored listings
startPage	integer	1	Start page (for resuming runs)

Why this scraper is different

Most Yellow Pages scrapers on the market break within weeks because they anchor on CSS class names that change with every site deploy. This scraper uses structural HTML anchors (div.v-card, a.business-name, p.adr, div.result-rating class words) that are tied to semantic meaning, not generated class names. When YP updates their CSS, this parser keeps working.

Every record ships a parse_confidence score (0.0–1.0). Below 0.7 is a machine-readable signal that the page structure has drifted — your data pipeline can filter automatically.

	This actor	Generic YP scrapers
Parse method	Structural HTML anchors (resilient)	CSS class names (breaks on redeploy)
parse_confidence	Yes — per record	No
Address parsing	Dual-pattern (service-area + physical)	Often breaks on service-area listings
Proxy required	No	Often yes
is_ad flag	Yes (filter sponsored)	Rarely
years_in_business	Yes (unique YP data point)	Rarely
Price	$1.50/1K	$2-5/1K

Use with AI agents (MCP)

This scraper is callable as a tool by AI agents (Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, n8n, LangGraph, CrewAI, or any MCP-compatible client) via Apify's hosted Model Context Protocol server. Any AI agent can look up US business contacts mid-conversation.

Point your MCP client at this tool:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=bovi/yellowpages-scraper",
        "--header",
        "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Pricing example

Pay-per-result: $1.50 per 1,000 business records ($0.0015/record). You only pay for actual results scraped — no monthly fee, no minimum.

Run size	Cost
100 businesses	$0.15
500 businesses	$0.75
1,000 businesses	$1.50
5,000 businesses	$7.50

Output sample

{
  "business_name": "Austin Plumbing Co",
  "phone": "(512) 555-0147",
  "street": "1423 S Lamar Blvd",
  "city": "Austin",
  "state": "TX",
  "zip": "78704",
  "website": "https://austinplumbing.com",
  "categories": ["Plumbers", "Drain Cleaning"],
  "rating": 4.5,
  "review_count": 87,
  "years_in_business": 12,
  "yp_url": "https://www.yellowpages.com/austin-tx/mip/austin-plumbing-co-123456",
  "is_ad": false,
  "parse_confidence": 1.0,
  "warnings": []
}

FAQ

Do I need a proxy or API key? No — Yellow Pages serves plain HTML without heavy bot protection. No proxy or API key required. The actor runs zero-COGS.

What export formats are available? JSON, CSV, Excel, and XML — downloadable from the dataset page or via the Apify REST API.

Can I schedule regular runs? Yes. Use Apify Scheduler (or n8n/Zapier) to run on a schedule and push new records to Google Sheets, a CRM, or a webhook.

What if the actor returns empty results? Confirm the searchTerms and location match Yellow Pages conventions (e.g. "Austin, TX" not "Austin Texas"). YP returns empty when there are no results for that exact search pair.

Use cases

• Lead generation: build targeted prospect lists (plumbers in Austin, dentists in Chicago)
• Local SEO research: audit competitors' listings, ratings, and categories
• Market research: map service providers in a region
• Data enrichment: match phone/address data to existing business lists

Technical notes

• No proxy required for most runs — YP is plain HTML without heavy anti-bot
• Handles both service-area listings (no street address) and physical locations
• Filters YP redirect links to return the actual business website URL
• Pagination via ?page=N — 30 results per page

Integrations

Built for lead-gen teams and local-market researchers extracting US business contacts and ratings by category and city — the JSON/dataset output drops into the tools you already run, no glue code:

• n8n / Make / Zapier — trigger a run or pipe every new dataset item into 500+ apps (Google Sheets, Airtable, Slack, HubSpot, your database) with no code: n8n, Make, Zapier.
• Webhooks — fire your own endpoint the moment a run finishes, to push results straight into your pipeline (docs).
• MCP server — expose this actor as a tool to Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client so an AI agent can pull this data mid-conversation (guide).
• API & SDKs — fetch the dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel through the Apify REST API or the Python / JS SDKs.

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