B2B Growth Signal Finder

Enrich a list of company domains or website URLs with public hiring, website, and growth signals — careers pages, open-role counts, demo/pricing/contact CTAs, partner/case-study/location pages, and expansion keywords — then score each company with a transparent, non-AI 0–100 growth signal score. Built for B2B sales teams, lead-gen agencies, recruiters, and market researchers who want to prioritise outreach by visible buying-intent and growth.

No login, no cookies, no sessions. The actor fetches each company's public homepage and a few shallow-discovered key pages over HTTP. You pay one flat event per unique company row that passes your filters.

✨ Why this scraper

• Company-level, signal-first — one flat row per company, focused on actionable growth indicators, not raw contact scraping.
• Two input modes — paste full company URLs or bare domains; both are normalized to a root domain.
• 27 flat fields — identity, hiring signals, website/buying-intent signals, and a transparent score. No nested objects; drops straight into Sheets/Excel/CRMs.
• Transparent rule-based score — every point is explained by reason tags (no AI, no black box).
• Cheap & compliant — public pages only, no login-only platforms, no expensive enrichment APIs, no email/contact scraping.
• Pay-Per-Event — one flat growth-signal-result event per saved unique company. Duplicates, filtered, and failed rows are never charged.

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🚀 Quick start — sample inputs

Example 1 — company URLs with filters

{
    "companyUrls": [
        "https://www.atlassian.com",
        "https://www.figma.com",
        "https://www.cloudflare.com",
        "https://stripe.com"
    ],
    "maxResults": 100,
    "scanMode": "homepage_plus_key_pages",
    "maxPagesPerCompany": 5,
    "includeHiringSignals": true,
    "minOpenJobs": 0,
    "minGrowthSignalScore": 30,
    "deduplicate": true,
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true }
}

Example 2 — bare domains, homepage-only, tag filter

{
    "domains": ["stripe.com", "notion.so", "figma.com"],
    "scanMode": "homepage_only",
    "includeHiringSignals": true,
    "requiredSignalTags": ["active_hiring", "demo_cta_found"],
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true }
}

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🧾 Input fields

Field	Type	Default	Purpose
companyUrls	array	[]	Direct company website URLs to enrich
domains	array	[]	Domain-only inputs (converted to https://<domain>)
maxResults	integer	100	Max saved company rows (1–5000)
scanMode	string	homepage_plus_key_pages	homepage_only or homepage_plus_key_pages
maxPagesPerCompany	integer	5	Page guardrail (1–10; forced to 1 for homepage_only)
includeHiringSignals	boolean	true	Detect + scan a public careers/jobs page
minOpenJobs	integer	0	Keep companies with at least N visible open jobs
minGrowthSignalScore	integer	0	Keep companies scoring at least this (0–100)
requiredSignalTags	array	[]	Keep a company only if it has ≥1 of these reason tags
deduplicate	boolean	true	Remove duplicate companies by root domain
proxyConfiguration	object	{ "useApifyProxy": true }	Datacenter, no-proxy, or custom proxy URLs

At least one of companyUrls or domains is required. No field accepts login credentials, cookies, session tokens, or account API keys.

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📤 Output — one flat row per company

Results are returned as a flat Growth signals table — one row per company:

Sample record — strong signal (visible open-role count)

{
    "input_value": "https://www.figma.com",
    "normalized_domain": "figma.com",
    "company_url": "https://www.figma.com/",
    "company_name": "Figma",
    "homepage_status": 200,
    "scan_status": "success",
    "pages_scanned": 5,
    "careers_page_url": "https://www.figma.com/careers/",
    "jobs_page_found": true,
    "open_jobs_count": 167,
    "job_departments_text": "Engineering|Product|Design|Sales|Marketing|Finance|Operations|People",
    "job_locations_text": "Remote",
    "remote_hiring_detected": true,
    "hiring_keywords_found": "careers|open positions|job openings|remote",
    "pricing_page_found": true,
    "demo_or_sales_cta_found": true,
    "contact_page_found": true,
    "partners_page_found": true,
    "case_studies_found": true,
    "locations_page_found": false,
    "growth_terms_found": "growth|launch|expanding|growing|scaling",
    "growth_signal_score": 90,
    "growth_signal_label": "very_high",
    "growth_reason_tags": "careers_page_found|active_hiring|large_hiring_volume|remote_hiring|pricing_page_found|demo_cta_found|case_studies_found|partner_page_found|growth_terms_found|contact_page_found",
    "source_pages": "https://www.figma.com/|https://www.figma.com/ai/|https://www.figma.com/careers/|https://www.figma.com/customers/|https://www.figma.com/blog/",
    "error_message": null,
    "scraped_at": "2026-06-09T06:42:16.802Z"
}

Sample record — careers page found, job count not in static HTML

When a careers page renders its roles only through heavy JavaScript, jobs_page_found stays true but open_jobs_count is null (V1 extracts visible HTML only — it does not run a browser):

{
    "input_value": "https://www.cloudflare.com",
    "normalized_domain": "cloudflare.com",
    "company_url": "https://www.cloudflare.com/",
    "company_name": "Cloudflare",
    "homepage_status": 200,
    "scan_status": "success",
    "pages_scanned": 5,
    "careers_page_url": "https://www.cloudflare.com/careers/",
    "jobs_page_found": true,
    "open_jobs_count": null,
    "job_departments_text": "Engineering|Product|Design|Sales|Data|Security|It",
    "job_locations_text": "Remote|Hybrid",
    "remote_hiring_detected": true,
    "hiring_keywords_found": "careers|remote|open roles|open positions|we're hiring",
    "pricing_page_found": true,
    "demo_or_sales_cta_found": true,
    "contact_page_found": true,
    "partners_page_found": true,
    "case_studies_found": true,
    "locations_page_found": false,
    "growth_terms_found": "launch|launching|expanding|growing|we're hiring|growth",
    "growth_signal_score": 68,
    "growth_signal_label": "high",
    "growth_reason_tags": "careers_page_found|remote_hiring|multi_location_hiring|pricing_page_found|demo_cta_found|case_studies_found|partner_page_found|growth_terms_found|contact_page_found",
    "source_pages": "https://www.cloudflare.com/|https://www.cloudflare.com/products/|https://www.cloudflare.com/careers/|https://www.cloudflare.com/about/|https://www.cloudflare.com/case-studies/",
    "error_message": null,
    "scraped_at": "2026-06-09T06:42:16.802Z"
}

Field groups

• Identity / status: input_value, normalized_domain, company_url, company_name, homepage_status, scan_status (success/partial/failed/filtered), pages_scanned
• Hiring signals: careers_page_url, jobs_page_found, open_jobs_count, job_departments_text, job_locations_text, remote_hiring_detected, hiring_keywords_found
• Website / buying-intent signals: pricing_page_found, demo_or_sales_cta_found, contact_page_found, partners_page_found, case_studies_found, locations_page_found, growth_terms_found
• Scoring: growth_signal_score (0–100), growth_signal_label (low/medium/high/very_high), growth_reason_tags
• Provenance: source_pages, error_message, scraped_at

Booleans default to false, unknown counts to null, text fields to null.

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📊 Growth signal score (transparent, no AI)

The 0–100 score is a simple weighted sum, capped at 100:

Signal	Points
Careers/jobs page found	+15
Open jobs: 1–4 / 5–19 / 20–49 / 50+	+10 / +18 / +25 / +30
Remote/hybrid hiring detected	+8
Multiple job locations	+8
Demo / contact-sales CTA	+8
Growth terms (expanding, hiring, launch, growth…)	+8
Pricing page found	+6
Case studies / customers page	+6
Locations/offices page	+6
Partners page found	+5
Contact page found	+4

Labels: 0–24 → low, 25–49 → medium, 50–74 → high, 75–100 → very_high.

Every contribution is recorded in growth_reason_tags (e.g. careers_page_found, active_hiring, large_hiring_volume, remote_hiring, multi_location_hiring, demo_cta_found, pricing_page_found, case_studies_found, partner_page_found, location_expansion_signal, growth_terms_found, contact_page_found).

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💸 Pricing — Pay Per Event

One flat growth-signal-result event is charged per valid unique company row successfully pushed to the dataset. Failed inputs, duplicates, and filtered-out rows are never charged. The per-event price is set on the Apify Console. The actor also honours the per-run spending limit you set on Apify — it stops collecting once the limit is reached.

🚦 Proxy policy

Use Apify Datacenter proxy or no proxy for normal runs — both work reliably for public company-website crawling at this actor's conservative concurrency.

Apify Residential proxy is not supported. The actor will fail at startup if apifyProxyGroups includes RESIDENTIAL. Reason: in pay-per-event actors, residential bandwidth (~$/GB) is billed to the developer, not the run user, so a single bandwidth-heavy run could exceed the per-result event revenue.

If you genuinely need residential routing, supply your own residential provider via the proxy editor's Custom proxy URLs field — that traffic goes through your provider, not Apify, and is unaffected:

http://user:pass@proxy.iproyal.com:12321
http://user:pass@proxy.brightdata.com:22225
http://user:pass@proxy.oxylabs.io:7777

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⚙️ How it works

1. Normalize every input URL/domain to a root domain and a candidate HTTPS homepage, deduplicating by domain.
2. Fetch the homepage (HTTP-first, no browser). On HTTPS failure the HTTP variant is tried once.
3. Discover & classify internal links (careers, about, contact, pricing, solutions, customers, locations, partners) and, in homepage_plus_key_pages mode, fetch up to maxPagesPerCompany - 1 high-value pages.
4. Extract signals — company name, careers/jobs presence + visible open-role count, CTA/page indicators, and growth keywords.
5. Score, filter, dedupe, then push valid unique rows and charge per row.

A RUN_SUMMARY object (inputs, saved, duplicates, filtered, charged events, blocked requests, pages scanned, runtime) is stored in the default key-value store.

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🚫 Not in V1

Deep crawling, full job-description extraction, contact/email/person enrichment, AI scoring/summarization, LinkedIn or any login-only platform, paid data vendors, historical cross-run tracking.