1188.lv Scraper - Latvia Business Directory

Scrape 1188.lv — Latvia's leading business directory. Search any keyword or browse any of 384 business categories and get names, full addresses, phone numbers, emails, websites, ratings, opening hours, social media links, photos, and registration details. No login, no cookies, no API key, no proxy required.

What this actor does

• Three modes: search (site-wide keyword search), byCategory (browse one of 384 real 1188.lv categories), and byUrls (fetch specific businesses by direct URL)
• All 384 categories available as a dropdown, or type any custom slug-id value
• City filter — restrict results to any Latvian city or town by matching the parsed address
• Filter by minimum star rating (1-5), "has website", "has email"
• Rich business profiles — every listing is enriched with its full detail page: phone number(s), email(s), website, GPS coordinates, seasonal opening hours, social media links, photo gallery, product/service keyword tags, and full legal registration details
• Full Latvian character support — ā, č, ē, ģ, ī, ķ, ļ, ņ, š, ū, ž are handled correctly in both input and output
• Empty fields are omitted — you only ever see fields that were actually found for a business

Output per business

• businessId — 1188.lv internal business ID
• name — business name
• category — the business's own category/industry label(s) as published on its detail page (e.g. "Restorāns"), available in every mode including byUrls
• description — business description snippet
• rating (1-5), reviewCount — from the business's own detail-page rating block (most current/accurate)
• fullAddress — the complete address as published; street, city, zipCode — best-effort parsed parts
• latitude, longitude — precise GPS coordinates
• phone — primary phone number, allPhones[] — every phone number listed (businesses often list several)
• email — primary email address, allEmails[] — every email listed (1188.lv's own contact address is always excluded)
• website — business website (1188.lv's own UTM tracking parameters stripped)
• openingHours[] — structured opening hours ({day, hours, season} per slot; season is set only for businesses that publish separate winter/summer hours)
• socialLinks — business's own social media profiles, keyed by platform (e.g. facebook, instagram, tripadvisor)
• photos[] — photo gallery image URLs published on the business's profile
• keywords[] — product/service keyword tags the business is listed under
• serviceArea — the geographic area a business explicitly states it serves (delivery/service businesses), when published
• registrationNumber, registrationDate, registerName — Latvian business registry number, registration date, and register name (e.g. "Komercreģistrs"), when published
• registrationStatus — the business's current registry status (e.g. "Reģistrēts"), when published
• legalForm — legal form of the business (e.g. "Sabiedrība ar ierobežotu atbildību"), when published
• legalAddress — the business's registered legal address, when published (may differ from its operating fullAddress)
• logoUrl — business logo/photo
• sourceUrl — canonical 1188.lv business page URL
• recordType: "business", scrapedAt

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	string (select)	search	search (keyword), byCategory (browse), or byUrls (fetch by URL)
query	string	restorāns	Keyword to search for (mode=search)
category	string (select)	restorans-2686	Pick from all 384 real 1188.lv categories, or custom to use customCategory (mode=byCategory)
customCategory	string	–	Any slug-id value, overrides category (mode=byCategory)
city	string	–	Only return businesses whose address contains this city/town (any mode)
businessUrls	array	–	1188.lv business page URLs to fetch directly (mode=byUrls)
minRating	integer	0 (no minimum)	Only return businesses rated at least 1-5 stars
requireWebsite	boolean	false	Only return businesses with a listed website
requireEmail	boolean	false	Only return businesses with a listed email address
maxItems	int	20	Hard cap on returned records (1-1000)

Example: search for restaurants site-wide

{
  "mode": "search",
  "query": "restorāns",
  "maxItems": 20
}

Example: browse dentists in Rīga with at least a 4-star rating

{
  "mode": "byCategory",
  "category": "zobarstnieciba-6610",
  "city": "Rīga",
  "minRating": 4,
  "maxItems": 30
}

Example: banks with a published website and email

{
  "mode": "byCategory",
  "category": "bankas-890",
  "requireWebsite": true,
  "requireEmail": true,
  "maxItems": 50
}

Example: fetch specific businesses by URL

{
  "mode": "byUrls",
  "businessUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.1188.lv/katalogs/restorans-2686/armenu-virtuve-nojan-tapan-498662" }
  ]
}

Use cases

• Local lead generation — build a prospect list of Latvian businesses by category and city for B2B outreach
• Market research — measure business density and average ratings for a category across Latvian regions
• Directory aggregation — feed structured Latvian business data into your own local-search product
• Competitor mapping — see who else operates in a category and area, with ratings and contact info
• Registry cross-referencing — match businesses to Latvia's official registration numbers

Limitations

• city is a client-side address filter, not a server-side one. 1188.lv's own location filter (vzd_code) only lists cities that already have results within the specific category/search being browsed, so there's no single stable city list valid across all categories. Instead, city matches the parsed address text (diacritic- and case-insensitive), which works uniformly everywhere but depends on the city name appearing in the address as published.
• No authoritative total-result count. 1188.lv's server-rendered listing pages don't expose a total-hit count, so pagination stops on the site's own natural signal (two consecutive empty pages) rather than a known total.
• One extra request per result. Every listing result is automatically enriched with its detail page (phone/email/website/hours only exist there, not on listing cards), so byCategory/search modes are roughly twice as slow per record as a listing-only scrape — this is by design, to guarantee complete records.

FAQ

What data source does this actor use? It reads the publicly available search, category-browse, and business-detail pages on 1188.lv, Latvia's leading business directory. No account or API key is needed.

Is this affiliated with 1188.lv? No. This is an independent, third-party actor that reads publicly accessible pages.

Why do some businesses have no rating, phone, or website? 1188.lv only shows a rating once a business has received at least one review, and only shows contact details a business itself provided. Fields with no data are simply omitted from the record rather than shown as empty or null.

What's the difference between phone and allPhones? phone is the primary number (from the business's structured data). allPhones additionally appears only when the business lists more than one number, and includes every number found on its detail page.

Does this actor need a proxy or login? No — 1188.lv's search, category, and detail pages are served without any anti-bot challenge, so this actor runs entirely on Apify's free plan with no proxy and no credentials.

How do I find a category's slug-id value? Browse https://www.1188.lv/katalogs and copy the URL segment after /katalogs/ for any category (e.g. restorans-2686 for restaurants), or just pick it from the category dropdown.