Fyple Scraper - Local Business Directory

Scrape Fyple — a local business directory covering the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, and Ireland. Browse any business category (optionally narrowed to a region and city), run a free-text keyword search, or fetch full business profiles by direct URL. Get names, addresses, phone numbers, emails, websites, categories, ratings, opening hours, accepted payment types, and GPS coordinates. No login, no cookies, no API key required.

What this actor does

• Three modes: search (category browse, optionally narrowed to region/city), keyword (free-text business name/type + location search), and byUrl (direct business profile URLs)
• 7 countries — United States, United Kingdom, Canada, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, Ireland — each its own directory edition
• 50+ curated categories across 18 industry groups, or type any custom parent-group/subcategory path (Fyple has 500+ subcategories)
• Region and city filters to narrow a category browse down to a state/province and city, with full pagination
• Filter by minimum star rating (1-5)
• Rich business profiles — street address, phone, mobile, fax, email, website, categories, rating, review count, individual customer reviews, opening hours, accepted payment types, description, photo gallery, social/review-site links, and GPS coordinates
• Empty fields are omitted — you only ever see fields that were actually found for a business

Output per business

• name — business name
• streetAddress, city, region, postalCode, country — full postal address
• phone, mobile, fax — contact numbers (when published)
• email — decoded from the business's published contact details
• website — the business's own website
• category — primary (most specific) listed category, categories[] — every category breadcrumb chain the business is listed under
• rating, reviewCount — average star rating (1-5) and number of reviews
• reviews[] — individual customer reviews ({author, rating, text, date} per review, up to 20 most recent), when the business has any
• description — the business's own full description (falls back to Fyple's page summary when a business hasn't written one)
• images[] — photo gallery URLs, when the business has uploaded photos
• openingHours[] — structured opening hours ({day, hours} per day, when published)
• acceptedPayments[] — payment types the business accepts (e.g. Visa, PayPal, Cash), when published
• employeeCount, yearEstablished — company size and founding year, when the business has published them
• amenities[] — business amenity flags the owner has ticked (e.g. Parking Available, Wi-Fi, Wheelchair Access, Takeaway & Delivery, Female Friendly), when published
• facebookUrl, yelpUrl, twitterUrl, instagramUrl, linkedinUrl, pinterestUrl, youtubeUrl — social media and review-site profile links, when published
• keywords[] — search keyword tags the business has associated with its listing, when published
• latitude, longitude — GPS coordinates from the business's map listing
• logoUrl — business logo/photo
• nearbyBusinesses[] — other businesses located close by ({name, url, address, distance}), useful for competitor/area mapping
• sourceUrl — canonical Fyple profile URL for the business
• recordType: "business", scrapedAt

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	string (select)	search	search (category browse), keyword (free-text search), or byUrl (fetch by URL)
country	string (select)	us	Which Fyple country edition to scrape: us, gb, ca, za, nz, au, ie
category	string (select)	food-drink/restaurant	Pick a common category, or custom to use customCategory (mode=search)
customCategory	string	–	Free-text parent-group/subcategory path, overrides category (mode=search)
region	string	–	State/province to narrow the browse to, e.g. ca or on (mode=search)
city	string	–	City to narrow the browse to; requires region to also be set (mode=search)
keyword	string	Pizza	Business name or type to search for (mode=keyword)
location	string	New York	City, state, or ZIP to search near (mode=keyword)
businessUrls	array	–	Fyple profile URLs to fetch directly (mode=byUrl)
minRating	integer	0 (no minimum)	Only return businesses rated at least 1-5 stars
maxItems	int	20	Hard cap on returned records (1-2000)

Example: restaurants nationwide in the US

{
  "mode": "search",
  "country": "us",
  "category": "food-drink/restaurant",
  "maxItems": 30
}

Example: lawyers in Ontario, Canada

{
  "mode": "search",
  "country": "ca",
  "category": "legal-financial/lawyer",
  "region": "on",
  "maxItems": 50
}

Example: 4+ star dentists in Los Angeles, California

{
  "mode": "search",
  "country": "us",
  "category": "health-beauty/dentist",
  "region": "ca",
  "city": "Los Angeles",
  "minRating": 4,
  "maxItems": 40
}

Example: keyword search for plumbers in London, UK

{
  "mode": "keyword",
  "country": "gb",
  "keyword": "Plumber",
  "location": "London",
  "maxItems": 20
}

Example: fetch specific business profiles

{
  "mode": "byUrl",
  "businessUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.fyple.com/company/tanlite-ibras8x/" }
  ]
}

Use cases

• Local lead generation — build a prospect list of businesses by trade, region, and city for B2B outreach
• Market research — measure business density and average ratings for a category across markets
• Directory aggregation — feed structured local-business data into your own local-search product
• Competitor mapping — see who else operates in a category and area, with ratings and contact info
• Multi-country expansion research — compare category coverage across the US, UK, Canada, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, and Ireland

Limitations

• Keyword search returns a single page. Fyple's free-text keyword search does not expose further pagination in its results page, so mode=keyword returns up to ~20 results per run. For larger volumes, use mode=search (category browse), which paginates fully.
• Category browsing requires a curated or custom category path. Fyple's free-text search endpoint occasionally rejects unusual keyword/location combinations; mode=search (category + optional region/city) is the more reliable bulk-scraping path and is recommended for large runs.
• region is a short code, not a free-text place name. Fyple's region URLs use short codes (e.g. ca for California, on for Ontario) rather than full names. Check a business's own region output field or Fyple's site navigation for the exact code for your market.
• minRating is applied client-side. A business with no rating on Fyple is only excluded once minRating is set above 0 (which requires a rating to compare against).
• Opening hours, accepted payments, mobile/fax numbers, email, reviews, photos, social links, and "more details" fields (employee count, year established, keywords, amenities) are only present when the business itself has published them — most listings have at least a name, address, and phone number, but the richer fields vary per business.
• reviews[] is capped at the 20 most recent reviews per business to keep records a manageable size; reviewCount still reflects the business's true total review count.

FAQ

What data source does this actor use? It reads the publicly available category-browse, search-results, and business-profile pages on Fyple. No account or API key is needed.

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

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

Which countries are covered? United States (fyple.com), United Kingdom (fyple.co.uk), Canada (fyple.ca), South Africa (fyple.co.za), New Zealand (fyple.co.nz), Australia (fyple.biz), and Ireland (fyple.net) — set with the country input.

Can I browse a category nationwide instead of a specific city? Yes — leave region and city blank to browse the category across the whole country.

How accurate are the GPS coordinates? latitude/longitude come directly from the embedded map on the business's own Fyple profile page.

Are individual customer reviews included? Yes — when a business has reviews, up to its 20 most recent are returned in reviews[], each with the reviewer's name, star rating, review text, and date.

Does this actor need a proxy or login? No — Fyple's category, search, and profile pages are served without any anti-bot challenge, so this actor runs entirely on Apify's free plan with no proxy and no credentials required. It optionally uses Apify's free AUTO proxy group to recover automatically from an occasional rate limit.