# Austria Herold.at Scraper (B2B Yellow Pages & Directory Leads) (`dach_leads/austria-herold-scraper`) Actor

High-speed B2B lead extractor for Herold (herold.at) - Austria's #1 business directory. Extracts verified Austrian company names, categories, direct phone numbers, email addresses, websites, and postal locations across all 9 Austrian federal states.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/dach_leads/austria-herold-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Samarth Bhalerao](https://apify.com/dach_leads) (community)
- **Stats:** 1 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: 5.00 out of 5 stars

## Pricing

$1.00 / 1,000 results

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

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# README

## 🇦🇹 Austria Herold.at Scraper (B2B Yellow Pages & Directory Leads)

Extract verified Austrian business leads, direct telephone numbers, contact emails, physical Austrian postal addresses, websites, and ratings directly from **Herold (herold.at)** — Austria's premier and largest national business directory and Yellow Pages (*over 400,000+ Austrian company listings*).

```json
{
  "company_name": "Airporthotel Salzburg",
  "category": "Hotel",
  "phone": "+43 662 8500200",
  "email": "info@airporthotel.at",
  "website": "https://www.airporthotel.at",
  "postal_code": "5020",
  "city": "Salzburg",
  "full_address": "5020 Salzburg, Austria",
  "rating": "4.5 von 5",
  "herold_url": "https://www.herold.at/gelbe-seiten/salzburg/8Htk8/airporthotel-salzburg/",
  "enrich_ceo_with_actor": "https://apify.com/dach_leads/germany-b2b-lead-impressum-scraper?website=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.airporthotel.at"
}
```

***

### 📌 Overview: Why Herold is Austria's #1 B2B Database

**Herold** (`herold.at`) is the official national Yellow Pages and commercial directory of Austria. With comprehensive coverage of commercial entities across all **9 Austrian federal states** (*Wien, Salzburg, Steiermark, Oberösterreich, Tirol, Kärnten, Niederösterreich, Burgenland, Vorarlberg*), Herold is the go-to database for:

- 🏢 **Austrian Corporations & SMEs (*GmbH, AG, e.U., OG, KG*)**
- 🔨 **Austrian Craftspeople & Contractors (*Gewerbe & Handwerker*)**
- 🩺 **Medical Clinics, Specialists & Doctors (*Ärzte & Zahnärzte*)**
- ⚖️ **Law Firms, Tax Advisors & Notaries (*Steuerberater & Rechtsanwälte*)**
- 🏨 **Hotels, Tourism, Gastronomy & Regional Service Providers**

Unlike unverified global maps, **Herold listings are tied to registered Austrian commercial telephone lines and official Chamber of Commerce (WKO) trades**.

***

### ⚡ Key Features & Capabilities

- **🚀 400,000+ Austrian Records:** National coverage across all 9 Austrian federal states and 2,000+ municipalities.
- **📞 Direct Austrian Phone Numbers:** Captures standard national and regional telephone lines with international Austrian dialing codes (`+43`).
- **✉️ Direct Contact Emails:** Extracts verified business email addresses directly from published directory cards.
- **🌐 Clean External Website Extraction:** Discovers verified official company website domains directly from listings.
- **📍 Austrian 4-Digit Postal Codes (PLZ):** Captures complete Austrian postal codes (*e.g., 1010 Wien, 5020 Salzburg, 8010 Graz*) and district localities.
- **⭐ Star Ratings & Reviews:** Captures customer review scores to target top-rated service providers.
- **🤖 Autonomous AI Agent & n8n Ready:** Built-in Pay-Per-Event (PPE) schema allows n8n, Make, LangChain, and custom outbound automations to query Austrian leads on demand.

***

### 🔄 1-Click n8n Automation Template (CRM & Google Sheets Sync)

Automate your Austrian lead generation pipeline by streaming fresh Herold leads directly into **Google Sheets, Airtable, HubSpot, or Instantly**:

```mermaid
flowchart LR
    A["⏰ Trigger<br/>(On Demand / Weekly)"] --> B["🇦🇹 Step 1: Herold.at Scraper<br/>(Pulls 50–500 Austrian Leads)"]
    B --> C{"Filter<br/>Has Website?"}
    C -->|Yes| D["👔 Step 2: Impressum Extractor<br/>(Extracts Austrian CEO)"]
    D --> E["📊 Final Output<br/>(Google Sheets / CRM)"]
```

> 📥 **Ready-to-Use n8n Template:** Download our ready-to-import workflow from GitHub:\
> [**n8n-german-b2b-lead-pipeline**](https://github.com/sam4010/n8n-german-b2b-lead-pipeline) — Copy and paste directly onto your n8n canvas!

***

### 💡 The 2-Step DACH B2B Power Funnel

This scraper is engineered as the **Austrian Upstream Discovery Engine** for your DACH outreach:

```
[ Step 1: Austria Herold.at Scraper ] ───►  Extracts Austrian companies, emails, direct phones & websites ($1.00 / 1k)
                     │
                     └───► (Export Website URLs)
[ Step 2: Impressum CEO Extractor   ] ───►  Crawls company websites to extract the Managing Director (Geschäftsführer / Inhaber)
                                            and legal commercial register ID under Austrian Law (§ 14 UGB / § 5 ECG)
```

> 🎯 **Cross-Sell Pro-Tip:** Take the company websites extracted by Herold and feed them into our **[Germany & DACH B2B Lead Impressum Extractor](https://apify.com/dach_leads/germany-b2b-lead-impressum-scraper)** to legally extract the **Managing Director (*Geschäftsführer / Vorstand*)** names and personal direct emails!

***

### 📥 Input Parameters

| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| `searchTerm` | String | **Yes** | `"Hotel"` | Austrian trade, profession, or keyword (*e.g. Hotel, Steuerberater, Elektriker, IT-Dienstleistungen, Tischler, Rechtsanwalt, Arzt*). |
| `city` | String | **Yes** | `"Salzburg"` | Austrian city, state, or 4-digit PLZ (*e.g. Wien, Salzburg, Graz, Linz, Innsbruck, Klagenfurt, 1010, 5020*). |
| `maxResults` | Integer | No | `50` | Maximum number of Austrian leads to extract (1 to 5,000). |
| `proxyConfiguration` | Object | No | `{"useApifyProxy": true}` | Apify Proxy configuration to ensure continuous high-speed execution. |

***

### 📊 Output Data Schema

```json
{
  "company_name": "Airporthotel Salzburg",
  "category": "Hotel",
  "phone": "+43 662 8500200",
  "email": "info@airporthotel.at",
  "website": "https://www.airporthotel.at",
  "postal_code": "5020",
  "city": "Salzburg",
  "full_address": "5020 Salzburg, Austria",
  "rating": "4.5 von 5",
  "herold_url": "https://www.herold.at/gelbe-seiten/salzburg/8Htk8/airporthotel-salzburg/",
  "enrich_ceo_with_actor": "https://apify.com/dach_leads/germany-b2b-lead-impressum-scraper?website=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.airporthotel.at"
}
```

***

### ⚖️ Legal & Compliance Note (Austrian UGB & ECG)

Under Austrian commercial law (**§ 14 Unternehmensgesetzbuch - UGB** and **§ 5 E-Commerce-Gesetz - ECG**), every commercial entity in Austria is legally mandated to disclose corporate leadership, registered company name, and direct contact details on their website's Impressum page. Extracting publicly mandated directory and Impressum information for B2B identification is standard practice across DACH enterprise intelligence workflows.

***

### 🚀 How to Run via Apify API (Python Example)

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_API_TOKEN")

run_input = {
    "searchTerm": "Steuerberater",
    "city": "Wien",
    "maxResults": 100
}

run = client.actor("dach_leads/austria-herold-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(f"{item['company_name']} | Phone: {item['phone']} | Email: {item['email']}")
```

***

### 🇩🇪 Zusammenfassung auf Deutsch (Herold.at Scraper)

Automatisierte Lead-Generierung und Firmensuche für ganz **Österreich (DACH)**:

- **Herold.at Gelbe Seiten Scraper:** Extrahieren Sie Firmennamen, Branchen, Telefonnummern (+43), direkte Firmen-E-Mails und Webseiten aus allen 9 Bundesländern (*Wien, Salzburg, Graz, Linz, Innsbruck*).
- **B2B Adressen Österreich:** 4-stellige österreichische Postleitzahlen (PLZ) und Ortschaften für präzise Kaltakquise und CRM-Anreicherung.
- **Geschäftsführer-Anreicherung:** 1-Klick-Weiterleitung an unseren Impressum Extractor zur rechtssicheren Ermittlung von Geschäftsführern und Vorständen nach § 14 UGB / § 5 ECG.

***

### 📄 License & Maintainer

Maintained by **dach_leads** — The #1 DACH B2B Data Ecosystem on Apify.

# Actor input Schema

## `searchTerm` (type: `string`):

Austrian trade, industry, profession, or keyword (e.g. Hotel, Steuerberater, Elektriker, IT-Dienstleistungen, Tischler, Rechtsanwalt, Arzt)

## `city` (type: `string`):

Austrian city, state, or 4-digit postal code (e.g. Wien, Salzburg, Graz, Linz, Innsbruck, Klagenfurt, 1010, 5020)

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

Target number of business records to scrape (1 to 5,000).

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

Use Apify Proxy to maintain reliable high-speed connection.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchTerm": "Hotel",
  "city": "Salzburg",
  "maxResults": 50,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

Direct access link to the scraped dataset 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 = {
    "searchTerm": "Hotel",
    "city": "Salzburg",
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("dach_leads/austria-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 = {
    "searchTerm": "Hotel",
    "city": "Salzburg",
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("dach_leads/austria-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 '{
  "searchTerm": "Hotel",
  "city": "Salzburg",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call dach_leads/austria-herold-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,dach_leads/austria-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/zUUsBG7BfUdsIBXCY/builds/2yJOFMDqgcoVSfuTM/openapi.json