🇩🇪 Germany Das Örtliche Scraper (Local Business Directory Leads)

Extract verified German local business leads, direct phone numbers, physical addresses, websites, emails, and ratings directly from Das Örtliche (dasoertliche.de) — Germany's premier and most visited local telecommunications directory.

{
  "company_name": "Veloce IT Solutions GmbH",
  "category": "IT-Beratung",
  "street_address": "Friedrichstraße 176",
  "postal_code": "10117",
  "city": "Berlin",
  "full_address": "Friedrichstraße 176, 10117 Berlin",
  "phone": "+49 30 2096 4500",
  "email": "kontakt@veloce-it.de",
  "website": "https://veloce-it.de",
  "dasoertliche_url": "https://www.dasoertliche.de/Themen/Berlin/Veloce-IT-Solutions.html",
  "rating": "4.9 (42 Bewertungen)",
  "enrich_ceo_with_actor": "https://apify.com/dach_leads/germany-b2b-lead-impressum-scraper?website=https%3A%2F%2Fveloce-it.de"
}

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📌 Overview: Why Das Örtliche is Germany's #1 Local Business Directory

Das Örtliche (dasoertliche.de) is Germany’s official telecommunications and regional business registry. With over 4 million registered commercial entities across all 16 German federal states, it is the primary directory used by German tradespeople (Handwerker), medical clinics (Ärzte), tax advisors (Steuerberater), law firms (Kanzleien), IT specialists, and local businesses.

Unlike generic search engines or social listings which frequently include inactive businesses or scraped duplicates, Das Örtliche records are officially maintained and telephone-verified, ensuring unmatched accuracy for outbound sales, recruiting, and regional market research.

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⚡ Key Features & Capabilities

• 🚀 Deep Directory Coverage: Access millions of registered German businesses across all 16 federal states (Bundesländer).
• ⚡ High-Speed handlerData Extraction: Reverse-engineers Das Örtliche’s internal JavaScript dataset to extract 25 pre-verified leads per page in under 0.4 seconds.
• 📞 Verified Direct Phone Numbers: Voice telephone lines are extracted and formatted cleanly, eliminating manual lookups.
• 🌐 Clean External Website Extraction: Strips tracking redirects and publisher ad parameters to deliver the company's real external domain.
• 📧 Public Email Discovery: Captures listed contact emails (info@, kontakt@) when available on the directory profile.
• 📍 Complete German Street Addresses: Full physical street address, building number, 5-digit postal code (PLZ), and city name.
• ⭐ Star Ratings & Reviews: Captures customer ratings and review counts to highlight top-rated local service providers.
• 🇩🇪 Full German Umlaut & Regional Support: Decodes German special characters (ä, ö, ü, ß) cleanly across major metropolises (München, Köln, Düsseldorf, Nürnberg) and small municipalities alike.
• 🤖 Autonomous AI Agent & n8n Ready: Pure Pay-Per-Event (PPE) schema allows n8n, Make, LangChain, Claude, and custom outbound automations to query German leads on demand.

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🔄 1-Click n8n Automation Template (Recurring CRM Sync)

Automate your lead generation by syncing fresh Das Örtliche leads directly into Google Sheets, Airtable, HubSpot, or Instantly every week!

flowchart LR
    A["⏰ Trigger<br/>(On Demand / Weekly)"] --> B["🇩🇪 Step 1: Das Örtliche Scraper<br/>(Pulls 50–500 Companies)"]
    B --> C{"Filter<br/>Has Website?"}
    C -->|Yes| D["👔 Step 2: Impressum Extractor<br/>(Extracts CEO & Email)"]
    D --> E["📊 Final Output<br/>(Google Sheets / CRM)"]

📥 Ready-to-Use n8n Template: Download our ready-to-import n8n workflow JSON:
german_b2b_lead_machine_n8n_template.json — Copy and paste directly onto your n8n canvas!

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💡 The 2-Step B2B Power Funnel: From Directory to CEO Inbox

This scraper is engineered as the Upstream Discovery Engine for your German B2B outreach:

[ Step 1: Das Örtliche Scraper ] ───►  Extracts 500–2,000 German companies, websites & direct phones ($1.00 / 1k)
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                └───► (Export CSV / Website URLs)
[ Step 2: Impressum Extractor  ] ───►  Crawls company websites to extract the Managing Director (CEO / Geschäftsführer)
                                       and legal registration under German federal law (§ 5 DDG)

🎯 Cross-Sell Pro-Tip: Take the company websites extracted by this tool and feed them into our Germany B2B Lead & Impressum Extractor to legally extract the Managing Director (Geschäftsführer / Inhaber) names and personal direct emails!

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📥 Input Parameters

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description	Example
searchTerm	String	Yes	IT-Beratung	Business category, profession, or trade keyword	Handwerker, Zahnarzt, Steuerberater, Rechtsanwalt, Elektriker
city	String	Yes	Berlin	German city name or 5-digit postal code (PLZ)	München, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Köln, 10115
maxResults	Integer	No	50	Maximum number of leads to scrape (1 to 5,000)	100, 500, 2000

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🎯 Top High-Value German Niches to Scrape

Industry Keyword	Target City / Region	Target Audience / Commercial Value
Steuerberater	München	Certified German Tax Advisors with high-ticket retainers
Finanzberatung	Frankfurt am Main	Wealth managers, financial brokers, and asset consultants
Maschinenbau	Stuttgart	Industrial machinery & German Mittelstand manufacturers
Softwareentwicklung	Berlin	Fast-growing SaaS startups and digital agencies
Rechtsanwälte	Hamburg	Commercial law firms, patent attorneys, and corporate counsels
Immobilienmakler	Düsseldorf	Commercial and residential real estate brokerages
Zahnarzt	Köln	High-income private dental practices and medical clinics
Elektrotechnik	Nürnberg	Commercial electrical contractors and engineering firms

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📊 Output Dataset Specification

Data is exported in Excel (.xlsx), CSV, JSON, or XML with the following structured attributes:

Column Name	Type	Description	Sample Value
company_name	String	Official registered business name	Veloce IT Solutions GmbH
category	String	Targeted trade or sector category	IT-Beratung
street_address	String	Street name and building number	Friedrichstraße 176
postal_code	String	German 5-digit postal code (PLZ)	10117
city	String	City or municipality	Berlin
full_address	String	Combined formatted German address	Friedrichstraße 176, 10117 Berlin
phone	String	Cleaned direct telephone number	+49 30 2096 4500
email	String	Contact email address (if listed)	kontakt@veloce-it.de
website	String	Official company website URL	https://veloce-it.de
dasoertliche_url	String	Direct profile URL on dasoertliche.de	https://www.dasoertliche.de/Themen/Berlin/...
rating	String	Star rating and customer review count	4.9 (42 Bewertungen)
enrich_ceo_with_actor	String	1-click link to extract CEO with Impressum Scraper	https://apify.com/dach_leads/...

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💻 Programmatic Usage & API Integration

Python (apify-client)

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_API_TOKEN")

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

run = client.actor("dach_leads/germany-dasoertliche-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

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

Node.js (apify-client)

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_APIFY_API_TOKEN' });

const input = {
    searchTerm: 'IT-Beratung',
    city: 'Berlin',
    maxResults: 100,
};

const run = await client.actor('dach_leads/germany-dasoertliche-scraper').call(input);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();

console.log(`Extracted ${items.length} German leads from Das Örtliche.`);

cURL (Direct HTTP API)

curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/dach_leads~germany-dasoertliche-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -X POST \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"searchTerm": "Handwerker", "city": "Hamburg", "maxResults": 50}'

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💰 Transparent Pay-Per-Event (PPE) Pricing

• Only $1.00 per 1,000 verified leads ($0.001 per result) — 70% cheaper than generic enterprise lead scrapers.
• $0.00 Actor Start Fee — Zero upfront cost to spin up runs.
• Zero Platform Surcharge — Pure pay-per-event pricing without hidden compute charges.
• Free Test Allowance — Free tier users can test and scrape business records without credit card commitments.

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Q: How does this scraper handle pagination across multiple pages?

A: Das Örtliche uses offset-based indexing (recFrom=1, recFrom=26, recFrom=51). The scraper automatically steps through result pages and decodes the embedded structured business data, extracting hundreds of companies smoothly.

Q: Are the extracted phone numbers and websites real?

A: Yes. The Actor parses the official listings on dasoertliche.de, extracts real business telephone numbers, and strips tracking parameters and ad-network redirects from company websites.

Q: How can I get the CEO / Managing Director (Geschäftsführer) names?

A: Das Örtliche provides commercial contact data and verified websites. To legally extract the personal name of the CEO (Geschäftsführer or Inhaber), VAT ID (USt-IdNr), and Handelsregister number, feed the extracted website URLs into our Germany B2B Lead & Impressum Extractor.

Q: Does this scraper require residential proxies?

A: No. Das Örtliche responds reliably to direct requests using polite delay throttling, so you don't need expensive residential proxy subscriptions.