Thomasnet Suppliers Scraper API

Search Thomasnet — the US industrial supplier directory — by product or service and get back a clean table of supplier companies. Type what you need the way you would type it into Thomasnet's own search box ("valves", "cnc machining", "steel fabrication") and optionally narrow it to a state, a city or a ZIP code.

$0.85 per 1,000 suppliers ($0.00085 each), plus $0.001 each time a run starts — the lowest per-supplier price of any Thomasnet scraper on the Apify Store with an active user base; the only other one, zen-studio/thomasnet-suppliers-scraper (47 monthly users), is $3.49 per 1,000 even on its cheapest volume tier.

What you get

One row per supplier company:

Field	Example
companyName	Plast-O-Matic Valves, Inc.
description	Thomasnet's supplier blurb — what they make, materials, industries served
companyType	Manufacturer, Distributor, Custom Manufacturer, Service Company, …
city / state / stateName / zip	Cedar Grove / NJ / New Jersey / 07009
streetAddress, latitude, longitude	1384 Pompton Ave., 40.857, -74.229
phone	(877) 303-4730
website	https://plastomatic.com/
yearFounded	1967
numberEmployees	50-99
annualSales	$10 - 24.9 Mil
certificationTitles	["ISO 9001:2015", "Woman Owned", "Made in the USA"]
certifications	the same list with type, group, audit scope and certificate date
category / categoryId	Valves / 90052002
profileUrl	https://www.thomasnet.com/company/plast-o-matic-valves-inc-566251/profile
thomasVerified, xometryVerified, isClaimed	true / false / true
distanceMiles	14.7 — only when you search by ZIP code

Input

{
  "search": "cnc machining",
  "location": "77002",
  "radiusMiles": 75,
  "maxItems": 100,
  "maxCategories": 3,
  "includeCertifications": true
}

• search — the product or service. Broad beats narrow: "valves" returns far more than "3-inch bronze gate valves".
• location — a US state (Texas), a city with its state (Houston, TX), or a 5-digit ZIP (77002). Canadian provinces and cities work too (Ontario, Toronto). Optional; leave it out to search all of North America.
• radiusMiles — only used with a ZIP code. Default 50.
• maxCategories — Thomasnet files suppliers under categories. Your term is matched to the closest ones and each is paged in turn. Default 3. Set it to 1 if you want results to stay tightly on-topic; raise it to fill a large maxItems from related categories.

What it actually returned

Real runs, August 2026:

Input	Rows	Wall time	What you pay
valves, 5 rows	5	4 s	$0.0053
cnc machining near ZIP 77002, 75 mi	20	3 s	$0.0180
valves in Ohio	23	6 s	$0.0206
steel fabrication, 250 rows	250	11 s	$0.2135

(The "what you pay" column is the $0.001 start fee plus $0.00085 per supplier returned.)

Field coverage on the 250-row steel fabrication run: company name, description, phone, website, city, state and profile URL on 250/250; year founded on 214/250; employee count on 218/250; annual sales on 217/250; at least one certification on 166/250.

Three suppliers from that run, verbatim:

• Selco Manufacturing Corp. — West Caldwell, NJ — Custom Manufacturer — founded 1970 — AISC, ISO 9001:2015, Made in the USA
• Andersen Industries, Inc. — Adelanto, CA — Custom Manufacturer — founded 1966 — 10-49 employees
• States Engineering Inc. — Fort Wayne, IN — Custom Manufacturer — founded 1946 — https://www.statesengineeringinc.com/

How the location filter behaves

Thomasnet has no "city" search field. It has two geo controls and this actor uses both:

• A ZIP code uses Thomasnet's own radius filter. Results are genuinely inside the radius and each row carries distanceMiles.
• A state or city narrows to Thomasnet's regional index first. That index means "serves this region", not "is located here", so the actor then drops any supplier whose address is outside the state (and outside the city, if you named one). Dropped rows are never charged. The run's status message tells you how many were dropped.

What this does not do

• North America only. That is Thomasnet's coverage, not a limitation of this actor. It is overwhelmingly US: a 400-row steel fabrication sample came back 391 USA, 9 Canada.
• No email addresses. Thomasnet does not publish supplier email addresses, so no row has one. You get the phone number and the website; enrich from there.
• No product catalogs, no CAD files, no RFQ submission. Company-level data only.
• Free-text terms with no matching category cap out at 25 rows. Thomasnet lets anonymous callers read 25 rows of a free-text search and no more. Terms that match a category (almost all real product terms do) page freely into the hundreds. If you asked for 200 rows of an obscure phrase and got 25, that is why — try a broader term.
• Row counts are what Thomasnet lists, not what you asked for. A category holds what it holds. "Plastic Injection Molding Services" within 50 miles of downtown Houston is 3 companies. Setting maxItems to 500 does not invent more.

Pricing

Event	Price
Actor start	$0.001
Supplier returned	$0.00085

So 1,000 suppliers costs $0.851 all-in. Sample rows, diagnostic rows, suppliers dropped by the location filter and runs that return nothing are not charged.

FAQ

Is there a Thomasnet API? Thomasnet does not sell a public data API. This actor is the practical substitute: you send a search term and a location, you get structured JSON, CSV, Excel or an HTTP endpoint you can poll.

Can I scrape Thomasnet without coding? Yes. Fill in the two fields in the Apify console, press Start, download the results as CSV or Excel. No code required.

How do I find suppliers near me on Thomasnet? Put your 5-digit ZIP code in the location field and set radiusMiles. Every row comes back with distanceMiles so you can sort by proximity.

Can I filter Thomasnet suppliers by ISO 9001 certification? Every row carries certificationTitles. Run the search, then filter the dataset for rows whose certification list contains "ISO 9001". The certifications array also gives you the audit scope and the certificate date.

How do I get a list of manufacturers in a specific state? Set search to the product and location to the state name, for example search: "valves", location: "Ohio". The actor keeps only suppliers whose address is in that state.

Does this return supplier email addresses? No. Thomasnet does not publish them. You get phone and website.

What is the cheapest Thomasnet scraper? This one, at $0.85 per 1,000 suppliers. The only other Thomasnet actor on the Apify Store with an active user base, zen-studio/thomasnet-suppliers-scraper (47 monthly users), is $3.49 per 1,000.

How many suppliers can I pull in one run? The cap is 5,000 rows per run. In practice a single product category holds a few hundred suppliers; raise maxCategories to pull related categories into the same run.

Is scraping Thomasnet legal? This actor reads the same public supplier listings any visitor sees, and returns no personal data beyond the business contact details Thomasnet publishes. You are responsible for how you use the output — check Thomasnet's terms and your local rules before commercial use.