Japan Trade Show Exhibitor List Scraper – JIMTOF, CEATEC, JMA

Extract the exhibitor lists of trade shows run by Japanese organisers – JIMTOF (machine tools), CEATEC (electronics & IT), TECHNO-FRONTIER (motors, power electronics) and Maintenance & Resilience (plant maintenance, infrastructure) – as clean, company-level rows: company name in Japanese and English, booth number, hall and zone, the organiser's product categories in Japanese and English, country and prefecture, company website, and a new-exhibitor feed that tells you who joined since your last run. Built for B2B sales teams, sourcing and purchasing staff (including Chinese-speaking buyers looking for Japanese suppliers), distributors and market researchers. No coding required.

Company-level data only. Contact persons, e-mail addresses and phone/fax numbers are never collected, and the exhibitors' promotional texts and images are not copied.

What data can you extract?

Field	Description	JIMTOF	CEATEC	JMA shows
showEdition, showStartDate, showEndDate, venue, organizer	Which show and edition, dates and venue as published by the organiser	✓	✓	✓
companyName / companyNameEn	Company name as listed (mostly Japanese) and the organiser's English name	✓ / ✓	✓ / ✓	✓ / ✓
exhibitorType, parentExhibitor	exhibitor, co-exhibitor or internal-exhibitor; the booth host for CEATEC co-exhibitors	✓	✓	✓
boothNumbers, hall, zone / zoneEn	Booth(s), hall, show zone	✓ booth + hall	✓ all	✓ booth + zone
productCategories / productCategoriesEn	The organiser's product categories in Japanese and English	✓ category tree	✓ category filters	✓ show zone
targetIndustries / targetIndustriesEn	Industries the exhibitor targets (Aerospace, Automobile/Parts, Medical …)	✓	–	–
exhibitedProducts	Names of products registered in the organiser's guide	–	–	✓
country, prefecture	Country of the company address (English) and Japanese prefecture – region level only	✓	–	–
productOriginCountry	Where the exhibited products are made	✓	–	–
isOverseasExhibitor	Listed by the organiser as an overseas exhibitor	✓	–	✓
boothLanguages	Languages spoken at the booth (English, Chinese, Korean …)	–	✓	–
websiteUrl, exhibitorPageUrl	Company website; the exhibitor's page on the organiser's site	✓ / ✓	– / ✓	✓ / ✓
changeType, firstSeenAt	first_run, new, updated, unchanged versus your previous run	✓	✓	✓

Measured on 2026-10-10: JIMTOF 2026 lists 1,147 booth entries (1,145 exhibitors after merging multi-booth companies, 806 with a detail page), CEATEC 2026 396 exhibitors plus 396 co-exhibitors, TECHNO-FRONTIER 2026 461, Maintenance & Resilience 2026 368. Fields that a show does not publish are null or [].

Supported shows

shows value	Show	Organiser (Japanese)	Edition on the site (2026-10-10)
jimtof	JIMTOF – Japan International Machine Tool Fair	Japan Machine Tool Builders' Association (JMTBA) & Tokyo Big Sight	JIMTOF 2026, 26–31 Oct 2026, Tokyo Big Sight
ceatec	CEATEC	JEITA	CEATEC 2026, 13–16 Oct 2026, Makuhari Messe
jma-technofrontier	TECHNO-FRONTIER	Japan Management Association (JMA)	TECHNO-FRONTIER 2026, 15–17 Jul 2026
jma-mente	Maintenance & Resilience	Japan Management Association (JMA)	Maintenance & Resilience 2026, 15–17 Jul 2026

The Actor always reads whatever edition the organiser currently publishes. Shows organised by RX Japan (NEPCON JAPAN and other Reed Exhibitions shows) are not supported because their website terms prohibit automated collection.

Why scrape Japanese trade show exhibitor lists?

• Find Japanese suppliers and partners – filter JIMTOF by category (26 Machining centers (vertical spindle)) or CEATEC by AI (artificial intelligence) and get the English company name and website in one table.
• Plan your show visit – booth numbers, halls and zones for every exhibitor, plus which CEATEC booths speak English or Chinese.
• Track new exhibitors – schedule a weekly run with changeTracking: "new_only" and receive only the companies that joined since last week; withdrawals and booth moves go to the CHANGES record.
• Market and competitor research – how many machining-centre makers exhibit, how many overseas exhibitors come from China or Taiwan, which companies moved halls.
• AI agents / RAG – give an assistant a structured, bilingual list of Japanese exhibitors through the Apify MCP server, e.g. "list CEATEC 2026 exhibitors in the Mobility category with English names".

Apify Store searches for "JIMTOF" and "CEATEC" returned no Actors on 2026-10-10; the existing exhibitor-list scrapers on the Store mainly cover European and US platforms (Map Your Show, Messe Frankfurt, Reed Expo and others).

How to use it (no coding)

1. Open the Actor and pick one or more Trade shows (default: JIMTOF).
2. Set Max exhibitors per show – 100 for a sample, 5000 for the full list.
3. Keep Include categories, English names and websites on for the bilingual categories and websites.
4. Optional: set Change tracking to new_only and schedule the Actor weekly.
5. Click Start and download the results as Excel, CSV or JSON.

Input example

{
  "shows": ["jimtof"],
  "maxItems": 100,
  "includeDetails": true,
  "changeTracking": "off"
}

Weekly new-exhibitor feed for two shows:

{
  "shows": ["jimtof", "ceatec"],
  "maxItems": 5000,
  "changeTracking": "new_only",
  "stateStoreName": "japan-shows-weekly"
}

Output example

A real JIMTOF 2026 row (category arrays shortened):

{
  "show": "jimtof",
  "showName": "JIMTOF (Japan International Machine Tool Fair / 日本国際工作機械見本市)",
  "showEdition": "JIMTOF 2026",
  "showStartDate": "2026-10-26",
  "showEndDate": "2026-10-31",
  "venue": "東京ビッグサイト",
  "organizer": "Japan Machine Tool Builders' Association (JMTBA, 日本工作機械工業会) & Tokyo Big Sight",
  "exhibitorKey": "jimtof:Yl0biW0wGYQ",
  "exhibitorId": "Yl0biW0wGYQ",
  "companyName": "愛知産業株式会社",
  "companyNameEn": "Aichi Sangyo Co., Ltd.",
  "exhibitorType": "exhibitor",
  "parentExhibitor": null,
  "boothNumbers": ["E2024"],
  "hall": "E1-3",
  "zone": null,
  "zoneEn": null,
  "productCategories": ["1. 工作機械", "（5） マシニングセンタ", "26 マシニングセンタ（立軸）", "3. 工作機器", "155 マシンバイス"],
  "productCategoriesEn": ["1. METAL MACHINE TOOLS", "(5) Machining Centers", "26 Machining centers (vertical spindle)", "3. MACHINE ACCESSORIES", "155 Machine vises"],
  "targetIndustries": ["航空・宇宙", "エネルギー・環境", "自動車・部品", "医療", "その他"],
  "targetIndustriesEn": ["Aerospace", "Energy/Environment", "Automobile/Parts", "Medical", "Others"],
  "exhibitedProducts": [],
  "country": "Japan",
  "prefecture": "東京都",
  "productOriginCountry": "Germany",
  "isOverseasExhibitor": false,
  "boothLanguages": [],
  "websiteUrl": "https://www.aichi-sangyo.co.jp",
  "exhibitorPageUrl": "https://www.jimtof.org/search/jp/ESdetails?e=Yl0biW0wGYQ",
  "detailFetched": true,
  "changeType": null,
  "firstSeenAt": null,
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.jimtof.org/jp/exhi_search_pronoun?k=1",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-10T11:56:12.599Z"
}

A CEATEC 2026 row (selected fields): "companyName": "株式会社アイシン", "companyNameEn": "AISIN CORPORATION", "boothNumbers": ["7H210"], "hall": "Hall 7", "zoneEn": "General Exhibits", "productCategoriesEn": ["Mobility", "Medical and healthcare", …], "boothLanguages": ["English"].

Field notes

• productCategories* are the organiser's own labels. JIMTOF prints a category tree (group, sub-group, numbered item, one per array element); CEATEC categories are the organiser's category filters whose result includes the exhibitor (co-exhibitors have none); JMA shows classify exhibitors only by show zone.
• country / prefecture are reduced from the company address on the JIMTOF page; the street address itself is not returned.
• JIMTOF entries marked (*) (co-exhibitor) or (**) (内部出展者) by the organiser often have no detail page, so their English name, categories and website stay empty (about 340 of 1,145 in 2026).
• CEATEC builds its exhibitor detail pages in the browser from an API, which this Actor does not call – so CEATEC rows have no website.
• A company listed with several booths becomes one row with several boothNumbers.
• The RUN_REPORT record summarises each show (status ok, partial, no_changes, list_empty or list_unavailable, with a plain-language hint).

How much does it cost?

Pay-per-event: a tiny start charge of $0.00005 (Apify's default Actor Start event, charged once per GB of memory; this Actor runs on 1 GB) plus a per-row price:

Event	What it is	Price
Actor Start (apify-actor-start)	Once per run (per GB of memory)	$0.00005
Exhibitor row (apify-default-dataset-item)	Each exhibitor row returned	$0.003 (FREE and BRONZE plans) · $0.002 (SILVER and above)

Categories, English names and websites are included at no extra charge when you set includeDetails: true (the default is false, a faster name/booth list). The full JIMTOF 2026 list (1,145 rows) costs about $3.44 on the FREE plan; a weekly new_only run that finds 20 new exhibitors costs about $0.06. Use maxItems to cap spend. A full run of all four shows with details (2,766 rows, 2,593 page requests) took about 5 minutes in a local test; the Actor pauses between pages to keep the load on the organisers' servers low.

Integrations: API, MCP, and AI agents

This Actor is read-only: it only reads public exhibitor list pages and never logs in, submits forms or contacts exhibitors. It is safe for AI agents to call autonomously.

API (curl)

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/datalab-jp~japan-trade-show-exhibitors/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"shows": ["jimtof"], "maxItems": 100}'

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("datalab-jp/japan-trade-show-exhibitors").call(run_input={"shows": ["jimtof"], "maxItems": 100})
items = client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).list_items().items

JavaScript

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN' });
const run = await client.actor('datalab-jp/japan-trade-show-exhibitors').call({ shows: ['jimtof'], maxItems: 100 });
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();

run-sync-get-dataset-items waits up to 300 seconds; for full lists of several shows, start the run asynchronously and read the dataset when it finishes.

MCP / AI agents: add the Apify MCP server (https://mcp.apify.com) to Claude, Cursor or any MCP client; the agent can find this Actor by searching "Japan trade show exhibitors", read the input schema and call it with e.g. {"shows": ["ceatec"], "maxItems": 500}.

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• Japan Gold & Silver Prices – Dealer Buy & Retail — gold, silver, platinum and palladium dealer prices
• Japan Tax Auction Real Estate – NTA Public Auction — real estate from National Tax Agency public auctions
• Mercari Japan Scraper – Listings & Item Details — Mercari listings and sold prices

FAQ

Is scraping these exhibitor lists legal? The Actor reads only exhibitor lists that the organisers publish openly, without logging in or bypassing access controls, at a low request rate. It returns factual, company-level data (names, booths, the organiser's category labels, websites) and does not copy texts, images, or any personal contact data. The JIMTOF site prohibits reproducing its texts and images; the CEATEC and JMA sites publish no terms of use beyond privacy and linking policies (checked 2026-10-10). Shows whose terms prohibit automated collection (RX Japan) are excluded. You are responsible for using the data in line with applicable law and each organiser's terms.

Can I use it through the API? Yes – see the curl, Python and JavaScript examples above. All inputs have defaults, so {} runs JIMTOF with 100 rows.

Can AI agents use this Actor via MCP? Yes. It is read-only, the input schema describes every field and its default, and results are plain JSON.

How does the new-exhibitor tracking work? With changeTracking set, each run stores a snapshot (exhibitor keys, booth and zone) in a named key-value store in your Apify account (stateStoreName), one record per show and edition. The next run compares against it: new_only returns only new exhibitors, all_with_flags returns everything with a changeType. Withdrawn exhibitors are listed in CHANGES only when the whole list loaded successfully. Set maxItems to cover the whole show; exhibitors beyond the cap are not recorded and will show up as new later.

Why are there no e-mails or phone numbers? By design. Some organiser pages show a contact phone number or a staff e-mail address; the Actor skips them so the output contains no personal data.

Why is a show empty? Organisers sometimes take the list down between editions or publish it only weeks before the show. RUN_REPORT says whether the page could not be loaded (list_unavailable) or loaded without exhibitors (list_empty).

Can you add another show? Open an issue with the show name. Only shows whose organiser publishes the list openly and whose terms do not prohibit automated collection can be added.

Disclaimer

This Actor is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by JMTBA, Tokyo Big Sight, JEITA, the Japan Management Association or any show organiser. Show names are used only to identify the source of the data. Data is provided as published by the organisers at the time of the run and may contain their errors or omissions.

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中文简介： 本Actor抓取日本本土主办方展会（JIMTOF日本国际机床展、CEATEC、TECHNO-FRONTIER、Maintenance & Resilience）的展商名录，输出公司名（日文/英文）、展位号、展馆、展区、主办方产品分类（日文+英文对照）、国家/都道府县及官网。 支持"仅返回新增展商"模式，可每周定期运行，追踪自上次运行以来新加入的展商。 仅输出企业层面的公开信息，不采集联系人、邮箱、电话等个人信息。