# BBB.org Scraper - Low-cost💲🔥🏢💡 (`delectable_incubator/bbb-org-scraper-low-cost`) Actor

Scrape business listings from BBB.org 🔍🏢 with a powerful Better Business Bureau scraper.

Extract company names, addresses, phone numbers, accreditation status, and more by keyword and location.

Ideal for lead generation, local market research, and building structured business datasets 📊🚀

- **URL**: https://apify.com/delectable\_incubator/bbb-org-scraper-low-cost.md
- **Developed by:** [Prime Scrape](https://apify.com/delectable_incubator) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Developer tools, Jobs
- **Stats:** 5 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 1 bookmarks
- **User rating**: 5.00 out of 5 stars

## Pricing

from $0.00005 / actor start

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

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.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

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- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

<p align="center"> <img src="https://i.ibb.co/jkNS73wX/readme.png" alt="BBB Business Directory Scraper - PrimeScrape" width="100%"> </p>

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### BBB Business Directory Scraper 🏢📊🔍

The BBB Business Directory Scraper is a fast, reliable, and scalable automation tool designed to extract structured business listings directly from the Better Business Bureau (BBB) directory.

It transforms local business search results into clean, structured datasets ready for market research, lead generation, competitor analysis, and data-driven applications.

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### BBB Business Directory Scraper 🧠📈🌍

This scraper automatically extracts business data from the BBB directory using keyword and location-based searches.

Ideal for marketers, sales teams, analysts, and developers working with local business intelligence and structured datasets.

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### 🎯 What This Scraper Does

Simply provide a keyword, location, sorting option, and the number of results to extract — the scraper handles the rest.

✅ Extracts business listings from the BBB directory

✅ Supports keyword + location-based searches

✅ Handles pagination automatically

✅ Collects detailed business information

✅ Retrieves ratings, accreditation & contact data

✅ Clean, structured, analysis-ready datasets

✅ Ideal for lead generation & market intelligence

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### 📊 Data Extracted

🧾 Business Fields

| Field                    | Description                     |
| ------------------------ | ------------------------------- |
| 🆔 `id`                  | Unique listing ID               |
| 🏢 `businessName`        | Business name                   |
| 🏠 `address`             | Street address                  |
| 🌆 `city`                | City                            |
| 🗺 `state`               | State                           |
| 📮 `postalcode`          | ZIP / postal code               |
| 🗂 `categories`          | Business categories             |
| 📞 `phone`               | Phone number(s)                 |
| ⭐ `rating`               | BBB rating                      |
| 🏅 `bbbMember`           | BBB membership status           |
| 🏆 `accreditationStatus` | Accreditation status            |
| 🌍 `distance`            | Distance from searched location |
| 📍 `location`            | Coordinates (lat, long)         |
| 🌐 `businessWebsite`     | Business website                |
| 📝 `reportUrl`           | BBB report page URL             |
| 📊 `ratingScore`         | Numerical rating score          |
| 🧾 `bbbName`             | BBB office name                 |

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### 🛠 How to Use

1️⃣ Configure Input

Provide your search parameters:

```
{
  "keyword": ["roofing"],
  "place": "New York",
  "sort_by": "Relevance",
  "maxitems": 100
}
```

2️⃣ Run the Actor

• Perform keyword-based search on BBB

• Extract business listings and details

• Structure and clean the dataset

• Stop when maxitems limit is reached

3️⃣ Export the Dataset

Download your results in multiple formats:

✅ JSON

✅ CSV

✅ Excel

✅ XML

✅ HTML

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### ⚙️ Input Configuration

#### 📥 Input Example

```
{
  "keyword": ["plumber"],
  "place": "Los Angeles",
  "sort_by": "Rating",
  "maxitems": 50
}
```

#### Input Fields

| Field      | Type    | Description                          |
| ---------- | ------- | ------------------------------------ |
| `keyword`  | array  | Bulk Business search keyword              |
| `place`    | string  | Location (city, region, or state)    |
| `sort_by`  | string  | Sorting option (Relevance, Rating…)  |
| `maxitems` | integer | Maximum number of results to extract |

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### 📤 Output Example

```
{
  "id": "0121_158093_179835",
  "businessName": "The Roof NY",
  "address": "124 West 57th Street, 29th Floor",
  "city": "New York",
  "state": "NY",
  "postalcode": "10019",
  "rating": "A+",
  "bbbMember": false,
  "phone": ["(212) 707-8008"],
  "location": "40.764736,-73.97817",
  "distance": "0.1 mi",
  "reportUrl": "/us/ny/new-york/profile/...",
  "accreditationStatus": "Accredited"
}
```

***

### 📊 Output explanation

| Field                 | Description            |
| --------------------- | ---------------------- |
| `businessName`        | Company name           |
| `address`             | Business address       |
| `rating`              | BBB rating             |
| `phone`               | Contact number         |
| `distance`            | Distance from location |
| `reportUrl`           | BBB profile link       |
| `accreditationStatus` | Accreditation status   |

***

### 🌍 Why Use This Scraper?

📊 Market Research — Analyze local business landscapes

🏢 Lead Generation — Build targeted business lists

⭐ Reputation Analysis — Compare ratings & accreditation

📍 Local Insights — Discover businesses by location

⚙️ Automation — Schedule recurring data collection

📈 Data Pipelines — Power dashboards & analytics

***

### ⚠️ Disclaimer

This tool is an independent solution and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Better Business Bureau (BBB).

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### 💸 Pricing

This scraper runs on a **pay per events subscription model**.

You only pay for **successful runs**.

💳 **Price:** $1.49 / 1000 results

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### Related Actors

If you're interested in business scraping solutions, explore more tools:

(Coming soon)

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### 📬 Support

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### 🌍 PrimeScrape

Built for scalable web data extraction & automation

Contact for custom scraping solutions or enterprise requests via Apify or by email.

# Actor input Schema

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

Enter one or more keywords to search for business listings on BBB Business Directory 🔍💼.

## `place` (type: `string`):

Specify the city where you want to find Directories on BBB Business Directory 🏙️💼.

## `sort_by` (type: `string`):

Select a sort by option 🌍

## `maxitems` (type: `integer`):

Set the maximum number of business listings you want to scrape 📊.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "keywords": [
    "Restaurants"
  ],
  "place": "New York",
  "sort_by": "Relevance",
  "maxitems": 50
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `overview` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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 = {
    "keywords": [
        "Restaurants"
    ],
    "place": "New York",
    "sort_by": "Relevance",
    "maxitems": 50
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("delectable_incubator/bbb-org-scraper-low-cost").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 = {
    "keywords": ["Restaurants"],
    "place": "New York",
    "sort_by": "Relevance",
    "maxitems": 50,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("delectable_incubator/bbb-org-scraper-low-cost").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 '{
  "keywords": [
    "Restaurants"
  ],
  "place": "New York",
  "sort_by": "Relevance",
  "maxitems": 50
}' |
apify call delectable_incubator/bbb-org-scraper-low-cost --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,delectable_incubator/bbb-org-scraper-low-cost"
        }
    }
}

```

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/Z0xTYeHNxgQ7ys963/builds/7EcIddqWz5ngCfsa5/openapi.json