# Clutch.co Agency Leads Scraper (`devilscrapes/clutch-agency-leads-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Clutch.co B2B agency and vendor directory listings by category (and optional location) into clean leads — name, rating, verification tier, employee/rate/min-project bands, phone, and a per-agency service-mix breakdown other Clutch scrapers skip.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/devilscrapes/clutch-agency-leads-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [DevilScrapes](https://apify.com/devilscrapes) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.80 / 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/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

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## Clutch.co Agency Leads Scraper

**💰 $1.82 / 1 000 results**  ·  pay only for results  ·  no credit card to try

*We do the dirty work so your dataset stays clean.* 😈

Scrape Clutch.co B2B agency and vendor directory listings by category (and optional location) into clean leads — name, rating, verification tier, employee/rate/min-project bands, phone, and a per-agency service-mix breakdown other Clutch scrapers skip.

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### 🎯 What this scrapes

Clutch.co is the go-to B2B directory for agencies and software vendors — sales teams and buyers alike use its category+location listing pages (`clutch.co/agencies/<category>[/<location>]`) to shortlist providers. This Actor turns each listing page into structured leads: company name, star rating and review count, a `premier`/`basic`/`none` verification tier, employee-count and hourly-rate bands, minimum project size, phone number, and — the differentiator most Clutch scrapers skip — a per-agency service-mix breakdown (e.g. "60% SEO / 20% PPC / 20% content") parsed straight out of the same listing HTML. One category slug per run; combine with an optional location slug to narrow the pull.

### 🔥 What we handle for you

- 🛡️ **Browser fingerprint rotation** — `curl-cffi` impersonates real Chrome / Firefox / Safari TLS handshakes so the target sees a browser, not Python.
- 🌐 **Residential proxy rotation** via Apify Proxy — fresh session and exit IP on every block.
- 🔁 **Retries with exponential backoff** on `408 / 429 / 5xx` — up to 5 attempts per page, `Retry-After` honoured.
- 🧱 **Rate-limit-aware pacing** — when the target pushes back, we slow down instead of getting banned.
- 🧊 **Clean, typed dataset rows** — Pydantic-validated, ISO-8601 timestamps, stable IDs, JSON / CSV / Excel export straight from the Apify Console.
- 💰 **Pay-Per-Event pricing** — you only pay for results that hit your dataset. No data, no charge.

### 💡 Use cases

- Agency shortlisting — pull a category+location listing into a comparable spreadsheet for RFP outreach.
- Sales prospecting — build a call list of agencies with phone numbers and verification tier as a quality signal.
- Competitive intelligence — track service-mix and rate-band positioning across a category.
- Lead scoring — filter by verification tier and rating before your SDR team reaches out.

### ⚙️ How to use it

1. Click **Try for free** at the top of the page.
2. Fill in the input form — most fields have sensible defaults.
3. Click **Start**. Output streams into the run's dataset.
4. Export from **Storage → Dataset** as JSON, CSV, or Excel — or fetch via the API.

### 📥 Input

| Field | Type | Required | Default | Notes |
|---|---|:--:|---|---|
| `category` | `string` | **yes** | 'digital-marketing' | Clutch category slug to scrape, e.g. "digital-marketing" (kebab-case; hundreds exist on Clutch, not a fixed enum). |
| `location` | `string` | no | '—' | Optional Clutch location slug, e.g. "new-york" (kebab-case). Builds /agencies/<category>/<location>. Leave empty to scra |
| `maxResults` | `integer` | no | 200 | Stop once this many unique (deduped by Clutch provider ID) leads are collected. |
| `maxPages` | `integer` | no | 10 | Hard cap on listing pages fetched, independent of Max results. |
| `proxyConfiguration` | `object` | no | {'useApifyProxy': False} | Apify Proxy settings. Optional — Clutch listing pages clear via curl-cffi browser impersonation alone (live-confirmed, n |

#### Example input

```json
{
  "category": "digital-marketing",
  "maxResults": 5,
  "maxPages": 1,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

### 📤 Output

Every row is one dataset item.

| Field | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| `clutch_provider_id` | `string` | Stable Clutch provider ID (data-clutch-pid) — dedup/identity key. |
| `name` | `string` | Agency/vendor display name (data-title). |
| `profile_url` | `['string', 'null']` | Absolute Clutch profile URL. Null for PPC-only rows exposing a tracking redirect instead. |
| `category` | `string` | Category slug that was searched (input echo). |
| `location_searched` | `['string', 'null']` | Location slug that was searched, if any (input echo). |
| `city` | `['string', 'null']` | City, preferring the address meta tag over the free-text node. |
| `region` | `['string', 'null']` | Region/state, preferring the address meta tag over the free-text node. |
| `country` | `['string', 'null']` | Country, from the address meta tag. |
| `employee_band` | `['string', 'null']` | Employee-count band text, e.g. "250 - 999". |
| `hourly_rate_band` | `['string', 'null']` | Hourly-rate band text, e.g. "$50 - $99 / hr". Null when shown as "Undisclosed". |
| `min_project_size` | `['string', 'null']` | Minimum project size text, e.g. "$5,000+". Null when not $-prefixed. |
| `rating` | `['number', 'null']` | Aggregate rating (0-5) from the ratingValue meta tag. |
| `review_count` | `['integer', 'null']` | Review count from the reviewCount meta tag. |
| `verification_tier` | `string` | "premier", "basic", or "none" — Clutch verified-mark modifier. Never null. |
| `service_mix` | `array` | Per-agency service allocation, e.g. \[{"service\_name": "Advertising", "percent": 10}]. Empty list when the row has no ser |
| `listing_type` | `string` | "sponsored", "ppc", or "organic" — from the row's class substring. |
| `phone` | `['string', 'null']` | Phone number from the telephone meta tag — bonus lead field. |
| `position` | `['integer', 'null']` | Rank position on the listing page (data-position). |
| `scraped_at` | `string` | ISO-8601 UTC timestamp when this row was recorded. |

#### Example output

```json
{
  "clutch_provider_id": "1005123",
  "name": "Ninja Promo",
  "profile_url": "https://clutch.co/profile/ninja-promo",
  "category": "digital-marketing",
  "location_searched": "new-york",
  "city": "New York",
  "region": "NY",
  "country": "United States",
  "employee_band": "250 - 999",
  "hourly_rate_band": "$50 - $99 / hr",
  "min_project_size": "$5,000+",
  "rating": 4.9,
  "review_count": 95,
  "verification_tier": "premier",
  "service_mix": [
    {
      "service_name": "Advertising",
      "percent": 10
    },
    {
      "service_name": "Fractional CMO Services",
      "percent": 5
    }
  ],
  "listing_type": "organic",
  "phone": "+1 212 555 0100",
  "position": 3,
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-30T12:00:00Z"
}
```

### 💰 Pricing

Pay-Per-Event — you pay only when these events fire:

| Event | USD | What it is |
|---|---:|---|
| `actor-start` | $0.02 | One-off warm-up charge per run |
| `result-scraped` | $0.0018 | Per unique dataset item |

Example: 1 000 results at the rates above ≈ **$1.82**. No subscription, no minimum, no card to start — Apify gives every new account $5 of free credit.

### 🚧 Limitations

This Actor reads only Clutch's public category/location listing pages — no profile-page detail (reviews, portfolio, team), no email extraction, and no historical rating/service-mix tracking. One category slug per run; orchestrate multiple categories from the caller side.

### ❓ FAQ

**Is this legal?**

We only fetch content Clutch makes publicly available on its listing pages. Respect Clutch's terms of service before using output commercially.

**Do I need a proxy?**

No — Clutch's listing pages clear with curl-cffi browser impersonation alone (no proxy required). Add a proxy group only if you start seeing blocks.

**What happens if my category or location doesn't exist?**

The Actor logs a warning and finishes cleanly with zero rows instead of failing the run.

**Can I scrape profile-page detail like reviews or portfolio?**

Not in v1 — this Actor covers category/location listing pages only. Profile-page detail is a future addition.

### 💬 Your feedback

Spotted a bug, hit a weird edge case, or need a new field? Open an
issue on the Actor's **Issues** tab on Apify Console — we ship
fixes weekly and we read every report.

***

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Built by **[Devil Scrapes](https://apify.com/DevilScrapes)** 😈 — a small fleet of
opinionated public-data Actors. Honest pricing, real engineering, zero fine print.

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# Actor input Schema

## `category` (type: `string`):

Clutch category slug to scrape, e.g. "digital-marketing" (kebab-case; hundreds exist on Clutch, not a fixed enum).

## `location` (type: `string`):

Optional Clutch location slug, e.g. "new-york" (kebab-case). Builds /agencies/<category>/<location>. Leave empty to scrape all locations for the category.

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

Stop once this many unique (deduped by Clutch provider ID) leads are collected.

## `maxPages` (type: `integer`):

Hard cap on listing pages fetched, independent of Max results.

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

Apify Proxy settings. Optional — Clutch listing pages clear via curl-cffi browser impersonation alone (live-confirmed, no proxy). Enable a proxy group only if you see blocks.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "category": "digital-marketing",
  "maxResults": 5,
  "maxPages": 1,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `datasetItems` (type: `string`):

All dataset items as JSON.

## `datasetItemsCsv` (type: `string`):

Same data exported to CSV.

## `datasetView` (type: `string`):

Open the run dataset in the Console.

# 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 = {
    "category": "digital-marketing",
    "maxResults": 5,
    "maxPages": 1,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": false
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("devilscrapes/clutch-agency-leads-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 = {
    "category": "digital-marketing",
    "maxResults": 5,
    "maxPages": 1,
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": False },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("devilscrapes/clutch-agency-leads-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "category": "digital-marketing",
  "maxResults": 5,
  "maxPages": 1,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}' |
apify call devilscrapes/clutch-agency-leads-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=devilscrapes/clutch-agency-leads-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/rQhZXb1ZeylL2Zquw/builds/h4NBz9N6la1ts6ToQ/openapi.json