## DirectIndustry Industrial Suppliers Scraper
**π° $3.20 / 1 000 results** Β Β·Β pay only for results Β Β·Β no credit card to try
*We do the dirty work so your dataset stays clean.* π
DirectIndustry.com is a global B2B industrial equipment catalog (automation, robotics, sensors, machinery, bearings). This Actor crawls category to product-type to product pages, emitting one row per product with manufacturer, specs, description, and images for supplier research and lead generation.
.html) or product-type (/industrial-manufacturer/-.html) seed⦠|
| `maxItemsPerCategory` | `integer` | no | 50 | Cap on rows collected per seed URL, applied independently per seed. |
| `maxPagesPerProductType` | `integer` | no | 5 | Cap on -\_.html pagination depth crawled per product-type page. |
| `proxyConfiguration` | `object` | no | {'useApifyProxy': True, 'apifyProxyGroups': \['RESIDENTIAL'], 'apifyProxyCountry': 'US'} | Apify Proxy config. RESIDENTIAL is the safe default for this Cloudflare-fronted target -- never leave this as a bare⦠|
#### Example input
```json
{
"categoryUrls": [
"https://www.directindustry.com/cat/automation-A.html"
],
"maxItemsPerCategory": 3,
"maxPagesPerProductType": 1,
"proxyConfiguration": {
"useApifyProxy": true,
"apifyProxyGroups": [
"RESIDENTIAL"
],
"apifyProxyCountry": "US"
}
}
```
### π€ Output
Every row is one dataset item.
| Field | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| `product_url` | `string` | Product detail page URL (crawl target). |
| `product_name` | `string` | Product title -- data-cy="productTitle" H1, falls back to JSON-LD name. |
| `model` | `string` | Manufacturer model/identifier -- JSON-LD identifier. |
| `manufacturer_name` | `string` | Manufacturer name -- data-cy="companyLink" text (boilerplate stripped), falls back to the /prod//β¦ |
| `manufacturer_url` | `string \| null` | β οΈ **Usually `null`.** DirectIndustry renders the manufacturer link without an outbound href on product detail pages, so this came back `null` on **150 of 150 rows** across three categories in our own measured run. We keep the field because the markup does carry a real href on some pages, but **do not plan around it** β use `manufacturer_name` to identify the supplier. |
| `category` | `string` | The seed category/product-type URL this row was discovered under (input echo, not scraped). |
| `description` | `string` | Product description -- data-cy="descriptionProduct" text, falls back to JSON-LD description. |
| `specifications` | `object` | Key/value spec pairs from data-cy="specificationsList" (empty object if none). |
| `image_urls` | `array` | Product image URLs from JSON-LD image\[].contentUrl (empty array if none). |
| `scraped_at` | `string` | ISO-8601 wall-clock time of the fetch. |
#### Example output
```json
{
"product_url": "https://www.directindustry.com/prod/advantech/product-12345-987654.html",
"product_name": "ADAM-3600 Compact PLC",
"model": "ADAM-3600",
"manufacturer_name": "ADVANTECH",
"manufacturer_url": null,
"category": "https://www.directindustry.com/cat/automation-A.html",
"description": "Compact modular PLC for distributed I/O control in industrial automation.",
"specifications": {
"Type": "compact",
"Network": "EtherCAT",
"I/O count": "16"
},
"image_urls": [
"https://cdn.directindustry.com/images/12345/product-front.jpg"
],
"scraped_at": "2026-09-19T14:32:07Z"
}
```
### π° Pricing
Pay-Per-Event β you pay only when these events fire:
| Event | USD | What it is |
|---|---:|---|
| `actor-start` | $0.2 | One-off warm-up charge per run |
| `result` | $0.003 | Per dataset item |
Example: 1 000 results at the rates above β **$3.20**. No subscription, no minimum, no card to start β Apify gives every new account $5 of free credit.
### π§ Limitations
- No keyword/full-text search -- DirectIndustry's search box is client-side JS only; v1 is category-seeded crawl only.
- No pricing or quote data -- DirectIndustry is a catalog, not a marketplace.
- Company/manufacturer profile pages are not a first-class output -- manufacturer fields ship on product rows only.
- No JS-rendered or authenticated content (quote-request forms, gated spec-sheet/PDF downloads).
### β FAQ
**Is this legal?**
We only fetch publicly available catalog pages -- no login, no gated quote-request content. Respect DirectIndustry's own terms of service before using the output commercially.
**Why did a category return zero rows?**
Some categories are genuinely thin. The Actor finishes successfully with zero rows and a status message naming the empty seed rather than failing the run.
**Can I mix category and product-type URLs in one run?**
Yes -- categoryUrls accepts both /cat/... and /industrial-manufacturer/... URLs in the same list.
### π¬ 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 β we ship
fixes weekly and we read every report.
***
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# Changelog
This Actor's version history is a separate document: https://apify.com/devilscrapes/directindustry-industrial-suppliers-scraper/changelog.md
# Actor input Schema
## `categoryUrls` (type: `array`):
1-20 DirectIndustry category (/cat/-.html) or product-type (/industrial-manufacturer/-.html) seed URLs to crawl. The crawler dispatches on path segment, so both kinds may be mixed in one run.
## `maxItemsPerCategory` (type: `integer`):
Cap on rows collected per seed URL, applied independently per seed.
## `maxPagesPerProductType` (type: `integer`):
Cap on -\_.html pagination depth crawled per product-type page.
## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):
Apify Proxy config. RESIDENTIAL is the safe default for this Cloudflare-fronted target -- never leave this as a bare useApifyProxy, which resolves to the shared datacenter pool.
## Actor input object example
```json
{
"categoryUrls": [
"https://www.directindustry.com/cat/automation-A.html",
"https://www.directindustry.com/cat/handling-lifting-S.html",
"https://www.directindustry.com/cat/bearings-linear-guides-F.html"
],
"maxItemsPerCategory": 50,
"maxPagesPerProductType": 5,
"proxyConfiguration": {
"useApifyProxy": true,
"apifyProxyGroups": [
"RESIDENTIAL"
],
"apifyProxyCountry": "US"
}
}
```
# 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 '' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
token: '',
});
// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
"categoryUrls": [
"https://www.directindustry.com/cat/automation-A.html",
"https://www.directindustry.com/cat/handling-lifting-S.html",
"https://www.directindustry.com/cat/bearings-linear-guides-F.html"
],
"maxItemsPerCategory": 50,
"maxPagesPerProductType": 5,
"proxyConfiguration": {
"useApifyProxy": true,
"apifyProxyGroups": [
"RESIDENTIAL"
],
"apifyProxyCountry": "US"
}
};
// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("devilscrapes/directindustry-industrial-suppliers-scraper").call(input);
// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`πΎ 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);
});
// π Want to learn more π? Go to β 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 '' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("")
# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
"categoryUrls": [
"https://www.directindustry.com/cat/automation-A.html",
"https://www.directindustry.com/cat/handling-lifting-S.html",
"https://www.directindustry.com/cat/bearings-linear-guides-F.html",
],
"maxItemsPerCategory": 50,
"maxPagesPerProductType": 5,
"proxyConfiguration": {
"useApifyProxy": True,
"apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
"apifyProxyCountry": "US",
},
}
# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("devilscrapes/directindustry-industrial-suppliers-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"πΎ 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)
# π Want to learn more π? Go to β https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start
```
## CLI example
```bash
echo '{
"categoryUrls": [
"https://www.directindustry.com/cat/automation-A.html",
"https://www.directindustry.com/cat/handling-lifting-S.html",
"https://www.directindustry.com/cat/bearings-linear-guides-F.html"
],
"maxItemsPerCategory": 50,
"maxPagesPerProductType": 5,
"proxyConfiguration": {
"useApifyProxy": true,
"apifyProxyGroups": [
"RESIDENTIAL"
],
"apifyProxyCountry": "US"
}
}' |
apify call devilscrapes/directindustry-industrial-suppliers-scraper --silent --output-dataset
```
## MCP server setup
```json
{
"mcpServers": {
"apify": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,devilscrapes/directindustry-industrial-suppliers-scraper"
}
}
}
```
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 ` 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/MlaUEkWTrjJbQdAMT/builds/huxE60me2mEGLSk3I/openapi.json