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BBB Data Crawler

epctex/bbb-scraper
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Scrape data from the Better Business Bureau as known as BBB. Crawl and extract company information, insights, financial projections, social links, accreditations and much more. Scrape the huge BBB Cloud, retrieve charities and businesses in the United States, Canada, and Mexico by their categories.

You can access the BBB Data Crawler programmatically from your own JavaScript applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.

1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
5const client = new ApifyClient({
6    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
7});
8
9// Prepare Actor input
10const input = {
11    "startUrls": [
12        "https://www.bbb.org/us/ny/new-york/category/home-improvement",
13        "https://www.bbb.org/us/ny/new-york/categories",
14        "https://www.bbb.org/us/ny/new-york/profile/home-builders/jf-hughes-builders-inc-0121-87134180",
15        "https://www.bbb.org/search?find_country=USA&find_entity=66005-000&find_id=1099_2800-400-1100&find_latlng=40.762801%2C-73.977818&find_loc=New%20York%2C%20NY&find_text=Clean%20Up%20Services&find_type=Category&page=1&sort=Relevance"
16    ],
17    "maxItems": 50,
18    "endPage": 1,
19    "extendOutputFunction": ($) => { return {} },
20    "proxy": {
21        "useApifyProxy": true
22    }
23};
24
25// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
26const run = await client.actor("epctex/bbb-scraper").call(input);
27
28// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
29console.log('Results from dataset');
30console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
31const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
32items.forEach((item) => {
33    console.dir(item);
34});
35
36// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

BBB Scraper API in JavaScript

The Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use BBB Data Crawler API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

npm install apify-client

Other API clients include:

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Actor Metrics

  • 10 monthly users

  • 9 stars

  • 3.5% runs succeeded

  • 1.1 days response time

  • Created in Oct 2021

  • Modified 9 hours ago

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