BBB Data Crawler
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See alternative ActorsBBB Data Crawler
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 Python 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.
1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = {
9 "startUrls": [
10 "https://www.bbb.org/us/ny/new-york/category/home-improvement",
11 "https://www.bbb.org/us/ny/new-york/categories",
12 "https://www.bbb.org/us/ny/new-york/profile/home-builders/jf-hughes-builders-inc-0121-87134180",
13 "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",
14 ],
15 "maxItems": 50,
16 "endPage": 1,
17 "extendOutputFunction": "($) => { return {} }",
18 "proxy": { "useApifyProxy": True },
19}
20
21# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
22run = client.actor("epctex/bbb-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
23
24# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
25print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
26for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
27 print(item)
28
29# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-startBBB Scraper API in Python
The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use BBB Data Crawler API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
pip install apify-clientOther API clients include:
epctex
