# Australia Solar & Energy Approved Sellers Scraper (NETCC) (`gorkha-io/australia-netcc-solar-sellers-scraper`) Actor

Extracts all verified solar, battery storage, and EV charger installers from Australia's New Energy Tech Consumer Code (NETCC) registry.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/gorkha-io/australia-netcc-solar-sellers-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Santosh Nepali](https://apify.com/gorkha-io) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$3.00 / 1,000 scraped sellers

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/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

### Australia Solar & Energy Approved Sellers Scraper (NETCC)

**Australia Solar & Energy Approved Sellers Scraper** extracts verified B2B company data from Australia's official **New Energy Tech Consumer Code (`newenergytech.org.au`)** registry in seconds.

While the public website caps search queries at 1,000 results (hiding over 68% of registered businesses), this Actor automatically sweeps the entire Australian registry to extract **all ~2,594 unique accredited solar PV, battery storage, and EV charger companies (~3,195 branch locations)** in a single 6-second run.

| What you can extract | Features & integrations |
| :--- | :--- |
| 🏢 **Verified Company Profiles:** Legal & trading business names (`retailerName`) and registry IDs.<br>🌐 **Company Websites:** Normalized corporate domains (`https://...`) ready for cold outreach and enrichment.<br>📍 **Head Office & Branch Locations:** Clean street addresses (`primaryAddress`, `officeAddresses`) across all Australian states.<br>🗺️ **Operating States:** Full territorial coverage (`VIC`, `NSW`, `QLD`, `WA`, `SA`, `TAS`, `ACT`, `NT`).<br>🔋 **Approved Energy Tech:** Exact accreditations (`Solar PV`, `Energy Storage`, `EV charging`, `VPPs`, `Microgrids`, `PPAs`, `Wind turbines`).<br>🧭 **Geolocation Coordinates:** Exact `latitude` and `longitude` for territory mapping.<br>📅 **Accreditation History:** Official `signatoryStartDate` compliance timestamps. | 🔍 **Multi-Filter Search:** Filter by Australian state, renewable product category, or company keyword.<br>🧹 **Smart Deduplication:** Toggle between 2,594 unique company headquarters or all 3,195 regional branches.<br>⚡ **6-Second Cloud Execution:** Built on lightweight async HTTP (`256 MB` RAM) for near-zero compute cost.<br>📥 **Export to CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML:** Download clean lead lists with zero raw HTML tags.<br>🔌 **API, Webhooks & Automation:** Connect directly to Clay, Make, n8n, Zapier, or Python/Node.js SDKs.<br>🤖 **LLM & MCP-Ready Data:** Strict output and dataset schemas ready for Claude, Cursor, Gemini, and ChatGPT agents. |

If you are a **solar equipment wholesaler, inverter/battery manufacturer, B2B lead generation agency, commercial insurance broker, or renewable energy SaaS team**, you get the complete, compliance-verified Australian installer market from a single tool.

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### What data can I scrape from the Australia NETCC Directory?

The **New Energy Tech Consumer Code (NETCC)**—administered by the Clean Energy Council—is Australia's mandatory consumer protection framework for businesses selling solar panels, home batteries, and EV chargers that want access to government rebates and tenders.

- **Company & Domain Intelligence:** Extract `objectID`, `retailerName`, and normalized `website` URLs so your sales team or enrichment workflow (Clay, Apollo, Hunter) can immediately target decision-makers.
- **State & Territory Coverage:** Know both where a company is headquartered (`primaryState`, `primaryAddress`) and every state it is legally approved to sell in (`operatingStates`).
- **Technology Specializations (`productTypes`):** Segment installers that only do rooftop `Solar PV` from advanced contractors accredited for `Energy Storage` (batteries), `EV charging`, `Virtual Power Plants (VPPs)`, and `Off-grid / Microgrids`.
- **Multi-Branch Mapping:** Every deduplicated company record preserves an array of all regional `officeAddresses` plus exact `latitude` and `longitude` coordinates.

> **Need more B2B intelligence? Try our other dedicated scrapers:**
>
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> - 🛠️ **[Open-Source SaaS Alternatives Scraper](https://apify.com/gorkha-io/open-alternative-scraper):** Extract open-source software alternatives, GitHub metrics, and tech stacks from OpenAlternative.co.

***

### How much will scraping Australia NETCC Solar Sellers cost?

This Actor uses a transparent **Pay-Per-Event (PPE)** pricing model where you only pay for each verified company record pushed to your dataset:

- **Event Price:** **$3.00 per 1,000 results** (`$0.003` per company record).
- **Full Registry Dump (~2,594 unique companies):** Costs roughly **$7.78** and finishes in **~6 seconds**.
- **Targeted State or Product Runs:** Use the `maxItems`, `states`, or `productTypes` filters (e.g., scraping 200 EV Charger installers in Victoria costs just **$0.60**).
- **Zero Proxy Overhead:** Because this Actor runs on an optimized `256 MB` HTTP architecture, platform compute usage is under `$0.013` per full run.

***

### How do I use Australia Solar & Energy Approved Sellers Scraper?

1. Click **Try for free** or open **Australia Solar & Energy Approved Sellers Scraper (NETCC)** in Apify Console.
2. **(Optional)** Filter by **Australian States** (e.g., `NSW`, `VIC`, `QLD`) or **Product Types** (e.g., `Energy Storage`, `EV charging`).
3. **(Optional)** Keep **Deduplicate by Company Name** enabled (`true`) for unique company leads, or switch it to `false` to get every regional branch row.
4. Set **Max Items** (`0` for the entire Australian registry, or any specific cap like `100`).
5. Click **Start** and wait ~6 seconds for the run to finish.
6. Preview or download your dataset in **CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML**, or pull it automatically via the Apify API / MCP server.

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### ⬇️ Input

You can customize your extraction using any combination of the filters below. Leave all filters blank to extract the entire Australian database:

| Input Field | Type | What It Does |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| **`states`** | Array | Filter by Australian State/Territory (`NSW`, `VIC`, `QLD`, `WA`, `SA`, `TAS`, `ACT`, `NT`). |
| **`productTypes`** | Array | Filter by approved tech (`Solar PV`, `Energy Storage`, `EV charging`, `VPPs`, `Energy management`, `PPAs`, `Microgrids`, `Wind turbines`). |
| **`searchQuery`** | String | Optional keyword filter to match specific company names or suburbs. |
| **`deduplicateByCompany`** | Boolean | Default `true`. Merges multi-branch duplicates into one clean company record (~2,594 unique companies). |
| **`maxItems`** | Integer | Maximum number of records to return (`0` = unlimited). |

***

### ⬆️ Output

Results are stored in the default **Dataset** tab. You can view them as a clean table in Apify Console or export them as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

#### Sample JSON Output Record

````json
{
  "objectID": "0018t000003XYZ1AAO",
  "retailerName": "1KOMMA5° Australia Pty Ltd",
  "website": "[https://1komma5grad.com/au](https://1komma5grad.com/au)",
  "signatoryStartDate": "2023-02-01",
  "primaryState": "NSW",
  "primaryAddress": "75 O'Riordan St, Alexandria NSW 2015",
  "operatingStates": [
    "NSW",
    "QLD",
    "SA",
    "VIC"
  ],
  "productTypes": [
    "Solar PV",
    "Energy Storage",
    "EV charging",
    "Virtual Power Plants (VPPs)",
    "Home energy management products and services"
  ],
  "officeAddresses": [
    {
      "state": "NSW",
      "address": "75 O'Riordan St, Alexandria NSW 2015"
    },
    {
      "state": "QLD",
      "address": "168 Knapp St, Fortitude Valley QLD 4006"
    }
  ],
  "latitude": -33.9142,
  "longitude": 151.1934
}



# Actor input Schema

## `states` (type: `array`):

Select specific Australian states/territories (e.g., VIC, NSW, QLD, WA, SA, TAS, ACT, NT). Leave empty to scrape all of Australia.
## `productTypes` (type: `array`):

Filter sellers by approved technology (e.g., Solar PV, Energy Storage, EV charging, VPPs, Energy management, Microgrids). Leave empty for all.
## `searchQuery` (type: `string`):

Optional keyword, company name, or postcode filter.
## `deduplicateByCompany` (type: `boolean`):

If true, merges multiple branch pins into a single unique company record (~2,586 companies). If false, outputs every individual branch location (~3,186 records).
## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of records to return (for Pay-Per-Event budget control). Leave 0 or empty for all records.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "states": [],
  "productTypes": [],
  "searchQuery": "",
  "deduplicateByCompany": true,
  "maxItems": 0
}
````

# 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 = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("gorkha-io/australia-netcc-solar-sellers-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 = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("gorkha-io/australia-netcc-solar-sellers-scraper").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 '{}' |
apify call gorkha-io/australia-netcc-solar-sellers-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,gorkha-io/australia-netcc-solar-sellers-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 <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/8bsRorbEA8rrKNIT9/builds/C3Cx16c1SDT418j2j/openapi.json