DACH Residential White Pages & Reverse Phone Lookup

Search Germany, Switzerland and Austria's national phone directories by name and city, or run a reverse phone lookup by number, across all three countries in a single actor. Returns full name, phone number (with E.164 formatting), mobile, street address, postal code, and district for residential and business listings, normalised into one schema regardless of which country a result came from.

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DACH Phone Directory Scraper Features

• Searches by name, optionally narrowed to a city, across Germany, Switzerland and Austria in one run
• Runs reverse phone lookups on a German, Swiss or Austrian number — auto-detects the country from a +49/+41/+43 prefix, or searches every selected country when given a bare national number
• Returns normalised phone numbers in both display and E.164 format, with mobile numbers split out separately
• Parses street address, postal code, city and district (German Stadtteil / Swiss canton) per listing
• Covers residential and business entries in one search — no separate mode needed
• Pick any combination of the three countries per run, or leave the default (all three) in place

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Who Uses This Data?

• Skip tracing and process serving — locate a current address and phone number for a named individual before filing across DACH jurisdictions
• Debt recovery — cross-check a debtor's last known name against current directory listings in Germany, Switzerland or Austria
• Insurance claims — verify a claimant's address and phone against a public directory record
• B2C lead generation — build contact lists by name or region for German-speaking Europe outreach campaigns
• Reverse phone research — identify who's calling from an unknown German, Swiss or Austrian number
• Data enrichment — append name, address and phone fields to an existing DACH-region contact list

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How It Works

1. Choose a search mode — name search or reverse phone lookup.
2. For a name search, give it a name and (optionally) a city. For a phone lookup, give it a number — include the country code (+49/+41/+43) for a precise match when searching more than one country.
3. Pick which of the three countries to search via countries — all three by default.
4. The actor returns every matched listing with contact details and address, paginating automatically up to your maxItems limit.
5. A name search with no city returns matches from anywhere in the selected country/countries — narrow it if you're only after one region.

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Input

{
  "searchMode": "name",
  "countries": ["DE", "CH", "AT"],
  "name": "Meier",
  "city": "Berlin",
  "maxItems": 50
}

Field	Type	Default	Description
searchMode	String	name	name (search by name, optionally narrowed by city) or phone (reverse phone lookup).
countries	Array	["DE","CH","AT"]	Which of Germany, Switzerland and Austria to search. Omit a country to skip it.
name	String	—	Name to search for — a surname or full name. Required for name mode.
city	String	—	City to narrow a name search, e.g. "Berlin". Optional — omit for nationwide results in each country.
phone	String	—	Phone number for a reverse lookup, e.g. "030 3134894" or "+43 1 4032202". Required for phone mode.
maxItems	Integer	10	Maximum number of records to return.

Reverse phone lookup example:

{
  "searchMode": "phone",
  "phone": "+43 1 4032202",
  "maxItems": 5
}

Resuming a large crawl

Every run emits a resumeCursor in its Output. If a large crawl stops before it finishes — because it hit maxItems, your spend cap (maxTotalChargeUsd), or was aborted — start a new run with the same input plus that resumeCursor to continue from where it left off. The crawl resumes from the queued work the previous run didn't reach.

• You are not re-charged for records the earlier run already delivered.
• Resume within your account's run-retention window — on the free tier, roughly your 10 most recent runs. Once the source run is pruned, its resumeCursor is no longer valid.
• resumeCursor is opaque — supply it unmodified.

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Output Fields

{
  "source_country": "DE",
  "source_site": "dastelefonbuch.de",
  "listing_id": "0001115703880",
  "listing_type": "private",
  "full_name": "Becker Sabine Meier Ingo",
  "first_name": null,
  "last_name": null,
  "phone": "030 3 13 48 94",
  "phone_e164": "+49303134894",
  "mobile": null,
  "street_address": "Pestalozzistr. 29",
  "postal_code": "10627",
  "city": "Berlin",
  "district": "Charlottenburg",
  "website": null,
  "listing_url": "https://kontakt-1.dastelefonbuch.de/Berlin/Sabine-Becker-Ingo-Meier-Berlin-Pestalozzistr.html",
  "query_term": "Meier",
  "query_location": "Berlin",
  "query_phone": null,
  "result_rank": 1,
  "scraped_at": "2026-09-20T15:23:20.077Z"
}

Field	Type	Description
source_country	String	DE, CH, or AT — which country this listing is from.
source_site	String	The national directory the listing came from.
listing_id	String	The source's internal listing identifier.
listing_type	String	private or business.
full_name	String	Name as listed.
first_name	String	Given name, when the source separates it. null for German listings, which do not split names.
last_name	String	Family name, when the source separates it. null for German listings, which do not split names.
phone	String	Landline number as displayed, when the number is a landline.
mobile	String	Mobile number as displayed, when the number is a mobile. Mutually exclusive with phone.
phone_e164	String	Phone number normalised to E.164, e.g. +49303134894.
street_address	String	Street address, when listed.
postal_code	String	Postal code, when listed.
city	String	City.
district	String	German Stadtteil (e.g. Charlottenburg) or Swiss canton (e.g. ZH), when the source exposes one.
website	String	Homepage link, when the listing includes one. Sparse — most listings don't carry one.
listing_url	String	Direct URL to the listing on its source site.
query_term	String	The name your search requested (name mode only).
query_location	String	The city your search requested (name mode only).
query_phone	String	The phone your search requested (phone mode only).
result_rank	Integer	Position of this listing within its search's result set.
scraped_at	String	ISO 8601 timestamp of when the record was collected.

Data quality note: none of the three source directories expose fax number, email address, or geolocation on their search-results pages, so those fields are not part of the output. listing_type is source-verified for the Swiss and Austrian legs and inferred from a page-level marker for the German leg — all three are more reliable than a name-keyword guess, but treat them as best-effort rather than a guarantee on every row.

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FAQ

How do I scrape German, Swiss and Austrian phone directories in one actor?

Give it a name (and optionally a city), or a phone number for a reverse lookup, and pick which of Germany, Switzerland and Austria to search via countries. It returns every matched listing with contact details and address — no account or API key needed.

How much does this actor cost to run?

Pricing follows Apify's pay-per-event model — see the Pricing tab on the actor page for the current rate per record. Results are paginated, so a broad name search across all three countries costs more than a narrow one scoped to a city.

Can I search for a name across a whole country?

Yes — omit city and a name search returns matches from anywhere in each selected country. Add a city to narrow it.

Does this actor cover business listings, or just residential?

Both. A single name search can return private and business entries together; listing_type on each record tells you which is which.

What happens if a reverse phone lookup finds no match?

The run finishes with zero records for that query — none of the selected countries has a listing for the number you searched.

How do I search only one country?

Set countries to a single value, e.g. ["CH"], and the actor queries only that country's directory.

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Need More Features?

Need custom fields, filters, or a different target site? File an issue or get in touch.

Why Use This Scraper?

• Three countries, one schema — Germany, Switzerland and Austria normalised into the same field names, instead of running three separate actors and reconciling the output yourself.
• Reverse phone lookup as a first-class mode — not just name search, with automatic country detection from the number itself.
• Clean, structured output — consistent field names across every record, so you spend less time cleaning data and more time using it.

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Further reading: People Search Data in Bulk: 14 Sources, What Each One Returns