D&B Company Scraper - Business Directory Data

Extract company data from Dun & Bradstreet's public business directory. Search by company name, industry, location, or NAICS/SIC code. Returns structured firmographic data including address, phone, website, industry classification, revenue range, employee count, founding year, company hierarchy, and key executives.

What does it do?

This actor scrapes publicly-available company profiles from the D&B Business Directory, one of the world's largest commercial databases with 120M+ business records. It bypasses Cloudflare protection using a real browser with residential proxy and extracts structured data from each company profile page.

Features

• Three input modes — direct company URLs, keyword search, or bulk sitemap crawl
• Comprehensive firmographics — name, address, phone, website, industry codes, revenue, employees, founding year
• Corporate hierarchy — company type (public/private/subsidiary) and parent company
• Key executives — names and titles from public profile pages
• Cloudflare bypass — uses real Chromium browser with residential proxy to handle CF challenges

Input

Field	Type	Description
companyUrls	array	Direct D&B company profile URLs to scrape
searchTerm	string	Company name, industry, or keyword
location	string	City, state, or country filter
industryCode	string	NAICS or SIC industry code
maxItems	integer	Maximum records to return (default: 10)

Input modes

The actor auto-selects a mode based on what you provide:

1. companyUrls mode — Supply a list of D&B profile URLs (/business-directory/company-profiles.*.html). Best for targeted extraction of specific companies.
2. search mode — Activated when searchTerm, location, or industryCode is set. Searches the D&B directory and crawls the result pages.
3. sitemap mode (default) — Samples the D&B business directory sitemap (4,690+ files, ~50,000 URLs each) for bulk discovery.

Output

Each record contains:

{
  "company_name": "Acme Corporation",
  "duns_number": "12-345-6789",
  "address": "123 Main St",
  "city": "New York",
  "state": "NY",
  "zip_code": "10001",
  "country": "US",
  "phone": "+1-212-555-0100",
  "website": "https://www.acme.com",
  "industry": "Custom Computer Programming Services",
  "naics_code": "541511",
  "sic_code": "7371",
  "revenue_range": "$10M-$50M",
  "employee_count_range": "100-500",
  "founded_year": 1985,
  "company_type": "Private",
  "parent_company": null,
  "executives": "Jane Smith (CEO) | John Doe (CFO)",
  "description": "Full-service technology solutions provider...",
  "dnb_profile_url": "https://www.dnb.com/business-directory/company-profiles.acme_corporation.abc123.html"
}

Performance & cost

• Requires residential proxy for Cloudflare bypass — automatically managed
• Memory: 2048 MB recommended (Playwright browser)
• Rate: approximately 2-5 pages/minute (Cloudflare challenge resolution adds latency per page)
• Price: $0.0015 per record (pay-per-result)

Notes

• Only publicly available data is extracted. Contact details, email addresses, and financial details beyond revenue ranges require a D&B subscription and are not available through this actor.
• The D&B directory is indexed by sitemap with 234M+ profile URLs. The sitemap mode randomly samples shards — use maxItems to control run volume.
• Executive data availability varies by company size and profile completeness.