# Transport Reviews — Auto Shipping Companies & Reviews (`jungle_synthesizer/transportreviews-auto-shipping-scraper`) Actor Scrape transportreviews.com for US auto-transport company profiles (name, address, phone, website, aggregate rating, review count, top routes) plus customer reviews (rating, origin, destination, shipped-at, body, company response). Crawl by letter A-Z or target specific company URLs. - **URL**: https://apify.com/jungle\_synthesizer/transportreviews-auto-shipping-scraper.md - **Developed by:** [BowTiedRaccoon](https://apify.com/jungle_synthesizer) (community) - **Categories:** Lead generation, Business, Other - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, NaN bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing Pay per event 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/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases. In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours, and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store. In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server. Actors are written with capital "A". ## How to integrate an Actor? If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects. You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready. The best way to integrate Actors is as follows. In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md): ```bash npm install apify-client ``` In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md): ```bash pip install apify-client ``` In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): ````bash # MacOS / Linux curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash # Windows irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex ```bash In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md). If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below. For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ## Transport Reviews Auto Shipping Company Scraper Scrape auto-transport company profiles and customer reviews from [transportreviews.com](https://www.transportreviews.com), the canonical industry directory for US vehicle-shipping carriers and brokers. Returns company contact details, aggregate ratings, top transport routes with average prices, and individual reviews with origin / destination pairs and shipping dates — for ~9,000 companies and 100K+ reviews. --- ### Transport Reviews Scraper Features - Scrapes the full A-Z company directory or a specific list of company URLs. - Returns 14 company fields per profile: name, address, phone, website, aggregate rating, review count, top routes, and more. - Pulls customer reviews on demand. Each review comes with the rating, reviewer name, origin, destination, shipped date, and the body text — plus the company's response when there is one. - Top routes are pre-formatted as `Origin to Destination | N moves | $avg_price`. You can drop the array straight into a spreadsheet. - Pure HTTP — no browser, no proxies, no Cloudflare hoops. The site is server-rendered HTML. - Data lands as clean JSON with consistent field names. Field types match the published dataset schema. --- ### Who Uses Transport Reviews Data? - **Auto-transport brokers** — Track competitor pricing per route, identify carriers with strong ratings on lanes you're trying to move on. - **Insurance underwriters** — Mine review claims-language to spot motor carriers with damage or non-payment patterns before writing a policy. - **Lead-generation agencies** — Build affiliate sites in the auto-shipping niche with a fresh directory of US-based carriers and ratings. - **Investor / VC due diligence** — Benchmark logistics startups (Montway, Sherpa, AmeriFreight, RoadSync) against the wider field of 9,000 indexed companies. --- ### How Transport Reviews Scraper Works 1. Pick a scrape mode. Either select alphabet buckets (A-Z plus "0" for non-alpha names) or pass a list of specific company URLs. 2. The scraper enumerates each bucket's company list, then visits each company profile to extract the JSON-LD `LocalBusiness` block, top routes table, and contact box. 3. If "Fetch Customer Reviews" is enabled, the scraper also visits the reviews page and each review detail page to attach the per-review origin / destination, shipped date, and full body to the company record. 4. Records stream into the dataset as they're parsed. Run finishes when the configured `maxItems` cap is hit or every requested company has been scraped. --- ### Input ```json { "letters": ["A"], "do_fetch_reviews": false, "max_reviews_per_company": 5, "maxItems": 15 } ```` | Field | Type | Default | Description | |-------|------|---------|-------------| | `letters` | array of string | `["A"]` | Alphabet buckets to crawl. Valid values: `"0"` plus `"A"`–`"Z"`. Leave empty to crawl all 27 buckets. | | `startUrls` | array of objects | `[]` | Optional list of full transportreviews.com company URLs (e.g. `{"url": "https://www.transportreviews.com/Company/Montway-Auto-Transport"}`). When set, the alphabet crawl is skipped. | | `do_fetch_reviews` | boolean | `false` | If `true`, fetch individual customer reviews for each company. Adds extra requests per company. | | `max_reviews_per_company` | integer | `5` | Cap on reviews fetched per company. Reviews are pulled newest-first. | | `maxItems` | integer | `15` | Hard cap on total company records returned. Default is intentionally low to fit Apify's 5-minute tester timeout. Increase explicitly for larger crawls. | #### Targeting specific companies ```json { "startUrls": [ {"url": "https://www.transportreviews.com/Company/Montway-Auto-Transport"}, {"url": "https://www.transportreviews.com/Company/AmeriFreight-Car-Shipping"} ], "do_fetch_reviews": true, "max_reviews_per_company": 10, "maxItems": 2 } ``` *** ### Transport Reviews Scraper Output Fields Every record represents one auto-shipping company. Reviews are attached as a flattened string array when `do_fetch_reviews` is enabled. ```json { "company_slug": "AmeriFreight-Car-Shipping", "company_name": "AmeriFreight Car Shipping", "profile_url": "https://www.transportreviews.com/Company/AmeriFreight-Car-Shipping", "website": "https://www.amerifreight.net", "phone": "(678) 619-0493", "street_address": "205 Greencastle Rd", "city": "Tyrone", "state": "GA", "postal_code": "30290", "country": "USA", "aggregate_rating": 4.93, "review_count": 1448, "logo_url": "https://movingsitesblobstorage.blob.core.windows.net/transportreviews/CompanyLogos/Logo_946.png", "top_routes": [ "California to Florida | 537 moves | $1551", "California to Texas | 512 moves | $1286", "Florida to California | 458 moves | $1373" ], "reviews": [ "2026-03-15 | 0/5 | felix | St Peters, Missouri -> Texas | I recently hired Montway Auto Transport to move three vehicles, and all three arrived with damage that was not present before pickup..." ], "scraped_at": "2026-04-30T08:47:54.357Z" } ``` | Field | Type | Description | |-------|------|-------------| | `company_slug` | string | URL slug from `/Company/` — stable identifier across runs. | | `company_name` | string | Display name as published on the profile. | | `profile_url` | string | Full URL to the company's transportreviews.com profile page. | | `website` | string | Company's primary website. | | `phone` | string | Primary phone number. | | `street_address` | string | Street address from Schema.org `PostalAddress`. | | `city` | string | City (`addressLocality`). | | `state` | string | State or region code (`addressRegion`). | | `postal_code` | string | Postal code. | | `country` | string | Country code, typically `USA`. | | `aggregate_rating` | number | Average customer rating, 0.00–5.00. | | `review_count` | number | Total customer reviews published on the profile. | | `logo_url` | string | Company logo URL when available. | | `top_routes` | array of string | Top transport routes formatted as `Origin to Destination \| N moves \| $avg_price`. | | `reviews` | array of string | Per-review summaries when `do_fetch_reviews` is enabled. Format: `YYYY-MM-DD \| rating/5 \| reviewer \| origin -> destination \| body`. | | `scraped_at` | string | ISO 8601 timestamp when the record was extracted. | *** ### FAQ #### How do I scrape transportreviews.com? Transport Reviews Scraper handles it. Pick alphabet buckets or pass a list of company URLs, optionally enable customer reviews, and let it run. The scraper hits the public site, parses the server-rendered HTML, and writes records to the dataset as it goes. #### How much does Transport Reviews Scraper cost to run? Transport Reviews Scraper uses pay-per-event pricing: $0.10 per actor start plus $0.001 per company record. A 1,000-company run lands at about $1.10. Reviews are attached to the company record at no extra per-event charge — they ride along on the same `data-record` event. #### What data can I get from transportreviews.com? Transport Reviews Scraper returns company name, full US address, phone, website, aggregate rating (0.00–5.00), total review count, logo URL, and a top-routes table with move counts and average prices per origin–destination lane. Enable customer reviews to also pull per-review rating, reviewer name, origin, destination, shipped date, and body text. #### Does Transport Reviews Scraper need proxies? Transport Reviews Scraper does not need proxies. The site has no Cloudflare, no rate-limit headers, and no CAPTCHA. It filters on User-Agent, but the scraper's default fingerprint clears that without any extra config. #### Can I limit the crawl to specific companies? Pass the `startUrls` field with a list of full transportreviews.com company URLs. When `startUrls` is set, the alphabet-bucket crawl is skipped entirely. *** ### Need More Features? Need DOT/MC enrichment, a different output format, or a custom filter? File an issue or get in touch. ### Why Use Transport Reviews Scraper? - **Affordable** — $0.10 per start plus $0.001 per record. A 1,000-company run is roughly $1.10. - **Clean output** — Returns flat JSON with consistent field names. Top routes and reviews are pre-flattened to strings, so you can drop the array straight into a spreadsheet without writing transform code. - **First-mover** — There is no other Apify actor for transportreviews.com. This is the only one indexed in the store. # Actor input Schema ## `sp_intended_usage` (type: `string`): Please describe how you plan to use the data extracted by this crawler. ## `sp_improvement_suggestions` (type: `string`): Provide any feedback or suggestions for improvements. ## `sp_contact` (type: `string`): Provide your email address so we can get in touch with you. ## `letters` (type: `array`): Letters A-Z (or "0" for numeric / non-alpha names) of the company directory to crawl. Leave empty to crawl all 27 buckets. Each bucket lists a few hundred companies. ## `startUrls` (type: `array`): Optional list of full transportreviews.com company URLs to scrape directly (e.g. https://www.transportreviews.com/Company/Montway-Auto-Transport). When set, the alphabet-bucket crawl is skipped. ## `do_fetch_reviews` (type: `boolean`): Pull individual customer review records (rating, origin, destination, shipped date, review body, company response) for each company. Adds extra requests per company. ## `max_reviews_per_company` (type: `integer`): Cap on number of recent reviews fetched per company when "Fetch Customer Reviews" is enabled. Reviews are pulled newest first. ## `maxItems` (type: `integer`): Maximum number of company records to return. Cap kept low so a single run finishes within Apify's 5-minute tester timeout. Increase explicitly for larger crawls. ## Actor input object example ```json { "sp_intended_usage": "Describe your intended use...", "sp_improvement_suggestions": "Share your suggestions here...", "sp_contact": "Share your email here...", "letters": [ "A" ], "startUrls": [], "do_fetch_reviews": false, "max_reviews_per_company": 5, "maxItems": 15 } ``` # Actor output Schema ## `results` (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 '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "sp_intended_usage": "Describe your intended use...", "sp_improvement_suggestions": "Share your suggestions here...", "sp_contact": "Share your email here...", "letters": [ "A" ], "startUrls": [], "do_fetch_reviews": false, "max_reviews_per_company": 5, "maxItems": 15 }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("jungle_synthesizer/transportreviews-auto-shipping-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 '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "sp_intended_usage": "Describe your intended use...", "sp_improvement_suggestions": "Share your suggestions here...", "sp_contact": "Share your email here...", "letters": ["A"], "startUrls": [], "do_fetch_reviews": False, "max_reviews_per_company": 5, "maxItems": 15, } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("jungle_synthesizer/transportreviews-auto-shipping-scraper").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"]) for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "sp_intended_usage": "Describe your intended use...", "sp_improvement_suggestions": "Share your suggestions here...", "sp_contact": "Share your email here...", "letters": [ "A" ], "startUrls": [], "do_fetch_reviews": false, "max_reviews_per_company": 5, "maxItems": 15 }' | apify call jungle_synthesizer/transportreviews-auto-shipping-scraper --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=jungle_synthesizer/transportreviews-auto-shipping-scraper", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "Transport Reviews — Auto Shipping Companies & Reviews", "description": "Scrape transportreviews.com for US auto-transport company profiles (name, address, phone, website, aggregate rating, review count, top routes) plus customer reviews (rating, origin, destination, shipped-at, body, company response). Crawl by letter A-Z or target specific company URLs.", "version": "0.1", "x-build-id": "wamU7tXioqDpObgRh" }, "servers": [ { "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2" } ], "paths": { "/acts/jungle_synthesizer~transportreviews-auto-shipping-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-jungle_synthesizer-transportreviews-auto-shipping-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } }, "/acts/jungle_synthesizer~transportreviews-auto-shipping-scraper/runs": { "post": { "operationId": "runs-sync-jungle_synthesizer-transportreviews-auto-shipping-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK", "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema" } } } } } } }, "/acts/jungle_synthesizer~transportreviews-auto-shipping-scraper/run-sync": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-jungle_synthesizer-transportreviews-auto-shipping-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } } }, "components": { "schemas": { "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "sp_intended_usage": { "title": "What is the intended usage of this data?", "minLength": 1, "type": "string", "description": "Please describe how you plan to use the data extracted by this crawler." }, "sp_improvement_suggestions": { "title": "How can we improve this crawler for you?", "minLength": 1, "type": "string", "description": "Provide any feedback or suggestions for improvements." }, "sp_contact": { "title": "Contact Email", "minLength": 1, "type": "string", "description": "Provide your email address so we can get in touch with you." }, "letters": { "title": "Alphabet Buckets", "type": "array", "description": "Letters A-Z (or \"0\" for numeric / non-alpha names) of the company directory to crawl. Leave empty to crawl all 27 buckets. Each bucket lists a few hundred companies.\n", "items": { "type": "string", "enum": [ "0", "A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F", "G", "H", "I", "J", "K", "L", "M", "N", "O", "P", "Q", "R", "S", "T", "U", "V", "W", "X", "Y", "Z" ] }, "default": [] }, "startUrls": { "title": "Specific Company URLs (optional)", "type": "array", "description": "Optional list of full transportreviews.com company URLs to scrape directly (e.g. https://www.transportreviews.com/Company/Montway-Auto-Transport). When set, the alphabet-bucket crawl is skipped.\n", "default": [], "items": { "type": "object", "required": [ "url" ], "properties": { "url": { "type": "string", "title": "URL of a web page", "format": "uri" } } } }, "do_fetch_reviews": { "title": "Fetch Customer Reviews", "type": "boolean", "description": "Pull individual customer review records (rating, origin, destination, shipped date, review body, company response) for each company. Adds extra requests per company.\n", "default": false }, "max_reviews_per_company": { "title": "Max Reviews Per Company", "type": "integer", "description": "Cap on number of recent reviews fetched per company when \"Fetch Customer Reviews\" is enabled. Reviews are pulled newest first.\n", "default": 5 }, "maxItems": { "title": "Max Items", "type": "integer", "description": "Maximum number of company records to return. Cap kept low so a single run finishes within Apify's 5-minute tester timeout. Increase explicitly for larger crawls.\n", "default": 15 } } }, "runsResponseSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "data": { "type": "object", "properties": { "id": { "type": "string" }, "actId": { "type": "string" }, "userId": { "type": "string" }, "startedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "finishedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "status": { "type": "string", "example": "READY" }, "meta": { "type": "object", "properties": { "origin": { "type": "string", "example": "API" }, "userAgent": { "type": "string" } } }, "stats": { "type": "object", "properties": { "inputBodyLen": { "type": "integer", "example": 2000 }, "rebootCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "restartCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "resurrectCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "computeUnits": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "options": { "type": "object", "properties": { "build": { "type": "string", "example": "latest" }, "timeoutSecs": { "type": "integer", "example": 300 }, "memoryMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 1024 }, "diskMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 2048 } } }, "buildId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultKeyValueStoreId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultDatasetId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultRequestQueueId": { "type": "string" }, "buildNumber": { "type": "string", "example": "1.0.0" }, "containerUrl": { "type": "string" }, "usage": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 1 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "usageTotalUsd": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "usageUsd": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } } } } } } } } } ```