bbb.org Scraper

About This Actor

This actor scrapes business listings from BBB.org based on your search criteria and location. It can extract key details about businesses, including accreditation status, and supports deep pagination to collect large result sets across multiple pages.

Whether you're building a lead list, conducting market research, or verifying businesses, this actor helps you automate and scale your data collection from one of the most trusted business directories in North America.

Why Use This Actor?

BBB.org is a high-trust directory with rich business metadata, but it’s not easily exportable. This actor solves that by:

Automatically navigating through BBB search results

Collecting up to hundreds of listings based on your input

Structuring data into a clean, machine-readable format (JSON or CSV)

Supporting business accreditation detection

Handling pagination intelligently (stopping when your max limit is hit)

No more manual copying or scraping — just input your query and location, and let this actor do the heavy lifting.

##✨ Features

✅ Extracts business name, category, rating, phone, address

✅ Detects Accredited Business status (true/false)

✅ Supports full pagination to get large result sets

✅ Real-time scraping logs (e.g., Business 1 scraped, Business 2 scraped, etc.)

✅ Configurable maximum number of businesses to scrape

✅ Works with multiple search URLs

Input Example

{

"startUrls": [ { "url": "https://www.bbb.org/search?find_text=Home+Builders&find_loc=Los+Angeles%2C+CA" } ], "maxRequestsPerCrawl": 30 }

startUrls: List of BBB search URLs with your desired find_text and find_loc values.

maxRequestsPerCrawl: The maximum number of businesses you want to scrape in total.

Output Example

{

"name": "ABC Home Builders", "description": "Trusted home builders in Los Angeles area.", "rating": "A+", "phone": "(123) 456-7890", "address": "1234 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90026", "accredited": true }

Output is available in JSON, CSV, XML, or Excel formats — perfect for importing into CRMs, spreadsheets, or marketing tools.

📌 Notes

This actor is intended for personal, research, or business lead enrichment use — always check the BBB.org terms of service before using scraped data commercially.

If you're scraping multiple cities or keywords, consider using a scheduler or passing in multiple startUrls.

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