# Business Verification API (`madwezza/business-verification-api`) Actor Verify public business website evidence and return a score, verdict, and explainable evidence bundle. - **URL**: https://apify.com/madwezza/business-verification-api.md - **Developed by:** [Omar Elwaziry](https://apify.com/madwezza) (community) - **Categories:** Automation, Agents, AI - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing from $100.00 / 1,000 verification results This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage. 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 ## Business Verification API Verify public business website evidence and return an explainable score, verdict, confidence level, and evidence bundle. ### What this Actor does Business Verification API checks public website evidence for each submitted business. It visits the business website, reads public metadata and contact pages, extracts profile signals, and returns a normalized verification result. It is designed for lead qualification, vendor checks, enrichment pipelines, CRM cleanup, and AI-agent workflows that need a compact evidence-backed business profile. ### Data returned Each result can include: - Input business name and website - Final website domain - Extracted organization name - Verification score from 0 to 100 - Verdict and confidence level - Name-match signal - Reachability, contact, social, structured-data, and page-depth signals - Public evidence: title, description, emails, phones, addresses, social links, important pages, pages checked, and JSON-LD types - Warnings and scrape timestamp ### Example input ```json { "businesses": [ { "websiteUrl": "https://www.apify.com", "name": "Apify" }, { "websiteUrl": "https://www.mozilla.org", "name": "Mozilla" } ], "maxPagesPerSite": 5, "includeEvidenceText": true, "requestTimeoutSecs": 25, "politeDelayMs": 500 } ```` ### Verdicts | Verdict | Meaning | |---|---| | `strong_public_evidence` | Website and public signals strongly support the business profile. | | `moderate_public_evidence` | Useful public evidence exists, but some signals are missing. | | `limited_public_evidence` | Website is reachable but public evidence is thin. | | `weak_public_evidence` | Public signals are weak or incomplete. | ### Limitations This Actor uses public website evidence only. It does not verify government registration, submit forms, log in, bypass CAPTCHA, scrape private accounts, or guarantee that contact details are active. Treat the output as public-evidence scoring, not legal due diligence. ### Changelog - `0.1` Added public website evidence scoring with explainable verification signals. # Actor input Schema ## `businesses` (type: `array`): Businesses to verify. Each item should include at least websiteUrl; name and country are optional but improve matching. ## `maxPagesPerSite` (type: `integer`): Maximum same-domain public pages to inspect per business website. ## `includeEvidenceText` (type: `boolean`): Include a compact public text excerpt used as evidence for downstream review. ## `requestTimeoutSecs` (type: `integer`): Timeout for each public page fetch. ## `politeDelayMs` (type: `integer`): Delay between same-site page requests. ## `userAgent` (type: `string`): Browser-like User-Agent for public-page compatibility. ## Actor input object example ```json { "businesses": [ { "websiteUrl": "https://www.apify.com", "name": "Apify" }, { "websiteUrl": "https://www.mozilla.org", "name": "Mozilla" } ], "maxPagesPerSite": 5, "includeEvidenceText": true, "requestTimeoutSecs": 25, "politeDelayMs": 500, "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/149.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" } ``` # Actor output Schema ## `results` (type: `string`): No description ## `runStats` (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 = { "businesses": [ { "websiteUrl": "https://www.apify.com", "name": "Apify" }, { "websiteUrl": "https://www.mozilla.org", "name": "Mozilla" } ] }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("madwezza/business-verification-api").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 = { "businesses": [ { "websiteUrl": "https://www.apify.com", "name": "Apify", }, { "websiteUrl": "https://www.mozilla.org", "name": "Mozilla", }, ] } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("madwezza/business-verification-api").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 '{ "businesses": [ { "websiteUrl": "https://www.apify.com", "name": "Apify" }, { "websiteUrl": "https://www.mozilla.org", "name": "Mozilla" } ] }' | apify call madwezza/business-verification-api --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=madwezza/business-verification-api", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "Business Verification API", "description": "Verify public business website evidence and return a score, verdict, and explainable evidence bundle.", "version": "0.1", "x-build-id": "7WnVLlh2zTrVuc9ve" }, "servers": [ { "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2" } ], "paths": { "/acts/madwezza~business-verification-api/run-sync-get-dataset-items": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-madwezza-business-verification-api", "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": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } }, "/acts/madwezza~business-verification-api/runs": { "post": { "operationId": "runs-sync-madwezza-business-verification-api", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$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": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema" } } } } } } }, "/acts/madwezza~business-verification-api/run-sync": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-madwezza-business-verification-api", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$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", "required": [ "businesses" ], "properties": { "businesses": { "title": "Businesses", "type": "array", "description": "Businesses to verify. Each item should include at least websiteUrl; name and country are optional but improve matching.", "items": { "type": "object" } }, "maxPagesPerSite": { "title": "Max pages per site", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 20, "type": "integer", "description": "Maximum same-domain public pages to inspect per business website.", "default": 5 }, "includeEvidenceText": { "title": "Include evidence text", "type": "boolean", "description": "Include a compact public text excerpt used as evidence for downstream review.", "default": true }, "requestTimeoutSecs": { "title": "Request timeout seconds", "minimum": 5, "maximum": 90, "type": "integer", "description": "Timeout for each public page fetch.", "default": 25 }, "politeDelayMs": { "title": "Polite delay milliseconds", "minimum": 0, "maximum": 10000, "type": "integer", "description": "Delay between same-site page requests.", "default": 500 }, "userAgent": { "title": "User-Agent", "type": "string", "description": "Browser-like User-Agent for public-page compatibility.", "default": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/149.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" } } }, "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 } } } } } } } } } } ```