Fonecta.fi Finland Scraper

Scrape fonecta.fi (Fonecta Caller) into one row per business: name, phone, email when listed, website, address, opening hours, Y-tunnus (Finnish business id).

Works from a keyword plus optional city, a nationwide term, or a pasted /haku/ URL. Search cards already embed __NEXT_DATA__ JSON — no Apify Proxy required on current HTML. PERSON rows are dropped.

Pricing: $0.005 per listing (pushData). Extra contact-phone $0.002 and contact-email $0.05 when those fields are present.

Why use this scraper?

• Phone, website, hours, and Y-tunnus sit on the search card. Email is present when Fonecta publishes it.
• Nationwide /haku/ravintola or a city baked into the term (/haku/ravintola%20tampere).
• Optional harvest of the business site when the directory has no inbox.
• Private persons (contactType: PERSON) are not written to the dataset.

Overview

Built for lead lists and local research on Finnish companies. Each dataset item is one OFFICE or COMPANY listing from Fonecta Caller. Finder.fi is a sibling product and is not crawled.

Supported inputs

Input	What it does
searchTerms	What you type in Fonecta, e.g. ravintola, putkimies
locations	City appended to the term. Empty = nationwide
startUrls	https://www.fonecta.fi/haku/... only
maxItems	Stop after N unique listings (free plan cap 50)
harvestWebsiteEmail	Fetch the business site if Fonecta has no inbox
proxy	Leave off

Unsupported: Finder.fi URLs, private-person lookups, Helsinki city facet on queries Fonecta blocks with TOO_MANY_PERSONS_TO_SHOW_BY_LAW.

Use cases

Who	Why
Sales / agencies	Finnish phones and emails from a category
Researchers	Hours, Y-tunnus, and city coverage
SEO / maps	Website + coordinates per listing

How it works

1. Build https://www.fonecta.fi/haku/{term} (city appended when set). Page N is ?page=N (15 rows).
2. Parse <script id="__NEXT_DATA__"> → dehydratedState.queries[0].state.data.results.
3. Keep OFFICE / COMPANY. Drop PERSON.
4. Charge contact-phone / contact-email after pushData.
5. If still no email and harvest is on, fetch the business homepage/contact page.

Input configuration

Field	Type	Required	Notes
searchTerms	string[]	one of terms/URLs	e.g. ravintola
locations	string[]	no	e.g. Tampere
startUrls	url[]	no	/haku/ only
maxItems	integer	no	default 50
maxPages	integer	no	default 20
harvestWebsiteEmail	boolean	no	default true
maxConcurrency	integer	no	default 5
proxy	proxy	no	default off

Example input

{
  "searchTerms": ["ravintola"],
  "locations": [],
  "maxItems": 10,
  "harvestWebsiteEmail": false,
  "proxy": { "useApifyProxy": false }
}

Output overview

One JSON object per business. Search cards already carry phone, website, hours, coordinates, and often email.

Output samples

Nationwide ravintola, search card (fields trimmed):

{
  "listingId": "971292",
  "name": "Ravintola Raveliini",
  "phone": "0107624859",
  "email": "ravintola.raveliini@sok.fi",
  "website": "https://www.raflaamo.fi/fi/ravintola/kouvola/ravintola-raveliini",
  "street": "Kanuunakuja 2",
  "postalCode": "45200",
  "city": "Kouvola",
  "country": "FI",
  "yTunnus": "2467766-5",
  "contactType": "OFFICE",
  "hours": ["MO 16:00-22:00"],
  "source": "fonecta"
}

Key output fields

Group	Fields
Identity	listingId, name, yTunnus, contactType, category
Contact	phone, phones, email, website, social
Place	street, postalCode, city, address, latitude, longitude, country
Hours	hours, hoursToday, openNow
Meta	profileUrl, source, searchTerm, scrapedAt

FAQ

Does this scrape Finder.fi? No. Stay on fonecta.fi. Finder is linked from the footer and is a different site.

Why is email sometimes empty? Fonecta does not publish an inbox on every card. Turn harvestWebsiteEmail on, or accept directory-only fields.

Helsinki city filter? On some large queries Fonecta disables the Helsinki facet (TOO_MANY_PERSONS_TO_SHOW_BY_LAW). Use a nationwide term or a smaller city.

Are private persons included? No. contactType: PERSON is skipped.

Cloudflare? Search HTML currently returns 200 without a proxy. If a run hits a challenge, retry with RESIDENTIAL + Unblocker.

Support

Issues: https://console.apify.com/actors/memo23/fonecta-scraper/issues

Additional services

Custom scrapers and lead pipelines: contact via the Apify Store profile.

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🤖 For AI Agents & LLM Apps

• Actor: memo23/fonecta-scraper
• Minimal input: { "searchTerms": ["ravintola"], "maxItems": 5, "harvestWebsiteEmail": false, "proxy": { "useApifyProxy": false } }
• Output: one JSON object per business (name, phone, email, website, city, yTunnus, hours)
• Billing: $0.005 / result; +$0.002 if phone; +$0.05 if email
• Persons are not returned. Helsinki facet may be disabled on large queries.

⚠️ Disclaimer

This actor is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Fonecta Oy or its affiliates. Fonecta® and Fonecta Caller® are trademarks of their respective owners. The actor collects publicly listed business information from fonecta.fi. You are responsible for lawful use (GDPR, ePrivacy, your own outreach). Public data only. Do not use the data for spam.

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