local.ch Scraper

Turn a local.ch search into structured Swiss business rows: name, phone, email when listed, website, address, hours, category, rating, and profile link.

Keyword + city, or a local.ch URL. JSON or CSV out.

This is local.ch (Swisscom Directories). It is not Yellow Pages US, Yellow Pages Canada, Gelbe Seiten, or PagesJaunes.fr.

Why Use This Scraper?

• Phone, website, email, and coordinates on the search row when local.ch publishes them
• Street, PLZ, city, and canton already split
• Optional profile pass for fax, extra emails, weekday hours, reviews, and attributes
• Relevance, rating, distance, or A–Z sort
• HTTP only. No browser

Overview

Built for sales teams, agencies, and researchers who need Swiss business leads from local.ch.

Every start type becomes one dataset row per listing. A keyword search and a /d/{city}/{zip}/{category}/{slug}-{id} profile emit the same flat shape. Rows are de-duplicated by local.ch listing id.

Supported Inputs

Search terms and locations

Field	Example
searchTerms	["pizza"], ["garage", "coiffeur"]
locations	["Zürich"], ["Geneva"], ["Bern"]

Every term is searched in every location. A term with no location is skipped.

URL types

URL type	Pattern	Example
Search	/{lang}/s/{where}/{what}	https://www.local.ch/en/s/zurich/pizza
Profile	/{lang}/d/{city}/{zip}/{category}/{slug}-{id}	https://www.local.ch/en/d/zurich/8055/restaurant/il-basilico-ojIMejxnew7cMGGf4FEGVA

Search URLs paginate automatically (20 businesses per page).

Unsupported: search.ch people lookup, moneyhouse.ch, local.ch people-only results.

Use Cases

Audience	What they take from a run
Sales and outreach	Phone + website + email (when listed) by trade and city
Agencies	Cross-joined term × city lists in one dataset
Local SEO	Category, rating, and the local.ch profile URL
Researchers	Hours, canton, and coordinates for a trade in a city

How It Works

1. Cross-join searchTerms × locations, plus any local.ch URLs.
2. Fetch the search page (20 businesses per page).
3. Page with ?page= in parallel, stopping at maxItems or maxPages.
4. Read phone, email, website, address, and coordinates from the search payload.
5. Optionally open the profile for fax, extra emails, weekday hours, and reviews.
6. De-duplicate by listing id and push one row per business.

Input Configuration

Field	Type	Required	Notes
searchTerms	array	one of the start types	What you would type into local.ch
locations	array	with searchTerms	Swiss city
startUrls	array	one of the start types	Search or profile URL
language	string	no	en (default), de, fr, it
maxItems	integer	no	Default 50. Free users capped at 50.
sort	string	no	relevance (default), rating, distance, alphanum
scrapeDetails	boolean	no	Default true. Fax, hours, reviews.
maxPages	integer	no	Default 20.
maxConcurrency	integer	no	Default 5.
proxy	object	no	Default is Apify residential. Turn off only on a home IP.

Example input

{
  "searchTerms": ["pizza"],
  "locations": ["Zürich"],
  "maxItems": 50
}

Output Overview

One flat row per business. Contact and address fields sit at the top level. searchTerm tells you which input produced the row. Email is present only when local.ch publishes one on the listing.

Output Samples

Search: pizza in Zürich, with profile enrich.

{
  "listingId": "ojIMejxnew7cMGGf4FEGVA",
  "name": "il Basilico",
  "phone": "+41444508899",
  "email": "info@ilbasilico.ch",
  "website": "http://www.ilbasilico.ch",
  "fax": "+41444508895",
  "street": "Birmensdorferstrasse 364",
  "postalCode": "8055",
  "city": "Zürich",
  "canton": "ZH",
  "latitude": 47.3708,
  "longitude": 8.5134,
  "hours": ["TUESDAY 11:00-13:30 / 17:00-23:00"],
  "localChUrl": "https://www.local.ch/en/d/zuerich/8055/restaurant/il-basilico-ojIMejxnew7cMGGf4FEGVA"
}

Key Output Fields

Identity: listingId, name, localChUrl, isPremium, entryType

Contact: phone, phones, fax, email, emails, website, social

Place: address, street, postalCode, city, canton, country, latitude, longitude

Directory: category, categories, rating, reviewCount, hours, description, services, attributes, images, logo, reviews

Provenance: searchTerm, scrapedAt

Pricing

Event	When	Rate
Actor start	Once per run, per GB of memory	$0.005
Listing	Each unique business in the dataset	$0.001 ($1 / 1k)
Contact phone	Row has a phone	$0.002
Contact email	Row has an email	$0.05

Phone and email are billed only when local.ch publishes that field. A miss is free.

FAQ

Will every row have an email? No. Phone and website are common. Inbox is only on some listings. Phone and email are billed as extra events only when the field is present.

What does scrapeDetails add? Fax, extra emails, weekday hours, description, reviews, attributes, and extra photos when local.ch publishes them. Phone, email, website, and coordinates are already on the search row.

Do I need a proxy? On Apify, yes — a residential proxy is the default because local.ch blocks datacenter IPs. Local runs from a home IP can turn it off.

Does it scrape search.ch? No. local.ch business listings only.

Support

• Issues: Actor Issues
• Author site: https://muhamed-didovic.github.io/
• Email: muhamed.didovic@gmail.com

Additional Services

Bulk canton sweeps, scheduled refreshes, or a private API wrapper: muhamed.didovic@gmail.com

Explore More Scrapers

Directory cousins: Gelbe Seiten, Yellow Pages US, Yellow Pages Canada, Canada411, and PagesJaunes.fr. More actors on memo23 and didovic.

🤖 For AI Agents & LLM Apps

Compact reference for AI agents calling this actor via the Apify MCP server or the Apify API (actor: memo23/local-ch-scraper).

Purpose: Extract local.ch business listings (name, phone, email when listed, website, split address, hours) by keyword + city or URL.

Minimal input:

{
  "searchTerms": ["pizza"],
  "locations": ["Zürich"],
  "maxItems": 10
}

Output: one dataset row per business — listingId, name, phone, phones, fax, email, emails, website, social, address, street, postalCode, city, canton, country, latitude, longitude, category, categories, rating, reviewCount, hours, description, services, attributes, images, logo, reviews, isPremium, entryType, localChUrl, searchTerm, scrapedAt.

Behaviors an agent should know:

• Always set maxItems. Free users are capped at 50.
• searchTerms needs at least one entry in locations.
• startUrls work on their own (local.ch only).
• Email is often empty. Do not assume a contact-email field exists on every row.
• Each listing is $0.001. A phone on the row is $0.002. An email is $0.05. Start is $0.005 per GB.
• Switzerland only. Not search.ch, not moneyhouse.ch.
• Cloud runs need the default residential proxy. local.ch blocks datacenter IPs.

⚠️ Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Swisscom Directories AG, local.ch, localsearch.ch, or Swisscom. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

The scraper reads publicly listed Swiss business data from local.ch. Users are responsible for ensuring their use complies with local.ch Terms of Service, applicable data-protection law (nDSG / GDPR), UWG if they send outreach, and any contractual obligations of their own organization.

SEO Keywords

local.ch scraper, local ch scraper, scrape local.ch, Swiss yellow pages scraper, local.ch API, Swiss business listings scraper, Switzerland phone email scraper, Zürich leads scraper, Apify local.ch, Swiss restaurant leads, Geneva business scraper, local SEO Switzerland data, local.ch email scraper, Swiss directory scraper