# Company Directory Extractor (`mighty_monk/company-directory-extractor`) Actor

Extract company listings from business directories (Yelp, Yellow Pages, Hotfrog, BBB, and generic directory pages). Returns company name, website, industry, city, country, LinkedIn, and phone using smart listing-card heuristics with optional detail-page enrichment.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/mighty\_monk/company-directory-extractor.md
- **Developed by:** [Harsh](https://apify.com/mighty_monk) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $3.00 / 1,000 result items

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?

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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?

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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
```

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```bash
pip install apify-client
```

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````bash
# MacOS / Linux
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# Windows
irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex
```bash

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Company Directory Extractor

**Extract structured company data from business directory listing pages.**

Company Directory Extractor is an Apify Actor built with **TypeScript** and **Crawlee CheerioCrawler**. Point it at directory search or listing URLs — Yelp-style results, Yellow Pages, Hotfrog, BBB, chamber-of-commerce listings, or any generic business directory — and get clean company records with optional detail-page enrichment.

### Features

- **Generic listing-card heuristics** — detects business cards via schema.org, common CSS patterns, and heading structures
- **Detail-page follow-up** — enriches missing website, phone, industry, location, and LinkedIn fields
- **Pagination support** — follows `rel=next`, `.pagination`, and common pager links
- **JSON-LD enrichment** — reads structured `Organization` / `LocalBusiness` data on detail pages
- **Retries & rate limiting** — configurable retries, concurrency, and polite delays
- **Proxy-ready** — Apify Proxy support for production scraping
- **Graceful abort handling** — stops cleanly when the run is aborted or `maxResults` is reached

### Input

| Field | Type | Required | Default | Description |
|-------|------|----------|---------|-------------|
| `startUrls` | `object[]` | Yes | — | Directory listing or search result URLs |
| `maxResults` | `integer` | No | `100` | Max company records to extract |
| `followDetailPages` | `boolean` | No | `true` | Visit company profile pages for enrichment |
| `maxDetailPagesPerListing` | `integer` | No | `25` | Detail pages to enqueue per listing page |
| `maxRequestsPerCrawl` | `integer` | No | `200` | Total HTTP request budget |
| `minDelayMs` | `integer` | No | `1000` | Minimum delay between requests (ms) |
| `maxConcurrency` | `integer` | No | `10` | Parallel request limit |
| `maxRequestRetries` | `integer` | No | `3` | Retry count for failed requests |
| `proxyConfiguration` | `object` | No | Apify Proxy on | Proxy settings |

#### Example input

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.hotfrog.com/search/new-york-ny/restaurants" },
    { "url": "https://www.yellowpages.com/search?search_terms=plumber&geo_location_terms=Los+Angeles%2C+CA" }
  ],
  "maxResults": 50,
  "followDetailPages": true,
  "maxDetailPagesPerListing": 10,
  "maxRequestsPerCrawl": 100,
  "minDelayMs": 1500,
  "maxConcurrency": 5,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
````

See also: [`examples/input.json`](examples/input.json)

### Output

Each dataset item represents one company:

| Field | Type | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| `company` | `string` | Company or business name |
| `website` | `string` | Public website URL (if available) |
| `industry` | `string` | Category or industry |
| `city` | `string` | City |
| `country` | `string` | Country |
| `linkedin` | `string` | Public LinkedIn URL (if available) |
| `phone` | `string` | Public phone number (if available) |
| `sourceUrl` | `string` | Listing page where the company was found |
| `detailUrl` | `string` | Detail/profile page URL (if visited) |
| `scrapedAt` | `string` | ISO extraction timestamp |

#### Example output

```json
{
  "company": "Acme Plumbing Co.",
  "website": "https://www.acmeplumbing.example",
  "industry": "Plumbers",
  "city": "Los Angeles",
  "country": "US",
  "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/acme-plumbing",
  "phone": "(213) 555-0199",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.yellowpages.com/search?search_terms=plumber&geo_location_terms=Los+Angeles%2C+CA",
  "detailUrl": "https://www.yellowpages.com/los-angeles-ca/mip/acme-plumbing-123456",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-05T12:00:00.000Z"
}
```

See also: [`examples/output.json`](examples/output.json)

### How it works

1. **Listing extraction** — Each start URL is treated as a directory listing page. The Actor scans for business cards using semantic HTML, schema.org microdata, and common directory CSS patterns.
2. **Detail enrichment** — When key fields are missing and a detail link is found, the Actor enqueues the profile page and merges richer data (including JSON-LD).
3. **Pagination** — Next-page links are discovered and crawled until `maxResults` or `maxRequestsPerCrawl` is reached.
4. **Output** — Valid company records are pushed to the default dataset via `Actor.pushData()`.

### Pricing

Recommended Apify Store pricing: **$0.003 per result** using the synthetic `apify-default-dataset-item` pay-per-event model. Configure this in Apify Console under **Publication → Monetization**.

### Run locally

```bash
cd company-directory-extractor
npm install
apify run --purge
```

Set test input in `storage/key_value_stores/default/INPUT.json` or use the provided example.

### Deploy to Apify

```bash
apify login
apify push
```

After pushing, set monetization to **Pay per event** with `apify-default-dataset-item` priced at **$0.003**.

### Resources

- [Apify SDK for JavaScript](https://docs.apify.com/sdk/js)
- [Crawlee CheerioCrawler](https://crawlee.dev/docs/guides/cheerio-crawler-guide)
- [Pay per event monetization](https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/publishing/monetize/pay-per-event)

# Actor input Schema

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

Business directory listing or search result pages to scrape (e.g. Yelp search, Yellow Pages, Hotfrog, BBB, or generic directory pages).

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of company records to extract across all listing pages.

## `followDetailPages` (type: `boolean`):

When enabled, visits company detail/profile pages to enrich missing fields (website, phone, industry, location, LinkedIn).

## `maxDetailPagesPerListing` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of detail pages to enqueue from each listing page.

## `maxRequestsPerCrawl` (type: `integer`):

Maximum total HTTP requests (listing pages, pagination, and detail pages).

## `minDelayMs` (type: `integer`):

Minimum delay between requests for polite crawling and rate limiting.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of pages processed in parallel.

## `maxRequestRetries` (type: `integer`):

How many times to retry failed HTTP requests before giving up.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Apify Proxy settings. Recommended for production directory scraping.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.hotfrog.com/search/new-york-ny/restaurants"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.yellowpages.com/search?search_terms=plumber&geo_location_terms=Los+Angeles%2C+CA"
    }
  ],
  "maxResults": 100,
  "followDetailPages": true,
  "maxDetailPagesPerListing": 25,
  "maxRequestsPerCrawl": 200,
  "minDelayMs": 1000,
  "maxConcurrency": 10,
  "maxRequestRetries": 3,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# 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 '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "startUrls": [
        {
            "url": "https://www.hotfrog.com/search/new-york-ny/restaurants"
        },
        {
            "url": "https://www.yellowpages.com/search?search_terms=plumber&geo_location_terms=Los+Angeles%2C+CA"
        }
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("mighty_monk/company-directory-extractor").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 '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "startUrls": [
        { "url": "https://www.hotfrog.com/search/new-york-ny/restaurants" },
        { "url": "https://www.yellowpages.com/search?search_terms=plumber&geo_location_terms=Los+Angeles%2C+CA" },
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("mighty_monk/company-directory-extractor").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 '{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.hotfrog.com/search/new-york-ny/restaurants"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.yellowpages.com/search?search_terms=plumber&geo_location_terms=Los+Angeles%2C+CA"
    }
  ]
}' |
apify call mighty_monk/company-directory-extractor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=mighty_monk/company-directory-extractor",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
{
    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "Company Directory Extractor",
        "description": "Extract company listings from business directories (Yelp, Yellow Pages, Hotfrog, BBB, and generic directory pages). Returns company name, website, industry, city, country, LinkedIn, and phone using smart listing-card heuristics with optional detail-page enrichment.",
        "version": "1.0",
        "x-build-id": "9LEL81Oblcm6g9bIa"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
        "/acts/mighty_monk~company-directory-extractor/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-mighty_monk-company-directory-extractor",
                "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": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/mighty_monk~company-directory-extractor/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-mighty_monk-company-directory-extractor",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
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                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK",
                        "content": {
                            "application/json": {
                                "schema": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/mighty_monk~company-directory-extractor/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-mighty_monk-company-directory-extractor",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$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": [
                    "startUrls"
                ],
                "properties": {
                    "startUrls": {
                        "title": "Directory listing URLs",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "Business directory listing or search result pages to scrape (e.g. Yelp search, Yellow Pages, Hotfrog, BBB, or generic directory pages).",
                        "items": {
                            "type": "object",
                            "required": [
                                "url"
                            ],
                            "properties": {
                                "url": {
                                    "type": "string",
                                    "title": "URL of a web page",
                                    "format": "uri"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    },
                    "maxResults": {
                        "title": "Max companies",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 10000,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Maximum number of company records to extract across all listing pages.",
                        "default": 100
                    },
                    "followDetailPages": {
                        "title": "Follow detail pages",
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "description": "When enabled, visits company detail/profile pages to enrich missing fields (website, phone, industry, location, LinkedIn).",
                        "default": true
                    },
                    "maxDetailPagesPerListing": {
                        "title": "Max detail pages per listing",
                        "minimum": 0,
                        "maximum": 500,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Maximum number of detail pages to enqueue from each listing page.",
                        "default": 25
                    },
                    "maxRequestsPerCrawl": {
                        "title": "Max requests per crawl",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 100000,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Maximum total HTTP requests (listing pages, pagination, and detail pages).",
                        "default": 200
                    },
                    "minDelayMs": {
                        "title": "Minimum delay (ms)",
                        "minimum": 0,
                        "maximum": 60000,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Minimum delay between requests for polite crawling and rate limiting.",
                        "default": 1000
                    },
                    "maxConcurrency": {
                        "title": "Max concurrency",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 50,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Maximum number of pages processed in parallel.",
                        "default": 10
                    },
                    "maxRequestRetries": {
                        "title": "Max request retries",
                        "minimum": 0,
                        "maximum": 10,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "How many times to retry failed HTTP requests before giving up.",
                        "default": 3
                    },
                    "proxyConfiguration": {
                        "title": "Proxy configuration",
                        "type": "object",
                        "description": "Apify Proxy settings. Recommended for production directory scraping.",
                        "default": {
                            "useApifyProxy": true
                        }
                    }
                }
            },
            "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
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```