# Film & TV Production Company Scraper — KFTV (149 Countries) (`mochiboo/film-tv-production-directory-scraper`) Actor Build targeted lists of film & TV production companies worldwide — 59,000+ firms across 149 countries from KFTV. Filter by country and service: studios, equipment rental, post-production, VFX, SFX. Company-level, no personal data. - **URL**: https://apify.com/mochiboo/film-tv-production-directory-scraper.md - **Developed by:** [mochi](https://apify.com/mochiboo) (community) - **Categories:** Lead generation, Business - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, NaN bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing from $4.00 / 1,000 results 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? 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 ## Film & TV Production Directory Scraper — companies by country & service category **Get clean, structured data on film, TV & commercial production-services companies worldwide** — production companies, equipment rental, studios & stages, post-production, SFX/props/wardrobe, locations, broadcasting facilities and more. Filter by **country** and **service category**, export to JSON or CSV, ready for your CRM, spreadsheet, or LLM pipeline. **Company-level B2B data only — no personal/crew data.** Built for anyone who sells **to** productions (equipment rental, set & location services, post houses, insurers, software), plus location scouts, studios, and market researchers mapping the global production landscape. --- ### Why this actor This data is sold as expensive static lists elsewhere (film-production company databases run from hundreds to thousands of dollars, often stale). There is **no on-demand, country × category-filtered production-services directory feed** on the market — this actor is that: fresh, filterable, de-duplicated, and pay-per-result so you only pay for the companies you actually pull. | | This actor | Static list vendors | |---|---|---| | Filter by country **and** service category | ✅ Yes | ⚠️ Pre-cut lists only | | Freshness | ✅ On-demand, live | ❌ Often months/years old | | Company-level only (PDPA/GDPR-friendly) | ✅ By design | ⚠️ Often bundled with personal contacts | | Output | JSON + CSV, CRM/LLM-ready | CSV dump | | Pricing | Pay-per-result | Flat hundreds–thousands | --- ### What you get per company Company-level fields only: - **Company:** name, service section (e.g. *Production Companies & Services*, *Production Equipment Rental*), specific category (e.g. *Commercials Production Companies*, *Film, Commercials & TV Studios & Stages*) - **Location:** country, city, county, full address, postcode - **Contact (company-level):** website, generic business email (e.g. `info@…` — personal/named emails are filtered out), phone, fax - **Socials:** LinkedIn (company), Facebook, Twitter/X, Instagram - **Profile:** year established, listing package type, source profile URL, scrape timestamp > **No personal data.** This actor returns only company/organization-level information. It does **not** scrape the directory's separate crew (individual people) section, never emits individual names, and drops any email whose local-part looks like a person's name or initials — only explicit role mailboxes (`info@`, `sales@`, `bookings@`, …) are kept. --- ### Input | Field | Type | What it does | |---|---|---| | `countries` | list | One or more countries — friendly names auto-resolve (`uk`, `usa`/`united-states`, `uae`, `netherlands`, `south-korea`, or plain `germany`, `france`, `canada`, `india`…). Empty = all. | | `sections` | multi-select | Service sections to include (Production Companies, Equipment Rental, Studios & Stages, Post-Production, SFX/Props/Wardrobe, Locations, Broadcasting, …). Empty = all company sections. The crew/person section is always excluded. | | `categoryKeywords` | list | Optional free-text terms matched against category/section/name (e.g. `camera`, `studio`, `drone`, `post`). | | `maxResults` | integer | Cap the run (use a small number for a cheap test). `0` = no limit. | | `profileUrls` | list | Advanced: scrape specific company profile URLs directly. | #### Example input ```json { "countries": ["uk", "usa"], "sections": ["production-equipment-rental", "stages-studios-sets"], "maxResults": 500 } ```` #### Example output (one record) ```json { "name": "Passion Pictures Ltd", "section": "Production Companies & Services", "category": "Production Companies", "country": "UK", "city": "London", "address": "County House, 33-34 Rathbone Place, W1T 1JN", "postcode": "W1T 1JN", "phone": "020 7323 9933", "email": "info@passion-pictures.com", "website": "https://www.passion-london.com", "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/passion-pictures", "yearEstablished": 1987, "url": "https://www.screenglobalproduction.com/country/uk/profile/passion-pictures-ltd", "source": "screenglobalproduction.com", "scrapedAt": "2026-05-24T01:40:33.766Z" } ``` *** ### Common use cases - **Sell to productions:** build a target list of production companies / studios / rental houses by country and service type, then enrich with their website + company contact. - **Location & studio research:** find production-service companies in a target shooting region. - **Market mapping:** size and segment the production-services landscape across countries. - **CRM / LLM ingestion:** clean JSON/CSV drops straight into HubSpot, Salesforce, Airtable, or a RAG pipeline. *** ### How it works (and how it stays compliant) - Reads **public, non-login** company profile pages and enumerates them from the site's public sitemap — results served **on demand** for your run. - **Honours `robots.txt` at runtime** (the source disallows `/auth/login`, `/account/profile`, `/search`, `/newsletter`, `/thank-you` — the actor never touches those). - Polite, rate-limited requests with an identifying User-Agent. - **Company-level fields only**; the crew/person section is excluded and personal-looking emails are dropped — to keep your use PDPA/GDPR-friendly. - You are responsible for using the extracted data in compliance with the source's terms and applicable law in your jurisdiction. This actor accesses publicly available, non-personal business information. *** ### Pricing Pay-per-result — you only pay for the companies you actually get. Run a small `maxResults` first to preview before scaling up. *** ### Related actors (film & TV production data) Building a full picture of where to shoot and who to hire? Pair this with: - **[Film Commission & Tax Incentive Scraper (AFCI)](https://apify.com/mochiboo/film-commission-directory-scraper)** — film commissions, film offices and production tax-incentive programs worldwide. Find the most film-friendly locations and rebates, then use *this* actor to find the production companies and vendors there. **Found this useful? An honest review on the Apify store helps other people find it.** *** *Keywords: film production companies directory, TV production services scraper, production company database, equipment rental directory, film studio list, post-production companies, location services directory, KFTV scraper, Screen Global Production data, film industry B2B leads, production services by country, commercial production companies.* # Actor input Schema ## `countries` (type: `array`): One or more countries. Leave empty for ALL countries. Friendly names auto-resolve — e.g. "uk"/"united-kingdom", "usa"/"united-states"/"us", "uae", "netherlands", "south-korea", or plain names like "germany", "france", "canada", "india", "australia", "south-africa", "spain". ## `sections` (type: `array`): One or more production-service sections to include. Leave empty for ALL (company sections; the crew/person section is always excluded). ## `categoryKeywords` (type: `array`): Optional free-text terms matched against a company's category, section, or name (e.g. "camera", "lighting", "studio", "post", "drone"). Use to narrow within sections. ## `maxResults` (type: `integer`): Stop after this many companies. Use a small number for a cheap test run. 0 = no limit. ## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`): Maximum parallel requests. Kept low by default to be polite to the source site. ## `profileUrls` (type: `array`): Optional. Scrape specific company profile URLs directly (overrides the country/section filters). Each item: { "url": "https://www.screenglobalproduction.com/country/uk/profile/" }. ## Actor input object example ```json { "countries": [], "sections": [], "categoryKeywords": [], "maxResults": 100, "maxConcurrency": 5, "profileUrls": [] } ``` # 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 = {}; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("mochiboo/film-tv-production-directory-scraper").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 = {} # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("mochiboo/film-tv-production-directory-scraper").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 '{}' | apify call mochiboo/film-tv-production-directory-scraper --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=mochiboo/film-tv-production-directory-scraper", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "Film & TV Production Company Scraper — KFTV (149 Countries)", "description": "Build targeted lists of film & TV production companies worldwide — 59,000+ firms across 149 countries from KFTV. Filter by country and service: studios, equipment rental, post-production, VFX, SFX. Company-level, no personal data.", "version": "1.0", "x-build-id": "cj2q1graihoeah62E" }, "servers": [ { "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2" } ], "paths": { "/acts/mochiboo~film-tv-production-directory-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-mochiboo-film-tv-production-directory-scraper", "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": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } }, "/acts/mochiboo~film-tv-production-directory-scraper/runs": { "post": { "operationId": "runs-sync-mochiboo-film-tv-production-directory-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$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": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema" } } } } } } }, "/acts/mochiboo~film-tv-production-directory-scraper/run-sync": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-mochiboo-film-tv-production-directory-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$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", "properties": { "countries": { "title": "Countries", "type": "array", "description": "One or more countries. Leave empty for ALL countries. Friendly names auto-resolve — e.g. \"uk\"/\"united-kingdom\", \"usa\"/\"united-states\"/\"us\", \"uae\", \"netherlands\", \"south-korea\", or plain names like \"germany\", \"france\", \"canada\", \"india\", \"australia\", \"south-africa\", \"spain\".", "default": [], "items": { "type": "string" } }, "sections": { "title": "Service sections (company type)", "type": "array", "description": "One or more production-service sections to include. Leave empty for ALL (company sections; the crew/person section is always excluded).", "items": { "type": "string", "enum": [ "production-companies-services", "production-equipment-rental", "production-equipment-manufacture-sale", "post-production-sound-multimedia", "locations-location-services", "stages-studios-sets", "sfx-props-wardrobe", "crew-hire-and-support-services", "broadcasting-facilities-services" ], "enumTitles": [ "Production Companies & Services", "Production Equipment Rental", "Production Equipment Manufacture & Sale", "Post-Production, Sound & Multimedia", "Locations & Location Services", "Stages, Studios & Sets", "SFX, Props & Wardrobe", "Crew Hire & Support Services", "Broadcasting Facilities & Services" ] }, "default": [] }, "categoryKeywords": { "title": "Category keywords (optional free-text)", "type": "array", "description": "Optional free-text terms matched against a company's category, section, or name (e.g. \"camera\", \"lighting\", \"studio\", \"post\", \"drone\"). Use to narrow within sections.", "default": [], "items": { "type": "string" } }, "maxResults": { "title": "Max results", "minimum": 0, "maximum": 60000, "type": "integer", "description": "Stop after this many companies. Use a small number for a cheap test run. 0 = no limit.", "default": 100 }, "maxConcurrency": { "title": "Advanced: max concurrency", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 15, "type": "integer", "description": "Maximum parallel requests. Kept low by default to be polite to the source site.", "default": 5 }, "profileUrls": { "title": "Advanced: specific profile URLs", "type": "array", "description": "Optional. Scrape specific company profile URLs directly (overrides the country/section filters). Each item: { \"url\": \"https://www.screenglobalproduction.com/country/uk/profile/\" }.", "default": [], "items": { "type": "object", "required": [ "url" ], "properties": { "url": { "type": "string", "title": "URL of a web page", "format": "uri" } } } } } }, "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 } } } } } } } } } } ```