# Industry Association Directory Scraper (`moving_beacon-owner1/industry-association-directory-scraper`) Actor

Scrapes member directories from industry associations and chambers of commerce. Automatically detects GrowthZone/ChamberMaster directories or uses generic CSS/XPath selectors, extracting business names, contact details, addresses, websites, and profile URLs.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/moving\_beacon-owner1/industry-association-directory-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Jamshaid Arif](https://apify.com/moving_beacon-owner1) (community)
- **Categories:** Automation, Lead generation, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $9.99 / 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?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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Actors are written with capital "A".

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

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# README

## Industry Association Directory Scraper

Scrapes member directories of industry associations and chambers of commerce. It auto-detects **GrowthZone/ChamberMaster** directories (the `<site>/list/` pattern with `/list/searchalpha/<letter>` pages and `/list/member/<slug>` profiles) and extracts members letter by letter; for any other directory it falls back to a **generic mode** driven by optional CSS/XPath selectors with automatic phone/email/address heuristics.

### Input

| Field | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `directory_url` | `https://members.oaklandchamber.com/list` | Directory listing URL |
| `mode` | `auto` | `auto`, `growthzone`, or `generic` |
| `selectors` | `{}` | Generic mode: `{item, name, link, phone, email, address, website, next_page}` — CSS or XPath |
| `fetch_profiles` | `false` | GrowthZone: fetch each member profile for website/phone/contact/categories |
| `max_pages` | `5` | A-Z letter pages (growthzone, 26 = all) or pagination depth (generic) |
| `limit` | `100` | Max member records |

### Output

```json
{
    "name": "Bay Area Bin Support",
    "phone": "8889202467",
    "email": null,
    "address": "754 Whitney Street, San Leandro, CA, 94577",
    "city": "San Leandro",
    "website": "http://www.bayareabinsupport.com",
    "profile_url": "https://members.oaklandchamber.com/list/member/bay-area-bin-support-50095",
    "source_page": "https://members.oaklandchamber.com/list/searchalpha/b"
}
```

With `fetch_profiles` on, GrowthZone records may add `contact_name`, `contact_title` and `categories`.

# Actor input Schema

## `directory_url` (type: `string`):

Member directory URL. For GrowthZone/ChamberMaster chambers this is the <site>/list URL; any other paginated directory works in generic mode.

## `mode` (type: `string`):

auto probes the URL and picks growthzone (ChamberMaster/GrowthZone /list directories) or generic (selector-based crawling).

## `selectors` (type: `object`):

Optional CSS or XPath selectors for generic mode: {"item": "div.member-card", "name": ".//h3", "link": ".//a", "phone": "a\[href^='tel:']", "email": "a\[href^='mailto:']", "address": ".address", "website": ".website a", "next\_page": "a.next"}. Strings starting with / or containing // are treated as XPath, everything else as CSS. All keys optional — sensible heuristics fill the gaps.

## `fetch_profiles` (type: `boolean`):

GrowthZone mode only: also fetch each member's profile page to fill in website, phone, contact person and categories (one extra request per member).

## `max_pages` (type: `integer`):

Listing pages to crawl. GrowthZone mode: number of A-Z letter pages (set 26 for the full alphabet). Generic mode: pagination depth.

## `limit` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many member records.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "directory_url": "https://members.oaklandchamber.com/list",
  "mode": "auto",
  "selectors": {},
  "fetch_profiles": false,
  "max_pages": 5,
  "limit": 100
}
```

# 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 = {
    "directory_url": "https://members.oaklandchamber.com/list",
    "mode": "auto",
    "selectors": {},
    "fetch_profiles": false,
    "max_pages": 5,
    "limit": 100
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("moving_beacon-owner1/industry-association-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 '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "directory_url": "https://members.oaklandchamber.com/list",
    "mode": "auto",
    "selectors": {},
    "fetch_profiles": False,
    "max_pages": 5,
    "limit": 100,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("moving_beacon-owner1/industry-association-directory-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "directory_url": "https://members.oaklandchamber.com/list",
  "mode": "auto",
  "selectors": {},
  "fetch_profiles": false,
  "max_pages": 5,
  "limit": 100
}' |
apify call moving_beacon-owner1/industry-association-directory-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,moving_beacon-owner1/industry-association-directory-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/bOZHdCFPo1BucCLPb/builds/SVcGlYfXSgjmdPabb/openapi.json