# Trade Show Exhibitor Scraper (`moving_beacon-owner1/trade-show-exhibitor-scraper`) Actor

Scrapes trade show and exhibitor data from 10times.com, with keyword, city, and country filtering. Also supports public exhibitor lists and direct searches of Algolia-backed expo websites, returning event, company, booth, location, and website details.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/moving\_beacon-owner1/trade-show-exhibitor-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Jamshaid Arif](https://apify.com/moving_beacon-owner1) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools, Automation, Lead generation
- **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/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#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".

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- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Trade Show Exhibitor Scraper

Scrapes trade show data from **10times.com**: search upcoming events by keyword (with optional city/country filtering), or pull the public exhibitor list of a specific event (company, booth number, location, website). A third mode queries any **Algolia-backed expo site** (e.g. NuernbergMesse sites like euroguss.de) directly through the Algolia Search API using the site's public client-side credentials.

### Input

| Field | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `mode` | `event_search` | `event_search`, `exhibitors`, or `algolia` |
| `query` | `electronics` | Keyword for event search / Algolia query |
| `event_url` | `https://10times.com/himtex` | 10times event page (exhibitors mode) |
| `location_filter` | `""` | Substring filter on venue/exhibitor location |
| `algolia` | `{}` | `{app_id, api_key, index_name, filters, base_url}` from the site's Algolia XHR calls |
| `max_pages` | `3` | Listing pages to fetch (30-40 records/page) |
| `limit` | `100` | Max records |

### Output (exhibitors mode)

```json
{
    "type": "exhibitor",
    "company_name": "Zoller India Pvt Ltd",
    "booth": "2C30",
    "city": "Ann Arbor",
    "country": "USA",
    "website": "https://www.solutions.zoller.info",
    "event_name": "himtex",
    "event_url": "https://10times.com/himtex",
    "source_page": "https://10times.com/himtex/exhibitors?page=1"
}
```

Event records carry `name`, `start_date`, `end_date`, `city`, `country`, `url`, `event_type`, `categories`, `followers`. Algolia records include the full original hit under `raw`.

# Actor input Schema

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

event\_search: search 10times.com events by keyword. exhibitors: scrape the exhibitor list of one 10times event (needs event\_url). algolia: generic Algolia-backed expo site (needs the algolia object).

## `query` (type: `string`):

Keyword for 10times event search (mode=event\_search) or the Algolia query string (mode=algolia). Empty = all upcoming events.

## `event_url` (type: `string`):

10times event page URL, e.g. https://10times.com/himtex — its public exhibitor list is scraped when mode=exhibitors.

## `location_filter` (type: `string`):

Optional case-insensitive substring matched against the event venue or exhibitor location, e.g. 'India' or 'Las Vegas'. Empty = no filter.

## `algolia` (type: `object`):

For mode=algolia: {"app\_id": "4EB6G0V1NT", "api\_key": "<public search key>", "index\_name": "prod\_website\_companies\_en", "filters": "site:guss", "base\_url": "https://www.euroguss.de"}. Take app\_id/api\_key/index from the site's Algolia XHR calls in browser devtools (these are public client-side search keys).

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

Maximum listing pages to fetch (10times serves 30-40 records per page).

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

Stop after this many records.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "event_search",
  "query": "electronics",
  "event_url": "https://10times.com/himtex",
  "location_filter": "",
  "algolia": {},
  "max_pages": 3,
  "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 = {
    "mode": "event_search",
    "query": "electronics",
    "event_url": "https://10times.com/himtex",
    "location_filter": "",
    "algolia": {},
    "max_pages": 3,
    "limit": 100
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("moving_beacon-owner1/trade-show-exhibitor-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 = {
    "mode": "event_search",
    "query": "electronics",
    "event_url": "https://10times.com/himtex",
    "location_filter": "",
    "algolia": {},
    "max_pages": 3,
    "limit": 100,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("moving_beacon-owner1/trade-show-exhibitor-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 '{
  "mode": "event_search",
  "query": "electronics",
  "event_url": "https://10times.com/himtex",
  "location_filter": "",
  "algolia": {},
  "max_pages": 3,
  "limit": 100
}' |
apify call moving_beacon-owner1/trade-show-exhibitor-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,moving_beacon-owner1/trade-show-exhibitor-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/QI6aaiwz5IBcjVuEL/builds/PNydetiUBKoHT8xW5/openapi.json