DNB (Dun & Bradstreet) Business Directory Scraper

Extract company information such as name, sales revenue, address, and URL from the DNB directory. Get an overview of the number of companies that can be scraped.

What does DNB Scraper do?

The Scraper serves a dual purpose:

• Extract the URLs of company websites within the selected industry and country.
• Obtain listing links and statistics for each state and city. This information is highly valuable, as DNB allows for scraping 1k companies from a single listing, and gathering data from lower sub-listings expands the number of companies you can scrape!

Why scrape DNB?

• Market Analysis: Leverage the acquired data to understand businesses' size, distribution, and growth in different industries or regions. This insight can be vital for robust market research.

• Sales and Marketing: Generate valuable B2B leads from this information. Knowledge about a company's size through sales revenue can be a game-changer in segmenting potential customers.

• Investment Research: Investors can utilize the extracted data to identify promising companies or industries.

• Competitive Analysis: This information can enable companies to better comprehend the size and market presence of their competitors.

• Academic Research: Scholars and researchers can find the acquired business data incredibly useful for various economic, sociological, or other researches.

How to scrape DNB

How I Scraped 760k Links to Companies from Dun & Bradstreet | A Guide

How much will it cost to scrape DNB?

Apify gives you $5 free usage credits every month on the Apify Free plan. You can get up to 10,000 results per month from DNB Scraper for that, so those 10,000 results will be completely free!

But if you need to get more data regularly from DNB, you should consider an Apify subscription. We recommend our $49/month Starter plan - you can get up to 100,000 every month with the $49 monthly plan!

Or get 1,000,000 results for $499 with the Scale plan - wow!

Results

Here is a sample of the data that the actor produces:

COMPANY_LISTING

1{
2    "url": "https://www.dnb.com/business-directory/company-profiles.bidvest_services_(pty)_ltd.cac6d73a533874520f925bb2259c9a87.html",
3    "page": 1,
4    "type": "COMPANY_LISTING",
5    "companyName": "BIDVEST SERVICES (PTY) LTD",
6    "salesRevenue": "$6,345.4M",
7    "address": "Johannesburg, Gauteng South Africa"
8}

COUNTRY/STATE/CITY

1{
2    "type": "COUNTRY",
3    "country": "Laos",
4    "url": "https://www.dnb.com/business-directory/company-information.manufacturing.la.html",
5    "count": 3,
6    "availableCount": 3
7}

Is it legal to scrape DNB?

Note that personal data is protected by GDPR in the European Union and by other regulations around the world. You should not scrape personal data unless you have a legitimate reason to do so. If you're unsure whether your reason is legitimate, consult your lawyers. We also recommend that you read our blog post: is web scraping legal?.

Contact

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