Yellow Pages Australia Scraper — Business Leads

Yellow Pages Australia Scraper — Business Leads & Reviews

Status (2026-11-04): the site serves listing pages to the Actor again, and search mode has been repaired. Until this fix, a keyword + location search used an outdated search URL that the site answered with a default nationwide listing of data-processing businesses instead of the requested businesses; the search now goes through the site's own search endpoint and returns the requested term in the requested location. Category URLs and profile URLs were not affected.

Extract Australian business listings from yellowpages.com.au at scale. Get business name, phone, address, website, email, hours, services, categories, ratings, review counts, social links, ABN registration, claimed status, years in business, and optional customer reviews — all in clean, CRM-ready structured JSON.

Search by keyword + location, paste category URLs, or pull individual business profiles. Mix all three input modes in a single run. Optimized for B2B lead generation, local-SEO analysis, market research, and AI-agent pipelines.

What it does

• Search mode: provide searchTerms + locations (cross-joined) — e.g. ["plumber", "electrician"] × ["Sydney, NSW", "Melbourne, VIC"] = 4 searches
• URL mode: paste yellowpages.com.au search URLs, location-category pages (/sydney-nsw-2000/plumbers-gas-fitters), national category pages (/australia/plumbers), or individual business profiles
• Multi-input: combine search terms and direct URLs in one run
• Pagination: crawls up to maxPagesPerSearch result pages per search
• Detail enrichment: visits each business profile page for the full field set (email, hours, services, socials, ABN, trust signals)
• Reviews: optional per-business customer reviews (newest-first, capped via maxReviewsPerBusiness)
• Sort: by relevance (default), distance, alpha, or rating

Use cases

• Build targeted B2B prospect lists by category and suburb/postcode for outbound sales in Australia
• Pull every business in a category or metro for market coverage and competitor mapping
• Filter for unverified/owner-unclaimed listings to identify outreach opportunities
• Identify ABN-registered businesses for compliance and verification workflows
• Enrich existing CRM data with verified phone, website, structured address, hours, socials
• Extract customer reviews for sentiment analysis, quality benchmarking, reputation research
• Map local business density and compare market-level metrics (ratings, review volume, years in business)
• Seed RAG/LLM corpora with structured Australian local-business records

Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
searchTerms	string[]	no	["plumber"]	Keywords/categories — cross-joined with locations
locations	string[]	no	["Sydney, NSW"]	AU locations in "City, ST" or "Suburb POSTCODE" format
startUrls	array	no	[]	Direct yellowpages.com.au URLs (search, category, or profile)
sortBy	enum	no	default	default/distance/alpha/rating
includeReviews	boolean	no	false	Embed customer reviews per business
maxReviewsPerBusiness	integer	no	30	Cap on reviews per business (0 = all, hard cap ~2000)
maxResults	integer	no	100	Hard cap on total business rows (0 = unlimited, internal cap 100k)
maxPagesPerSearch	integer	no	5	Max result pages per search/URL

Output

One record per business in the dataset:

Field	Type	Example
name	string	"Acme Plumbing"
phone	string|null	"(02) 9876 5432"
email	string|null	"info@acme.com.au"
website	string|null	"https://acme.com.au"
address	object	{street, city, state, postalCode, country}
addressFormatted	string	"123 Main St, Sydney, NSW 2000"
coordinates	object|null	{lat, lng}
categories	string[]	["Plumbers","Gas Fitters"]
primaryCategory	string|null	"Plumbers"
services	string[]	["Drain cleaning","Hot water repair"]
paymentMethods	string[]	["Visa","Mastercard"]
hours	object|null	{mon:"8:00-17:00",...}
rating	number|null	4.5
reviewCount	number|null	128
reviews	array|null	[{author,rating,date,text}] (when includeReviews=true)
socialLinks	object	{facebook,instagram,linkedin,twitter,youtube}
logo	string|null	url
photos	string[]	[url,...]
claimed	boolean	true
abnRegistered	boolean|null	true
yearsInBusiness	number|null	12
description	string|null	"Family-owned plumbing services since..."
tagline	string|null	"Your trusted local plumber"
isAd	boolean	false
yellowPagesId	string	"12345678"
profileUrl	string	https://www.yellowpages.com.au/.../acme-12345678
sourceUrl	string	URL crawled
searchTerm	string	"plumber"
searchLocation	string	"Sydney, NSW"
scrapedAt	string	ISO 8601 timestamp

Pricing

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing. Current Apify Store prices, verified against the live Actor on 2026-10-27:

Event	Free	Bronze	Silver	Gold / Platinum / Diamond	When it is charged
result	$0.005001	$0.004875	$0.004750	$0.004000	One validated Yellow Pages Australia business record is stored in the dataset.
apify-actor-start	$0.011256	$0.010974	$0.010693	$0.009004	One event per GB of Actor memory, with at least one event per run.

Apify platform usage for this Actor run is included alongside the event prices above; no separate per-run platform-usage fee is passed to users.

This covers Apify platform usage for this Actor run. Other Apify products or usage outside this Actor run may still follow your account plan.

Access route and run status

Requests use an Australia-targeted residential access route that the Actor manages. Proxy settings are not part of the public input.

Every run writes a SUMMARY record to the default key-value store with status (SUCCEEDED, EMPTY, BLOCKED or FAILED), stopReason, delivered, chargedResultEvents, duplicatesSkipped, blockedRequests and failedRequests. When the site refuses access to every requested page, the run stops after two refused requests and ends FAILED with no result charges.

Quick start

# Install Apify CLI
npm install -g apify-cli

# Clone and deploy
cd yellow-pages-au-scraper
npm install
apify login
apify push -f -w 120

API usage

# Run via API
curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/USERNAME~yellow-pages-au-scraper/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"searchTerms":["dentist"],"locations":["Melbourne, VIC"],"maxResults":50}'

// Node.js / Apify SDK
import { Actor } from 'apify';

const run = await Actor.call('USERNAME/yellow-pages-au-scraper', {
    searchTerms: ['dentist'],
    locations: ['Melbourne, VIC'],
    maxResults: 50,
    includeReviews: true,
    maxReviewsPerBusiness: 10,
});

const { items } = await Actor.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

Tips

• Start small: set maxResults: 10 to verify data quality before scaling
• Reviews are slow: enabling includeReviews roughly doubles runtime and cost — use only when needed
• Large coverage: split a big request across multiple suburbs/postcodes — a single search typically caps at ~1,000–2,000 results
• Sort by rating: set sortBy: "rating" to surface top-rated businesses first
• Cross-join math: 2 terms × 3 locations = 6 searches; results are merged and deduplicated by Yellow Pages listing ID (or profile URL), and a duplicate is never charged twice
• ABN filtering: use abnRegistered to identify registered Australian businesses for compliance workflows

Limitations

• Yellow Pages AU itself caps results at roughly 50 pages per search term + location pair
• Reviews are capped at ~2,000 per business by Yellow Pages
• Email is only available when present on the business profile page (many YP AU listings do not show email)
• ABN detection is best-effort — abnRegistered is null when no ABN reference is found on the profile page

Export & integrations

Export scraped data to JSON, CSV, or Excel from the Apify Console. Use webhooks or the Apify API to push results to HubSpot, Salesforce, Google Sheets, Airtable, or any HTTP endpoint. Schedule runs via the Apify Scheduler for ongoing monitoring.

FAQ

Does the Yellow Pages Australia Scraper work right now? Yes. The site serves listing pages to the Actor again and search mode was repaired on 2026-11-04. If the site ever refuses access, the run ends FAILED with a clear status message, a SUMMARY record and no result charges.

Am I charged when the site blocks a run? No result events are charged for a blocked run. The platform's Actor-start event (about one cent on the Free tier at 1 GB memory) still applies.

What does one result cost? One result event per saved business, from $0.004 to $0.005001 depending on your Apify plan tier. See the pricing table above.

Are duplicate businesses charged twice? No. Records are deduplicated by Yellow Pages listing ID (or profile URL) before saving, and only saved records are charged.

How do I know why a run stopped? Read the run's status message or the SUMMARY record in the default key-value store. It shows the status, stop reason, delivered count and charged result events.

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Last verified: 2026-11-04