# Yellow Pages Business Listings Scraper (`neuro-scraper/yellow-pages-business-listings-scraper`) Actor

Yellow Pages Business Listings Scraper SD - Yellow Pages Business Listings Scraper is a local business data tool that extracts listings from Yellow Pages US, Canada and UAE: name, phone, website, address, categories, rating, reviews, hours, years in business and profile URL.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/neuro-scraper/yellow-pages-business-listings-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Neuro Scraper](https://apify.com/neuro-scraper) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.49 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
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.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

./README.md

# Actor input Schema

## `searchTerms` (type: `array`):

What to look for, one per line, e.g. plumber, pizza, dentist. Each term is searched in every location. For the UAE site this is the category name (plumbing -> /uae/plumbing).

## `locations` (type: `array`):

Where to search, one per line: 'City, ST' or a ZIP for the US (Austin, TX / 90210), 'City PR' for Canada (Toronto ON). Required for US searches. For the UAE site an emirate/city (Dubai, Abu Dhabi) filters the category's listings by city.

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

Result pages copied from the browser, e.g. https://www.yellowpages.com/search?search_terms=dentist\&geo_location_terms=Miami%2C+FL, https://www.yellowpages.com/los-angeles-ca/plumbers, a business page https://www.yellowpages.com/austin-tx/mip/<name>-<id>, https://www.yellowpages.ca/search/si/1/plumber/Toronto+ON or https://www.yellowpages-uae.com/uae/plumbing.

## `country` (type: `string`):

Which Yellow Pages the search terms are run on. URLs always use their own site.

## `language` (type: `string`):

Canada searches only: yellowpages.ca (English) or pagesjaunes.ca (French).

## `sortBy` (type: `string`):

US searches: Yellow Pages' own sort menu (checked against the page's menu on every run).

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Total businesses to return across all searches. The Actor follows Yellow Pages' result pages (US 30, UAE 20 per page) until this number or the last page.

## `maxPages` (type: `integer`):

Stop each search after this many result pages (0 = no page limit; Max items still applies). Yellow Pages US shows about 100 pages (~3,000 listings) per search - split big searches by city or ZIP.

## `scrapeDetails` (type: `boolean`):

US listings: also open each business page for GPS coordinates, opening hours, description, services, payment methods, year established, languages, social links, photos and the full 'More Info' section. One extra request per business.

## `includeReviews` (type: `boolean`):

US listings: add the business's reviews (author, date, rating, text, source) from its profile page, paging 10 reviews at a time up to Max reviews per business. Opens the profile page like the option above.

## `maxReviews` (type: `integer`):

With 'Include review text': reviews per business (10 per review page).

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

How many business profiles are opened at the same time (each on its own proxy session).

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

RESIDENTIAL is recommended: yellowpages.com (Cloudflare) and yellowpages.ca (CloudFront) block datacenter and foreign IPs. When the country is left at US, Canada and UAE searches switch the exit to CA / AE automatically.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchTerms": [
    "plumber"
  ],
  "locations": [
    "Austin, TX"
  ],
  "country": "US",
  "language": "en",
  "sortBy": "default",
  "maxItems": 50,
  "maxPages": 0,
  "scrapeDetails": false,
  "includeReviews": false,
  "maxReviews": 20,
  "maxConcurrency": 3,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
  }
}
```

# 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 = {
    "searchTerms": [
        "plumber"
    ],
    "locations": [
        "Austin, TX"
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ],
        "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("neuro-scraper/yellow-pages-business-listings-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 = {
    "searchTerms": ["plumber"],
    "locations": ["Austin, TX"],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
        "apifyProxyCountry": "US",
    },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("neuro-scraper/yellow-pages-business-listings-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 '{
  "searchTerms": [
    "plumber"
  ],
  "locations": [
    "Austin, TX"
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
  }
}' |
apify call neuro-scraper/yellow-pages-business-listings-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,neuro-scraper/yellow-pages-business-listings-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/KhwSMIA5E87B4x5L7/builds/NauDmjRAGo0blzHBb/openapi.json