# Mexico Industrial Business Search (`neurolab_works/mexico-industrial-business-search`) Actor

Find filtered Mexican businesses using official INEGI/DENUE data with SCIAN-based industry targeting, deduplication, normalized fields, public contact data when available, and freshness metadata.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/neurolab\_works/mexico-industrial-business-search.md
- **Developed by:** [Neuro Lab](https://apify.com/neurolab_works) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$15.00 / 1,000 business 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

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

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# README

## Mexico Industrial Business Search

**Disclaimer:** This is an independent, unofficial tool and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by INEGI. Data is obtained from the official DENUE source.

**What it does:** Queries INEGI's official DENUE business registry live, filters results to real matches for an industrial vertical (industrial safety/PPE or industrial packaging) in a specific Mexican state, deduplicates branches into one record per company, and returns a normalized, scored result set.

**Who it's for:** Sales and market-research teams selling into Mexico's industrial sector -- EPP/safety equipment distributors, industrial packaging suppliers, or anyone doing B2B lead qualification in these two verticals.

**Data source:** INEGI's DENUE (Directorio Estadístico Nacional de Unidades Económicas) -- Mexico's official government business registry, queried live on every run (no cached/sample data is ever served).

**What makes it useful:**

- Filtered by real industry-activity text, not a raw keyword dump -- retail, restaurants, and other non-industrial matches are excluded before you see them.
- Deduplicated: multiple branches of the same company are merged into one result with an establishment count, not returned as separate records.
- Each result includes a `commercial_fit` rating and the specific reason it matched.
- Public contact info (email/phone/website) included when it's in the official registry.

**Important -- what `commercial_fit` means:** `commercial_fit` is a **deterministic relevance classification** computed by matching the business's registered DENUE activity text against the requested vertical's keyword rules (see `fit_reasons` on each record for the exact match). It is **not confirmed buying intent** and does not imply the business is looking to purchase anything -- it only measures how closely the business's registered activity matches your target industry vertical.

### Input example

```json
{
  "vertical": "epp_seguridad_industrial",
  "state": "Jalisco",
  "limit": 10,
  "deduplicate": true
}
```

### Output example

```json
{
  "business_name": "PROCESADORA METALICA",
  "activity": "Fabricacion de productos metalicos",
  "state": "Jalisco",
  "municipality": "Guadalajara",
  "commercial_fit": "HIGH",
  "fit_reasons": ["core activity match: fabricacion"],
  "commercial_signals": ["INDUSTRIAL_ACTIVITY_MATCH"],
  "establishments_detected": 1,
  "email": null,
  "website": null,
  "phone": null,
  "source": "INEGI/DENUE",
  "freshness": "Live INEGI/DENUE query, no cache on Apify (each run fetches fresh data)."
}
```

### Pricing

Pay-per-event: **$0.015 USD per `business_result`** delivered. You are only charged for deduplicated, filtered records actually returned to your dataset -- never for the run itself, and never for a failed or empty run.

### Data freshness

Every run queries the live DENUE API directly -- there is no caching layer on Apify's side, so results reflect DENUE's current registry at the moment you run the Actor.

### Limitations

- Covers two industrial verticals only (industrial safety/PPE, industrial packaging) -- not a general business directory.
- Requires a specific Mexican state as input; a single national (all-states) search is not supported due to a confirmed bug in DENUE's own live API with that parameter.
- Public contact fields (email/website/phone) are only as complete as INEGI's own registry -- many businesses have none on file.
- `commercial_fit` reflects registered activity text matching only, not verified purchase intent or current operational status.

### Contact/support

Built and maintained by NeuroLab Works. For issues or questions, use the Actor's Issues tab on Apify Console.

# Actor input Schema

## `vertical` (type: `string`):

Which industry vertical to search. Only the two already-validated verticals are supported in this version.

## `state` (type: `string`):

State name, e.g. 'Nuevo Leon', 'Jalisco', 'Ciudad de Mexico'. National search (all states at once) is not supported -- DENUE's own API has a confirmed bug with that parameter.

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

Maximum number of deduplicated company records to return (and be charged for).

## `deduplicate` (type: `boolean`):

When true, multiple branch locations of the same company are merged into one result with an establishment count instead of returned as separate records.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "vertical": "epp_seguridad_industrial",
  "state": "Jalisco",
  "limit": 10,
  "deduplicate": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `businessResults` (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 = {
    "vertical": "epp_seguridad_industrial",
    "state": "Jalisco"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("neurolab_works/mexico-industrial-business-search").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 = {
    "vertical": "epp_seguridad_industrial",
    "state": "Jalisco",
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("neurolab_works/mexico-industrial-business-search").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 '{
  "vertical": "epp_seguridad_industrial",
  "state": "Jalisco"
}' |
apify call neurolab_works/mexico-industrial-business-search --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,neurolab_works/mexico-industrial-business-search"
        }
    }
}

```

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/gcZTPt8mXAe4kGfjK/builds/IJG8AiPxLeQXl2uJr/openapi.json