Wholesale Central Supplier Directory Scraper

US Wholesale Supplier Directory Scraper (Wholesale Central)

Build a clean list of US wholesale, dropship and closeout suppliers from WholesaleCentral.com. Search by keyword, browse any of the 54 live supplier categories, crawl several categories in one run, or refresh a known list of supplier URLs. Get public company contact data, location, minimum-order terms, social links and an optional product-catalog summary — with no login. Wholesale prices are not published by the source and are not claimed here.

What this actor does

• Three discovery modes: keyword search on the supplier tab, live-category browsing (one or up to 10 categories), and direct supplier-URL refresh
• Supplier-first search: uses the site's supplier tab (tab=suppliers), so results are companies rather than the default product cards
• Contact detail: phone, full address, website, company description and social profiles from each supplier page
• Location precision: city, state name, two-letter state code, postal code and country, plus exact state filtering (NY / New York no longer matches Albany, Oregon)
• Product-catalog summary: product count, per-category counts, collection count, up to 8 sample products (name, SKU, link) and ships-from country — no extra request
• Optional embedded contacts: business email addresses and extra phone/fax numbers that the page payload contains but the site does not visibly publish; off by default
• Reliable crawling: handles the site's AWS WAF browser challenge, paginates 30-card category pages and 40-card search pages, deduplicates by supplier URL, and stops at maxItems or source exhaustion
• Empty fields are omitted — no null, blank or sentinel noise in the output

Output per supplier

Identity and listing fields:

• recordType: always "supplier"
• name, slug
• detailUrl, sourceUrl: the supplier's public WholesaleCentral page
• category: readable label of the category page the supplier was found on
• supplierType: legacy label echoed only for old saved inputs that still send supplierType; omitted for new inputs
• location, city, state, stateCode, postalCode, country
• memberSince: year the supplier joined the directory
• minimumOrderUSD: minimum order in USD (0 means the listing says “No minimum order”)
• isFeaturedListing: true when the listing carries a Featured badge
• websiteUrl: the supplier's own website
• phone, address, companyDescription
• socialMediaLinks: Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, X/Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube or LinkedIn links
• categories: the supplier's main directory categories
• scrapedAt: ISO 8601 UTC timestamp

Added from the supplier page (when includeDetails is on):

• productCount, collectionsCount
• categoryCounts: array of {name, count} product categories
• sampleProducts: up to 8 objects with name, sku (when shown) and url
• shipsFrom: the shipping-origin country shown on the page

Added only when includeEmbeddedContact is explicitly enabled:

• email, emails[], salesEmail
• fax, additionalPhones[]

These contact values come from the supplier profile payload embedded in the public page — they are business contacts, not displayed contact buttons. Review your privacy, consent and outreach obligations before enabling this option. Website footer or directory-operator addresses are filtered out.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	byCategory	byCategory (browse), search (keyword), or bySupplier (specific URLs)
category	string	Apparel	One of the 54 live top-level categories (mode=byCategory)
categories	array	–	Crawl up to 10 live categories in one run; overrides category
customCategorySlug	string	–	Advanced: a narrower category slug, e.g. Mens-Apparel; overrides category
searchQuery	string	–	Keyword for supplier search (mode=search); required in that mode
supplierUrls	array	–	Full URLs, paths, or slugs to refresh (mode=bySupplier)
state	string	–	Exact US state filter; accepts NY or New York
maxMinimumOrderUSD	int	–	Keep suppliers whose minimum order is at most this amount; undisclosed minimums pass
keyword	string	–	Keep suppliers whose name or description contains this text
featuredOnly	bool	false	Keep only Featured (premium/paid) listings
includeDetails	bool	true	Read each supplier page for contact and product-summary fields
includeProductSummary	bool	true	Include product count, category counts, sample products and ships-from
includeEmbeddedContact	bool	false	Opt in to page-embedded business email and extra phone/fax numbers
proxyConfiguration	object	off	Optional Apify proxy; the actor connects directly first and picks a working connection automatically if the site blocks it
maxItems	int	20	Hard cap on records (1–500); each category is additionally capped at 100 cards

Example: apparel suppliers with full contacts and product catalogs

{
  "mode": "byCategory",
  "category": "Apparel",
  "includeDetails": true,
  "includeProductSummary": true,
  "maxItems": 50
}

Example: supplier search for candles

{
  "mode": "search",
  "searchQuery": "candles",
  "includeDetails": true,
  "maxItems": 30
}

Example: multi-category crawl filtered to New York

{
  "mode": "byCategory",
  "categories": ["Apparel", "Fashion-Accessories", "Jewelry"],
  "state": "NY",
  "includeDetails": true,
  "maxItems": 100
}

Example: refresh a known supplier list

{
  "mode": "bySupplier",
  "supplierUrls": [
    "https://www.wholesalecentral.com/suppliers/fourse0001",
    "https://www.wholesalecentral.com/suppliers/sheandsky"
  ],
  "includeDetails": true,
  "includeEmbeddedContact": false
}

Use cases

• US sourcing shortlists — find domestic wholesale suppliers by category and state without browsing the directory by hand
• Dropship and closeout research — map the Dropshippers and Closeout Suppliers departments, then compare minimum orders
• B2B lead lists — collect public company phone, address and website data for retail-buyer outreach
• Catalog discovery — see how many products a supplier carries and which product categories dominate its storefront
• Geographic market mapping — compare supplier density across states and categories
• Refresh existing vendor lists — re-scrape a saved set of supplier URLs to pick up changed contacts or catalogs

FAQ

Does this need a login or a proxy? No login. Every supplier page used here is public. The actor connects directly first, solves the site's browser challenge, reuses that session, and automatically picks a working Apify connection if the site blocks it. You do not need to configure a proxy.

Why are there no wholesale prices? The directory shows “Unlock wholesale price” to signed-in buyers. Public pages — and this actor — do not expose wholesale prices, tiers or MOQs beyond the published minimum-order amount.

Why does search return a different number of suppliers than a category? The site's supplier search returns roughly 51–136 matches for common queries, while top-level categories contain 2–90 suppliers each. maxItems still caps what is emitted.

Why did state: "NY" previously return an Oregon supplier? The old filter searched for ny inside city names and matched “ALbany”. This version normalizes US state names and two-letter codes and compares the state/state-code fields exactly; the city is never searched.

What is minimumOrderUSD: 0? It means the listing explicitly says “No minimum order” — a real value. If the minimum order is not disclosed, the field is omitted.

What does productCount: 0 mean? The supplier has no products in its public storefront. productCount is omitted when the page does not show a count at all.

Why is includeEmbeddedContact off by default? The site embeds supplier business email addresses and extra phone/fax numbers in the page payload but does not display them in the contact panel. Because that is a privacy-sensitive difference, the actor emits them only when you explicitly opt in and warns you to use them lawfully.

Why do some records lack a phone, website, description or social links? Not every supplier publishes every field. Empty values are omitted rather than written as null or a placeholder.

Can I get the whole directory in one run? The public category/search crawl reaches about 368 unique suppliers across the 54 live categories. maxItems can be set up to 500. A single category is capped at 100 cards per run (the largest live category has 90), and a run can crawl up to 10 categories.

Is this affiliated with WholesaleCentral.com? No. This is an independent tool that reads the directory's public supplier pages; it is not run or endorsed by WholesaleCentral.com.

Limitations

• Wholesale prices, buyer-only MOQ tiers and order terms are login-gated and are not included.
• The site does not expose a per-supplier “verified” badge, so no verification field is invented; Featured placement is the only premium-listing signal.
• The directory's marketing figure (“1,400+ suppliers”) is larger than what the public category and search pages expose; a full audit in October 2026 reached 368 unique supplier pages across 54 live categories.
• The site uses an AWS WAF browser challenge, so the first request of a run can take a few seconds longer while the session is established.