# Trade Show Exhibitor Lead Extractor (`nintendo424/trade-show-exhibitor-lead-extractor`) Actor

Extract structured company leads from public trade show, expo, and conference exhibitor directories.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/nintendo424/trade-show-exhibitor-lead-extractor.md
- **Developed by:** [Blake Panter](https://apify.com/nintendo424) (community)
- **Categories:** Business, Lead generation, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per usage

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

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```bash
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```

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```bash

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# README

## Trade Show Exhibitor Lead Extractor

Extract structured company leads from public trade show, expo, conference, sponsor, and exhibitor directory pages.

This Actor converts public exhibitor lists into clean rows for sales prospecting, market research, sponsor analysis, competitor intelligence, and conference/vendor mapping.

### Why this Actor exists

B2B teams repeatedly collect exhibitor lists from conference websites. Those pages are often inconsistent, spread across event platforms, and hard to reuse. This Actor turns public directories into exportable records with company names, booth numbers, websites, contact signals, categories, event names, source URLs, and dedupe keys.

### Common use cases

- Build targeted lead lists from public expo and trade-show directories.
- Track competitors and partners attending industry events.
- Enrich exhibitor companies in a CRM or outbound workflow.
- Compare sponsor/exhibitor rosters across yearly events.
- Monitor new exhibitors added to public conference directories.

### Input

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://s3.goeshow.com/iaee/annual/2026/exhbitor_list.cfm" },
    { "url": "https://www.aptaexpo.com/exhibitor_exhibitor_list.cfm" }
  ],
  "maxPages": 25,
  "requestTimeoutSecs": 30
}
````

#### Input fields

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `startUrls` | array | Public exhibitor, sponsor, conference, expo, or trade-show directory pages to scan. |
| `maxPages` | integer | Hard cap for pages fetched in one run. |
| `requestTimeoutSecs` | integer | Maximum time to wait for each page before skipping it. |

### Output

Each dataset item represents one public exhibitor/company lead.

```json
{
  "eventName": "Exhibitor List",
  "companyName": "Example Robotics Inc.",
  "booth": "843",
  "website": "https://example-robotics.com",
  "description": "Industrial automation exhibitor listed with booth details.",
  "category": "Automation",
  "email": "sales@example-robotics.com",
  "phone": "555-123-4567",
  "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/example-robotics",
  "sourceUrl": "https://s3.goeshow.com/iaee/annual/2026/exhbitor_list.cfm",
  "detectedAt": "2026-07-06T12:45:07.000Z",
  "dedupeKey": "exhibitor-list|example-robotics-inc|s3-goeshow-com"
}
```

Fields are returned when publicly visible on the source page. Many exhibitor pages expose company and booth only; richer pages may include websites, categories, descriptions, email, phone, or LinkedIn links.

### Recent validation examples

Validated against public exhibitor-list pages including:

- IAEE Expo! Expo! 2026 exhibitor list: extracted clean company/booth rows such as `42Chat`, `4imprint`, and `AEX Convention Services`.
- APTA TRANSform & EXPO public exhibitor list: extracted public exhibitor/company rows with booth numbers.
- Combined IAEE + APTA cloud validation completed successfully at 256 MB and extracted 778 exhibitor leads.

A previous validation against very heavy or navigation-heavy directories exposed memory and false-positive edge cases; the fetcher now caps each HTML page read and the extractor filters generic navigation/sidebar labels before pushing lead rows. For large exhibitor lists, 256 MB is the safer default.

### Monetization

This Actor is configured for pay-per-event monetization:

- Primary event: `lead-extracted`
- Scheduled price: `$0.025` per extracted public exhibitor lead
- Minimum max charge: `$0.50`
- Default memory: `256 MB`
- Permission level: limited permissions

### Guardrails

- Public exhibitor/sponsor/company pages only.
- Does not scrape private attendee lists.
- Does not log in or bypass access controls.
- Source URLs and timestamps are included for verification.
- Always comply with the source site’s terms and applicable laws before using the data commercially.

# Actor input Schema

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

Public trade show, conference, expo, sponsor, or exhibitor directory pages to scan.

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

Hard cap for pages fetched in one run.

## `requestTimeoutSecs` (type: `integer`):

Maximum time to wait for each public exhibitor page before skipping it.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://example.com/exhibitors"
    }
  ],
  "maxPages": 25,
  "requestTimeoutSecs": 30
}
```

# 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 = {
    "startUrls": [
        {
            "url": "https://example.com/exhibitors"
        }
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("nintendo424/trade-show-exhibitor-lead-extractor").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 = { "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://example.com/exhibitors" }] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("nintendo424/trade-show-exhibitor-lead-extractor").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://example.com/exhibitors"
    }
  ]
}' |
apify call nintendo424/trade-show-exhibitor-lead-extractor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=nintendo424/trade-show-exhibitor-lead-extractor",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
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    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
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    "components": {
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                    "startUrls": {
                        "title": "Public exhibitor directory pages",
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                        "items": {
                            "type": "object",
                            "required": [
                                "url"
                            ],
                            "properties": {
                                "url": {
                                    "type": "string",
                                    "title": "URL of a web page",
                                    "format": "uri"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    },
                    "maxPages": {
                        "title": "Maximum pages",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 500,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Hard cap for pages fetched in one run.",
                        "default": 25
                    },
                    "requestTimeoutSecs": {
                        "title": "Request timeout seconds",
                        "minimum": 5,
                        "maximum": 120,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Maximum time to wait for each public exhibitor page before skipping it.",
                        "default": 30
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}
```