# ThomasNet Supplier Scraper (`om_kh/thomasnet-supplier-scraper`) Actor

Verify a supplier against ThomasNet: legal name, address, year established, employee range, product/service categories and a public contact. One failed lookup never kills your batch.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/om\_kh/thomasnet-supplier-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [omar khandji](https://apify.com/om_kh) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, MCP servers
- **Stats:** 1 total users, 0 monthly users, 0.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $3.30 / 1,000 supplier verifieds

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?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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Actors are written with capital "A".

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- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
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- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

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

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## ThomasNet Supplier Scraper — Verify, Not Just List

> **You paste a company name. You get its ThomasNet listing: address, year
> founded, employee range, product categories and a public contact.**

### Why verification, not a bulk list

Most sourcing tools return a giant list you have to sift through. This
Actor verifies specific suppliers you already have in mind — the entity you
put in is the entity you get back, with proof.

### 5 advantages

1. **One bad company name never kills your batch.** Not found on ThomasNet?
   That row errors out alone; every other company still delivers.
2. **Never billed on a failed lookup.**
3. **Honest about what ThomasNet has — and doesn't.** ThomasNet listings
   carry no certifications data, so we don't pretend otherwise: you get
   real product/service categories instead, not an empty promise.
4. **Optional contact discovery.** Turn on `includeContacts` and we check
   the supplier's own website for a public email, on top of ThomasNet's
   listed phone number.
5. **Hard cost cap you control.** Set `maxTotalChargeUsd` and the run can
   never bill above it.

### Output

```json
{
  "supplier_id": "10005409",
  "legal_name": "Boeing",
  "website": "https://www.boeing.com/",
  "address": {"city": "Chicago", "state": "IL", "country": "USA"},
  "year_established": "1916",
  "employee_range": "1000+",
  "capabilities": ["Aircraft", "Communication Systems"],
  "public_contact": {"phone": "(888) 970-7171", "email": null},
  "status": "ok"
}
```

### Pricing

Pay per event, base FREE-tier prices: **$0.011** per verified supplier.
Paid Store plans pay less on every event — the largest plans reach $0.00605 on the cheapest event; the Pricing tab on this Actor's Store page is
always the authority. **No event is ever charged on an item that returns an `error`** —
a batch of 200 with one bad input bills 199.

### Use it from an AI agent (MCP)

```
https://om-kh--thomasnet-supplier-scraper.apify.actor/mcp
```

One tool, `thomasnet_supplier_verify`, same arguments as the Start form.

### Related Actors

- [Netherlands Company Registry Scraper](https://apify.com/om_kh/netherlands-company-registry-scraper) — same verification-first discipline, Dutch company registry instead of a US supplier directory

### Support

Found a bug or have a feature request? Use the **Issues** tab on this
Actor's Apify Store page, or message the author (`om_kh`) directly.

# Actor input Schema

## `companyNames` (type: `array`):

Company names to verify against ThomasNet.

## `supplierUrls` (type: `array`):

ThomasNet supplier profile URLs, if you have them.

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

Secondary: product or service keywords, if you don't have exact company names.

## `includeContacts` (type: `boolean`):

Look for a public business email on the supplier's own website, in addition to the phone number ThomasNet lists.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many suppliers.

## `monitorEnabled` (type: `boolean`):

On later runs with the same Monitor ID, deliver only suppliers not seen before.

## `monitorId` (type: `string`):

Groups runs into one monitored target. Leave blank for a one-off run.

## `maxTotalChargeUsd` (type: `number`):

Hard ceiling on what this run can bill you.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "companyNames": [
    "Boeing"
  ],
  "includeContacts": false,
  "maxResults": 20,
  "monitorEnabled": false,
  "maxTotalChargeUsd": 1
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `report` (type: `string`):

A visual summary of delivery, charges, and source issues.

## `results` (type: `string`):

Suppliers in a sortable table. No JSON knowledge required.

## `csv` (type: `string`):

Results ready for spreadsheets, CRMs, and analytics tools.

## `excel` (type: `string`):

Results as an Excel workbook for non-technical teams.

## `runSummary` (type: `string`):

Machine-readable delivery, billing, and source diagnostics.

# 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 = {
    "companyNames": [
        "Boeing"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("om_kh/thomasnet-supplier-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 = { "companyNames": ["Boeing"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("om_kh/thomasnet-supplier-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 '{
  "companyNames": [
    "Boeing"
  ]
}' |
apify call om_kh/thomasnet-supplier-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,om_kh/thomasnet-supplier-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/Z0LeN49Sdgw2gb7tt/builds/Oia0fvjs2E284iu9T/openapi.json