Hipages Business Directory Scraper 🚀

The Hipages Business Directory Scraper is an Apify actor designed to extract in-depth information about businesses listed on hipages.com.au. This actor efficiently retrieves data across categories, including business names, contact details, ratings, and other relevant information for market research or lead generation.

✨ Features

• 🏢 Comprehensive Business Details: Extracts data like business name, location, contact number, ratings, total hires, recommendations, and other details.
• 📄 Pagination Support: Automatically handles pagination to capture all relevant business listings across multiple pages.
• 🔐 Proxy Support: Allows the specification of a custom proxy URL to avoid IP bans or restrictions.

💡 Why Use Hipages Business Directory Scraper?

This actor is ideal for:

• Market Research: Gather insights into business offerings across various industries and regions.
• Lead Generation: Build a robust contact database for potential outreach.
• Data Enrichment: Enhance your datasets with comprehensive business details.

🚀 How to Use Hipages Scraper

1. Prepare Your Input: Supply the starting URLs of the business categories or regions you want to scrape.Provide a proxy URL to avoid IP blocks.

   Example Input:

   1{
   2  "startUrl": [
   3    { "url": "https://hipages.com.au/find/electricians/nsw/sydney" },
   4    { "url": "https://hipages.com.au/find/door_installation/act" }
   5  ],
   6  "proxyUrl": "http://username:password@proxyserver:port"
   7}
   

2. Run the Actor:

   • Use the Apify platform to execute the actor with your prepared input.
   • Monitor Progress: Track real-time updates and request logs in the Apify console.

3. Retrieve Results:

   • After the actor completes, the extracted data is stored in a dataset.
   • Download Options: Access results in formats like JSON, CSV, or Excel from the Apify console or configure automated exports.

📊 Example Output

Below is a sample output structure, available in formats like JSON, CSV, or Excel:

JSON

1[{
2	"URL": "https://hipages.com.au/connect/greatersydneyelectrical2",
3	"name": "Greater Sydney Electrical",
4	"location": "Based in Sydney NSW 2000",
5	"website": "http://greatersydneyelectrical.com.au/",
6	"email": "andrewhadi@outlook.com",
7	"telephone": "0490 514 537",
8	"headline": "WE ARE REPUTABLE WITHIN THE MARKETPLACE AND OUR BUSINESS CONTINUES TO GROW BY\nREFERRALS FROM OUR CLIENTS.",
9	"rating": 5,
10	"totalRatings": 56,
11	"totalHired": 74,
12	"totalRecommendations": 60
13},
14{
15	"URL": "https://hipages.com.au/connect/jcgelectricalservicesaustraliaptyltd",
16	"name": "JCG Electrical Services Australia Pty Ltd",
17	"location": "Based in Sydney NSW 2145",
18	"website": "",
19	"email": "george@jcgelec.com.au",
20	"telephone": "0421 679 993",
21	"headline": "Licensed and insured electricians with over 10 years of industrial experience.\nHonest and provide quality service. When we perform work on your property, we\ntreat it like its ours.",
22	"rating": 5,
23	"totalRatings": 20,
24	"totalHired": 32,
25	"totalRecommendations": 22
26}]