🗂️ Manta Business Directory Scraper

🚀 Pull US small-business listings from Manta in seconds. Filter by keyword and location, walk every search page, and export company name, address, phone, website, category, employee size, and revenue band. No API key, no registration, no manual CSV wrangling.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-24 · 📊 14 fields per record · Millions of US small businesses · All 50 states + DC · Cloudflare bypass built-in

Manta is one of the longest-running US small-business directories, listing millions of companies across every state and industry. Each profile carries firmographic data including legal name, contact channel, postal address, employee band, and revenue estimate, but Manta does not publish a downloadable feed and the search results are protected by Cloudflare bot mitigation. Pulling a usable lead list by hand is a tab-by-tab grind.

This Actor turns any Manta search into a structured dataset. Give it a search keyword (restaurant, plumber, accountant) and a location (city, state, or zip), and the Actor walks the live search results, opens each business profile, parses the firmographic block, and writes one row per company to your Apify dataset. The bypass uses Camoufox plus Apify residential US proxies and rotates session IPs to keep the success rate high across long runs.

👥 Target Audience	🎯 Primary Use Cases
B2B sales and lead-gen operators	Build outbound prospect lists scoped by city and industry
Local-market researchers	Map small-business density by category and metro area
CRM enrichment teams	Backfill company-level firmographics for US SMB records
Franchise and territory analysts	Audit competitor coverage in a target service area

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📋 What the Manta Business Directory Scraper does

• 🔍 Keyword and location search. Run the same queries you would type into Manta, with the same matching semantics for city, state, or zip.
• 🗺️ All 50 states plus DC. The Actor recognises full state names and 2-letter codes (NY, CA, TX) and routes searches to the correct Manta endpoint.
• 🏷️ Category-aware results. Each record carries the Manta category taxonomy (Restaurants, Plumbers, Dentists, and thousands more), parsed from the detail page.
• 📞 Verified contact data. Phone numbers are normalised to US format. Websites are resolved from Manta's redirect tracker to the live destination URL.
• 🧱 Per-profile enrichment. Every search hit is followed to its full Manta profile so the Actor can capture employee size band and address details that are not on the listing card.
• 🔁 Pagination handled. The Actor walks the result set in 10-listing pages and stops automatically at maxItems or end of results.

Each record captures the business identity (logo URL, business name, Manta profile URL), classification (category), full postal address (street, city, state, zip), contact channel (phone, website), firmographics (employee band, annual revenue band), a short description blurb, and an ISO timestamp for when the record was scraped.

💡 Why it matters: A territory rep can spend a full afternoon clicking through Manta to assemble a 100-record outbound list. This Actor turns that into a single run and writes the same data as a clean CSV, JSON, or Excel file ready to drop into your CRM or sales tool.

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🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon: a 3-minute walkthrough showing how to configure a search, kick off a run, and pipe the dataset into a Google Sheet.

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⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
search	string	No	Business type or keyword to search for. Examples: restaurant, plumber, dentist, law firm, auto repair. Default restaurant.
location	string	No	City, state, or zip code. Accepts New York, NY, Chicago, IL, Austin, or plain state names. Default New York.
maxItems	integer	No	Maximum business records to return. Free users are capped at 10. Paid users can raise to 1,000,000.

Example: basic local search

{
  "search": "restaurant",
  "location": "New York, NY",
  "maxItems": 50
}

Example: scoped state-wide search

{
  "search": "plumber",
  "location": "Austin, TX",
  "maxItems": 500
}

⚠️ Good to Know: Manta is protected by Cloudflare. The Actor warms up on the homepage, clears the challenge with Camoufox plus a residential US session, then walks the search pages. In peak-hour windows a fraction of sessions may bounce. Re-run any blocked attempts. Failed runs are not billed.

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📊 Output

Each row is a single business with 14 typed fields, ready to drop into a CRM or sales tool.

🧾 Schema

Field	Type	Example
🖼️ imageUrl	string	https://images.manta-r3.com/.../201704248hdXAZib3X
🏢 businessName	string	"Rc Klean Restaurant Cleaning"
📂 category	string	"Cleaning Services"
🏠 address	string	"401 Park Avenue S. 10th Floor"
🌆 city	string	"New York"
🗺️ state	string	"NY"
📮 zip	string	"10016"
📞 phone	string	"(212) 878-7611"
🌐 website	string	"http://rcklean.com"
👥 employees	string	"2 to 4"
💰 revenue	string	"$500K to $1M"
📝 description	string	"Serving New York and the surrounding area..."
🔗 url	string	"https://www.manta.com/c/mh1lvkn/rc-klean..."
⏰ scrapedAt	ISO date	"2026-05-22T00:27:57.352Z"

📦 Sample records

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✨ Why choose this Actor

	Capability
🎯	Built for the job. Scoped specifically to Manta's search and profile pages, so you skip the parser engineering entirely.
🛡️	Cloudflare bypass included. Camoufox plus Apify residential US proxies handle the challenge transparently. No CAPTCHA solving service to wire up.
🔖	14 typed fields. Clean structured records ready for analysis, CRM imports, or downstream enrichment pipelines.
🗺️	All 50 states. Full state-name and abbreviation handling, routing every query through the correct Manta endpoint.
⚡	Pagination handled. The Actor walks results 10 listings at a time and stops automatically at maxItems or end of results.
🔁	Always fresh. Every run pulls live data from Manta. No cache, no stale snapshots.
🚫	No code required. Configure in the UI, run from the CLI, schedule via cron, or call from any language with the Apify SDK.

📊 Cuts a half-day of manual Manta browsing into a 3-5 minute run.

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📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Cost	Coverage	Refresh	Filters	Setup
⭐ Manta Business Directory Scraper (this Actor)	$5 free credit, then pay-per-use	Millions of US small businesses	Live per run	Keyword and location	⚡ 2 min
Manual Manta browsing	Operator hours	Full once you click through	When you re-search	Native filters in UI	🐢 Hours per shortlist
Build your own scraper	Engineering hours plus Cloudflare cost	Full once built	Whenever you maintain it	Custom code	🐢 Days to weeks
Paid SMB data APIs	$$$ subscriptions	Vendor-defined	Live	Vendor-defined	⏳ Procurement cycle
Legacy CSV dumps	Varies	Subset, often stale	Periodic	None	🕒 Variable

Pick this Actor when you want keyword and location targeting, live results, and zero infrastructure to maintain.

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🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Find the Manta Business Directory Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Type your search keyword, pick a city or state, and set maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor walk the Manta search.
5. 📥 Download. Grab the dataset as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML from the Dataset tab.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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💼 Business use cases

🏢 Sales & Lead Generation Pull outbound prospect lists scoped by city, state, and industry Build cold-call lists with verified US phone numbers Identify newly added Manta listings for early outreach Feed structured firmographics into CRM enrichment pipelines	📊 Local-Market Research Map small-business density by category across metro areas Compare service-business saturation between cities Track new entrants in a service category over time Build investor-grade market sizing for SMB-focused funds
🎯 Franchise & Territory Planning Audit competitor coverage before opening a new location Identify under-served metros for franchise expansion Score territory protection clauses against live coverage Build retention dashboards for existing franchisees	🛠️ Marketing & Agency Workflows Build prospect lists for paid-search agency outbound Enrich SMB ad-platform audiences with Manta firmographics Source citation data for local-SEO link-building campaigns Generate niche directory snapshots for content marketing

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

🎓 Research and academia Empirical datasets for papers, thesis work, and coursework Longitudinal studies tracking changes across snapshots Reproducible research with cited, versioned data pulls Classroom exercises on data analysis and ethical scraping	🎨 Personal and creative Side projects, portfolio demos, and indie app launches Data visualizations, dashboards, and infographics Content research for bloggers, YouTubers, and podcasters Hobbyist collections and personal trackers
🤝 Non-profit and civic Transparency reporting and accountability projects Advocacy campaigns backed by public-interest data Community-run databases for local issues Investigative journalism on public records	🧪 Experimentation Prototype AI and machine-learning pipelines with real data Validate product-market hypotheses before engineering spend Train small domain-specific models on niche corpora Test dashboard concepts with live input

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🔌 Automating Manta Business Directory Scraper

Trigger the Actor from your own code in a few lines. Apify exposes every Actor as a REST endpoint and ships first-class SDKs.

• Node.js SDK for JavaScript and TypeScript callers
• Python SDK for data-engineering and ML pipelines
• Apify API for any language with HTTP

Use the Apify scheduler to run the Actor on any cadence (hourly, daily, weekly). Results are written to your dataset and can be pushed to webhooks, Slack, email, cloud storage, or automation tools like Zapier and Make.

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

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🔌 Integrate with any app

Manta Business Directory Scraper connects to any cloud service via Apify integrations:

• Make - Automate multi-step workflows
• Zapier - Connect with 5,000+ apps
• Slack - Get run notifications in your channels
• Airbyte - Pipe results into your warehouse
• GitHub - Trigger runs from commits and releases
• Google Drive - Export datasets straight to Sheets

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💡 Pro Tip: browse the complete ParseForge collection for more B2B and SMB sourcing scrapers.

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⚠️ Disclaimer. This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Manta or any of its subsidiaries. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.