🗂️ 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.

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

📋 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.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: address, businessName, category, city, description, employees, imageUrl, phone, results, revenue, scrapedAt, state, url, website, zip. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

⚠️ 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.

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

⚠️ 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.

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