🏢 Manta Business Directory Scraper

🚀 Scrape US business listings from Manta.com. Search any industry by state and city. Get names, phone numbers, addresses, websites, ratings, reviews, services, and descriptions for millions of company profiles.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-04-16

Collect business profile data from Manta.com without coding. Search by any industry keyword (restaurants, plumbers, lawyers, dentists, auto repair, and more) and filter by state and city. Extract business names, phone numbers, addresses, websites, ratings, reviews, services offered, and detailed descriptions.

Whether you are building a leads database, doing market research, or analyzing local businesses across the US, this tool gives you direct access to one of the largest online business directories with millions of company profiles across every industry.

Target	Manta.com - US business directory with millions of profiles
Use Cases	Lead generation, competitor analysis, market research, local business intelligence, business prospecting

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📋 What it does

• 🏪 Extracts business names, phone numbers, street addresses, and city/state for every company profile
• 🌐 Collects business website URLs and Google Maps links for follow-up contact and mapping
• ⭐ Returns ratings and review counts to identify highly-rated businesses in any market
• 🔧 Captures services offered and business descriptions for understanding what each company does
• 🔍 Supports searching by any industry keyword with state and city filtering for geographic targeting
• ✅ Includes Manta Verified status and claimed profile indicators

Each business record includes up to 18 structured fields covering contact information, services, and verification status. The scraper handles pagination automatically to collect hundreds of businesses in a single run.

💡 Why it matters: Building targeted prospect lists manually requires clicking through hundreds of directory pages. This scraper automates bulk collection across any industry and location so you can focus on outreach instead of data gathering.

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🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon

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⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Description
Start URL	Text	Direct Manta search or listing URL. Overrides other filters.
Max Items	Number	Free users: Limited to 10 businesses. Paid users: up to 1,000,000
Search Term	Text	Business type or keyword (e.g. Restaurants, Plumbers, Dentists)
State	Select	Any of the 50 US states (e.g. new-york, california, texas)
City	Text	City to narrow results (optional)

Example 1: Restaurants in New York

{
  "search": "Restaurants",
  "state": "new-york",
  "city": "Buffalo",
  "maxItems": 100
}

Example 2: Plumbers in California

{
  "search": "Plumbers",
  "state": "california",
  "maxItems": 200
}

⚠️ Good to Know: Free users are limited to 10 results per run. You can search for any business type - just enter the keyword. State selection is available as a dropdown with all 50 US states.

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📊 Output

🧾 Schema

Emoji	Field	Type	Description
🖼️	logoUrl	String	Business logo image
🏪	name	String	Business name
🔗	url	String	Profile page URL on Manta
📞	telephone	String	Business phone number
📍	streetAddress	String	Street address
🏙️	city	String	City
🗺️	state	String	State abbreviation
⭐	rating	Number	Business rating
💬	reviewCount	Number	Number of reviews
🌐	website	String	Company website URL
📍	googleMapsUrl	String	Google Maps link
🏷️	category	String	Business category
🔧	services	Array	Services offered
📝	description	String	Business description
✅	claimed	Boolean	Whether profile is claimed
🛡️	mantaVerified	Boolean	Manta Verified status
📅	scrapedAt	String	Timestamp when data was collected
⚠️	error	String	Error message if extraction failed

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✨ Why choose Manta Business Directory Scraper

Feature	Details
🏪 Millions of business profiles	Access one of the largest US business directories
🔍 Any industry keyword	Search restaurants, plumbers, dentists, lawyers, or any business type
📞 Contact data	Phone numbers, addresses, and website URLs for lead generation
⭐ Ratings and reviews	Business ratings and review counts for quality assessment
📍 All 50 US states	Filter by any state and city for geographic targeting
⚡ Fast collection	API-based extraction for quick results
📦 Multiple exports	Download as JSON, CSV, or Excel

📊 Search any industry across all 50 US states with phone, address, and website data

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✨ Why choose this Actor

	Capability
🎯	Built for the job. Scoped specifically to this data source so you skip the parser engineering entirely.
🔖	Structured output. Clean, typed fields ready for analysis, dashboards, or downstream pipelines.
⚡	Fast. Optimized request patterns return results in seconds, not minutes.
🔁	Always fresh. Every run pulls live data, so the dataset reflects the source as of run time.
🌐	No infra to manage. Apify handles proxies, retries, scaling, scheduling, and storage.
🛡️	Reliable. Battle-tested across many runs and edge cases, with graceful error handling.
🚫	No code required. Configure in the UI, run from CLI, schedule via cron, or call from any language with the Apify SDK.

📊 Production-grade structured data without the engineering overhead of building and maintaining your own scraper.

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📈 How it compares

Feature	Manta Business Directory Scraper	Other Tools
Any industry keyword search	Yes	Limited categories
All 50 US states + city filter	Yes	Fewer locations
Phone + address + website	Yes	Partial contact data
Ratings and reviews	Yes	Sometimes
Services offered	Yes	Rarely
Google Maps links	Yes	No
Manta Verified status	Yes	No
Export formats	JSON, CSV, Excel	Varies

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🚀 How to use

1. Sign up - Create a free account with $5 credit
2. Find the tool - Search for "Manta Business Directory Scraper" in the Apify Store
3. Enter search - Type a business type, select state, and optionally add a city
4. Run it - Click "Start" and wait for results
5. Export data - Download as JSON, CSV, or Excel, or push to your CRM

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💼 Business use cases

📈 Sales Teams Build targeted prospect lists by industry and location with phone numbers and websites for direct outreach	🏢 Marketing Agencies Collect local business data for geographically targeted advertising and marketing campaigns
📊 Market Researchers Analyze business density by industry and region to identify underserved markets and competitive landscapes	💼 Business Brokers Find companies in specific markets and industries for acquisition research and deal sourcing

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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

🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

Open a ready-to-send prompt about this ParseForge actor in the AI of your choice:

• 💬 ChatGPT
• 🧠 Claude
• 🔍 Perplexity
• 🅒 Copilot

💰 How much does it cost?

Apify gives you $5 in free monthly credits on the Apify Free plan, enough to test Manta Business Directory Scraper and pull a real sample dataset. For ongoing usage:

• Starter plan ($49/month) — Recommended for individuals running Manta Business Directory Scraper regularly. Includes higher concurrency and larger datasets.
• Scale plan ($499/month) — Recommended for teams running Manta Business Directory Scraper at production scale.

Pay-Per-Event pricing means you only pay for what you actually use. Failed runs are never charged. See the Pricing tab on this Actor's page for exact event prices.

💡 Tips for using Manta Business Directory Scraper

• Start with a small maxItems (3-10) to validate output format before running larger jobs.
• Use Apify Schedules to run Manta Business Directory Scraper on a recurring basis and keep your dataset fresh.
• Export via Integrations: Apify connects to Google Sheets, Airbyte, Make, Zapier, and direct webhooks — pipe your data anywhere.
• Monitor with webhooks: trigger downstream workflows the moment a run finishes.
• Re-run failed items: if any individual records error out, re-run with their inputs only. Failed events are not charged.

⚖️ Is it legal to use Manta Business Directory Scraper?

Yes. Manta Business Directory Scraper only collects publicly available data. Web scraping public data has been confirmed as legal by US courts (see hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn) and is widely used for research, market analysis, and business intelligence.

However, you are responsible for:

• Respecting the source website's Terms of Service.
• Complying with GDPR, CCPA, and other applicable data-protection laws when personal data is involved.
• Not republishing copyrighted content without permission.

If you have specific compliance concerns, consult your legal team. See the Apify legal docs for more.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

🔌 Automating with code

Node.js example:

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_API_TOKEN' });
const run = await client.actor("parseforge/manta-scraper").call({
  search: "Restaurants",
  state: "new-york",
  city: "Buffalo",
  maxItems: 100
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

Python example:

from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient("YOUR_API_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("parseforge/manta-scraper").call(run_input={
    "search": "Restaurants",
    "state": "new-york",
    "city": "Buffalo",
    "maxItems": 100
})
items = list(client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items())
print(items)

See the Apify API docs for more integration options.

🔌 Integrate with your tools

• Make - Automate lead generation workflows
• Zapier - Push leads to your CRM
• GitHub - Version control integration
• Slack - Notify your team of new leads
• Airbyte - Data pipeline integration
• Google Drive - Export directly to spreadsheets

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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

You can also use webhooks to trigger downstream actions when a run finishes. Push fresh data into your product backend, or alert your team in Slack.

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🆘 Need Help?

• Check the FAQ section above for common questions
• Visit the Apify documentation for platform guides
• Contact us to request a new scraper, propose a custom project, or report an issue at Tally contact form

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Disclaimer: This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Manta Media Inc. It accesses only publicly available data from manta.com.