🏙️ NYC Certified Business Scraper - M/WBE Directory

🚀 Collect 11,400+ certified businesses from NYC's M/WBE directory with 51 fields per record. Get contact info, certifications, NAICS codes, work experience, contract values, and geographic data.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-04-23

Whether you are a procurement officer finding certified suppliers, a researcher studying minority-owned businesses, or a sales team building B2B lead lists, this scraper delivers comprehensive data from NYC's Minority and Women-owned Business Enterprise certified business directory.

The NYC Certified Business Scraper provides 51 data fields per record including business name, contact person, phone, description, certification type (MBE, WBE, EBE, LDBE), ethnicity, NAICS codes, past work experience with contract values, borough, latitude/longitude, census tract, community board, and council district.

Target Audience	Government procurement officers, sales teams, researchers, general contractors, business development professionals
Primary Use Cases	Supplier sourcing, M/WBE compliance, B2B lead generation, minority business research, subcontractor discovery, geographic analysis

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📋 What Does It Do

• Collects 11,400+ certified business profiles with names, contacts, phone, and descriptions
• Extracts certification types (MBE, WBE, EBE, LDBE) with renewal dates
• Gets past work experience with client names, contract values, and project descriptions
• Provides 6-digit NAICS codes, sectors, subsectors, and NIGP codes
• Includes addresses, boroughs, lat/lon, census tract, community board, and council district
• Filters by certification type, ethnicity, NAICS sector, city, or business name search

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🎬 How to Use - Full Demo

🚧 Demo video coming soon.

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⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Description	Default
Max Items	integer	Free users: limited to 10 items. Paid users: up to 1,000,000	10
Certification Type	string	MBE (Minority), WBE (Women), EBE (Emerging), or LBE (Locally Based)	-
Ethnicity	string	Filter by ethnicity (e.g., Black American, Hispanic American)	-
NAICS Sector	string	Filter by industry sector (e.g., Construction, Professional Services)	-
City	string	Filter by city (e.g., Brooklyn, Manhattan, Bronx, Queens)	-
Business Name Search	string	Search by business name (partial match)	-

Example 1:

{
    "certification": "MBE",
    "city": "Brooklyn",
    "maxItems": 100
}

Example 2:

{
    "naicsSector": "Construction",
    "maxItems": 200
}

⚠️ Certification statuses may change. Always verify current certification status with NYC Small Business Services before contract decisions.

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📊 Output

🧾 Schema: vendor_formal_name, first_name, last_name, telephone, business_description, certification, ethnicity, naics_code, naics_title, naics_sector, city, state, zip, borough, latitude, longitude, census_tract, community_board, council_district, largest_value_of_contract, scrapedAt

📦 Sample 1:

{
    "vendor_formal_name": "ABC Construction Corp",
    "first_name": "John",
    "last_name": "Smith",
    "telephone": "7185550123",
    "business_description": "General contracting and construction management",
    "certification": "MBE",
    "ethnicity": "BLACK",
    "naics_title": "Commercial Building Construction",
    "city": "Brooklyn",
    "state": "NY",
    "largest_value_of_contract": 500000,
    "borough": "BROOKLYN",
    "latitude": 40.6782,
    "longitude": -73.9442,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-09T00:00:00.000Z"
}

📦 Sample 2:

{
    "vendor_formal_name": "GreenTech Solutions LLC",
    "first_name": "Maria",
    "last_name": "Rodriguez",
    "telephone": "2125550456",
    "business_description": "Environmental consulting and sustainability services",
    "certification": "WBE",
    "ethnicity": "HISPANIC",
    "naics_title": "Environmental Consulting Services",
    "city": "Manhattan",
    "state": "NY",
    "largest_value_of_contract": 250000,
    "borough": "MANHATTAN",
    "latitude": 40.7831,
    "longitude": -73.9712,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-09T00:00:00.000Z"
}

📦 Sample 3:

{
    "vendor_formal_name": "Precision Electric Inc",
    "first_name": "David",
    "last_name": "Chen",
    "telephone": "7185550789",
    "business_description": "Electrical contracting for commercial and industrial projects",
    "certification": "MBE",
    "ethnicity": "ASIAN-PACIFIC",
    "naics_title": "Electrical Contractors",
    "city": "Queens",
    "state": "NY",
    "largest_value_of_contract": 750000,
    "borough": "QUEENS",
    "latitude": 40.7282,
    "longitude": -73.7949,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-09T00:00:00.000Z"
}

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✨ Why Choose This Tool?

Feature	Details
11,400+ businesses	Complete NYC M/WBE certified business directory
51 data fields	Contact info, certifications, NAICS codes, work experience, and geographic data
Multiple filters	Certification type, ethnicity, NAICS sector, city, and business name search
Work experience data	Past clients, contract values, and project descriptions for each business
Geographic data	Borough, lat/lon, census tract, community board, and council district
Fast collection	Complete dataset in seconds from the NYC open data API
Official data source	Data from NYC Small Business Services certified directory

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📈 How It Compares

Capability	This Tool	Other Solutions
Records available	11,400+ certified businesses	Manual directory browsing
Data fields	51 fields per record	Basic contact info only
Filtering	5 filter dimensions available	Limited search
Export formats	JSON, CSV, Excel	HTML pages only
Geographic data	Lat/lon, census tract, community board	Address only
Work experience	Contract values and client details	Not available

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🚀 How to Use

1. Sign Up - Create a free account w/ $5 credit (takes 2 minutes)
2. Find the Tool - Search for "NYC Certified Business Scraper" in the Apify Store
3. Set Input - Configure your search filters using the simple form
4. Run It - Click "Start" and let it collect your data
5. Download Data - Get your results in the "Dataset" tab as CSV, Excel, or JSON

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💼 Business Use Cases

Audience	How They Use It
Government Procurement	Find certified M/WBE suppliers for contract compliance requirements across NYC agencies
Sales Teams	Build targeted B2B lead lists by industry, certification type, and location for outreach campaigns
General Contractors	Find certified subcontractors for public projects that require M/WBE participation goals
Business Development	Identify partnership opportunities with certified firms in your industry and borough

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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 to alternatives

Approach	Cost	Coverage	Refresh	Filters	Setup
⭐ NYC Certified Business Scraper - M/WBE Directory (this Actor)	$5 free credit, then pay-per-use	Full source coverage	Live per run	Source-native filters supported	⚡ 2 min
Build your own scraper	Engineering hours	Full once built	Whenever you maintain it	Custom code	🐢 Days to weeks
Paid managed APIs	$$$ monthly	Vendor-defined	Live	Vendor-defined	⏳ Hours
Third-party data dumps	Varies	Subset, often stale	Periodic	None	🕒 Variable

Pick this Actor when you want broad coverage, server-side filtering, and no pipeline maintenance.

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🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the NYC Certified Business Scraper - M/WBE Directory page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Configure the input fields in the form (or paste a JSON), then set maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

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

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💼 Business use cases

📊 Data & Analytics Build trend reports and dashboards from live source data Feed BI tools, warehouses, and ML pipelines with structured records Run periodic snapshots to track changes over time Compare segments, regions, or categories with consistent fields	🏢 Operations & Strategy Monitor competitor moves, pricing, and inventory shifts Build internal directories and lookup tools backed by current data Power workflows that depend on fresh source records Cut manual data-gathering time from hours to minutes
🎯 Marketing & Growth Identify market opportunities and trending topics Research target audiences and customer personas at scale Power lead-generation pipelines with verified records Track sentiment, reviews, or social signals over time	🛠️ Engineering & Product Prototype features that need real-world data without owning a crawler Replace fragile in-house scrapers with a managed Actor Wire datasets into your apps via the Apify API or webhooks Skip the proxy, retry, and parsing maintenance entirely

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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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💰 How much does it cost?

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

• Starter plan ($49/month) — Recommended for individuals running NYC Certified Business Scraper - M/WBE Directory regularly. Includes higher concurrency and larger datasets.
• Scale plan ($499/month) — Recommended for teams running NYC Certified Business Scraper - M/WBE Directory 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 NYC Certified Business Scraper - M/WBE Directory

• Start with a small maxItems (3-10) to validate output format before running larger jobs.
• Use Apify Schedules to run NYC Certified Business Scraper - M/WBE Directory 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 NYC Certified Business Scraper - M/WBE Directory?

Yes. NYC Certified Business Scraper - M/WBE Directory 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.

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NYC Certified Business Scraper - M/WBE Directory connects to any cloud service via Apify integrations:

• Make - Automate multi-step workflows
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⚠️ Disclaimer: This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to New York City or NYC Small Business Services. It accesses only publicly available data through official public APIs.