# Sortlist Agencies Scraper (`parseforge/sortlist-agencies-scraper`) Actor

Find marketing and creative agencies on Sortlist by service slug, country, and city. Returns agency name, services offered, location, team size, rating, review count, languages, and profile URL. Great for vendor shortlisting, competitive research, and agency outreach campaigns.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/parseforge/sortlist-agencies-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [ParseForge](https://apify.com/parseforge) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, NaN bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $7.50 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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Actors are written with capital "A".

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```bash
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```

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```bash
pip install apify-client
```

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````bash
# MacOS / Linux
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# Windows
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```bash

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# README

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## 🎯 Sortlist Marketing Agencies Scraper

> 🚀 **Export Sortlist agency directory in seconds. Name, services, location, team size, languages, awards, clients, rating, website.**

> 🕒 **Last updated:** 2026-05-29 · **📊 13 fields** per record · 50K+ marketing, creative, and digital agencies worldwide

The Sortlist Agencies Scraper turns the [Sortlist](https://www.sortlist.com) global directory into a clean dataset. Pick a service and country, and the actor paginates and returns one row per agency.

Coverage spans SEO, web design, branding, advertising, video, PR, development, and more across 50+ countries.

| 🎯 Target Audience | 💡 Primary Use Cases |
|---|---|
| 🏢 Brands seeking agencies | Build shortlists with structured data |
| 📊 Market researchers | Map agency density by city / service |
| 💼 BD teams | Prospect agency partners |
| 🤝 Recruiters | Identify scale-ups in adtech / martech |

### 📋 What the Sortlist Scraper does

- Calls Sortlist's public directory.
- Paginates up to `maxItems`.
- Normalizes name, services, location, team size, languages, awards, clients, rating, website.
- Exports to CSV, Excel, JSON, JSONL, XML, RSS, HTML.

> 💡 **Why it matters:** Sortlist is the largest agency marketplace in Europe and growing in NA. Manual exports are not provided.

### 🎬 Full Demo

_🚧 Coming soon._

### ⚙️ Input

<table>
<tr><th>Field</th><th>Type</th><th>Required</th><th>Description</th></tr>
<tr><td><code>service</code></td><td>string</td><td>No</td><td>Service slug (seo, branding, etc.).</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>maxItems</code></td><td>integer</td><td>No</td><td>Free: 10. Paid: up to 1M.</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>country</code></td><td>string</td><td>No</td><td>Country slug (us, gb, fr, de).</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>city</code></td><td>string</td><td>No</td><td>Optional city slug.</td></tr>
</table>

**Example 1:**
```json
{ "service": "seo", "country": "us", "maxItems": 50 }
````

**Example 2:**

```json
{ "service": "branding", "country": "fr", "city": "paris", "maxItems": 100 }
```

> ⚠️ **Good to Know:** Sortlist URLs are slug-based per country and service. The actor uses the public directory pages.

### 📊 Output

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 🖼️ `logoUrl` | string | Logo. |
| 🏢 `name` | string | Agency name. |
| 📍 `location` | string | Address / city. |
| 🛠️ `services` | string | Services list. |
| 👥 `teamSize` | string | Team size band. |
| 🗣️ `languages` | string | Spoken languages. |
| 🏆 `awards` | string | Awards. |
| 🤝 `clients` | string | Notable clients. |
| ⭐ `rating` | number | Average rating. |
| 💬 `reviews` | number | Review count. |
| 🌐 `websiteUrl` | string | Agency website. |
| 🔗 `url` | string | Sortlist profile. |
| 🕒 `scrapedAt` | string | Fetch time. |
| ❌ `error` | string | Errors. |

**Sample record:**

```json
{
  "logoUrl": "https://sortlist-public.s3.amazonaws.com/.../logo.png",
  "name": "Bright Digital",
  "location": "New York, US",
  "services": "SEO, Content marketing, PPC",
  "teamSize": "10-50",
  "languages": "English, Spanish",
  "awards": "Best SEO Agency 2024",
  "clients": "Acme Inc, Globex",
  "rating": 4.8,
  "reviews": 32,
  "websiteUrl": "https://brightdigital.com",
  "url": "https://www.sortlist.com/agency/bright-digital",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-29T12:00:00.000Z",
  "error": null
}
```

### ✨ Why choose this Actor

| 🌍 | 50+ countries, every Sortlist service. |
| 🧹 | Clean BI-ready fields. |
| 🤝 | Clients and awards extracted. |
| 🛟 | Errors as clean records. |
| 💾 | CSV / Excel / JSON / XML export. |

### 📈 How it compares to alternatives

| Approach | Setup | Multi-country | Clients/awards | Pagination |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manual | hours | ❌ | manual | ❌ |
| Custom scraper | hours | partial | partial | partial |
| **This Actor** | 5 sec | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |

### 🚀 How to use

1. Click **Try for free**.
2. Enter `service` and `country`.
3. Click **Start**.

### 💼 Business use cases

**📊 Agency market mapping.** Map density by city and specialty.

**🤝 Vendor sourcing.** Build shortlists.

**💼 BD prospecting.** Filter by team size and clients.

**🧲 Partner discovery.** Identify aligned agencies.

### 🔌 Automating Sortlist Scraper

- Make, Zapier, cron, webhooks, BigQuery.

### 🌟 Beyond business use cases

**🎓 Academic.** Study agency-market dynamics.

**🧪 Personal.** Find local agencies.

**🤝 NGO.** Find pro-bono partners.

**🧰 Prototyping.** Demo agency datasets.

### 🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

Drop this README into your AI assistant for workflow mapping.

### ❓ Frequently Asked Questions

**❓ Login?** No.

**❓ Multi-country?** Yes.

**❓ All services?** Any Sortlist slug.

**❓ Pagination?** Automatic.

**❓ Schedule?** Yes.

**❓ Formats?** CSV, Excel, JSON, JSONL, XML, RSS, HTML.

**❓ Official?** No, independent.

**❓ Rate limits?** Reasonable, respect them.

**❓ Awards data?** When listed publicly.

**❓ Clients data?** When listed publicly.

### 🔌 Integrate with any app

Native integrations with Make, Zapier, Slack, Discord, Google Drive, Google Sheets, Gmail, Airbyte, Keboola, Telegram, GitHub, REST API and webhooks.

### 🔗 Recommended Actors

| Actor | What it does |
|---|---|
| [ParseForge OurAirports Scraper](https://apify.com/parseforge/ourairports-scraper) | Global airport database. |
| [ParseForge Alpha Vantage Scraper](https://apify.com/parseforge/alpha-vantage-public-scraper) | Market data, FX, crypto. |
| [ParseForge collection](https://apify.com/parseforge) | 900+ scrapers. |

> 💡 **Pro Tip:** browse the complete [ParseForge collection](https://apify.com/parseforge).

***

**Disclaimer:** Public data only. ParseForge is independent. Users must comply with Sortlist's ToS. [Create a free account w/ $5 credit](https://console.apify.com/sign-up?fpr=vmoqkp).

# Actor input Schema

## `service` (type: `string`):

Service or specialty (e.g. 'seo', 'branding', 'web-development').

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Free users: Limited to 10 items (preview). Paid users: Optional, max 1,000,000

## `country` (type: `string`):

Sortlist country slug (e.g. 'us', 'gb', 'fr', 'de').

## `city` (type: `string`):

Optional city slug.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "service": "seo",
  "maxItems": 10,
  "country": "us"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "service": "seo",
    "maxItems": 10,
    "country": "us"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("parseforge/sortlist-agencies-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "service": "seo",
    "maxItems": 10,
    "country": "us",
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("parseforge/sortlist-agencies-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "service": "seo",
  "maxItems": 10,
  "country": "us"
}' |
apify call parseforge/sortlist-agencies-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=parseforge/sortlist-agencies-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
{
    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "Sortlist Agencies Scraper",
        "description": "Find marketing and creative agencies on Sortlist by service slug, country, and city. Returns agency name, services offered, location, team size, rating, review count, languages, and profile URL. Great for vendor shortlisting, competitive research, and agency outreach campaigns.",
        "version": "0.1",
        "x-build-id": "QVNgwsBFBPwLL0ExG"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
        "/acts/parseforge~sortlist-agencies-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-parseforge-sortlist-agencies-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/parseforge~sortlist-agencies-scraper/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-parseforge-sortlist-agencies-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK",
                        "content": {
                            "application/json": {
                                "schema": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/parseforge~sortlist-agencies-scraper/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-parseforge-sortlist-agencies-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "components": {
        "schemas": {
            "inputSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "service": {
                        "title": "Service / specialty",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Service or specialty (e.g. 'seo', 'branding', 'web-development')."
                    },
                    "maxItems": {
                        "title": "Max Items",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 1000000,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Free users: Limited to 10 items (preview). Paid users: Optional, max 1,000,000"
                    },
                    "country": {
                        "title": "Country slug",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Sortlist country slug (e.g. 'us', 'gb', 'fr', 'de')."
                    },
                    "city": {
                        "title": "City slug",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Optional city slug."
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "object",
                        "properties": {
                            "id": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "actId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "userId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "startedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "inputBodyLen": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2000
                                    },
                                    "rebootCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "restartCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "resurrectCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "computeUnits": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "options": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "build": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "latest"
                                    },
                                    "timeoutSecs": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 300
                                    },
                                    "memoryMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1024
                                    },
                                    "diskMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2048
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "buildId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultDatasetId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultRequestQueueId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "buildNumber": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "1.0.0"
                            },
                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "usage": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "usageTotalUsd": {
                                "type": "number",
                                "example": 0.00005
                            },
                            "usageUsd": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
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                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
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                                        "example": 0.00005
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                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
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                                        "example": 0
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                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
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                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
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                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```