🏭 ThomasNet Industrial Supplier Scraper

🚀 Pull qualified B2B suppliers from ThomasNet in seconds. Filter by product, geography, certifications, and ownership type. No API key, no registration, no manual CSV wrangling.

ThomasNet is the largest industrial directory in North America, indexing more than 500,000 manufacturers, distributors, and service providers across 70,000 product categories. The catalog is the standard reference for procurement, sourcing, and supplier discovery in industries from aerospace to plumbing. Each supplier profile carries firmographic data (year founded, employee band, annual sales), contact info, geographic coverage, certifications, and product taxonomy, but the catalog itself is gated by DataDome bot protection and is not available as a downloadable feed.

This Actor turns any ThomasNet supplier search into a structured dataset. Provide a product query (or a company name in name mode), narrow with the native ThomasNet filters (geographic area, company type, employee size band, year founded, diversity ownership, industry certifications), and the Actor walks the live results, parses each supplier card, and writes one row per company to your Apify dataset. The bypass uses Camoufox plus Apify residential proxies and rotates session IPs across US, CA, GB, and DE to keep the success rate high even during peak hours.

👥 Target Audience	🎯 Primary Use Cases
Procurement and sourcing teams	Build qualified vendor lists for RFQs
B2B sales and lead-gen operators	Generate outbound prospect lists by region or industry
Industrial market analysts	Map supplier concentration, certifications, and capabilities
Manufacturing intelligence platforms	Backfill firmographic data for industrial company datasets

📋 What the ThomasNet Industrial Supplier Scraper does

• 🔍 Product or company-name search. Run the same queries you would use on the ThomasNet site, with the same matching semantics.
• 🗺️ Geographic filters. All 50 US states, all Canadian provinces, and regional buckets (East Midwest, West PA, Greater Toronto, and more).
• 🏷️ Company-type filters. Restrict to Manufacturer, Distributor, Custom Manufacturer, or Service Company.
• 🎖️ Certification filters. Limit to ISO 9001, AS9100, IATF 16949, ISO 13485, NADCAP, FDA registered, and 8 more codes.
• 🤝 Diversity-ownership filters. Minority-owned, women-owned, veteran-owned, LGBTQ-owned, small business, and disabled-veteran-owned.
• 📏 Size and age filters. Minimum and maximum employee count plus year-founded range.

Each record captures the supplier identity (tgramsId, name, logo, description), business classification (type, tier, year founded, employee band, annual sales), contact channel (primary phone, website), trust signals (claimed profile, advertiser status, Xometry verification, multi-location flag), and full postal address with latitude and longitude. The structured headings array preserves the upstream ThomasNet taxonomy so downstream pipelines can re-group results by category without re-fetching.

💡 Why it matters: Manual ThomasNet sourcing is a tab-by-tab exercise. A team can spend a full afternoon collecting 150 qualified leads. This Actor turns that into a 5-minute run and writes the same data as a clean CSV, JSON, or Excel file ready to drop into your CRM.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: address, annualSales, description, heading, headings, isAdvertiser, isClaimed, isMultiLocation, logoUrl, name, numberEmployees, primaryPhone, scrapedAt, searchMode, sourceUrl, tgramsId, tier, type, website, xometryVerified, yearFounded. All 21 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Find the ThomasNet Industrial Supplier Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Type your product or company query, pick geography and filters, set maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor walk the supplier 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 sourcing scrapers.

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

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