DesignRush Agency Lead Scraper

This Actor collects agency/company leads from DesignRush category pages (e.g. web development companies). It visits each company profile and extracts structured data (website, email, rating, services, industries, social links, etc.).

What it scrapes

• Category page example: https://www.designrush.com/agency/web-development-companies

Output (Dataset item)

Each dataset item is a JSON object with fields:

• name: Company name
• sourceStartUrl: Original startUrls[].url value that produced this item. Useful when scraping multiple inputs and syncing to Airtable
• profileUrl: DesignRush profile URL
• website: Company website (if available)
• email: Email extracted from mailto: or JSON-LD (application/ld+json) when present
• logoUrl
• location
• hourlyRate
• minProjectSize
• employees
• yearFounded
• rating
• reviewsCount
• services: Array of services (taken from #services .profile-services ...)
• industries: Array of industries (taken from .profile-block.industries ...)
• socialLinks: { linkedin, facebook, twitter, instagram }
• portfolioCount
• scrapedAt: ISO timestamp

Input parameters

All inputs are defined in .actor/input_schema.json and visible in Apify UI.

• startUrls (required): DesignRush category and/or direct profile URL(s). Every output item includes the originating input URL in sourceStartUrl.
• maxItems (default: 50, 0 = unlimited): Max number of profile pages to process.
• startPage (default: 1): Start from this page number (1-based). Useful to resume.
• maxPages (default: 0, 0 = unlimited): Max number of category pages to process.
• requiredFields (default: empty): Only push leads that have ALL selected fields filled.
  • Supported values: email, website, linkedin, facebook, twitter, instagram
• proxyConfiguration: Proxy settings (recommended to use Apify Proxy for reliability).

Examples

Scrape first 3 pages, maximum 100 profiles:

{
    "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.designrush.com/agency/web-development-companies" }],
    "maxItems": 100,
    "startPage": 1,
    "maxPages": 3,
    "requiredFields": ["email", "website"],
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true }
}

Resume from page 10 and scrape 5 pages:

{
    "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.designrush.com/agency/web-development-companies" }],
    "maxItems": 0,
    "startPage": 10,
    "maxPages": 5,
    "requiredFields": [],
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true }
}

Scrape multiple companies or categories and keep the original input URL on each output item:

{
    "startUrls": [
        { "url": "https://www.designrush.com/agency/profile/duck-design" },
        { "url": "https://www.designrush.com/agency/web-development-companies" }
    ],
    "maxItems": 20,
    "startPage": 1,
    "maxPages": 2,
    "requiredFields": [],
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true }
}

In the dataset, each saved lead now contains both:

• sourceStartUrl: the exact input URL that produced the lead
• profileUrl: the scraped company profile URL on DesignRush

Notes / troubleshooting

• Email may be missing if the profile does not provide it (or does not include JSON-LD with email).
• If DesignRush changes markup, update selectors in src/selectors.ts and extraction helpers in src/utils.ts.