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
• 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): Category URL(s). For MVP we recommend exactly one category.
• 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 }
}

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.