IQS Industrial Supplier Directory Scraper

Extract industrial supplier and manufacturer data from IQSDirectory.com -- one of the largest B2B industrial directories in the United States. This Apify Actor scrapes company names, addresses, phone numbers, websites, descriptions, product categories, and YouTube video URLs from IQS Directory category listings and company profile pages.

IQS Directory is a comprehensive resource for sourcing industrial suppliers, manufacturers, and service providers across hundreds of product categories. Whether you need data on CNC machining companies, metal fabrication shops, plastic injection molding providers, or custom manufacturing services, this scraper extracts structured business data ready for lead generation, market research, and supply chain analysis.

The scraper operates in two modes: a fast listing-only mode that extracts basic company information from category pages, and a detailed mode that visits each company's profile page to collect the full set of data fields including complete descriptions, website URLs, video content, and category classifications.

What data can you scrape from IQS Directory?

Field	Description
name	Company name
address	Full address (street, city, state, ZIP)
phone	Phone number
website	Company website URL
description	Full company description from profile page
categories	Industrial product categories the company is listed under
videoUrl	YouTube video embed URL (when available)
profileUrl	IQS Directory profile page URL

Why use this IQS Directory scraper?

• No login required -- all data is publicly accessible on IQS Directory
• Hundreds of industrial categories -- CNC machining, metal fabrication, plastic molding, and more
• Structured data extraction -- uses schema.org markup and semantic selectors for high accuracy
• Fast and efficient -- uses CheerioCrawler (no browser needed), keeping compute costs extremely low
• Pagination support -- automatically follows multi-page category listings
• Two scraping modes -- quick listing scan or detailed profile extraction
• Safety limits -- configurable max pages and max requests to control costs

How to scrape IQS Directory

1. Go to the IQS Directory Scraper page on Apify Store
2. Click Try for free
3. Enter a Category slug (e.g., cnc-machining, metal-fabrication, plastic-injection-molding)
4. Set Max Pages to control how many listing pages to scrape (each page has 10-30 companies)
5. Toggle Scrape Detail Pages on for full data (description, website, video, categories) or off for a quick list
6. Set Max Requests as a safety limit to prevent runaway costs
7. Click Start and wait for results
8. Download results as JSON, CSV, or Excel from the Dataset tab

Finding category slugs

Visit iqsdirectory.com and browse to any category page. The slug is the URL path segment -- for example:

• https://www.iqsdirectory.com/cnc-machining/ --> slug is cnc-machining
• https://www.iqsdirectory.com/metal-fabrication/ --> slug is metal-fabrication
• https://www.iqsdirectory.com/plastic-injection-molding/ --> slug is plastic-injection-molding

Input example

{
    "category": "cnc-machining",
    "maxPages": 5,
    "scrapeDetails": true,
    "maxRequestsPerCrawl": 500
}

Output example

Each company listing returns a JSON object like this:

{
    "profileUrl": "https://www.iqsdirectory.com/profile/grovtec-machining-78574/",
    "category": "cnc-machining",
    "name": "GrovTec Machining",
    "address": "23555 NE Halsey Street, Wood Village, OR, 97060",
    "phone": "503-557-4689",
    "website": "https://www.grovtecmachining.com/",
    "description": "At GrovTec Machining, we manufacture precision screw machine products and CNC machined components engineered to meet demanding dimensional and performance requirements...",
    "categories": ["CNC Machining", "Screw Machine Products"],
    "videoUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/embed/6BvFSIdFohI"
}

How much does it cost to scrape IQS Directory?

This Actor uses CheerioCrawler (no browser), so compute costs are very low.

Scenario	Pages	Results	Est. Compute	Est. Actor Fee
One category, listing only	5	~100	~$0.01	~$0.20
One category, with details	5	~100	~$0.03	~$0.20
Multiple categories	25	~500	~$0.10	~$1.00
Large-scale extraction	100	~2,000	~$0.40	~$4.00

Actor pricing: $0.002 per result + minimal compute costs. A typical run of 5 pages costs under $0.25 total.

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
category	string	Yes	cnc-machining	IQS category slug from the URL
maxPages	integer	No	5	Max listing pages to scrape (1-100)
scrapeDetails	boolean	No	true	Visit profile pages for full data
maxRequestsPerCrawl	integer	No	500	Safety limit on total HTTP requests

Tips for best results

• Start small -- test with maxPages: 1 and maxRequestsPerCrawl: 20 to verify the category works before scaling up
• Quick mode -- set scrapeDetails to false for a fast list of company names, locations, and profile URLs without visiting each detail page
• Large scrapes -- increase both maxPages and maxRequestsPerCrawl together. Each listing page contains 10-30 companies, and each company detail page is one additional request.
• Popular categories -- cnc-machining, metal-fabrication, plastic-injection-molding, precision-machining, contract-manufacturing, sheet-metal-fabrication

Integrations

Connect IQS Directory data with your workflow:

• API -- Access results programmatically via the Apify API
• Webhooks -- Get notified when a scrape completes
• Zapier / Make -- Pipe results into Google Sheets, CRMs, or databases
• Python / Node.js -- Use the Apify SDK to run and retrieve data

Legal disclaimer

This Actor extracts publicly available business information from IQSDirectory.com. It does not extract private user data, bypass authentication, or access protected content. The scraped data consists of business listings that companies have voluntarily published on IQS Directory's public industrial supplier directory.

Users are responsible for ensuring their use of scraped data complies with applicable laws, including GDPR and CCPA. For questions about data usage, consult a legal professional.

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