Herold.at Scraper & API - Austrian Business Leads & Emails

This Herold.at scraper turns herold.at, Austria's Gelbe Seiten (yellow pages), into clean B2B lead lists: give it categories (Branchen) like Installateur, Steuerberater or Rechtsanwalt and Austrian cities, Bundesländer or postal codes, and get one row per business with name, phone, email, website, full address with Bezirk and Bundesland, rating, Firmenbuchnummer (company register number), founding year, employees, opening hours, services, fax, social links and coordinates, as JSON, CSV or Excel. Use it as a Herold API, an Austrian business directory scraper, an Austria lead generation tool for cold outreach and sales prospecting, or a herold.at email extractor from your own code, Make, Zapier or n8n.

It reads the public result pages and business pages over plain HTTP, with no headless browser and no login. The 20-business demo took under 10 seconds in a cloud run. $0.70 per 1,000 businesses, no start fee: the cheapest of the Herold scrapers we found on 5 Nov 2026.

What you get

• Contact: business name, every phone number (+43 format), every email, website, fax, Facebook / Instagram / LinkedIn links.
• Address: street, postal code (PLZ), city, Bezirk (political district), Bundesland, one-line address, latitude and longitude.
• Company data: Firmenbuchnummer (e.g. FN 282492 f), founding year, employee range, parking.
• Reputation: average Herold rating and number of reviews, "Verifiziert" and "Empfohlen" flags.
• Business profile: all Herold categories, services (Leistungen), products (Produktangebot), description, opening hours per day, payment methods, logo, data date.
• Search context: the category and location that found it, its position in the Herold results and how many businesses that search lists.

Sample output

Real rows from the prefilled cloud run (Installateur in Wien, 20 businesses), a few of the 42 fields:

name	phone	email	website	district	Firmenbuch-Nr.	founded
Lugar Installateur GmbH	+43 1 8862759	office@lugar.at	lugar.at	Wien 23 (Liesing)	FN 282492 f	1996
Allgas - Volkmann GmbH - Gasgerätekundendienst	+43 1 48890880	gasgeraete@allgas.at	allgas.at	Wien 16 (Ottakring)	FN 382162 d	1986
Pölzl Christoph GmbH	+43 1 5874358	office@poelzl-installationen.at	poelzl-installationen.at	Wien 6 (Mariahilf)	FN 104488 i	1994
G.S.H.T Installateur Notdienst	+43 1 7134387	gsht@aon.at	notdienst-installateur.at	Wien 3 (Landstrasse)	-	2003
Georg Wagner GmbH	+43 1 9111550	office@doktor-wasser.at	doktor-wasser.at	Wien 14 (Penzing)	FN 324907 f	1978

All 20 rows of that run have a phone, an email and a website. Fill rates in a bigger 412-business test (Rechtsanwalt and Elektriker in Wien and Linz): coordinates and address 100%, phone 91%, email 83%, website 84%, services 58%, founding year 56%, opening hours 43%, fax 40%, Firmenbuchnummer 31%, rating 24%, social links 13%.

Use cases

• B2B lead generation in Austria: build call and email lists of tradespeople, tax advisors, lawyers, doctors, agencies or any other Branche, city by city or Bundesland by Bundesland
• KYB and CRM enrichment: add phone, email, website, Firmenbuchnummer, founding year and address to the Austrian companies you already track
• Sales territory planning: count and map every business of a category in a Bezirk or Bundesland (coordinates included)
• Local SEO and marketing agencies: find businesses without a website, with few reviews or a low rating, and pitch them
• DACH expansion: pair it with a German directory scraper to cover Germany and Austria with the same columns

Pricing

$0.70 per 1,000 businesses (pay per result; one result = one business saved to the dataset). No start fee, and emails, phones and company data are included at the same price. Apify platform usage and proxies are included too: the price above is all you pay.

You scrape	You pay
100 businesses	$0.07
1,000 businesses	$0.70
10,000 businesses	$7.00
100,000 businesses	$70.00

Other Herold.at scrapers on the Apify Store (free-plan prices per 1,000 businesses and 30-day users, 5 November 2026):

Actor	Price per 1,000
memo23 Herold.at Scraper (most used, 17 users)	$5.00 + $0.005 per run + $2.00 per 1,000 phones + $50.00 per 1,000 emails
lexis-solutions Herold.at Scraper (4)	$9.00 + $0.005 per run
fatihtahta Herold.At Scraper (5)	$1.79
santamaria-automations Herold.at Scraper (3)	$2.00 list rows / $5.00 detail rows + $0.05 per run
studio-amba Herold.at Scraper (0)	$12.00 + $0.01 per run
powerai Herold Business Listing Scraper (1)	$4.99 + $0.09 per run
themineworks Herold Scraper (1)	$2.00 + $30.00 per 1,000 emails + $0.005 per run
hipersoft Herold.at Scraper (1)	$2.00 + start fee
solidcode Herold.at Scraper (1)	$1.80 + $0.005 per run
delectable_incubator Herold.at Scraper (1)	$1.78 + start fee
abotapi Herold.at Scraper (0)	$1.50 + $0.04 per run + $0.80 per 1,000 details
bovi Herold Scraper (1)	$1.40 + start fee
blackfalcondata Herold.at Scraper (1)	$1.26 + start fee
thriftykiwi / dach_leads Herold scrapers (1 / 0)	$1.00
This actor	$0.70, no start fee, emails and company data included

Three "low-cost" / "billig" Herold actors show a $0.05 headline price, but that is their per-run start event; each saved business costs $1.78, $2.99 or $9.99 per 1,000 on top.

The Apify free plan's $5 monthly credit covers about 7,100 businesses. The prefilled input (Installateur in Wien, 20 businesses) costs $0.014 and finished in under 10 seconds in a cloud test. Businesses skipped by your filters, duplicates, categories or locations that do not exist, removed listings and failed requests are never charged. If you set a maximum cost per run, the scraper stops cleanly when it reaches it.

Why this one

• Cheapest Herold scraper we found (5 Nov 2026): $0.70 per 1,000 with emails, phones and the Firmenbuchnummer, no start fee; the next cheapest charge $1.00 (the most-used one charges $5.00 plus $50.00 per 1,000 emails).
• Forgiving input: plain words are matched to Herold's category list (Psychologe -> Psychologen), and city spellings are fixed for you (Graz -> graz-stadt, Sankt Pölten -> st-pölten-stadt).
• Filters before you pay: keep only businesses with an email, a website, a phone number, a verified listing or a minimum rating.
• Ready for your CRM: Bezirk and Bundesland split out, +43 phones, coordinates and company register number in each row.
• Light: plain HTTP, no browser, no login.

FAQ

Is there an official Herold API? Not for searching the directory: herold.at has no public self-service API for its listings, and Herold sells business address data separately on request. This actor works as a Herold API: start it over the Apify API with categories and locations and get JSON back.

What does a typical run cost? 500 plumbers (Installateur) across Austria cost $0.35. A 3,000-business list (several Branchen across a Bundesland) costs $2.10. A weekly run of 200 new leads costs about $0.60 a month. Refreshing 5 Branchen in all 9 Bundesländer at 100 businesses each (4,500 rows) once a month costs $3.15.

Does it need a browser, cookies or a Herold account? No. Plain HTTPS requests to the public pages, no login.

Which proxy should I use? None: leave the default. The actor connects directly and retries any blocked request through Apify Proxy automatically (datacenter, then residential).

Why is my category not found? Herold uses fixed German category names. The actor tries your word as a category, then matches it against Herold's Branchen A-Z list and tries the closest 3 names. If it still finds nothing, open herold.at, browse to the category in your city and paste the /gelbe-seiten/<location>/<category>/ URL into Herold.at URLs. The run summary names every spelling it tried.

Why does my city show as "Graz (Stadt)"? Austria's statutory cities (Graz, Linz, Innsbruck, Klagenfurt, Villach, Wels, St. Pölten, Krems, Steyr, Eisenstadt, Wiener Neustadt ...) are their own Bezirk on Herold. Typing Graz is enough; the actor switches to graz-stadt when needed.

Is there a cheaper mode without business pages? The price per business is the same; turning scrapeDetails off only makes the run faster (30 businesses per request instead of one request per business). Phone, email, website, address and rating are on the result list too, but the Firmenbuchnummer, founding year, fax, hours and coordinates are not.

Is scraping Herold legal? The actor only reads public business listings that herold.at's robots.txt allows (read 5 Nov 2026). You are responsible for how you use the data: contact data of sole traders can count as personal data under the GDPR, and Austrian law (TKG 2021 § 174) restricts unsolicited advertising emails and calls, so check your outreach before sending.

How to use

1. Type Categories (Branchen) in German, one per line: Installateur, Steuerberater, Zahnarzt, Elektriker, Rechtsanwalt, Tischler ... A word that is not an exact Herold category is matched against Herold's Branchen A-Z list.
2. Type Locations (optional), one per line: a city (Wien, Graz, Linz, Innsbruck), a Bundesland (Tirol, Steiermark) or a postal code (1010). Leave it empty to search all of Austria. Every category is searched in every location.
3. Or paste Herold.at URLs: result pages (https://www.herold.at/gelbe-seiten/wien/installateur/) and single business pages (https://www.herold.at/gelbe-seiten/wien/N1JdH/lugar-installateur-gmbh/).
4. Set Max businesses per category + location (0 = every listing), keep Open each business page on for the company data, and add filters if you only want businesses with an email, a website, a phone number or a minimum rating.
5. Click Start and download the leads from the Output tab, or fetch them through the Apify API.

Input

Field	Default	Description
categories	-	Herold categories in German, e.g. Installateur, Steuerberater
locations	all of Austria	Cities, Bundesländer or PLZ, e.g. Wien, Graz, Tirol, 1010
startUrls	-	Result pages (/gelbe-seiten/<location>/<category>/) or business pages
maxResultsPerSearch	100	Businesses per category-location pair. 0 = all (up to 6,000)
scrapeDetails	true	Open each business page for Firmenbuchnummer, founding year, fax, hours, services, geo
requireEmail / requireWebsite / requirePhone	false	Only keep businesses with that contact field
verifiedOnly	false	Only keep listings marked "Verifiziert"
minRating	-	Only keep businesses rated at least this (0-5)

With no input at all, a 20-business demo (Installateur in Wien) runs.

Input example

{
    "categories": ["Steuerberater", "Rechtsanwalt"],
    "locations": ["Wien", "Graz", "Salzburg"],
    "startUrls": ["https://www.herold.at/gelbe-seiten/tirol/tischlerei/"],
    "maxResultsPerSearch": 100,
    "scrapeDetails": true,
    "requireEmail": true
}

Output example

{
    "id": "N1JdH",
    "name": "Lugar Installateur GmbH",
    "phone": "+43 1 8862759",
    "phones": ["+43 1 8862759"],
    "fax": null,
    "email": "office@lugar.at",
    "emails": ["office@lugar.at"],
    "website": "https://www.lugar.at/wien23/",
    "socialLinks": ["https://www.facebook.com/Lugar-Installateur-GmbH-1050924018362456/"],
    "street": "Triester Straße 346",
    "postalCode": "1230",
    "city": "Wien",
    "district": "Wien 23 (Liesing)",
    "state": "Wien",
    "country": "AT",
    "address": "Triester Straße 346 1230 Wien Wien 23 (Liesing) Wien",
    "latitude": 48.12698,
    "longitude": 16.31962,
    "rating": 4.5,
    "reviewCount": 28,
    "categories": ["Installateur", "Photovoltaik", "Wärmepumpen", "Heizungsanlage"],
    "services": ["Bad- und Sanitärinstallationen", "Heizungsservice", "Rohrreinigung", "Notrufdienst"],
    "products": ["Heizungen", "Klimaanlagen", "Solaranlagen", "Wärmepumpen"],
    "description": "Die Firma Lugar wurde am 03.06.1996 von Herrn Christian Lugar MBA gegründet. ...",
    "openingHours": ["Monday 06:00-22:00", "Tuesday 06:00-22:00", "Wednesday 06:00-22:00"],
    "openNowText": "Jetzt geöffnet",
    "paymentMethods": ["Rechnung"],
    "foundingYear": 1996,
    "companyRegisterNumber": "FN 282492 f",
    "employees": null,
    "parking": "Kundenparkplatz",
    "verified": true,
    "recommended": true,
    "logo": "https://a.mktgcdn.com/p/i_UOqBZkaBvjB8aTLU5k4P5VLF4T-wb6z1nnbbO2N2w/600x600.jpg",
    "dataDate": "2026-10-27",
    "url": "https://www.herold.at/gelbe-seiten/wien/N1JdH/lugar-installateur-gmbh/",
    "searchCategory": "Installateur",
    "searchLocation": "Wien",
    "position": 1,
    "totalInSearch": 839,
    "detailsScraped": true,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-29T09:31:40.112Z"
}

A RUN_SUMMARY record in the key-value store lists, per category and location, the resolved Herold category, how many businesses Herold lists, how many were saved, and why each search stopped (for example a location Herold does not know).

Integrations

Export the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML, or pull it with the Apify API and the JavaScript / Python clients. Connect it to Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets, HubSpot or Slack with Apify integrations and webhooks, schedule weekly runs to keep your lead lists fresh, or call it from an AI agent through the Apify MCP server.

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