YellowPages.ca Scraper & API - Canada Business Leads, Phones

This YellowPages.ca scraper turns yellowpages.ca, Canada's biggest business directory, into clean B2B lead lists: give it search terms like plumber, dentist or restaurants and Canadian cities like Toronto ON or Montreal QC, and get one row per business with name, all phone numbers, website, full address, categories, rating and reviews, opening hours, social links, services, service areas, languages, payment methods and coordinates, as JSON, CSV or Excel. Use it as a YellowPages Canada API, a Canadian business directory scraper, a Canada lead generation tool for cold outreach and sales prospecting, or a Pages Jaunes Canada extractor from your own code, Make, Zapier or n8n.

It reads the public search and business pages over plain HTTP, with no headless browser and no login. 300 businesses with hours, coordinates and social links take about 20 seconds.

How to use

1. Type Search terms, one per line: plumber, dentist, restaurants, Electricians & Electrical Contractors, avocat ... (English or French, categories or business names).
2. Type Locations as City PROVINCE, one per line: Toronto ON, Montreal QC, Vancouver BC, Calgary AB. Every term is searched in every location.
3. Or paste YellowPages.ca URLs: search pages (https://www.yellowpages.ca/search/si/1/plumber/Ottawa+ON) and single business pages (https://www.yellowpages.ca/bus/Ontario/Toronto/<name>/<id>.html).
4. Set Max businesses per search term + location (0 = every listing), keep Open each business page on for hours, coordinates and social links, and add filters if you only want businesses with 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.

What you get

• Contact: business name, every phone number on the listing (plus the main one in +1 format), website (the real URL, not YellowPages' redirect), Facebook / Instagram / X / LinkedIn links.
• Address: street with unit, city, province, postal code, one-line address, latitude and longitude.
• Reputation: average YellowPages rating and number of reviews.
• Business profile: main category and all categories, products and services, specialties, features, service areas, languages spoken, rates, brands, professional memberships (BBB ...), payment methods, opening hours per day, open-now text, description, logo.
• Ad signals: sponsored (paid top placement) and listingTier (YellowPages advertising tier), handy for spotting businesses that already pay for marketing.
• Search context: the search term and location that found it, its position in the results and how many results that search has.

Sample output

Real rows from the Store demo (electrician in Toronto ON, from sample-output.json), a few of the 42 fields:

name	category	phone	website	city	rating
Expert GTA Electric	Electricians & Electrical Contractors	647-846-8903	expertgta.com	East York, ON	5 (11)
Safe Electrical Solutions	Electricians & Electrical Contractors	647-846-2663	safeelectricalsolutions.ca	Toronto, ON	5 (2)
Argon Electric Ltd	Electricians & Electrical Contractors	416-213-1516	argonelectric.ca	Etobicoke, ON	-
Easy Electric Inc	Electricians & Electrical Contractors	416-300-1030	easyelectricinc.ca	North York, ON	-
Plaza Electric Ltd	Electricians & Electrical Contractors	905-789-9655	plazaelectric.ca	Brampton, ON	-

Fill rates in a 301-business test run (plumber and restaurants in Calgary AB and Montreal QC, dentist in Vancouver BC, website filter on): phone, website, categories, province 100%, postal code 91%, coordinates 89%, opening hours 77%, services 74%, payment methods 70%, description 69%, languages 68%, social links 67%, rating 39%.

Why this one

• $0.70 per 1,000 businesses, no start fee, business-page details (hours, coordinates, social links, services) included at the same price: the lowest price of the paid YellowPages.ca scrapers.
• English and French Canada: search plombier in Laval QC as easily as plumber in Calgary AB.
• Real website URLs (not YellowPages redirects) and the main phone in +1 format, ready for a dialer or CRM.
• Ad signals (sponsored, listingTier) show which businesses already pay for marketing.

Use cases

• B2B lead generation in Canada: build call lists of contractors, clinics, law firms, restaurants or any other trade, city by city, in English or French Canada
• Local SEO and marketing agencies: find businesses with few reviews, a low rating or no social profiles, and pitch them; listingTier shows who already buys ads
• Sales territory planning: count and map every business of a type across your cities (coordinates and service areas included)
• Market research: compare how many providers a trade has across Canadian cities and what services they offer
• CRM enrichment: add phones, website, hours, address and social links to the companies you already track

Pricing

Pay per result: $0.70 per 1,000 results (one result = one business saved to the dataset).

Run	Results	Cost
Store demo (electrician, Toronto ON)	20	$0.014
One term in one city, default	100	$0.07
One term in 10 cities	1,000	$0.70
Every listing of a big search (100 pages)	about 2,500	about $1.75

No start fee, and the same price with or without the business-page details. Businesses skipped by your filters, duplicates (YellowPages repeats its sponsored placements on every page), searches with no results, removed listings and failed requests are never charged. Platform usage is small because no browser runs. If you set a maximum cost per run, the scraper stops cleanly when it reaches it. Apify's free plan ($5 of monthly credit) covers about 7,100 businesses.

Other paid YellowPages.ca actors on the Store charge $0.72 plus a $0.01 start fee (blackfalcondata), $1.00 (steadyscrape), $2.00 (yugenox), $3.00 plus a start fee (automation-lab) and $4.99 plus $0.09 per run (easyapi) per 1,000 results.

Input

Field	Default	Description
searchTerms	-	What to search, e.g. plumber, dentist, restaurants
locations	-	City PROVINCE, e.g. Toronto ON, Montreal QC
startUrls	-	Search pages (/search/si/1/<what>/<where>) or business pages (/bus/.../<id>.html)
maxResultsPerSearch	100	Businesses per term-location pair. 0 = all (up to 100 result pages)
scrapeDetails	true	Open each business page for hours, geo, social links, service areas
includeSponsored	true	Keep the paid placements at the top of each page
requireWebsite / requirePhone	false	Only keep businesses with that contact field
minRating	-	Only keep businesses rated at least this (0-5)

With no input at all, a 20-business demo (electrician in Toronto ON) runs.

Input example

{
    "searchTerms": ["plumber", "restaurants"],
    "locations": ["Calgary AB", "Montreal QC"],
    "startUrls": ["https://www.yellowpages.ca/search/si/1/dentist/Vancouver+BC"],
    "maxResultsPerSearch": 100,
    "scrapeDetails": true,
    "requireWebsite": true
}

Example inputs for common jobs

Copy one into the JSON tab of the input form.

Contractor leads with a website in four Ontario cities

{
    "searchTerms": ["roofing contractors", "hvac contractors"],
    "locations": ["Toronto ON", "Ottawa ON", "Mississauga ON", "Hamilton ON"],
    "maxResultsPerSearch": 200,
    "requireWebsite": true,
    "requirePhone": true
}

French-language search across Quebec

{
    "searchTerms": ["plombier", "avocat"],
    "locations": ["Montreal QC", "Quebec QC", "Laval QC", "Gatineau QC"],
    "maxResultsPerSearch": 100
}

Well-rated dentists for a local SEO pitch

{
    "searchTerms": ["dentist"],
    "locations": ["Vancouver BC", "Calgary AB", "Edmonton AB"],
    "maxResultsPerSearch": 0,
    "minRating": 4
}

Fast listing-only export of every restaurant in a city

{
    "searchTerms": ["restaurants"],
    "locations": ["Winnipeg MB"],
    "maxResultsPerSearch": 0,
    "scrapeDetails": false,
    "includeSponsored": false
}

Output example

{
    "id": "8045023",
    "name": "Plumteck Déblocage Drain",
    "category": "Plumbers & Plumbing Contractors",
    "categories": ["Plumbers & Plumbing Contractors", "Drain & Sewer Cleaning"],
    "phone": "438-604-5815",
    "phones": ["438-604-5815", "514-336-0382"],
    "phoneE164": "+14386045815",
    "website": "http://plumteckdeblocagedrain.ca/",
    "socialLinks": ["https://www.facebook.com/pages/Plumteck-D%C3%A9blocage-Drain/278402595939259"],
    "street": "2700 Av Chicoutimi",
    "city": "Laval",
    "province": "QC",
    "postalCode": "H7E 1B1",
    "country": "CA",
    "address": "2700 Av Chicoutimi, Laval, QC H7E 1B1",
    "latitude": 45.5979736,
    "longitude": -73.677322,
    "rating": 4.8,
    "reviewCount": 34,
    "openingHours": ["Monday 07:00-23:00", "Tuesday 07:00-23:00", "Wednesday 07:00-23:00", "Thursday 07:00-23:00", "Friday 07:00-23:00", "Saturday 07:00-23:00", "Sunday 07:00-23:00"],
    "openNowText": "Open until 11:00 pm",
    "services": ["Drain Clogged With Tree Roots", "Bathroom Sink Repair", "Clogged Drain", "Drain Pipe Repair"],
    "specialties": ["Drain Unclogging", "Camera Inspection", "Sewer Cleaning"],
    "serviceAreas": ["Notre-Dame-de-Grâce", "Côte-des-Neiges", "Ville-Marie", "Outremont", "Anjou"],
    "languages": ["French", "English", "Italian"],
    "paymentMethods": ["Cash"],
    "sponsored": true,
    "listingTier": "GSP",
    "url": "https://www.yellowpages.ca/bus/Quebec/Laval/Plumteck-Deblocage-Drain/8045023.html",
    "searchKeyword": "plumber",
    "searchLocation": "Montreal QC",
    "position": 1,
    "totalInSearch": 657,
    "detailsScraped": true,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-27T17:22:11.819Z"
}

(Shortened: rows also carry description, features, rates, brands, professional organizations and logo; lists are cut here.)

The dataset has three views: Leads, Details and Search order. The RUN_SUMMARY record lists per search term and location how many results YellowPages has, how many were saved, how many your filters skipped and why each search stopped, plus any search that returned nothing.

Integrations

• Our Website Contact Extractor: YellowPages.ca rarely shows emails, so pass the website column to collect emails and social profiles from each company site.
• Our Website Tech Stack Detector: see which CMS, shop system or analytics each lead's website runs.
• Our YellowPages (US) and Gelbe Seiten (Germany) scrapers: the same lead format for the United States and Germany.
• Make, Zapier and n8n: run the actor and push the leads to your CRM, a mailing tool or Slack.
• Google Sheets: export the dataset straight to a spreadsheet.
• Apify API: start runs and download results over REST, or with the JavaScript and Python clients.
• Webhooks: get notified when a run finishes.
• MCP for AI agents: the Apify MCP server (https://mcp.apify.com) lets Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other agents call this YellowPages.ca scraper as a tool.

Limits

• Canada only. For US businesses use our YellowPages (yellowpages.com) scraper.
• No emails: YellowPages.ca does not publish email addresses; chain the Website Contact Extractor for those.
• Up to 100 result pages per term-location pair (about 2,500 unique businesses). For big cities, split by neighbourhood or postal code, or use narrower terms.
• Opening hours, social links, service areas, languages and payment methods are only there when the business listed them, and need scrapeDetails on.
• YellowPages widens a search to nearby cities when the city has few matches, so some rows can sit outside the city you typed (city shows where each one is).
• Results come in YellowPages' own relevance order.

FAQ

Does it need a browser, cookies or a YellowPages 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 Canadian residential).

Is scraping YellowPages.ca legal? The actor only reads public business listings on pages robots.txt allows (search result pages and the main business page; review, map and redirect pages are never requested). You are responsible for how you use the data: Canada's anti-spam law (CASL) restricts commercial electronic messages, and PIPEDA applies to sole traders' personal data, so check your outreach before sending.

Why did my search return nothing? Check the spelling, and write the location as City PROVINCE (e.g. Saskatoon SK). Searches with no results are listed in RUN_SUMMARY and cost nothing.

Is there a cheaper mode without business pages? The price per business is the same; turning scrapeDetails off only makes the run faster (about 25 businesses per request instead of one request per business) and drops hours, coordinates and social links.