🔧 Auto Repair Shop Leads Scraper — Garage Emails & Phones

There are roughly 160,000 independent repair shops in the US alone, and the aftermarket that sells to them — parts distribution, shop-management software, diagnostic equipment, lifts, training, marketing, insurance, financing — has no clean way to reach them. Shops are not on LinkedIn. Half do not have a real website. The trade databases that do cover them are expensive and annual.

This Actor takes a different route: it reads the live map for any city and enriches each shop from its own site, returning shop name, phone, website, address, emails and social profiles at $8 per 1,000 shops.

Six shop types, six different buyers

The Shop types multi-select is not cosmetic — these segments buy completely different things:

1. Auto repair shop (general) — the core independent mechanic; buys parts, software, training
2. Auto body / collision shop — insurance-driven, buys paint, frame equipment, DRP tooling
3. Transmission repair shop — specialist, high ticket, small population per metro
4. Tire shop — volume retail, buys inventory systems and alignment equipment
5. Oil change / quick lube — throughput operations, often small chains
6. Diesel & fleet repair shop — commercial accounts, biggest deal sizes

Pick the ones matching your product; every row is tagged with the searchQuery that surfaced it, so a mixed run stays sortable. Anything else — brake shops, mobile mechanics, EV specialists, RV repair — goes in searchQueries as free text.

Reading the "no website" signal correctly

In most verticals a missing website is a dead lead. In auto repair it is the opposite: it is the qualification. A shop with no site and no email is the shop still running paper tickets, no scheduling software, no digital vehicle inspection and no review-generation. That is precisely the account an aftermarket SaaS or marketing agency wants — and it always has a phone number in this dataset.

So keep onlyWithWebsite: false (the default) if you sell modernization. Flip it to true only if your motion is email-only and you would rather not pay for rows you cannot use. Dropped rows are never charged either way.

Every row contains

name · category · phone + websitePhones[] · website · email + emails[] + emailFound · socialProfiles · address/city/country · rating + reviewsCount · techStack[] · placeUrl · coordinates · searchQuery. Export CSV/Excel/JSON or pull through the API into your CRM or dialer.

Territory planning, not just lists

Because every row carries coordinates and a parsed address, a run doubles as a territory map: count shops per zip to size a rep's patch, cluster them for a route-based sales day, or check density before opening a distribution branch. Run the same query monthly on an Apify schedule and the diff shows you new shops opening and closed ones disappearing — a churn signal you cannot buy.

Cost

$0.008 per shop delivered ($8 per 1,000) plus $0.01 per run start. A full metro across all six shop types typically returns 400–900 shops: $3.20 to $7.20. No subscription, no annual database license, no per-seat pricing.

Example input

{
  "location": "Columbus, OH",
  "keywords": ["auto repair shop", "auto body shop", "tire shop"],
  "maxResults": 200,
  "maxPagesPerSite": 2
}

Regional sweep: "searchQueries": ["auto repair shop in Cleveland, OH", "auto repair shop in Cincinnati, OH"].

FAQ

What percentage of shops have an email? Lower than white-collar niches — realistically 30–50% of shops that have a website at all, and a meaningful share have no website. This is a phone-first vertical, which is why every row keeps the number. Use emailFound to route leads into the right channel instead of expecting one file to do both.

Do I get chains like Midas, Jiffy Lube or Firestone? Yes, franchise locations appear as normal listings. They share a corporate domain, so dedupe on website to isolate independents — usually the segment worth selling to, since franchisees buy through corporate.

Can I find fleet and commercial shops specifically? Select Diesel & fleet repair shop, and add terms like "fleet maintenance" or "truck repair" in searchQueries. These are the largest tickets in the vertical and the thinnest population per city, so run several metros at once.

How do I judge shop size from the data? reviewsCount is the best available proxy — a 6-bay shop accumulates reviews far faster than a 2-bay one. Combined with rating, it separates busy well-run shops from struggling ones, which usually changes your pitch.

Is the data live or from a database? Live at run time. Shop turnover in this trade is high — ownership changes, closures, rebrands — so a scrape run today reflects today, not last year's export.

Can I schedule refreshes? Yes. Set an Apify schedule on the same input and compare datasets month to month; new entries are new shops, missing ones have closed or delisted.

Do you scrape anything about vehicles or customers? No. Only publicly listed business information and the contact details shops publish on their own websites. No consumer, vehicle or repair-order data is involved.

Any compliance caveats? Standard ones: the data is public business information, but your outreach must follow CAN-SPAM, GDPR where applicable, and TCPA rules if you call or text shop numbers — many are mobile lines.

Collision and auto body shops

Body shops are a different business from mechanical repair: insurance-driven revenue, paint and materials supply chains, DRP relationships, and estimating software nobody in a general repair shop uses.

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Custom search queries replace the shop-type picker and location, so each line names its own city. Body shops maintain better websites than mechanical shops — insurers expect it — which shows up as higher email coverage and a contactPageUrl on most rows.

Diesel, fleet and heavy-duty shops

The commercial end of vehicle repair, and the segment with real purchasing budgets:

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Fleet shops answer the phone at six in the morning and buy parts, lifts, diagnostic tooling and shop-management software by the year rather than the month. They cluster along freight corridors, not evenly across a metro — so run the queries against the industrial suburbs rather than the city centre.

Transmission, exhaust and single-service specialists

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Single-service specialists are the most under-listed shops in automotive: too niche for directory sites, too small for aggregators. Many run no website at all, so leave onlyWithWebsite off — the row still arrives with name, address, phone, rating and review count, which is everything a phone-based outreach needs, and the per-row price is the same either way.

For phone work, note that websitePhones holds up to four additional numbers found on the shop's own site with the Google Maps number filtered out, so no slot is wasted on a duplicate of a number you already have.