Gelbe Seiten Scraper - German Business Directory

Scrape business data from Gelbe Seiten (German Yellow Pages), one of Germany's largest business directories with millions of listings across all industries and regions.

What data can you extract?

For each business listing, the scraper extracts:

• Business name and categories
• Phone number, fax, and email
• Full address with street, postal code, and city
• Website URL
• GPS coordinates (latitude/longitude)
• Opening hours
• Ratings and review counts (from golocal.de integration)
• Logo image URL

Use with AI Agents (MCP)

Connect this actor to any MCP-compatible AI client — Claude Desktop, Claude.ai, Cursor, VS Code, LangChain, LlamaIndex, or custom agents.

Apify MCP server URL:

https://mcp.apify.com?tools=santamaria-automations/gelbeseiten-de-scraper

Example prompt once connected:

"Use gelbeseiten-de-scraper to scrape company data from gelbeseiten de. Return results as a table."

Clients that support dynamic tool discovery (Claude.ai, VS Code) will receive the full input schema automatically via add-actor.

How to use

Option 1: Search URL

Paste a Gelbe Seiten search URL directly:

{
  "searchUrls": ["https://www.gelbeseiten.de/suche/zahnarzt/muenchen"],
  "maxResults": 100,
  "includeDetails": true
}

Option 2: Search query + location

Provide a search term and city:

{
  "searchQuery": "restaurant",
  "location": "hamburg",
  "maxResults": 50,
  "includeDetails": true
}

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
searchUrls	array	-	Gelbe Seiten search result URLs
searchQuery	string	-	Search keyword (used if searchUrls is empty)
location	string	berlin	City or region name
maxResults	integer	100	Maximum businesses to scrape (1-10,000)
includeDetails	boolean	true	Fetch detail pages for full data (coordinates, hours, etc.)
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify proxy	Proxy settings

Output example

{
  "id": "76c6287c-fd53-42c9-b378-6ead68a639ad",
  "name": "GFAD Softwarehaus GmbH",
  "website": "https://itservice.gfad.de/",
  "phone": "030 26 91 11",
  "email": "info@gfad.de",
  "address": "Huttenstr. 34 -35, 10553 Berlin",
  "city": "Berlin",
  "postal_code": "10553",
  "country": "Germany",
  "country_code": "DE",
  "latitude": 52.529408,
  "longitude": 13.314976,
  "categories": ["Software"],
  "opening_hours": ["Mo-Fr 09:00-18:00"],
  "rating": 4.5,
  "review_count": 12,
  "source_url": "https://www.gelbeseiten.de/gsbiz/76c6287c-fd53-42c9-b378-6ead68a639ad",
  "source_platform": "gelbeseiten.de",
  "scraped_at": "2026-03-26T10:00:00Z"
}

Performance

• Memory: 128 MB (Go binary with TLS fingerprinting)
• Speed: ~50 businesses/page, ~1.5s delay between requests
• SERP only mode: Set includeDetails: false for faster scraping with basic data
• Detail mode: Full data including coordinates, opening hours, fax, and categories

Tips

• Use German search terms for best results (e.g., "Zahnarzt" instead of "dentist")
• Location names work in German (e.g., "Muenchen", "Koeln", "Nuernberg")
• Datacenter proxy works well -- no residential proxy needed
• The scraper extracts email from embedded chat widget data, even when not visually displayed

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