📇 Yellowpages India Scraper

A powerful Apify Actor that scrapes business listings from Yellowpages India. It performs HTML content tag-based data extraction in two stages:

1. Search Page — extracts property cards and queues detail URLs
2. Detail Page — extracts full description, amenities, and review data

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✅ Use Cases

• 🔍 Scrape business listings (e.g., electricians, plumbers) in any city or area
• 📊 Aggregate contact details, addresses and service/service lists
• 🏷️ Build local-business datasets for directories or lead generation
• 📋 Export listings with structured contact and service fields

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📥 Input Configuration

{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "http://yellowpages.in/hyderabad/electricians/610972586"
    }
  ],
  "maxItems": 50,
  "scrollTimeout": 40,
  "proxy": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]
  },
  "debugMode": false
}

🧾 Fields Explained

Field	Type	Description
startUrls	array	Yellowpages.in listing or search URLs. If provided, other parameters are ignored.
maxItems	integer	Maximum number of listing detail pages to scrape
scrollTimeout	integer	Seconds to scroll the page to load more results
proxy	object	Proxy configuration
debugMode	boolean	Save debug screenshots and verbose logs

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🔗 URL Structure

The scraper supports direct Yellowpages listing URLs:

http://yellowpages.in/hyderabad/electricians/610972586

No URL parameters required — provide full Yellowpages listing or search URL(s).

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📤 Output

Each record saved to the dataset contains (exact output keys):

{
  "name": "Bhavani Electricals",
  "business_url": "https://www.yellowpages.in/b/bhavani-electricals-malkajgiri-hyderabad/133997041",
  "image": "http://www.yellowpages.in/assets/business/t_default.png",
  "reviews": "0 reviews",
  "open_status": "Open - until 9:00PM",
  "phone": "9440444721",
  "area": "Malkajgiri Hyderabad - 500047",
  "fulladdress": "D. No. 14-220, New Mirjalguda, Malkajgiri, Hyderabad - 500047, Telangana.",
  "categories": [
    "Building Materials",
    "Cement Materials",
    "Electrical Suppliers"
  ],
  "business_timings": [
    { "day": "Sunday", "time": "9:00AM - 1:30PM", "status": "Closed" },
    { "day": "Monday", "time": "9:00AM - 9:00PM", "status": "Open" },
    { "day": "Tuesday", "time": "9:00AM - 9:00PM", "status": "Open" },
    { "day": "Wednesday", "time": "9:00AM - 9:00PM", "status": "Open" },
    { "day": "Thursday", "time": "9:00AM - 9:00PM", "status": "Open" },
    { "day": "Friday", "time": "9:00AM - 9:00PM", "status": "Open" },
    { "day": "Saturday", "time": "9:00AM - 9:00PM", "status": "Open" }
  ],
  "directions": "http://www.google.com/maps/place/17.4491,78.5338",
  "source": "https://www.yellowpages.in/hyderabad/..."
}

📋 Output Schema

Field	Type	Description
name	string	Business / listing name
business_url	string	Full listing URL on Yellowpages.in
image	string	Image URL from the card
reviews	string	Reviews count text (e.g. "0 reviews")
open_status	string	Open/closed status text from the card
phone	string	Business contact phone (if available)
area	string	Area / address text
categories	array	Business categories / tags
directions	string	External maps/directions link
source	string	Search page or source URL where the listing was found

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🔒 Proxy Configuration

{
  "useApifyProxy": true,
  "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]
}

Residential proxies are recommended to avoid Yellowpages.in anti-bot measures.

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🛠️ Tech Stack

• 🧩 Apify SDK — actor and dataset handling
• 🕷️ Crawlee — crawling and request queue management
• 🌐 Puppeteer — headless browser automation
• ⚙️ Node.js — fast, scalable backend