Philippines Business Directory List Scraper (Phone & Address)

Pain points

• businesslist.ph shows 20 listings per page, so one category such as travel agents (2,876 listings on 2026-10-25) is about 144 pages of clicking and copying.
• Each listing's address is one line of text the business typed itself, so street, city and province cannot be sorted or filtered without splitting it first.
• Metro Manila is written many ways ('NCR', 'MM', 'Mla', 'QC', or just the city), so filtering a list by province by hand misses rows.

What we solve

• Returns every listing in the categories you pick in one run, with phone, street, city and province as separate columns.
• Maps the many ways a province is written to the real province or Metro Manila, so a 'Metro Manila' or 'Cebu' filter catches them all; each filter takes a list.
• A business filed under several categories is returned and billed once. Every row carries the date the directory showed it.

Summary

Build a Philippine business prospect list in one run. Pick categories from the businesslist.ph directory (372 of them, from travel agents to cosmetic surgery), narrow by province and city, and get each listing's name, phone, street, city, province and, where the business pinned it, map coordinates. The stored copy read on 2026-10-26 holds 213,965 distinct businesses across all 372 categories: 88.6% have a phone, 93.9% a street, 86.7% a city or municipality and 96.0% a recognised province or Metro Manila; 10.4% carry map coordinates. The directory publishes no email on its listing pages. Data comes from a stored copy of the directory, so a run returns in seconds; each row says when it was read. Pay only per listing returned.

Who it's for

• B2B sales teams and BPO prospectors targeting Philippine businesses by trade and province
• Suppliers and distributors building dealer lists in Metro Manila, Cebu or Davao
• Marketing and data teams enriching a CRM with Philippine phone and address data
• Researchers counting businesses by category and province

How to use

This actor does two jobs. Run it, then collect results from the run's dataset (export to JSON/CSV/Excel, or pull via the Apify API).

Get a list (export): no names, just filters; returns the whole matching list.

{
  "categories": [
    "travel-agents"
  ],
  "maxResults": 200
}

Check specific firms (lookup): put company names or licence numbers in queries; Inputs below says how each is matched.

{
  "queries": [
    "Sysgen Outsource"
  ],
  "maxResults": 5
}

See Inputs below for every available field.

What you get

One row per record:

Field	Description
name	Business name as listed
phone	Phone number as the business wrote it
phone_e164	The same number in international format (+63...), when it can be read unambiguously
street	Street address
city	City or municipality as the business wrote it (on 3% it is the province; the region column is the reliable province)
region	Province, or Metro Manila
postal_code	Postcode, when the business wrote it beside the town
lat	Latitude, when the business pinned its location
lng	Longitude
category	The businesslist.ph category the listing was found in
listing_id	businesslist.ph company ID, stable per business
extras	The full address line, and the province as typed when it differs from the recognised one
source	'snapshot' (stored copy) or 'live'
source_url	The listing's page on businesslist.ph

Sample:

{
  "name": "Sysgen Outsource Inc.",
  "phone": "6328185672",
  "phone_e164": null,
  "street": "2F U203, State Condominium 1 186, Salcedo Street Legaspi Village",
  "city": "Makati City",
  "region": "Metro Manila",
  "lat": 14.55599122899351,
  "lng": 121.01571321487427,
  "country": "PH",
  "category": "3D Technology",
  "listing_id": "264926",
  "extras": {
    "address": "2F U203, State Condominium 1 186, Salcedo Street Legaspi Village Makati City 1229 Philippines, Metro Manila"
  },
  "source": "snapshot",
  "source_url": "https://www.businesslist.ph/company/264926/sysgen-outsource"
}

Inputs

Field	Required	Type	Default	Description
mode	no	string	"auto"	export: no names, just filters; returns the whole matching list. lookup: put business names in 'queries'. auto picks the mode for you.
query	no	string	—	A business name (or listing number) to look up in the stored copy of the directory. Kept alongside 'queries' for saved tasks.
queries	no	array	[]	A business name (or listing number) to look up in the stored copy of the directory. Several values in one run; combined with 'query'.
province	no	string	—	Only listings in this province. Kept alongside 'provinces' for saved tasks.
provinces	no	array	[]	Only listings in this province. Several values in one run; combined with 'province'.
city	no	string	—	Only listings in this city. Kept alongside 'cities' for saved tasks.
cities	no	array	[]	Only listings in this city. Several values in one run; combined with 'city'.
categories	no	array	[]	Only these categories, in the source's own names. Available: 3d-technology, ac-repair-services, advertising, advice-centres, aerospace, after-school-programs, agtech-agricultural-technology, air-transport, air-travel, aluminium-openings, apartment-rental, apartments, apps, architectural-services, artificial-intelligence, arts-and-crafts, asset-management, associations, attractions, auctions, audit-and-accounting, augmented-reality, auto-dealers-newused, auto-insurance, auto-parts-newused, … (372 in all; an unknown name returns the full list, free).
maxResults	no	integer	500	Per query in lookup mode; per run in export mode.
proxyConfiguration	no	object	{"useApifyProxy": false}	Used only for live lookups; exports read the stored snapshot.

Pricing (Pay Per Event)

You pay per result (dataset-item) — no charge for empty runs. Example: 500 business listings at $0.004/result ≈ $2.00.

Notices (unknown category, a request too large for one run, stale data) are free. Apify platform usage is billed separately per your plan.

Use cases

• Outbound lead generation: every travel agency in the Philippines with phone and street address, ready for a CRM import.
• Territory planning: list one trade across Metro Manila and the provinces and assign it to reps.
• Supplier prospecting: pull clinics, schools or service firms in one province by category.
• Market sizing: count listings per category and province before you buy a full list.

Why this actor

• Street on 93.9%, phone on 88.6% and a recognised province on 96.0% of 213,965 businesses (2026-10-26).
• Address split into street, city and province, ready to sort and filter.
• Province spellings and Metro Manila city names mapped to one province value.
• Each business once, even when it is filed under several categories.
• Pay per listing; notices are free.

Limitations & updates

Covers businesses listed on businesslist.ph under its 372 indexed categories. Data is served from a stored copy, so it can be weeks old; the run log states its date. No email is published on listing pages, and a postcode is given only where the business wrote it beside the town (5.3%). Coordinates appear only where the business pinned them. One run loads up to 300,000 listings.

FAQ

Where does the data come from?

The public businesslist.ph business directory. We keep a stored copy of its category pages and serve your run from it, so results come back in seconds. The run log states the date of the copy.

How do I choose categories?

Use businesslist.ph's own category names as they appear in its web addresses, e.g. 'travel-agents' or 'cosmetic-surgery'. Enter any name the actor does not know and it returns the full list of 372 categories as a free row.

Can I filter by province or city?

Yes. 'province' is the province, or 'Metro Manila' for the capital region (Makati, Quezon City, Pasig and the other Metro Manila cities count as Metro Manila); 'city' is the city in the address. Both take a list of values.

Does it include emails?

No. businesslist.ph does not show an email on its listing pages. Phone is on 88.6% of listings.

Why is phone_e164 often empty?

It is filled only when the number can be read unambiguously as a Philippine number (49.5% of businesses on 2026-10-26). Many Metro Manila numbers are written as 7 digits with no area code, so they cannot be converted safely. The phone column always keeps the number exactly as the business wrote it.

Is there a postcode?

Only where the business wrote it beside the town (5.3% of businesses on 2026-10-26). A 4-digit number elsewhere in a typed address cannot be told apart from a house number, so it is not guessed. The full address line is kept in extras.

How am I charged?

One event per business listing returned. A business found in two of your categories is charged once. Notices are free.

Guides & use cases

Written up on scrapebench.dev — the bench that runs and verifies this actor against the live source every night:

• How-to: How to run Philippines Business Directory List Scraper (Phone & Address)
• Use case: Philippines Travel Agency List with Phone Numbers

More actors, coverage and nightly verification results: scrapebench.dev

Works with AI assistants (MCP)

Callable as an MCP tool, so Claude, Cursor, VS Code Copilot and other MCP clients can run it directly. Grab the config from the MCP tab on this page — Apify hosts the server and keeps that snippet current, and OAuth signs you in on first connect, so no API token goes in your config file.

Then just ask:

"List travel agencies in the Philippines with their phone numbers and addresses."

That is category 'travel-agents': 2,876 listings on the 2026-10-26 data. Set maxResults to keep a first call small. Runs started this way bill exactly like any other run.

Data & lawful use

This actor collects publicly available information that businesslist.ph publishes for public lookup — licence records, business listings and the contact details professionals list there. Some of it identifies individuals (sole proprietors, licence holders, agents), so treat any names, phone numbers and emails in your results as personal data.

When you run this actor, you decide what is collected and what it is used for, so you are the controller of that data and we act only as your processor (Apify Standard Actor Contract). You need a lawful basis for your use, must honour opt-out and deletion requests, and must follow the marketing rules that apply to you (CAN-SPAM, TCPA, GDPR, CCPA and similar). Don't use the output for unsolicited bulk messaging, for screening covered by the FCRA, or for anything the source's own terms forbid.

Your results are stored in your own Apify account. We don't keep a copy of your results and don't sell or share them.

Disclaimer

This is an independent tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by businesslist.ph. Names and marks are used only to describe the data source. Records are provided as published by the source and may be out of date or incomplete. For anything consequential (hiring, a permit, a legal decision), confirm the record with the issuing agency. You are responsible for making sure your use complies with applicable law and the source's terms.

Need help?

Open an issue on this actor's Issues tab and we'll respond there. Bug reports, missing fields and feature requests are all welcome. Guides and examples: scrapebench.dev.

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