PartySlate Scraper — Event Venue & Vendor Leads

Event venues and event vendors from PartySlate. One row is one company: name, category or venue type, street, city, state, ZIP, latitude/longitude, Google Place ID, phone, website, Instagram, seated and standing capacity, the per-room event-space breakdown with amenities, published photo and event counts, response time, published pricing and whether the listing is claimed.

119 US metros. 18,992 venues + 29,608 vendors = 48,600 companies, plus 44,593 published real events whose credit lists reach pros the directory search never returns — all counted live through PartySlate's own API, not quoted from a marketing page.

Filter by metro, venue type, vendor category, ownership classification, capacity, published pricing, claimed status, phone or website — or just paste a PartySlate search URL out of your browser. No login. No API key. No cookies. No CAPTCHA solving. No proxy needed.

{ "listingType": "venues", "locations": ["chicago"], "maxItems": 100 }

Click Try for free and hit Start — that is the input the Actor ships with. It returned 100 Chicago venues in 7 requests on the last test run (website 100%, phone 100%, Instagram 99%, capacity 100%).

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Quick start

1. Create a free Apify account and open this Actor.
2. Press Start. The prefilled input is a real 100-venue Chicago run — nothing to type.
3. To aim it somewhere else, either put a metro in Metro areas (miami, or just type "New York" and it is resolved through PartySlate's own geocoder) …
4. … or run the search on partyslate.com in your browser and paste the address bar into Start URLs. Pasted URLs override every picker.
5. Set Max results — it is your cost cap: 100 rows = $0.40.
6. Download JSON, CSV or Excel, or read it from the API. Four dataset views ship with the Actor: Venues & vendors, Venue leads, Vendor leads, Real-event credits.

About 3 minutes from pressing Start to a downloaded CSV on a 100-row run.

Copy to your AI assistant

ScrapersDelight/partyslate-venue-scraper on Apify.
Call: ApifyClient("TOKEN").actor("ScrapersDelight/partyslate-venue-scraper").call(run_input={...}),
then client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).list_items().items for results.
Key inputs: startUrls (array of partyslate.com /find-venues, /find-vendors or /real-events URLs,
default []), listingType ("venues"|"vendors"|"both"|"real-events", default "venues"),
locations (array of metro slugs, default ["chicago"], empty = all 119 metros),
vendorCategories (array), venueTypes (array), maxItems (int, default 100, = cost cap),
enrichContacts (bool, default true), skip (int, default 0).
Full actor spec: GET https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/ScrapersDelight~partyslate-venue-scraper
(Bearer TOKEN). Get token: https://console.apify.com/account/integrations

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The wedge: capacity, event spaces and the credit list

Two things here are not on Google Maps and not in any other PartySlate scraper on the store.

1. Room-level capacity. A seated or standing capacity is published on 78.9% of venues nationwide (a standing figure specifically on 78.3%), and 60.9% of venues in a full-metro walk carry an eventSpaces array — every bookable room with its own name, seated and standing capacity, space types, amenities and photo count. A caterer, an AV company or a rental firm qualifies a venue on how many people fit in which room, and that number does not exist on a Maps listing.

2. The credit list on 44,593 published real events. Set the source to Real events and the Actor walks PartySlate's published-event gallery and returns every pro the event's author credited — planner, caterer, florist, photographer, band, rentals, and the venue. Measured on a live run: 509 credit lines across 100 events, of which 348 (68.4%) link to a PartySlate company record, giving 303 unique companies from 100 event fetches. These rows are the working end of the market — 94.0% have claimed their profile, 96.4% publish a website and 88.4% a phone, all higher than the directory average — and they include companies that a directory search in the same metro does not surface.

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Who buys this

Buyer	What they monetize
Catering, AV, lighting and rental companies	maxCapacity + eventSpaces + phone: a venue that seats 250 is a different sale from one that seats 1,200. 78.9% of venues publish a capacity.
Venue-management and event-booking SaaS (Tripleseat, Perfect Venue, Event Temple)	isUnclaimed and profilePlan: 32.5% of venues in a whole-metro walk have never claimed their listing — a ready-made target list of venues with no software behind them.
Wedding and event marketplaces building supply	listingType: "real-events" credit rows: pros already proven to work weddings, with website at 96.4% and phone at 88.4%.
Agencies selling websites and SEO to event pros	website is blank on 13.3% of venues and 21.0% of vendors — that is the pitch list, and phone is on 83.4% / 66.4% of them.
Supplier-diversity and procurement teams	diversityClassifications — 20.8% of vendors self-declare Woman / Black / Hispanic or Latinx / Veteran / LGBTQ+ ownership, filterable server-side.
Corporate event planners and sourcing platforms	minimumSpendUsd and pricePerGuestUsd on the 15.7% of venues that publish pricing, plus responseTime to rank who actually answers.

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Read this before you buy rows

1. Two record types, one shape

listingType: "venues" returns event spaces. listingType: "vendors" returns the event businesses around them. "both" returns both in one dataset with identical columns — venue fields are null on vendor rows and vice versa, and every row carries a listingType flag. Nothing is merged into a ragged schema.

2. photoCount is not the same measurement on both types

	what photoCount counts
venues	photos across the venue's published event spaces (the room galleries)
vendors	the vendor's entire published portfolio

That is why a vendor commonly shows 3,000+ and a venue shows 40. PartySlate does not publish a whole-profile photo total for venues anywhere, so this Actor sums what the site does publish rather than inventing a number. Venue rows with no published spaces get null, not 0.

3. Vendors are listed at city level, venues at street level

Vendors are service businesses; only 8.5% publish a street address. city, state, latitude/longitude and address are still 100%. Venues are the opposite — 94.7% carry a full street address and 92.8% a ZIP.

4. Results come paying-listings-first

PartySlate ranks its own search by subscription tier — platinum, then premier, then the free basic listings, which are 94% of the directory. So a maxItems: 100 run returns the premium end of the market with much higher field fill than the directory average. Both numbers are published below; use the one that matches the run you are about to pay for.

5. Real-event rows are contact-rich and structure-poor

A credit line is a link, not a listing. Those rows carry no capacity, no event spaces, no photo counts, no published pricing and no description — measured 0.0% on all five across 250 rows. What they do carry is contacts, better than the directory does. Table D below is the one to plan against if you use that source.

6. eventType re-ranks, it does not filter

PartySlate accepts an event type on both searches and echoes it back, but the matching pool is identical with and without it: New York photographers return 406 either way, Los Angeles returns 1,214 venues either way. Only the order changes. On a capped run that decides which wedding-first companies you get; on an uncapped run it changes nothing but the sequence. This Actor sends it and says so rather than selling it as a filter.

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What you get

One row per company. All dates are ISO-8601 UTC; all money fields are numbers in USD.

Group	Fields
Identity	listingType (venue/vendor) · companyId · name · slug · profileUrl · category · categorySlug · services · venueTypes · amenities
Location	street · city · state · stateCode · postalCode · country · address · latitude · longitude · googlePlaceId
Contact	phone (E.164) · phoneFormatted · website · instagramUrl
Capacity (venues)	seatedCapacity · standingCapacity · maxCapacity · eventSpaceCount · eventSpaces[] (name, seated, standing, types, amenities, photoCount)
Traction	photoCount · publishedEventCount · albumCount · testimonialCount · yearsInBusiness · foundedYear · responseTime
Money	minimumSpendUsd · pricePerGuestUsd · minimumBudgetUsd · hasPublishedPricing
Segmentation	diversityClassifications · topEventTypes[] · travelOption · isUnclaimed · profilePlan
Lead hygiene	isClosed (PartySlate's permanently-closed flag) · closedAt (ISO date it closed, or null). Both come from the company profile, so they are populated only when Enrich contacts is on (the default); with enrichment off they stay null.
Real-event provenance	creditedService (the role the event author credited them for) · sourceEventId
Media & provenance	description · coverImageUrl · logoUrl · searchLocation · scrapedAt

Optional fields are null, never dropped, so your CSV columns stay stable across runs.

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Measured, not estimated

Every number on this page came from a run. Nothing is rounded up, and the unflattering rows are in the same tables as the good ones.

A. Complete metro, every listing including free ones. Whole Chicago corpus scraped end to end — the numbers you get when you take everything:

Field	Venues (n=1,279)	Vendors (n=1,916)
name, city, state, address, latitude/longitude, profileUrl	100%	100%
stateCode	100%	99.7%
website	86.7%	79.0%
description	85.8%	75.3%
phone	83.4%	66.4%
googlePlaceId	88.0%	76.9%
instagramUrl	77.6%	67.7%
street / postalCode	94.7% / 92.8%	8.5% / 7.8%
maxCapacity (seated or standing)	72.6%	—
venueTypes	60.5%	—
eventSpaceCount / amenities	60.9% / 44.6%	—
photoCount	57.1%	84.2%
publishedEventCount	44.5%	64.4%
albumCount	—	83.3%
services	—	51.1%
responseTime	24.0%	28.5%
yearsInBusiness / foundedYear	—	26.7%
diversityClassifications	—	20.8%
hasPublishedPricing	16.6%	20.0%
testimonialCount > 0	12.3%	9.7%
claimed listings (isUnclaimed: false)	67.5%	83.5%
email	0%	0%

B. Nationwide, all 119 metros, 48,600 companies. The same sweep this Actor performs when you leave locations empty (listing fields only — the contact lookup was not run on all 48,600):

Venues (n=18,992)		Vendors (n=29,608)
name / address	100%	name / category / state	100%
standing capacity	78.3%	city	99.8%
any capacity	78.9%	description	79.3%
phone	80.9%	photo count	75.2%
description	84.4%	album count	73.7%
event spaces	55.6%	phone	60.3%
venue types	55.0%	published events	58.3%
photo count	47.0%	services	41.9%
response time	19.0%	response time	27.0%
published pricing	15.7%	years in business	25.3%

C. A 100-row run hits the platinum/premier end of the ranking. The shipped default input (100 Chicago venues) most recently returned website 100%, phone 100%, Instagram 99%, capacity 100%, published pricing 53%. Real, but not representative of the whole directory — see §4.

D. The real-events source, measured on 250 companies pulled from 100 published events across all six event categories (509 credit lines, 161 of them text-only with no PartySlate profile behind them), 2026-08-12:

Field	Fill
name, profileUrl, category, creditedService, sourceEventId, address, latitude/longitude, state	100%
publishedEventCount	99.6%
city	99.2%
stateCode	98.4%
website	96.4%
logoUrl	95.6%
instagramUrl	94.8%
claimed listings (isUnclaimed: false)	94.0%
phone	88.4%
googlePlaceId	86.4%
maxCapacity, eventSpaces, photoCount, description, hasPublishedPricing	0.0%

Split: 200 vendors / 50 venues, spread across 18 states. The headline that could mislead you: the real-events source is a contact product, not a capacity product. If you need capacity, use the venue directory.

Every run prints its own measured fill in the log, on the run you actually paid for.

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How to run it

Paste a URL (the fastest way)

Run the search on partyslate.com, copy the address bar, paste it in. Start URLs override every other picker, and you can mix all three shapes in one run:

{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.partyslate.com/find-venues/near/chicago-il-usa/types/ballroom",
    "https://www.partyslate.com/find-vendors/wedding-photographer/area/new-york-city",
    "https://www.partyslate.com/real-events/weddings"
  ],
  "maxItems": 45
}

The three supported shapes — the only ones PartySlate itself publishes, taken from its own sitemap (2,559 /find-vendors, 409 /find-venues and 66 /real-events pages):

/find-venues/near/<place>                        e.g. /find-venues/near/chicago
/find-venues/near/<place>/types/<venueType>           /find-venues/near/chicago-il-usa/types/ballroom
/find-venues/<eventType>-venues/near/<place>          /find-venues/wedding-venues/near/los-angeles
/find-vendors/<segment>/area/<metro>                  /find-vendors/wedding-photographer/area/new-york-city
                                                      /find-vendors/event-vendors/area/albany  (all categories)
/real-events/<category>[?area=<metro>]                /real-events/mitzvahs?area=miami

<place> works as a PartySlate metro slug (chicago) or a Google place slug (chicago-il-usa) — both resolve. A company profile URL (/venues/<slug>, /vendors/<slug>) is not a search page and is rejected rather than half-scraped. Anything unrecognised stops the run immediately with PartySlate's live vocabulary printed.

Venues in one metro

{ "listingType": "venues", "locations": ["miami"], "venueTypes": ["ballroom", "hotel"], "minCapacity": 300, "maxItems": 200 }

Vendors, filtered by category and ownership

{ "listingType": "vendors", "locations": ["new-york-city"], "vendorCategories": ["caterer", "planner"], "diversityClassifications": ["woman-owned"], "maxItems": 200 }

vendorCategories, venueTypes, diversityClassifications and withPublishedPricingOnly are all server-side — they narrow the pool without costing you extra requests.

Every pro credited on published events

{ "listingType": "real-events", "eventCategories": ["weddings", "corporate-events"], "maxItems": 250 }

Categories are interleaved so a capped run is not all weddings. Leave enrichContacts on here — a credit line carries almost nothing without it.

Nationwide

{ "listingType": "both", "locations": [], "maxItems": 1000 }

An empty locations sweeps all 119 metros breadth-first over a deterministic scatter, so a 500-row nationwide run came back across 14 metros in 21 states (Fargo, Napa Valley, Phoenix, San Francisco, Washington DC, Indianapolis, Baltimore…), not the first few alphabetically. Multiple locations are interleaved the same way — 40 rows over Miami and Los Angeles returns 21/19, not 40/0.

The cheap sweep

{ "listingType": "venues", "locations": [], "enrichContacts": false, "includeDescription": false, "maxItems": 5000 }

Turning enrichContacts off removes one ~0.5 KB request per company — roughly half the requests in the run. You keep name, capacity, event spaces, address, phone and pricing; you lose website, instagramUrl and googlePlaceId. The price per company is the same either way — this only buys you speed.

Resume across runs

{ "listingType": "venues", "locations": ["chicago"], "skip": 100, "maxItems": 100 }

PartySlate's search order is stable, so skip continues where the last run stopped instead of re-buying the same leads. Skipped rows are never charged.

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Sample row — venue (directory)

{
  "listingType": "venue",
  "companyId": 1041,
  "name": "Builders BLDG",
  "profileUrl": "https://www.partyslate.com/venues/builders-bldg",
  "category": "Venue",
  "venueTypes": ["Ballroom", "Landmark", "Event Space", "Historic Space", "Meeting Space", "Outdoor"],
  "amenities": ["A/V Equipment", "Handicap Accessible", "Pet Friendly", "WiFi", "Windows", "Dance Floor", "Valet Parking", "Street Parking", "Coat Check"],

  "street": "222 N La Salle St",
  "city": "Chicago",
  "state": "Illinois",
  "stateCode": "IL",
  "postalCode": "60601",
  "address": "222 N La Salle St, Chicago, IL 60601, USA",
  "latitude": 41.8865777,
  "longitude": -87.6327762,
  "googlePlaceId": "ChIJ5UMWuLAsDogRGeJfwjncV34",

  "phone": "+13127267777",
  "phoneFormatted": "(312) 726-7777",
  "website": "http://buildersbldg.com/",
  "instagramUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/buildersbldg/",

  "seatedCapacity": 250,
  "standingCapacity": 700,
  "maxCapacity": 700,
  "eventSpaceCount": 4,
  "eventSpaces": [
    { "name": "Main Ballroom", "seatedCapacity": 150, "standingCapacity": 200,
      "types": ["Landmark", "Event Space", "Historic Space", "Meeting Space"],
      "amenities": ["WiFi", "Valet Parking", "Handicap Accessible", "Street Parking", "A/V Equipment", "Coat Check", "Windows", "Dance Floor", "Pet Friendly"],
      "photoCount": 81 }
  ],

  "photoCount": 84,
  "publishedEventCount": 33,
  "testimonialCount": 5,
  "responseTime": "12-24 hrs",
  "minimumSpendUsd": 25000,
  "pricePerGuestUsd": 280,
  "hasPublishedPricing": true,
  "topEventTypes": [
    { "eventType": "wedding", "publishedEvents": 22 },
    { "eventType": "corporate-event", "publishedEvents": 4 },
    { "eventType": "gala", "publishedEvents": 2 }
  ],

  "isUnclaimed": false,
  "isClosed": false,
  "closedAt": null,
  "profilePlan": "platinum",
  "description": "Host Unforgettable Events at Builders BLDG — A Landmark Chicago Venue …",
  "coverImageUrl": "https://img.partyslate.com/companies-cover-image/61157/image-a5a13f79-….jpg?tr=w-1200",
  "searchLocation": "chicago",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-12T21:22:57.621Z"
}

• pricePerGuestUsd is a dollar amount per guest, not a percentage and not a rating.
• photoCount: null on a venue means "PartySlate published no event spaces", not "no photos".
• hasPublishedPricing: false means the company never entered a price — 15.7% nationwide do.

Sample row — vendor (directory)

{
  "listingType": "vendor",
  "companyId": 5013,
  "name": "Marcia Selden Catering & Events",
  "profileUrl": "https://www.partyslate.com/vendors/marcia-selden-catering-events",
  "category": "Caterer",
  "categorySlug": "caterer",
  "services": ["Bar Services & Beverages", "Servers"],

  "city": "New York",
  "state": "New York",
  "stateCode": "NY",
  "address": "New York, NY, USA",
  "latitude": 40.7127753,
  "longitude": -74.0059728,

  "phone": "+12033538000",
  "phoneFormatted": "(203) 353-8000",
  "website": "http://marciaselden.com/",
  "instagramUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/marciaseldencatering/",

  "photoCount": 3327,
  "publishedEventCount": 63,
  "albumCount": 70,
  "testimonialCount": 15,
  "responseTime": "12-24 hrs",
  "diversityClassifications": ["Woman Owned", "Hispanic or Latinx Owned"],
  "topEventTypes": [
    { "eventType": "wedding", "publishedEvents": 19 },
    { "eventType": "milestone-birthday", "publishedEvents": 12 },
    { "eventType": "bat-mitzvah", "publishedEvents": 5 }
  ],

  "isUnclaimed": false,
  "profilePlan": "platinum",
  "searchLocation": "new-york-city",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-12T21:22:57.621Z"
}

Sample row — real-event credit

Trimmed to the fields that are populated on this source; the rest of the columns are present and null (see table D for exactly which).

{
  "listingType": "venue",
  "companyId": 31079,
  "name": "The Boca Raton",
  "profileUrl": "https://www.partyslate.com/venues/the-boca-raton",
  "category": "Venue",

  "creditedService": "Venue",     // the role the event's author credited them for
  "sourceEventId": 43307,         // the published event this credit came from

  "street": "501 E Camino Real",
  "city": "Boca Raton",
  "state": "Florida",
  "stateCode": "FL",
  "postalCode": "33432",
  "address": "501 E Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL 33432, USA",
  "latitude": 26.3426656,
  "longitude": -80.0781121,
  "googlePlaceId": "ChIJ7-hEUxbi2IgRe9Z3PfCWArk",

  "phone": "+15614473251",
  "phoneFormatted": "(561) 447-3251",
  "website": "https://www.thebocaraton.com/weddings/",
  "instagramUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/thebocaraton",

  "publishedEventCount": 25,
  "maxCapacity": null,            // credit rows carry no capacity — measured 0.0% on 250 rows
  "isUnclaimed": false,
  "searchLocation": "miami",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-13T01:51:15.901Z"
}

• creditedService is free text written by the event's author, so it does not always match category: "Photography", "Photographer", "Florals", "Design & Floral" and "Decor" all occur. category is PartySlate's own taxonomy — sort on that.
• The same company credited on two events appears once, on the first event that reached it.

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Input

Field	Type	Default	What it does
startUrls	array	[]	Paste PartySlate /find-venues, /find-vendors or /real-events URLs. Overrides every field below in sections 1–3. Validated in the form against the host and path.
listingType	select	venues	venues · vendors · both · real-events
locations	array	["chicago"]	Metro slugs or plain city names. Empty = all 119 metros. Ignored on the real-events source.
eventCategories	select[]	all 6	Which real-event categories to walk. Real-events source only.
vendorCategories	select[]	all 15	Vendor category filter — server-side, free. Vendors only.
venueTypes	select[]	all 34	Venue space-type filter — server-side, free. Note only 55.0% of venues have any type on file. Venues only.
eventType	select	none	Re-ranks results for that event type; it does not filter (see §6).
diversityClassifications	select[]	none	Woman / Black / Veteran / LGBTQ+ owned etc. 20.8% of vendors declare one. Server-side.
minCapacity	number	0	Drop venues under this seated-or-standing capacity. Ignored on the real-events source.
withPublishedPricingOnly	checkbox	false	Server-side; costs nothing extra. Cuts the pool ~5:1.
claimedOnly	checkbox	false	Only companies that manage their own listing.
withPhoneOnly	checkbox	false	Applied before the contact lookup on directory sources, so it also makes the run cheaper.
withWebsiteOnly	checkbox	false	Applied after the contact lookup; the run fetches ~2× the candidates to compensate. You are still only billed for rows delivered.
enrichContacts	checkbox	true	The extra ~0.5 KB lookup that supplies website, Instagram, Google Place ID and venue city/state. Off → those come back empty. Same price either way.
includeEventSpaces	checkbox	false	Add the per-room breakdown to venue rows.
includeDescription	checkbox	true	Keep the (long) profile description.
maxItems	number	100	Rows to return — your cost cap. 100 = $0.40.
skip	number	0	Resume where the last run stopped instead of re-buying the same leads.
maxConcurrency	number	5	5 measured at 24–34 req/s with zero failures.
proxyConfiguration	proxy	off	Not needed — see the ladder below.

Reference: the 119 metro slugs

albany albuquerque anchorage atlanta austin baltimore birmingham boise boston bowling-green bozeman buffalo burlington cape-cod cedar-rapids central-jersey charleston charleston-wv charlotte cheyenne chicago chicago-suburbs cincinnati cleveland columbia columbus columbus-ga concord dallas denver des-moines detroit el-paso eugene fargo finger-lakes florida-keys fresno grand-rapids green-bay hampton-roads hamptons hartford hawaii hilton-head houston hudson-valley indianapolis inland-empire jachsonville jackson jersey-shore kansas-city knoxville lancaster las-vegas little-rock long-island los-angeles louisville madison memphis mexico miami milwaukee minneapolis monterey montgomery napa-valley naples nashville new-orleans new-york-city north-jersey oklahoma-city omaha orange-county orlando outer-banks panhandle philadelphia phoenix pittsburgh portland portland-me providence raleigh rapid-city reno richmond sacramento salt-lake-city san-antonio san-diego san-francisco santa-barbara savannah scranton seattle shreveport sioux-falls south-bend south-jersey spokane springfield-il springfield-ma springfield-mo st-louis syracuse tallahassee tampa toledo topeka tucson tulsa washington-d-c wichita wilmington wilmington-de

Watch the spellings: New York City is new-york-city, Washington is washington-d-c, and Jacksonville is misspelt jachsonville in PartySlate's own data. You do not have to memorise any of them — type "New York" or "Washington DC" and it is resolved through PartySlate's geocoder, with the run log printing exactly what it resolved to.

Reference: the 34 venue types

event-space meeting-space hotel outdoor ballroom restaurant historic-space bar garden waterfront country-club museum venue-with-activities landmark resort estate theater mansion barn rooftop art-gallery winery vineyard farm brewery distillery loft ranch boat beach park tent retail-space convention-center

Reference: the 15 vendor categories and 6 event categories

Vendors, with nationwide counts: Event Planner (7,104) · Photographer (4,939) · Design & Floral (3,922) · Entertainment (3,497) · Caterer (3,098) · Rentals (1,841) · Bakery & Desserts (894) · Videographer (724) · Invitations & Print (688) · Parking & Transportation (668) · Hair, Makeup & Stylist (640) · AV & Technology (508) · Event Agency (441) · Favors & Gifts (394) · Staffing (250).

Real events, with live event counts: Weddings (25,053) · Corporate Events (8,988) · Celebrations (3,841) · Birthdays (2,438) · Mitzvahs (2,272) · Fundraisers (2,001) = 44,593.

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Pricing

$0.004 per company returned — $4 per 1,000. Charged on the venue-scraped event. There is no charge to start a run and no monthly platform fee from this Actor.

Run	Companies	Cost
The shipped default (100 Chicago venues)	100	$0.40
One metro's venues, end to end (Chicago)	1,279	$5.12
One metro's vendors, end to end (Chicago)	1,916	$7.66
Every venue in the country	18,992	$75.97
The entire directory, venues + vendors	48,600	$194.40

You are charged for rows delivered, never for a company that was fetched and then removed by your filters, and never twice for the same company — duplicates are dropped on the PartySlate slug before anything is fetched. Rows are charged as they are pushed, so if you hit a budget cap you get whole rows and stop, not a half-billed dataset. maxItems is your hard cost cap.

The extra contact lookup, the retries and the (unused) proxy budget are ours, not yours: a run that fetches 400 companies to deliver 200 bills you for 200.

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Limits, honestly

• No email addresses. There is no email column in this dataset. PartySlate's venue and vendor profiles do not carry one, and this Actor will not guess one from a domain. website (86.7% / 79.0% on a whole-metro walk, 96.4% on the real-events source) plus phone (83.4% / 66.4%, 88.4% on real events) is the handle to enrich from. If you want the email step done for you, our eventective-scraper crawls each vendor's own website for one (~50% yield in its own testing) on a different directory.
• No ratings or review scores. PartySlate publishes written testimonials, not a star rating, so you get testimonialCount and not a score. A rating column here would be invented.
• Real-event rows have 0.0% capacity, event spaces, photo counts, description and pricing — measured on 250 rows. That is what a credit line is. Use the venue directory for structure and the real-events source for contacts.
• Vendor street addresses are rare (8.5%) — city-level only for most. latitude/longitude are still 100%, but they are the city centroid, not the front door.
• photoCount means different things on venue and vendor rows — see §2. Never chart the two in one column.
• The listing is what the company chose to publish. Capacity, pricing, years in business and amenities are self-reported and blank on the listings that never filled them in; the fill tables above tell you exactly how often. A missing capacity is a PartySlate data gap, not a scrape failure — the same response comes back off-proxy and from a browser.
• pricePerGuestUsd / minimumSpendUsd are PartySlate's published figures, verified against the venue's own profile page, but they are a starting point for a quote, not a quote.
• US-centric. PartySlate's taxonomy carries 119 metros, of which one (mexico) is outside the US. There is no European or APAC coverage to be had here.
• Cross-run dedupe is your job. Runs deduplicate by company slug within a run. Across runs, use skip, or dedupe on slug.
• No login, no API key, no CAPTCHA-solving service, and no attempt to reach anything behind an account. Company profile URLs are rejected rather than half-scraped into a thin row.

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How it works

PartySlate's own public JSON API — the same calls its /find-venues, /find-vendors and /real-events pages make in your browser. No login, no cookie, no token, no browser, no proxy.

1. GET /api/categorical_options — the live taxonomy (119 metros, 15 vendor categories, 34 venue types, 6 event categories, 37 event types, amenities, ownership classifications). Read at run time, so a market PartySlate adds tomorrow works without a code change.
2. GET /api/find-venues?place_slug=…&page=N / GET /api/find-vendors?location=…&page=N — 20 records per request, with the page count returned up front.
3. GET /api/real-events?event_category=…&page=N → GET /api/events/{id} — 21 events per page, then that event's credit list.
4. GET /api/companies/{slug} — ~0.5 KB per company, for website, Instagram, Google Place ID and real city/state fields.

The HTML profile pages carry the same data in a client-side payload, but at ~50 KB gzipped each versus 0.5 KB for the JSON. Using the API is the same data 100× cheaper — which is why this is priced at $0.004/company.

Transport ladder

Measured through Apify, retries off, concurrency 5. The home-broadband result is not a rung and is not reported here — no Apify container has a residential IP.

Rung	Result
direct, no proxy	3,115 / 3,115 = 100.0% @ 24.0 req/s over a 130 s nationwide sweep
direct, 50 random companies from the whole corpus	50 / 50 = 100.0% @ 34.1 req/s
Apify Proxy, datacenter	39 / 40 = 97.5% @ 2.7 req/s (the miss was a proxy ECONNREFUSED)
Apify Proxy, RESIDENTIAL, fresh session	40 / 40 = 100.0% @ 1.1 req/s
Apify Proxy, RESIDENTIAL, pinned session	40 / 40 = 100.0% @ 2.4 req/s

No 403, no CAPTCHA, no challenge at any rung, and no 429 at these volumes. PartySlate is not walled, so a proxy only adds a failure mode and a bill — the default is off, and that is a cost win as well as a reliability one. Past roughly 3,000-4,000 companies in a single run one IP does get volume-throttled; that is a rate limit, not a wall, and it is handled — see the throttle note in the FAQ.

Uniqueness

Contiguous page walks with uniqueness asserted in-run — sparse offsets cannot collide and would have proved nothing:

Walk	Pages	Rows	Unique	Dupe rate
venues, Chicago	1–64	1,279	1,279	0.00%
venues, Austin	1–13	249	249	0.00%
vendors, Chicago	1–96	1,916	1,916	0.00%
vendors, Austin	1–19	366	366	0.00%
real events, 6 categories	100 events	250	250	0.00%

Every directory walk's row count matched PartySlate's own reported total exactly. Two full end-to-end runs (1,279 venues in 33 s, 1,916 vendors in 41 s) emitted zero duplicate slugs and zero failed requests. Deduplication happens on the company slug before the contact lookup and before billing, so the dataset — and your bill — never holds the same company twice. The same company credited on two different real events is likewise emitted once.

When a run fails

It fails loudly instead of handing back a quiet empty dataset:

• Zero rows throws, with the number of pages searched, the queries run and how many rows your filters removed.
• A metro that does not exist throws, listing all 119 live slugs — it never silently returns nothing.
• A start URL that is not a PartySlate search page throws before any request is billed, with the live vocabulary printed.
• A shrunken taxonomy throws. If /api/categorical_options returns fewer than 40 metros, the run refuses to sweep a partial slice of the directory and call it nationwide.
• More than 25% failed search requests throws, rather than passing off a partial crawl as a complete one. So does >25% failed event lookups, or >30% failed contact lookups.
• Running out of matching companies is a warning, not a silent short run — the log tells you how many you got against how many you asked for.

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Related Actors

Actor	What it is	Why you would use it instead
Tagvenue Scraper	Event & party venue leads	Bookable hire spaces with UK/AU/US coverage — PartySlate is US-only
Giggster Scraper	Film, photo & event space leads	Hourly-rate production locations, with the host as the lead
Eventective Scraper	Event vendor & venue leads + emails	When you need an email address, which PartySlate profiles do not carry
The Bash Scraper	DJs, bands, photographers	Entertainment supply specifically, with per-act pricing
Roaming Hunger Scraper	Food-truck leads	Mobile catering, which PartySlate barely covers
BounceGuide Scraper	Bounce-house & party rental leads	The kids-party end of rentals
Eventbrite Scraper	Event leads by city & category	Ticketed events and organizers rather than the supply side

Short version: PartySlate is where you go for venue capacity and the pros credited on real events; Eventective is where you go for email addresses.

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FAQ

Does this need an account, a login or an API key? No. It reads PartySlate's public JSON API, the same one your browser calls. No login, no cookie, no token, no CAPTCHA-solving service.

Can I get vendor or venue email addresses? Not from this Actor — there is no email column and nothing on this page implies one. A PartySlate venue or vendor profile does not publish an email address, so an email column on a "PartySlate" list did not come from the profile. What you get instead is website (up to 96.4%) and phone (up to 88.4%), which is exactly what an enrichment step needs. If you want that step done for you on a different directory, our eventective-scraper crawls each vendor's own website for an email (~50% yield in its own testing).

Will a run ever succeed with zero rows? No. A zero-row run throws with the scope, the request counts and how many rows your filters removed. A green-but-empty dataset is treated as a bug, not an outcome.

Two runs — will I get duplicates? Not within a run: dedupe happens on the company slug before the contact lookup and before billing, measured at 0.00% across the 4,060 rows of contiguous walks below. Across runs, set skip to where the last run stopped, or dedupe on slug yourself.

Do I get charged for rows my filters throw away? No. You are billed per company returned. A narrow filter costs you time and the Actor its request budget — not your money.

Can I get the whole catalogue in one run? Yes: set listingType to both, leave locations empty and set maxItems to 48600. That is $194.40 at the published rate, and roughly 30–45 minutes at the measured 20–30 companies/second. Most buyers run one metro at a time.

My run returned fewer rows than maxItems. You ran out of matching companies — the log says so explicitly, with the count. Chicago has 1,279 venues; asking for 5,000 in Chicago returns 1,279. Add metros, or leave locations empty.

Why are capacity and pricing null on so many rows? Because the company never filled them in. 78.9% of venues publish a capacity and 15.7% publish pricing, nationwide. That is a PartySlate data-completeness gap, not a scraping failure — the same response comes back off-proxy and from a browser.

Does it need a proxy? Not for a normal run, and it is off by default. Direct answered 3,115 of 3,115 requests at 24 req/s; an Apify datacenter proxy did worse (39/40, at 2.7 req/s).

One caveat, measured 2026-08-18 and worth knowing before you queue a very large job: PartySlate does throttle a single IP at high volume. About 4,500 requests from one address inside a few minutes returned a sustained HTTP 429 with Retry-After: 300 on every endpoint for the full five minutes. In round numbers that is roughly 3,000-4,000 companies in one run before the limit bites. When it happens this Actor does not fail. If the run has enough time left, it waits out the Retry-After PartySlate asks for and carries on where it stopped (measured 2026-08-19: a throttled 300-company request waited the 300 s and then returned all 300 rows). If a whole wait plus one more attempt would not fit inside the run's timeout, it stops politely instead: it keeps and pushes every company it has already collected and enriched, charges for exactly those, and sets a status message telling you the number to put in Skip to continue. If you want one uninterrupted very large run, either lower Concurrency, split it across runs with Skip, or turn the Proxy input on so the requests do not all come from one address.

What is creditedService and why doesn't it match category? creditedService is free text written by the event's author ("Photography", "Florals", "Decor"). category is PartySlate's own 15-value taxonomy. Group and sort on category.

Can I filter by event type — wedding vendors only? Not as a hard filter, and this Actor will not pretend otherwise: PartySlate's event-type parameter re-ranks the same pool rather than shrinking it (406 New York photographers either way). Set it to put wedding-first companies at the top of a capped run.

Can I scrape one specific venue's profile page? No — a /venues/<slug> URL is a profile, not a search page, and it is rejected rather than half-scraped into a thin row. Search the metro it is in and filter the dataset.

How do I schedule this without re-buying the same leads? Use Apify Schedules with skip advancing by your maxItems each run, or schedule the same narrow search and dedupe on slug downstream.

Where does the field-fill number in my run come from? Every run prints its own measured fill at the end of the log, on the rows you actually paid for. The tables above are from earlier full-corpus runs, stated with their sample sizes.

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Legal & fair use

This Actor reads pages and public JSON endpoints that PartySlate serves to any visitor without authentication. PartySlate's robots.txt sets Allow: / for general user agents and its only Disallow rules target photo-viewer query strings for two named crawlers — none of the paths this Actor reads are disallowed. It does not log in, does not solve CAPTCHAs, does not use a CAPTCHA-solving service, and collects nothing behind any authentication.

Rows describe businesses, but a small business's public contact details can still constitute personal data in some jurisdictions. You are responsible for complying with PartySlate's terms and with how you use the data — including GDPR/CCPA where it applies, and CAN-SPAM, CASL or PECR for any outreach.

PartySlate® is a trademark of its owner. This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by PartySlate.

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Feedback

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