BuildZoom Scraper — US Contractors, Licenses, Permits & B2B Leads

Extract complete US contractor data from BuildZoom — the fields other scrapers leave empty: real phone numbers, full license registry (numbers + issuing authority + jurisdiction), the BuildZoom Score, building-permit history with job values, ratings and customer reviews. Every contractor comes out as a ready-to-contact B2B lead with a 0–100 lead score.

Search by city and trade (general contractors, electricians, plumbers, roofers, HVAC, painters, remodelers, architects…), paste BuildZoom URLs, or pass contractor profiles directly. No login, no cookies, no browser — fast JSON-LD extraction.

Why this BuildZoom scraper?

Most contractor scrapers return a name and a profile link and stop there. This actor pulls the structured data BuildZoom publishes and ships the richest contractor lead record in the category:

Data	Typical scrapers	This actor
Contractor name + profile URL	✅	✅
Direct phone number	partial	✅ (≈100% from listings)
Full mailing address + lat/lng	partial	✅
License registry (number, type, issuing authority, jurisdiction)	❌	✅ every license
License-verified / active status	❌	✅
BuildZoom Score + state ranking	❌	✅
Building-permit history (project type, address, date, valuation)	❌	✅ opt-in
Services / specialties catalog	❌	✅
Star rating + customer reviews	partial	✅ opt-in
Areas served	❌	✅
Lead score (0–100)	❌	✅
Only-new / score-change monitoring	❌	✅
Website emails/phones/socials	❌	✅ best-effort

Use cases

• Lead generation — contractors are active buyers: building materials, tools, software, insurance, bonding, financing, recruiting and subcontracting. Filter by trade, city, license status and BuildZoom Score, then reach them by phone (always present) or enriched email.
• Construction market intelligence — map who is licensed and active in a metro, which trades dominate, and recent permit activity with job valuations.
• Competitive research — benchmark BuildZoom Scores, review counts and permit volume against your own crews.
• Sales territory building — pull every licensed contractor in a list of cities and load straight into your CRM.
• Recruiting — find established, licensed firms by trade and location.
• Compliance & verification — capture license numbers, issuing authorities and jurisdictions for vendor onboarding.

How to use

1. Sign up for Apify — the free plan is enough to try this actor.
2. Open the BuildZoom Scraper, enter trades in searchTerms and cities in locations (or paste BuildZoom URLs), and click Start.
3. Watch contractor leads stream into the dataset table.
4. Export as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or RSS — or pull results programmatically via the Apify API.

Input

{
    "searchTerms": ["general contractors", "electricians"],
    "locations": ["Chicago", "Austin, TX"],
    "includeProfileDetails": true,
    "includePermits": true,
    "includeReviews": false,
    "maxContractorsPerSearch": 100
}

• searchTerms — trades, combined with every location. Friendly names (general contractors, plumbers, roofers, hvac, painters, landscaping, handyman, architects, home builders, solar, remodeling) or raw BuildZoom slugs (general-contractors, kitchen-and-bathroom-remodeling).
• locations — US cities: Chicago, Los Angeles, Austin, TX, New York, NY, or a BuildZoom city slug (austin-tx).
• startUrls — any BuildZoom URL: a search page (/chicago/general-contractors) or a contractor profile (/contractor/<slug>). Auto-routed.
• contractorUrls — direct contractor profile URLs or slugs; always fetched with full detail.
• includeProfileDetails (default true) — open each profile for BuildZoom Score, full license list, license-verified status, permit history and reviews (billed as contractorDetail). Turn off for a fast listing-only run (contractor).
• includePermits (default true) — include a sample of the contractor's building-permit history.
• includeReviews (default false) — also output one record per customer review.
• enrichWebsiteContacts (default false) — when a profile links the contractor's own website, crawl it for emails/phones/socials.
• monitorMode / monitorKey — only output new contractors (plus existing ones whose BuildZoom Score or review count changed).
• sortBy, minRating, maxContractorsPerSearch, maxPagesPerSearch, deduplicateContractors, maxConcurrency, proxyConfiguration — fine controls.

Output

One record per contractor (type: "contractor"), plus optional review records (type: "review"):

{
    "type": "contractor",
    "slug": "bezruchuk-inc",
    "name": "Bezruchuk Inc",
    "profileUrl": "https://www.buildzoom.com/contractor/bezruchuk-inc",
    "contractorType": "GeneralContractor",
    "phone": "(425) 243-3470",
    "streetAddress": "11422 184th St Ct E",
    "city": "Puyallup",
    "state": "WA",
    "postalCode": "98374",
    "country": "US",
    "latitude": 47.08946,
    "longitude": -122.276899,
    "buildZoomScore": 173,
    "scoreRankText": "Ranks in the top 1% of 128,670 Washington licensed contractors",
    "licenseStatus": "active",
    "isLicenseVerified": true,
    "licenseCount": 2,
    "licenses": [
        {
            "type": "Construction Contractor, General",
            "number": "BEZRUI*867DG",
            "category": "License",
            "issuingAuthority": "Washington State Department of Labor & Industries",
            "jurisdiction": "Washington",
            "jurisdictionType": "State"
        }
    ],
    "services": ["Kitchen Remodel", "Bathroom Remodel", "Hardwood Flooring"],
    "rating": 5,
    "reviewCount": 29,
    "permitsSampleCount": 17,
    "permits": [
        {
            "type": "Single family remodel",
            "address": "10213 NE 19th Pl, Bellevue, WA, 98004",
            "date": "2025-01-31",
            "description": "Remodel of kitchen, powder room and laundry on first floor",
            "valuation": null
        }
    ],
    "areasServed": ["Bellevue", "Seattle"],
    "leadScore": 99,
    "searchTrade": "general-contractors",
    "searchLocation": "puyallup-wa",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-06-19T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Automate & schedule

Run this actor on autopilot and pull results into your own stack:

• Apify API — start runs, fetch datasets, and manage schedules over REST.
• apify-client for JavaScript and apify-client for Python — official SDKs.
• Schedules — run it daily/weekly to keep a contractor list fresh; pair with monitorMode to capture only newly listed contractors and updated profiles.
• Webhooks — trigger downstream actions (CRM import, Slack alert, email sequence) the moment a run finishes.

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'MY_APIFY_TOKEN' });

const run = await client.actor('scrapesage/buildzoom-scraper').call({
    searchTerms: ['roofers'],
    locations: ['Dallas, TX', 'Houston, TX'],
    includeProfileDetails: true,
    maxContractorsPerSearch: 200,
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(`Got ${items.length} contractor leads`);

Integrate with any app

Connect the dataset to 5,000+ apps — no code required:

• Make — multi-step automation scenarios.
• Zapier — push new contractor leads straight into your CRM.
• Slack — get notified when a monitored search finds new contractors.
• Google Drive / Sheets — auto-export every run to a spreadsheet.
• Airbyte — pipe results into your data warehouse.
• GitHub — trigger runs from commits or releases.

Use with AI assistants (MCP)

The output is clean, LLM-ready JSON. Call this actor from Claude, ChatGPT, or any agent framework through the Apify MCP server — ask your assistant to "find licensed roofers in Dallas with a high BuildZoom score and list their phone numbers" and let it run this scraper for you.

Agent-ready: autonomous payments (x402 & Skyfire)

This actor is agent-ready — AI agents can discover it, run it, and pay for it autonomously, with no Apify account and no human in the loop. It uses pay-per-event pricing and limited permissions, so it qualifies for Apify's agentic-payment standards:

• x402 — an open, HTTP-native payment protocol. Agents pay per run in USDC on the Base network directly through the Apify MCP server — no account, no API key.
• Skyfire — agent-to-service payments for fully autonomous AI-agent workflows.

Building an AI agent, MCP tool, or autonomous data pipeline? This scraper is ready to plug in and pay as it goes.

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• WebMD Scraper — physicians, specialties & provider leads.
• Insurance Agent Scraper — State Farm & Farmers agent leads.
• US Business Formation Scraper — newly registered LLCs & companies.
• SAM.gov Scraper — federal contract opportunities & contacts.
• Rent.com Scraper — apartments, rentals & property-manager leads.

Tips

• City slugs: BuildZoom uses a bare slug for big cities (chicago, los-angeles) and city-st for others (austin-tx, new-york-ny). The actor tries both automatically from a City, ST input — or just paste the exact BuildZoom search URL into startUrls.
• Cost control: a listing-only run (includeProfileDetails: false) is the cheapest way to harvest phone + license + address at scale. Turn on profile details only when you need BuildZoom Scores, permits and reviews.
• Big metros: raise maxPagesPerSearch to go deeper; combine several trades and cities in one run.
• Recurring monitoring: combine Schedules with monitorMode to track only newly listed contractors and updated scores/reviews.

FAQ

How do I scrape contractors for a specific city? Put the city in locations (Chicago, Austin, TX) and the trade in searchTerms (general contractors, electricians). The actor resolves the BuildZoom city slug for you.

Where do the phone numbers come from? From BuildZoom's own public contractor data — they're present on the listing pages, so you get a phone for ~100% of contractors without even opening the profile.

Can I get license numbers? Yes. Every license is captured with its number, type, issuing authority and jurisdiction (city/state) — ideal for verification and compliance.

What is the BuildZoom Score? BuildZoom's proprietary ranking of a contractor's track record. The actor returns the numeric score plus the "ranks in the top X% of N state contractors" context.

Can I export to Google Sheets, CSV, or Excel? Yes — one click in the dataset view, or automatically on every run via the Google Drive integration.

How do I monitor new contractors automatically? Turn on monitorMode and create a Schedule; the actor remembers what it has seen and emits only new contractors (and contractors whose BuildZoom Score or review count changed).

A field is null — why? Some contractors genuinely don't have reviews yet, a published valuation, or a verified license. Fields are null only when the data doesn't exist, not because the scraper skipped them.

Is scraping BuildZoom legal? This actor collects publicly available data only. You are responsible for using the data in compliance with applicable laws (e.g. CCPA for personal data) and BuildZoom's terms.

Need help?

Open an issue on the actor's Issues tab, or visit the Apify help center. Feature requests are welcome — this actor is actively maintained.