Expertise.com Scraper — Local Business & Professional Leads (Finance, Legal, Insurance, Agencies & Home Services)

Extract complete business data from any Expertise.com "best in city" list — the curated, vetted top providers across finance, legal, insurance, home improvement and business services in every US city. Financial advisors, CPAs & bookkeepers, lawyers (35+ practice areas), insurance agents, marketing / SEO / web / software agencies, property managers, staffing firms, contractors and 140+ more categories — each record ships with the business's own website, phone, full address, rating, Google / Yelp / Facebook review profiles, credentials, license and a ready-to-use lead score.

No login, no cookies, no browser — fast, reliable JSON-grade extraction with an automatic retry on transient blocks.

Why this Expertise.com scraper?

Most "local lead" tools scrape Google Maps and hand you a name and a phone number. This actor reads Expertise.com's curated rankings directly and ships the richest dataset in the category — including each provider's own website (so you can reach them, not a map pin) and a multi-platform review footprint no Maps scraper exposes.

Data	Google-Maps lead tools	This actor
Business website (the lead wedge)	partial	✅ on the listing
Phone + full street address	✅	✅
Curated, vetted "best of" ranking	❌	✅
Category + sub-category (141 verticals)	partial	✅
Aggregate rating + review count	✅	✅
Google / Yelp / Facebook / Angi / Avvo / Clutch review profiles + counts	❌	✅
Credentials (e.g. CFP, board certs)	❌	✅
Professional license number / status / body	❌	✅
Provider quality grades (A+ … rubric)	❌	✅
Enhanced vs free listing tier (buyer intent)	❌	✅
Website email/phone enrichment	❌	✅ opt-in
Lead score (0–100)	❌	✅
Monitoring mode (only new businesses)	❌	✅

Use cases

• B2B lead generation — financial advisors, CPAs, lawyers, insurance agents, marketing agencies and contractors are high-value buyers for SaaS, fintech, payroll, lending, insurance and professional services. Filter by category, city, rating and listing tier and reach them directly with the website and phone.
• Agency & service-provider prospecting — build targeted lists of SEO, PPC, web-design, software, staffing and property-management firms by city for partnerships, white-label and tooling sales.
• Market & competitor mapping — count and profile the top-ranked providers per city, category, rating and review footprint to size territories and spot underserved markets.
• Recruiting & M&A — find practice owners and firms by location and specialty for staffing, acquisition or partnership outreach.
• Directory & data enrichment — append website, category, credentials, license and multi-platform review data to an existing list of local businesses.

How to use

1. Sign up for Apify — the free plan is enough to try this actor.
2. Open the Expertise.com Scraper, choose categories (e.g. financial-advisors, personal-injury-lawyers, seo-agencies) and locations (e.g. Houston, TX), and click Start.
3. Watch businesses stream into the dataset table.
4. Export as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or RSS — or pull results programmatically via the Apify API.

Input

{
    "mode": "search",
    "categories": ["financial-advisors", "accountant-cpa"],
    "locations": ["Houston, TX", "Chicago, IL"],
    "maxResults": 200,
    "enrichContactEmails": false,
    "excludeAds": true,
    "enhancedListingsOnly": false,
    "withWebsiteOnly": false,
    "minRating": 0,
    "monitorMode": false
}

• mode — search (categories × locations) or startUrls (paste Expertise.com URLs).
• categories — one per row, as Expertise.com category slugs. Finance: financial-advisors, accountant-cpa, bookkeepers, tax-services-cpa, private-wealth-advisor, mortgage-refinance, credit-repair, collection-agency. Legal (35 practice areas): personal-injury-lawyers, criminal-lawyers, divorce-lawyers, business-lawyers, estate-planning-lawyers, immigration-lawyers, bankruptcy-lawyers, dui-lawyers … Insurance: car-insurance, homeowners-insurance, life-insurance, health-insurance, pet-insurance, renters-insurance. Business (33 types): digital-marketing-agencies, seo-agencies, web-design, software-development, property-management, employment-staffing-agencies, business-consultants, public-relations-firms … Home improvement (59 trades): plumbing, electricians, roofing, hvac, remodeling, landscaping, real-estate-agents, solar-company … Friendly names like "financial advisor", "SEO agency" or "plumber" also work.
• locations — US cities as City, ST (Houston, TX, Los Angeles, California). Expertise.com lists by city, so include a city.
• startUrls — Expertise.com listing URLs (…/finance/financial-advisors/texas/houston) or profile URLs (…/profile/<slug>). Auto-detected and routed.
• maxResults — cap on businesses for the whole run. Each city/category page lists ~10–30 curated providers, so breadth comes from adding more categories × cities.
• enrichContactEmails (default false) — crawl each provider's own website (home + contact/about) for direct emails, phones and socials.
• excludeAds (default true) — skip the occasional sponsored / affiliate row so you only get genuine local businesses.
• enhancedListingsOnly / licensedOnly / withWebsiteOnly / withPhoneOnly / minRating — output filters.
• monitorMode (default false) — emit ONLY businesses not seen in previous runs. Pairs with Apify Schedules.

Output

One record per business (type: "provider"):

{
    "type": "provider",
    "id": "123603",
    "businessName": "Financial Synergies Wealth Advisors",
    "category": "financial-advisors",
    "categoryLabel": "Financial Advisors",
    "categoryGroupLabel": "Finance",
    "city": "Houston",
    "state": "TX",
    "zip": "77027",
    "fullAddress": "4400 Post Oak Pkwy, #200, Houston, TX, 77027",
    "phone": "7136236600",
    "website": "https://www.finsyn.com/",
    "hasLeadEmail": true,
    "rating": 4.7,
    "reviewCount": 12,
    "rankPosition": 3,
    "listingTier": "enhanced-listing",
    "isEnhancedListing": true,
    "description": "Financial Synergies Wealth Advisors is an independent financial advisory firm serving the residents of Houston…",
    "logoUrl": "https://res.cloudinary.com/expertise-com/.../finsyn-com.jpg",
    "credentials": ["Certified Financial Planner (CFP)"],
    "grades": { "professionalism": "A+", "friendliness": "A+", "helpfulness": "A+", "knowledge": "A+", "responsiveness": "A+" },
    "priceInfo": "Free Consultation",
    "licenseNumber": null,
    "reviewProfiles": {
        "google": { "url": "https://www.google.com/search?q=Financial+Synergies…", "count": 12, "score": 4.7 },
        "facebook": { "url": "https://www.facebook.com/finsyn/", "count": 0, "score": null },
        "yelp": { "url": "https://www.yelp.com/biz/financial-synergies-wealth-advisors-houston", "count": 0, "score": null }
    },
    "searchCategory": "Financial Advisors",
    "searchLocation": "Houston, TX",
    "leadScore": 81,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-06-20T02:06:58.873Z"
}

Profile-URL records additionally carry the contact person name, a full bio, client testimonials and a video when published.

What to expect (field coverage)

Expertise.com is organizer-curated data, so a few fields are populated only when the business filled them in. Verified across multiple cities and categories, you can typically expect:

Field	Coverage
businessName, category, city/state, website, phone, full address, description, logo	~100%
reviewProfiles (Google/Yelp/Facebook…), credentials	~90–100%
rating + review count	~75–90% (newer listings may have none yet)
licenseNumber	present for regulated categories (e.g. financial advisors)
contactEmails (website crawl)	when enrichContactEmails is on and the site exposes one

A blank field means the business didn't publish it — not that scraping failed. Nothing is dropped, so you always get the richest record available.

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 with monitoring mode to capture only newly listed businesses in a city; perfect for lead pipelines.
• 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/expertise-scraper').call({
    mode: 'search',
    categories: ['financial-advisors', 'seo-agencies'],
    locations: ['Austin, TX'],
    maxResults: 300,
    withWebsiteOnly: true,
});

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

Integrate with any app

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

• Make — multi-step automation scenarios.
• Zapier — push new business leads straight into your CRM.
• Slack — get notified when a monitored city gets new providers.
• 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 the best financial advisors in Austin with their websites and ratings" and let it run the 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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• Healthgrades Scraper — doctors, reviews and provider leads.
• Thumbtack Scraper — home-service pros, reviews and leads.
• DesignRush Scraper — marketing & creative agency leads.
• US Business Formation Scraper — new LLC & company leads.
• Bark Scraper — local service-provider leads.

Tips

• Cover a vertical fully: add several cities to locations and a few related categories — each city/category is its own curated page, so breadth beats depth here.
• Faster, cleaner lists: leave excludeAds on and set withWebsiteOnly for an export where every row is contactable.
• Hottest leads first: turn on enhancedListingsOnly to keep only claimed/paying businesses — the most marketing-aware buyers.
• Recurring monitoring: combine Schedules with monitorMode to capture only newly listed businesses over time.

FAQ

How do I scrape, say, the best marketing agencies in a city? Put the city in locations as City, ST (e.g. Dallas, TX) and add the category slug (digital-marketing-agencies or just "marketing agency") to categories.

Where do the emails come from? Expertise.com publishes each business's website on the listing — turn on enrichContactEmails and the actor crawls that site (home + contact/about) for a direct email, phone and socials. Most listings already include website, phone and full address.

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 get only new businesses over time? Turn on monitorMode and run on a Schedule — each run returns only providers not seen before.

Which categories are supported? 141 in total across finance (8), legal (35), insurance (6), home improvement (59) and business services (33). Use the slug from the Expertise.com URL, or a friendly name — unknown categories are skipped with a clear warning.

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

A field is null — why? Some listings genuinely omit a rating, license or website. Fields are null only when the data doesn't exist, not because the scraper skipped them.

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.