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

Disclaimer: This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Expertise.com or any of its subsidiaries. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. "Expertise.com" is referenced only to describe the publicly available website this Actor collects data from.

Extract every business on Expertise.com's curated "best in city" lists: the hand-picked top providers across finance, legal, insurance, home improvement and business services in US cities and states. Financial advisors, accountants, lawyers in 35 practice areas, insurance agencies, marketing, SEO, web and software agencies, property managers, contractors and 140 categories in all. Each business comes with its rank on the list, its own website, phone, full address, rating and review count, links to its Google, Yelp, Facebook, Avvo, Angi and other review profiles, services and credentials, licence details, named attorneys on legal lists and a ready-to-use lead score. Turn on the optional website lookup to add the business's e-mail address.

No login, no cookies, no browser: fast, clean extraction straight from the published lists.

Why this scraper for Expertise.com data?

Most local-lead tools scrape a map and hand you a name and a phone number. Expertise.com lists are short, vetted and ranked, so every row is a business that an editorial team chose for that city. This actor reads the whole record behind each card.

Data	Map-based lead tools	This actor
Business website (its own domain, never a map pin)	partial	✅
Phone (normalised, plus E.164) and full street address	✅	✅
Rank on a vetted "best in city" list + list size and last-update date	❌	✅
140 categories across 5 industries, by city or whole state	partial	✅
Rating and review count, exactly as the list shows them	✅	✅
Google / Yelp / Facebook / Avvo / Angi / Justia / FindLaw / Zillow / Clutch profiles with counts	❌	✅
Google place ID (CID) to join with Google Maps data	partial	✅
Services, specialties and credentials (CFP, licensed and bonded...)	❌	✅
Licence number, status and licensing body (regulated trades)	❌	✅
Named attorneys with title and admission date (legal lists)	❌	✅
Expertise.com quality grades (professionalism, responsiveness...)	❌	✅
Business e-mail from its own website	❌	✅ optional
Lead score (0-100)	❌	✅
Monitoring mode (only businesses added since the last run)	❌	✅

What you get

Field	What it holds
businessName, categoryLabel, categoryGroupLabel	The business and the list it is on ("Financial Advisors", "Finance")
rankPosition, listProviderCount, isFeatured	Its position on the list as visitors see it, how many businesses the list holds, and whether it is shown as featured
phone, phoneE164, website	Phone as (XXX) XXX-XXXX and in international format; the business's own website
fullAddress, streetAddress, city, state, zip	Address (home-based pros often list only their city)
rating, reviewCount, externalReviewCount	The star rating and review count the list shows, and the total across every review site
reviewProfiles	Each review site with its profile link, review count and score
googleCid, googleMapsUrl	Google place ID and a direct Google Maps link, when the list links the business's Google listing directly
socialLinks	Facebook page (plus Instagram, LinkedIn, X, YouTube and TikTok when the website lookup finds them)
services, credentials	Every tag on the card; credentials keeps the certifications and licences among them
licenseNumber, licenseStatus, licensingBody	Professional licence for regulated trades
contactName, contactTitle, teamMembers	Named attorneys (title, licensed since, bio) on legal lists
grades, priceInfo, priceDetails	Expertise.com's quality grades and the business's own pricing note
listingTier, isEnhancedListing, hasLeadEmail, isAd	Listing tier, whether the card accepts e-mail inquiries, sponsored-row flag
description, logoUrl, galleryImageUrls	Editorial description, logo and photos
email, contactEmails, contactPhones	From the business website, when the e-mail lookup is on
profileUrl, listUrl, listUpdatedAt, metroPopulation	Link to the business on the list, the list itself, when Expertise.com last updated it, and the metro's population
leadScore, searchCategory, searchLocation, scrapedAt	0-100 lead score and where the row came from

Use cases

• B2B lead generation: financial advisors, accountants, lawyers, insurance agencies, agencies and contractors buy software, payroll, lending, insurance and marketing services. Pull them by category and city or state, with the website and phone to reach them.
• Agency and partner prospecting: build lists of SEO, PPC, web-design, software, staffing and property-management firms in every city you sell to.
• Legal marketing: attorneys by practice area with their name, title, years licensed and review footprint on Avvo, Justia and FindLaw.
• Market mapping: who ranks in each city, how established they are (reviews, grades, listing tier) and which markets have no list yet.
• Enrichment and matching: append website, phone, licence and Google place ID to a list you already have.
• New-business alerts: schedule a monitoring run and get only the businesses newly added to a city's list.

How to use

1. Sign up for Apify. The free plan is enough to try this actor.
2. Open this scraper, pick one or more Categories (or a whole group such as "Legal: ALL 35 categories") and type Locations such as Houston, TX or Texas.
3. Click Start. Businesses arrive in the dataset in list order, top-ranked first. (With both fields left empty, a quick sample runs: Financial Advisors in Houston, TX.)
4. Export as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or RSS, or read the results through the Apify API.

Input

{
    "categories": ["financial-advisors", "accountant-cpa"],
    "locations": ["Houston, TX", "Colorado"],
    "maxResults": 200,
    "maxResultsPerList": 10,
    "minRating": 4.5,
    "enrichContactEmails": false
}

• categories: a pick-list of the 140 categories, plus five shortcuts that take every category of a group (finance, legal, insurance, home-improvement, business).
• locations: City, ST (Houston, TX), a state (Texas or TX) for every list in it, biggest cities first, or a city alone when its name is unique. Spellings such as St./Saint and Ft./Fort are matched to the site's own.
• startUrls / urlsFromFile: Expertise.com pages to read directly: a city list, a state list, a category page (every list nationwide), a city page (every category in that city) or a profile. A file or Google Sheet of URLs works too.
• maxResults: cap for the whole run, shared fairly across every list (top-ranked businesses first). maxResultsPerList keeps only the top N of each list.
• Filters: excludeAds (on by default), enhancedListingsOnly, licensedOnly, withWebsiteOnly, withPhoneOnly, minRating (decimals allowed), minReviews, withEmailOnly.
• enrichContactEmails: visits each business's own website for its e-mail address, phones and social profiles.
• monitorMode + monitorStoreName: return only businesses added since the previous run.

Output

One record per business:

{
    "type": "provider",
    "id": "2331033",
    "businessName": "Bullogic Wealth Management",
    "categoryLabel": "Financial Advisors",
    "categoryGroupLabel": "Finance",
    "rankPosition": 4,
    "listProviderCount": 17,
    "city": "Pearland",
    "state": "TX",
    "fullAddress": "3571 Mustang Ridge Lane, Pearland, TX 77584",
    "phone": "(832) 543-8890",
    "phoneE164": "+18325438890",
    "website": "https://bullogicwealth.com/",
    "socialLinks": { "facebook": "https://www.facebook.com/BullogicWealth/" },
    "rating": 5,
    "reviewCount": 26,
    "reviewProfiles": {
        "google": { "url": "https://www.google.com/maps/place/Bullogic+Wealth+Management/...", "count": 24, "score": 5 },
        "facebook": { "url": "https://www.facebook.com/BullogicWealth/", "count": 1, "score": 5 },
        "yelp": { "url": "https://www.yelp.com/biz/bullogic-wealth-management-pearland", "count": 1, "score": 5 }
    },
    "googleCid": "5351932403038647359",
    "googleMapsUrl": "https://www.google.com/maps?cid=5351932403038647359",
    "services": ["Certified Financial Planner (CFP)"],
    "credentials": ["Certified Financial Planner (CFP)"],
    "grades": { "professionalism": "A+", "friendliness": "A+", "helpfulness": "A+", "knowledge": "A+", "responsiveness": "A+" },
    "priceInfo": "1% of asset",
    "listingTier": "free",
    "hasLeadEmail": true,
    "isAd": false,
    "profileUrl": "https://www.expertise.com/finance/financial-advisors/texas/houston#bullogicwealthmanagement",
    "listUpdatedAt": "2026-10-07T13:53:41.000Z",
    "metroPopulation": 2242193,
    "searchLocation": "Houston, TX",
    "leadScore": 63
}

With the website lookup on, a business whose site shows an address also gets, for example, "email": "info@mysignaturefa.com" and the full contactEmails list. On legal lists, contactName, contactTitle and teamMembers ({ "name": "Keith Stern", "title": "Principal", "licensedSince": "2000-09-18" }) name the attorneys.

The dataset has four views: Providers, Leads, Reviews, credentials & licences and Website e-mails. Each run also saves an OUTPUT_SUMMARY record listing every list it read, what each delivered and any list Expertise.com does not have.

Good to know

• Expertise.com publishes one curated list per category and city, usually 6 to 25 businesses. Breadth comes from more categories, cities or whole states. Not every category exists in every city: the run says which lists are missing and suggests nearby cities that have one.
• Disability lawyers and the insurance categories also have state-wide lists, which a state location includes.
• rating is empty when the list shows the business as unrated, so a missing rating is never shown as 0 stars.
• Licence numbers exist only for regulated trades where Expertise.com verified one (financial advisers, insurance agencies, real estate agents, movers and similar). Legal and agency lists carry none.
• Named attorneys appear on legal lists; other categories do not name their staff.
• Expertise.com grades and pricing notes appear only for businesses that have them.
• googleCid is filled when the list links the business's Google listing directly, and empty when it links a plain Google search.
• The website lookup only finds what a business shows on its own site. The headline email is always on the business's own domain or a personal mailbox; other addresses found stay in contactEmails.
• Sponsored rows (a lead-marketplace ad or Expertise.com's own concierge line) are skipped unless you turn excludeAds off.
• Monitoring: the first run of a list returns its current businesses and remembers all of them; later runs return only businesses added since.

How much does it cost to scrape Expertise.com?

This Actor uses Apify's pay-per-event pricing: you pay only for the results it delivers, with no monthly rental and no start fee. The events it can charge are:

• Business listing: one business delivered to the dataset, with every field above.
• Website e-mail: added on top of a business only when the optional website lookup finds a business e-mail for it. Sites with nothing found cost nothing extra, and the lookup never runs unless you switch it on.

The current price of each event is shown on the Pricing tab of this page. Set a maximum total charge on the run if you want a hard cap on spend: the run stops cleanly at it, and every delivered row is billed.

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 or weekly with monitoring mode to capture only newly listed businesses.
• Webhooks: trigger a CRM import, Slack alert or e-mail 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({
    categories: ['financial-advisors', 'seo-agencies'],
    locations: ['Austin, TX', 'Colorado'],
    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 and creative agency leads.
• US Business Formation Scraper: new LLC and company leads.
• Bark Scraper: local service-provider leads.

Tips

• Cover a market fully: use a state as the location (Texas) and a group of categories. The cap is shared across every list, top-ranked businesses first, so raise maxResults or set maxResultsPerList for "top N in every city".
• Cleaner contact lists: leave excludeAds on and set withWebsiteOnly, or withEmailOnly for a list where every row has a business e-mail.
• Warmest leads first: sort by leadScore, or keep enhancedListingsOnly for businesses that pay for a featured listing.
• Recurring monitoring: combine Schedules with monitorMode, one monitorStoreName per tracked search.

FAQ

How do I get, say, every personal injury lawyer in Florida? Pick personal-injury-lawyers in Categories and type Florida in Locations. The run reads every Florida city list, biggest cities first.

Where do the e-mails come from? Expertise.com publishes each business's website. Turn on enrichContactEmails and the actor reads that site (home, contact and about pages) for an e-mail address, phones and social profiles. The email field only holds an address on the business's own domain or a personal mailbox.

Why is a city missing? Expertise.com does not publish every category in every city. The run's status message and OUTPUT_SUMMARY name each missing list and suggest nearby cities that have one.

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

How do I get only new businesses over time? Turn on monitorMode and run on a Schedule. The first run returns the current lists; later runs return only businesses added since.

Which categories are supported? 140: finance (8), legal (35), insurance (6), home improvement (59) and business services (32). The Categories field lists them all, with a shortcut for each whole group.

Is scraping Expertise.com legal? This actor collects publicly available business information only. You are responsible for using it in line with applicable laws (for example GDPR or CCPA where personal data is involved) and the source website's terms.

Data & lawful use

This Actor reads business and professional listings that the professionals themselves published to be found: names, roles, firms, ratings and the contact details shown on the public listing. Because those details belong to identifiable people, treat the output as personal data. If you are in the EU or UK you are the data controller for what you do with it: have a lawful basis (usually legitimate interest for B2B prospecting or market research), keep any outreach relevant to the professional's line of work, honour opt-outs and deletion requests, and do not use the output for spam.

Under Apify's Standard Actor Contract, which governs your use of this Actor, you are the controller of any personal data in your input and output and scrapesage acts only as your processor: that data is processed solely to run your job, written only to your own Apify storage, never used for any other purpose and never shared onward. If you need help with a data-subject request that involves this Actor's output, open an issue on the Issues tab.

Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Expertise.com or any of its subsidiaries. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

"Expertise.com" and any related marks are the property of their respective owners and are used here only in a descriptive, nominative sense - to identify the publicly accessible website from which this Actor collects data. This Actor is not an official Expertise.com product, is not authorised or certified by Expertise.com, and does not distribute Expertise.com software. It collects only publicly available information; you are responsible for ensuring your use of that data complies with applicable laws, regulations and the terms of the source website.

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