ImportYeti Scraper - US Import Records, Suppliers & B2B Leads (Bill-of-Lading Trade Data)

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

Turn public US Customs bill-of-lading data into a trade-intelligence feed. For any company or product, this actor returns the US importer, its overseas suppliers, the shipment history month by month, recent bills of lading, HS/HTS codes, carriers, ports and shipping lanes, China exposure, UFLPA risk flags and growth trends. Built on ImportYeti, the free front end to US Customs (CBP) import manifests.

No login, no API key, no browser: plain HTTP and structured extraction of the data each public page already carries.

Why this ImportYeti scraper?

This actor ships a complete record: the importer and its supply chain in one row.

Data	This actor
US importer profile (address, cleaned full address, geo, website, trademarks)	✅
Overseas supplier / buyer table (counts, weight, TEUs, HS codes)	✅
Each supplier's other US customers (find competitors fast)	✅
Recent bills of lading (BOL, master/house BOL, product, route, freight estimate)	✅
Monthly shipment history with China-origin shipments	✅
HS code tree + detailed HTS codes with sample descriptions	✅
Carriers / SCAC codes, ports of loading and entry, shipping lanes	✅
Shipment growth, TEU/month, freight-cost estimates	✅
UFLPA forced-labor risk flag	✅
Notify parties & all known addresses	✅
Product mode: the top importers and suppliers of any product keyword	✅
Lead score (0-100) per company	✅
New-shipment monitoring mode	✅

What you get

One row per company. A full trade profile has recordType: "profile"; a lightweight discovery row (enrichment off, or a profile ImportYeti would not show) has recordType: "searchResult".

Field	What it holds
name, entityType, alsoKnownAs, profileUrl	The company, whether it is a US importer or an overseas supplier, its other names
address, addressFull, country, countryCode, locations, latitude, longitude	Address as filed; addressFull is ImportYeti's cleaned full address, published for US importers
website, websiteAsListed, otherWebsites	The company's own site when ImportYeti lists one (website stays empty for webmail hosts and names cut off in the manifests; the listed value is kept in websiteAsListed); other domains seen on its shipping records, which can include its freight forwarders
trademarks, trademarksText	US importers' trademark holdings as ImportYeti links them
totalShipments, shipments12m, totalShippingCostUsd, avgTeuPerShipment, avgTeuPerMonth	Volume and freight figures
firstShipmentDate, lastShipmentDate (DD/MM/YYYY) and firstShipmentDateIso, lastShipmentDateIso	First and latest shipment
quarterlyGrowth, quarterlyGrowthPct, monthlyShipments	Growth and the month-by-month history (shipments, weight, TEUs, China-origin shipments)
topImportChapters, topImportChaptersText, hsCodeTree, htsCodes	What the company ships, by HS chapter, heading and HTS code
topSuppliers, supplierCount, supplierCountCapped, counterpartyRole	The supplier list of an importer (or the buyer list of a supplier); ImportYeti lists up to 50, and supplierCountCapped is true when the list hit that limit. Each partner's country and countryCode name the country ImportYeti files it under; addressCountry and location are where ImportYeti places its address, which can be another country (a head office in Taiwan whose goods ship from China)
recentShipments	Up to 50 recent bills of lading with counterparty, product, weight, containers, quantity and route
carriers, carriersByCountry, containerTypes, loadTypes, billTypes	Logistics profile
shippingLanes, topExitPort, topEntryPort	Port of loading to US port of entry, with shipments, 12-month shipments, YoY, weight and TEUs
notifyParties, knownAddresses	Notify parties (with ImportYeti's personal-name flag) and every known address
uflpaFlag, manifestConfidentialityPeriods	UFLPA exposure flag; periods in which a US importer asked CBP to keep its manifests confidential
leadScore	0-100 prospecting score from activity, size, website and supplier breadth

Use cases

• Sales prospecting: list the US companies importing a product (yoga mat, lithium battery, LED panel) in Product mode and rank them by shipments12m and leadScore. You get the company, its address, website where ImportYeti lists one and the full trade profile to work from.
• Supplier discovery & sourcing: see which overseas factories a competitor buys from, the products, volumes and HS codes, then find the same factory's other US buyers.
• Competitive intelligence: track a rival's import volume, suppliers, ports and growth (monthlyShipments, quarterlyGrowthPct, shipments12m) over time.
• Supply-chain risk & compliance: screen China exposure (chinaShipments per month) and the UFLPA (Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act) flag before onboarding a supplier.
• Freight & logistics: find shippers by lane, carrier (SCAC) and port; size a book of business by totalShipments and avgTeuPerMonth.
• Market research: quantify imports by HS code, country and company for any product category.

How to use

1. Sign up for Apify: the free plan is enough to try this actor.
2. Open the ImportYeti Scraper, choose a Mode and enter company names or product keywords in Search terms (or paste ImportYeti URLs). Click Start.
3. Watch results stream into the dataset table.
4. Export as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or RSS, or pull results programmatically via the Apify API.

Input

{
    "mode": "product",
    "searchTerms": ["yoga mat"],
    "searchType": "all",
    "enrichProfiles": true,
    "includeSuppliers": true,
    "includeShipments": true,
    "includeMonthlyHistory": true,
    "includeHsCodes": true,
    "maxResults": 20
}

• mode: search (match companies and suppliers by NAME), product (the top importers and suppliers of a product keyword), company (resolve each term to a US importer profile) or supplier (resolve each term to an overseas exporter profile).
• searchTerms: company names or brands in search, company and supplier modes; product keywords in product mode.
• startUrls: paste ImportYeti /company/..., /supplier/... or /tags/... (product) URLs to scrape them directly. A list can come from a file: use Import URLs from a file (a .txt or .csv link, a Google Sheet or a pasted list).
• searchType: keep both importers and suppliers, only importers, or only suppliers.
• enrichProfiles (default true): pull the full profile for every hit; turn it off for a fast, cheaper discovery list.
• includeSuppliers / includeShipments / includeMonthlyHistory / includeHsCodes / includeContacts (default true): switch the heavy sections on or off.
• maxSuppliers / maxShipments: cap the supplier table and the shipment list per profile.
• maxResults / maxResultsPerSearch: the run's cap (shared equally by several terms) and the per-term cap.
• monitorMode (default false): deliver only companies that are new or have received new shipments since the last run.

Output

A real US importer profile, each list cut to one item and some keys left out for length:

{
    "recordType": "profile",
    "type": "company",
    "entityType": "US Importer",
    "name": "Spreetail",
    "alsoKnownAs": ["1 Spreetail", "1 Spreetail Llc"],
    "profileUrl": "https://www.importyeti.com/company/spreetail",
    "address": "2021 Transformation Dr, Ste 2500, Lincoln, Ne 68508, Us",
    "addressFull": "2021 Transformation Dr Suite 2500 Lincoln Ne 68508 United States",
    "country": "United States of America",
    "countryCode": "US",
    "website": "spreetail.com",
    "otherWebsites": "cevalogistics.com, alliance.com, cevalogistics.co",
    "trademarksText": "Spreetail (20 trademarks)",
    "totalShipments": 5843,
    "shipments12m": 2370,
    "totalShippingCostUsd": 13464293.07,
    "firstShipmentDate": "23/07/2019",
    "lastShipmentDate": "26/10/2026",
    "lastShipmentDateIso": "2026-10-26",
    "quarterlyGrowthPct": -20.16,
    "topImportChaptersText": "HS 94 Furnitures (2,177); HS 95 Toys (1,457); HS 39 Plastics (1,025)",
    "uflpaFlag": false,
    "counterpartyRole": "suppliers",
    "supplierCount": 47,
    "supplierCountCapped": true,
    "topSuppliers": [
        {
            "name": "Ningbo Bancoresy Supply Chain",
            "country": "China",
            "countryCode": "CN",
            "profileUrl": "https://www.importyeti.com/supplier/ningbo-bancoresy-supply-chain",
            "shipments12m": 507,
            "totalShipments": 919,
            "totalWeightKg": 12263301,
            "totalTeus": 2593,
            "hsCodes": ["9401.61", "9506.91", "3918.90"],
            "topPartners": [{ "name": "Qiduo Innovation", "shipments12m": 109, "totalShipments": 499 }]
        }
    ],
    "recentShipments": [
        {
            "date": "2026-10-26T00:00:01.000Z",
            "billOfLading": "MAEU276071823",
            "counterpartyRole": "supplier",
            "counterpartyName": "Kangping Technology Vietnam Co Ltd",
            "counterpartyCountry": "Vietnam",
            "productDescription": "Snow Thrower Batteries Dual Charger Spreetail Warehouse Nanticoke",
            "weightKg": 7638,
            "containers": 1,
            "quantity": "440",
            "quantityUnit": "CTN",
            "shippingRoute": "Asia,Transatlantic"
        }
    ],
    "monthlyShipments": [{ "month": "2019-07", "shipments": 8, "weightKg": 112206, "teu": 27, "chinaShipments": 8 }],
    "htsCodes": [{ "hts_code": "8432.29.0060", "description": "Walk behind rotary tillers", "shipments": 37, "most_recent_shipment": "18/08/2025" }],
    "carriers": [{ "scac": "CMDU", "name": "Compagnie Maritime Daffretemen", "shipments": 2183, "shipments12m": 647, "yoy": -39.19 }],
    "shippingLanes": [{ "exitPort": "Ning Bo", "exitPortCountry": "China", "entryPort": "Newark, Nj", "entryPortRegion": "New Jersey", "shipments": 517, "shipments12m": 242, "yoy": 29.41 }],
    "topExitPort": "Ning Bo",
    "topEntryPort": "Newark, Nj",
    "phones": [],
    "emails": [],
    "leadScore": 74,
    "searchTerm": "Spreetail",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-28T23:00:00.000Z"
}

Good to know

• Phone numbers and emails come back empty. ImportYeti masks them for visitors without an account (XXX-XXX-X195, ---), and this actor keeps only values ImportYeti shows. Use website, the addresses and the trade data to reach a company.
• Search mode matches company NAMES. A product keyword there returns companies whose name contains its words; to list everyone importing a product, use Product mode. ImportYeti's name search returns up to 10 matches per term, and a product page lists the top 20 importers and top 20 suppliers.
• Product-page figures count that product. On a product page ImportYeti counts each company's shipments of that product, so a Product mode discovery row (enrichment off) carries those figures (totalShipments, shipments12m, weight, TEUs, HS chapters); the full profile carries the company's totals across everything it ships.
• Company and Supplier modes pick the busiest match. Each term resolves to the US importer (or overseas supplier) with the most shipments whose name starts with it; paste a profile URL to pick a specific one.
• Login requests. ImportYeti limits page views for visitors without an account and may answer a page with a login request instead of its data. The actor then asks for that page again through fresh proxy addresses, moving to Apify residential proxies when the datacenter ones keep getting that answer (up to 4 tries per page). A profile still refused after that is not charged; where the search found it, its discovery row comes instead at the discovery price, and the run card counts these pages.
• Suppliers' trademarks and cleaned addresses: ImportYeti publishes trademarks and the cleaned addressFull for US importers only.

How much does it cost to scrape ImportYeti?

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

• Trade profile scraped: one full ImportYeti profile, importer or supplier, with identity and geo, shipment stats and growth, the supplier or buyer table, recent bills of lading, HS/HTS codes, carriers and ports, notify parties and the UFLPA flag.
• Discovery result: one lightweight discovery row (when enrichment is off): name, type, country, address, total shipments and profile URL, plus the most recent shipment date from a name search, or the product's 12-month shipments, weight, TEUs and HS chapters from a product page.

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, and use the input limits to control how much the Actor fetches.

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 monitorMode to track a competitor's new imports or a supplier's new customers.
• 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/importyeti-scraper').call({
    mode: 'product',
    searchTerms: ['lithium battery'],
    searchType: 'company',
    enrichProfiles: true,
    maxResults: 20,
});

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

Integrate with any app

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

• Make: multi-step automation scenarios.
• Zapier: push new importer and supplier leads straight into your CRM.
• Slack: get alerted when a monitored company files new shipments.
• 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 US importers of yoga mats and list their Chinese suppliers" 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, with no account and 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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Tips

• Find a product's importers: use Product mode with searchType: "company" and a product keyword (office chair). Each US importer comes back with its suppliers.
• Reverse a supply chain: paste a /supplier/... URL (or use supplier mode) to get the factory's US customer list and products.
• Cost control: turn off includeShipments, includeMonthlyHistory or includeHsCodes for a leaner record, or set enrichProfiles: false for a cheap discovery-only list.
• Proxies: keep the default. The actor reads ImportYeti through Apify's datacenter proxy, the fastest lane, and moves any page ImportYeti refuses to Apify residential proxies by itself. Choose residential in the proxy settings only if you want it for every page.
• Recurring monitoring: combine Schedules with monitorMode to capture only new shipments. The schedule starts the run, monitorMode controls what is delivered.

FAQ

Where does the data come from? ImportYeti aggregates public US Customs (CBP) bill-of-lading manifests for ocean freight. This actor reads the same public company, supplier and product pages a visitor sees and structures them into clean JSON.

Do I need an ImportYeti account or API key? No. There is no login, key or browser: just enter company names or product keywords.

Does it return phone numbers or emails? No. ImportYeti masks them for visitors without an account, and the actor never fills a contact field with a masked value or a guess. You get the company's website where ImportYeti lists one, its addresses and the full trade data.

Can I get a competitor's suppliers? Yes: scrape the competitor in company mode (or Search) and read topSuppliers; each supplier also lists its other US buyers in topPartners.

What is the UFLPA flag? A boolean signalling potential exposure under the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, useful for supply-chain compliance screening.

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.

Is scraping ImportYeti legal? This actor collects publicly available data only (public US Customs records surfaced on public pages). You are responsible for using the data in compliance with applicable laws and ImportYeti's terms.

Disclaimer

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

"ImportYeti" 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 ImportYeti product, is not authorised or certified by ImportYeti, and does not distribute ImportYeti 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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