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

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

No login, no API key, no browser — fast JSON + structured extraction with 99%+ reliability.

Why this ImportYeti scraper?

Most trade-data scrapers return a thin list of shipments and stop there. This actor ships the richest record in the category — the importer and its whole supply chain in one row:

Data	Typical scrapers	This actor
US importer profile (address, geo, website, phone, trademarks)	partial	✅
Full overseas supplier / buyer table (counts, weight, TEUs)	❌	✅
Each supplier's other US customers (find competitors fast)	❌	✅
Recent bills of lading (BOL, master/house BOL, product, route)	✅ basic	✅ full
HS code tree + detailed HTS codes with sample descriptions	❌	✅
Carriers / SCAC codes, ports & shipping lanes	❌	✅
Shipment growth / YoY, TEU/month, freight-cost estimates	❌	✅
China exposure + UFLPA forced-labor risk flag	❌	✅
Notify parties & all known addresses	❌	✅
Contact emails & phones (de-masked, real only)	❌	✅
Alibaba supplier links	❌	✅
Lead score (0–100) per company	❌	✅
New-shipment monitoring mode	❌	✅

Use cases

• Sales prospecting — find every US company importing a product (yoga mat, lithium battery, LED panel) and reach the decision-maker with emails / phones. Score them by shipments12m and leadScore.
• Supplier discovery & sourcing — see exactly which overseas factories a competitor buys from, the products, volumes and HS codes — then find the same factory's other US buyers and the matching Alibaba listing.
• Competitive intelligence — track a rival's import volume, suppliers, ports and growth (quarterlyGrowth, shipments12m, YoY) over time.
• Supply-chain risk & compliance — screen for China exposure 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": "search",
    "searchTerms": ["yoga mat", "Apple"],
    "searchType": "all",
    "enrichProfiles": true,
    "includeSuppliers": true,
    "includeShipments": true,
    "includeHsCodes": true,
    "includeContacts": true,
    "maxResults": 50
}

• mode — search (find importers + suppliers by name/product), company (resolve each term/URL to a US importer profile), or supplier (resolve to an overseas exporter profile).
• searchTerms — company names, brands, or product keywords. Combined automatically with the chosen mode.
• startUrls — paste ImportYeti /company/… or /supplier/… URLs to scrape them directly.
• searchType (search mode) — keep both importers & suppliers, only importers, or only suppliers.
• enrichProfiles (default true) — pull the full profile for every hit; turn off for a fast, cheap discovery list.
• includeSuppliers / includeShipments / includeHsCodes / includeContacts (default true) — toggle the heavy data sections on/off.
• maxSuppliers / maxShipments — cap the supplier table and shipment list per profile.
• maxResults / maxResultsPerSearch — overall and per-term caps.
• monitorMode (default false) — emit only entities that are new or have received new shipments since the last run.

Output

One record per entity. recordType: "profile" for a full trade profile, recordType: "searchResult" for a lightweight discovery row:

{
    "recordType": "profile",
    "type": "company",
    "entityType": "US Importer",
    "name": "Yoga Mat Importer LLC",
    "alsoKnownAs": ["YMI LLC"],
    "profileUrl": "https://www.importyeti.com/company/yoga-mat-importer",
    "address": "123 Commerce Way, Carson, CA 90745, US",
    "country": "United States of America",
    "countryCode": "US",
    "latitude": 33.831,
    "longitude": -118.281,
    "website": "yogamatimporter.com",
    "phone": "+1 310 555 0142",
    "trademarks": ["YogaFlow"],
    "totalShipments": 1842,
    "shipments12m": 263,
    "totalShippingCostUsd": 5120433.18,
    "avgTeuPerMonth": { "12m": 18.4, "24m": 15.1 },
    "firstShipmentDate": "12/03/2017",
    "lastShipmentDate": "02/06/2026",
    "quarterlyGrowth": { "months": ["01/04/2026"], "shipments": 12, "shipments_percents": 8 },
    "topImportChapters": { "95": { "shipments": 980, "description": "Toys/sports equipment" } },
    "uflpaFlag": false,
    "counterpartyRole": "suppliers",
    "supplierCount": 7,
    "topSuppliers": [
        {
            "name": "Ningbo Fitness Goods Co",
            "country": "China",
            "countryCode": "CN",
            "profileUrl": "https://www.importyeti.com/supplier/ningbo-fitness-goods",
            "shipments12m": 180,
            "totalShipments": 940,
            "totalWeightKg": 1830422,
            "totalTeus": 612,
            "hsCodes": ["9506.91", "3926.90"],
            "alibabaUrl": "https://www.alibaba.com/…",
            "topPartners": [{ "name": "Competitor Sports Inc", "shipments12m": 220, "totalShipments": 1310 }]
        }
    ],
    "recentShipments": [
        {
            "date": "2026-06-02T00:00:01.000Z",
            "billOfLading": "NBSF202606012",
            "masterBol": "COSU6398114220",
            "counterpartyRole": "supplier",
            "counterpartyName": "Ningbo Fitness Goods Co",
            "counterpartyCountry": "China",
            "productDescription": "PVC YOGA MAT 6MM NON-SLIP 1800 PCS",
            "weightKg": 12840,
            "containers": 2,
            "quantity": "1800",
            "quantityUnit": "PCS",
            "shippingRoute": "Trans-Pacific",
            "estShippingCostUsd": 4210.55
        }
    ],
    "carriers": [{ "scac": "COSU", "name": "Cosco", "shipments": 640, "serviceTypes": [{ "type": "CY", "shipments": 410 }] }],
    "carriersByCountry": { "China": ["Cosco", "Matson"] },
    "emails": ["sales@yogamatimporter.com"],
    "phones": ["+1 310 555 0142"],
    "leadScore": 86,
    "searchTerm": "yoga mat",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-06-16T03:00:00.000Z"
}

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 with monitorMode to track a competitor's new imports or a supplier's new customers. Perfect for sales pipelines and watchlists.
• 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: 'search',
    searchTerms: ['lithium battery'],
    searchType: 'company',
    enrichProfiles: true,
    maxResults: 100,
});

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

Integrate with any app

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

• Make — multi-step automation scenarios.
• Zapier — push new importer/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 contacts" and let it run this scraper for you.

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Tips

• Find a product's importers: use Search mode with searchType: "company" and a product keyword (office chair). Each US importer comes back with its suppliers and contacts.
• Reverse a supply chain: paste a /supplier/… URL (or use supplier mode) to get the factory's full US customer list and products.
• Cost control: turn off includeShipments / includeHsCodes for a leaner record, or enrichProfiles: false for a cheap discovery-only list. The supplier table and contacts are usually the highest-value fields.
• Proxies: keep the default US residential proxy group; ImportYeti is behind Cloudflare and may challenge datacenter IPs. Datacenter is cheaper for light use — try it and switch back if runs come up empty.
• Recurring monitoring: combine Schedules with monitorMode to capture only new shipments. This does not conflict with the Apify scheduler — the schedule triggers the run, monitorMode controls what is emitted.

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 and supplier 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.

Why are some emails/phones empty? Many manifests carry masked contact fields (e.g. --- or XXX). The actor keeps only real, de-masked emails and phones, so the emails / phones arrays are empty when no genuine contact exists rather than padded with junk.

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.

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.