Manta Business Directory Scraper

Scrape US small-business listings from Manta.com in bulk — company name, star rating, review count, full street address, city, state, phone, website and the Manta profile URL — as clean, structured rows ready for a spreadsheet, CRM or lead list.

Manta is one of the largest US small-business directories (millions of company listings organized by industry and location). This actor turns any Manta category or category-plus-location "browse" page into a downloadable dataset, paginating deep so a single run pulls thousands of businesses.

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What you get (output fields)

Each row is one business:

Field	Description
name	Business / company name
profileUrl	Full Manta profile URL (https://www.manta.com/c/...)
companyId	Manta's internal company id (stable key for de-duping)
profileSlug	The slug portion of the profile URL
rating	Star rating (0–5), if the business has reviews
reviewCount	Number of reviews, if any
streetAddress	Street address
city	City
state	State (2-letter)
phone	Phone number
website	The business's own website (decoded from Manta's redirect link)
logoUrl	Company logo / photo image URL, if present
category	The Manta category the listing was found under
sourceUrl	The Manta browse URL this row came from
resultPage	The result page number the row was on
scrapedAt	ISO-8601 timestamp of the scrape

Fields that a particular listing doesn't publish (e.g. an unclaimed business with no website or reviews) come back null — you are only billed for a business that was returned, never for empty fields.

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How to use it

Manta organizes its directory into category / location browse pages, for example:

• A whole category: https://www.manta.com/mb_33_A6_000/professional_services
• A category in one state: https://www.manta.com/mb_43_A6_44/professional_services/texas
• Other top categories: restaurants_and_bars, healthcare, consumer_services, information_technology, industrial_machinery, and hundreds of sub-categories.

To get the exact page you want: open manta.com, browse to the category and the state/city you care about, and copy the page URL from your browser. Paste one or more of those URLs into startUrls. That's it — the actor paginates each URL deep automatically.

Note: Manta's search box (/search?...) builds its results with JavaScript, so a /search URL returns nothing here. Use a category / location browse URL (a /mb_.../<category> or /mb_.../<category>/<state> page), not a search URL.

Example input

{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.manta.com/mb_43_A6_44/professional_services/texas",
    "https://www.manta.com/mb_33_C4_000/restaurants_and_bars"
  ],
  "maxResultsPerUrl": 5000,
  "maxPagesPerUrl": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"], "apifyProxyCountry": "US" }
}

Example output row

{
  "name": "Paragon Payroll, Inc.",
  "profileUrl": "https://www.manta.com/c/mt1j9gy/paragon-payroll-inc-",
  "companyId": "mt1j9gy",
  "profileSlug": "paragon-payroll-inc-",
  "rating": null,
  "reviewCount": null,
  "streetAddress": "1805 Owen Ct",
  "city": "Mansfield",
  "state": "TX",
  "phone": "(866) 444-4615",
  "website": "http://www.paragonpayroll.com",
  "logoUrl": "https://images.manta-r3.com/api/claim-this-profile/image-mgr/view/20160330baGS9Dgjzn",
  "category": "Professional Services",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.manta.com/mb_43_A6_44/professional_services/texas",
  "resultPage": 1,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-19T00:00:00+00:00"
}

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Input options

Option	What it does
startUrls	One or more Manta category / location browse URLs. Each is paginated deep.
maxResultsPerUrl	Max businesses per start URL (default 5000).
maxPagesPerUrl	Hard page cap per start URL (default 100 ≈ 3,500–4,500 businesses).
maxResults	Optional overall cap across all start URLs combined.
proxyConfiguration	Proxy used to reach Manta. Default: Apify Residential (US), recommended.

Manta serves roughly 35–45 businesses per page and its listings run into the hundreds of pages for a big category-plus-state, so a handful of start URLs easily returns thousands of rows. Businesses are de-duplicated per start URL by their Manta id.

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Use cases

• Lead lists & prospecting — build targeted B2B lists by industry and location (name, phone, website, address) for outbound sales.
• Local market research — map every business in a category across a state or metro.
• Data enrichment — match and enrich your CRM against Manta's directory.
• Directory / aggregator building — seed your own vertical directory with structured company data.

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FAQ

Do I need a Manta login or API key? No. The actor reads Manta's public directory pages.

Can I search by keyword like "plumbers in Austin"? Use Manta's own browse pages: open manta.com, browse (or search) to the category + location you want, then copy that page's URL into startUrls. Manta's /search box is JavaScript-rendered, so paste a category/location browse URL rather than a raw search URL.

Do I need the proxy? Manta blocks on TLS fingerprint, not IP, so the actor presents a real Chrome TLS fingerprint and fetches directly first — the proxy is an automatic fallback used only if a direct request is ever blocked. The default (Apify Residential, US) is a safe fallback; leave it in place for the most reliable results.

How many businesses can I get? Thousands per run. Volume comes from supplying more start URLs (more categories and more states/cities) and from deep pagination.

How am I billed? Pay per result — one charge per business returned. Listings that are blocked or empty are never charged.