Dun & Bradstreet Company Data Scraper

Extract company firmographics from the Dun & Bradstreet business directory — company names, addresses, D‑U‑N‑S numbers, revenue, industry classification, key principals and corporate structure — for over 120 million businesses worldwide.

Why use this actor

• No account, no login, no API key. D&B's commercial data products start in the thousands per seat; this reads the free public directory.
• Real D‑U‑N‑S numbers. Full profiles return the actual 9‑digit D‑U‑N‑S identifier, the standard key for joining business data across systems.
• Five ways in, one output format. Search by company name, browse an entire industry, drill into a state or city, pull complete profiles, or dump the industry taxonomy.
• Global coverage. United States (1.15M retail companies alone), India (5.8M), Brazil (2.8M), Japan, Germany, France, UK, Canada, Australia, Indonesia, Singapore and more.
• Honest about what's withheld. D&B paywalls some fields per company. Those come back as null with a maskedFieldCount telling you exactly how many were held back — never as filler text that looks like real data.
• Stable JSON suitable for spreadsheets, CRMs, databases and enrichment pipelines. Export to JSON, CSV or Excel. Automatic retries; runs on Apify's schedule.

How it works

1. Pick a mode — search by name, browse by industry, fetch full profiles, get industry research, or list the industry taxonomy.
2. Fill in what that mode needs: company names, an industry path, or profile URLs.
3. Optionally narrow by country, state/region and city, or by employee-count range.
4. The actor collects every matching company, following pagination automatically and de‑duplicating as it goes.
5. Results land in the dataset, one row per company, ready to export.

No scrapers, browsers or blocks to babysit.

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Modes

Mode	What it does	Needs
search	Find companies by name	companyNames
industry	Browse every company in an industry	industryPaths
profile	Full firmographic record for specific companies	companyUrls
industryAnalysis	Industry research: description, activities, top companies, geography	industryPaths
taxonomy	List all 327 industry paths with NAICS codes	—

Start with taxonomy if you plan to use industry or industryAnalysis — it gives you every valid industry path in one run.

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Input

Search companies by name

{
  "mode": "search",
  "companyNames": ["apple"],
  "country": "us",
  "minEmployees": 1000,
  "maxEmployees": 100000,
  "maxItems": 100,
  "enrichWithProfile": false
}

Browse an industry, narrowed to a city

{
  "mode": "industry",
  "industryPaths": ["retail_trade"],
  "country": "us",
  "regionName": "california",
  "cityName": "los_angeles",
  "maxItems": 500
}

Full profiles for specific companies

{
  "mode": "profile",
  "companyUrls": [
    "https://www.dnb.com/business-directory/company-profiles.apple_inc.ec7f550b3a97b94d919d837672573959.html"
  ]
}

Field	Type	Description
mode	string	search, industry, profile, industryAnalysis or taxonomy
companyNames	array	Company names to search for (mode search)
industryPaths	array	Industry paths such as retail_trade (modes industry, industryAnalysis)
companyUrls	array	Profile URLs or bare selectors (mode profile)
country	string	Two-letter country code: us, gb, de, in, br, id …
regionName	string	State/region slug, e.g. california
cityName	string	City slug, e.g. los_angeles. Works with or without a region
minEmployees / maxEmployees	integer	Employee-count range (mode search)
enrichWithProfile	boolean	Also fetch each company's full profile. One extra request per company
maxItems	integer	Cap per input. 0 = no cap
pageSize	integer	Results per request, max 50
maxConcurrency	integer	Requests in flight, default 4
minRequestInterval	integer	Minimum seconds between requests
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify Proxy settings. Residential recommended

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Output

Every row carries _input, _source, _scrapedAt and a recordType telling you what it is: COMPANY, COMPANY_PROFILE, INDUSTRY, SEARCH_SUMMARY or ERROR. Each query also emits one SEARCH_SUMMARY row with the total D&B reports, so you always know how much exists versus how much you retrieved.

search — a COMPANY row

{
  "_input": "search:apple",
  "_source": "S1-bd-api",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-08-21T10:05:28Z",
  "recordType": "COMPANY",
  "companyAddress": "1 Apple Park Way",
  "companyCity": "Cupertino",
  "companyCountry": "United States",
  "companyProfileLink": "/business-directory/company-profiles.apple_inc.ec7f550b3a97b94d919d837672573959",
  "companyRegion": "California",
  "companyZipCode": "95014-0642",
  "countryRegion": "Cupertino, CA, United States",
  "duns": "ec7f550b3a97b94d919d837672573959",
  "industryName": "Communications Equipment Manufacturing",
  "locationType": "Parent",
  "primaryName": "Apple Inc.",
  "tradeStyleNames": "Apple",
  "urlSelector": "apple_inc.ec7f550b3a97b94d919d837672573959",
  "companySelector": "apple_inc.ec7f550b3a97b94d919d837672573959",
  "companyUrlBuilt": "https://www.dnb.com/business-directory/company-profiles.apple_inc.ec7f550b3a97b94d919d837672573959.html",
  "searchRank": 1,
  "maskedFieldCount": 0,
  "countryQueried": "us",
  "companyNameQueried": "apple"
}

industry — a COMPANY row

{
  "_input": "industry:retail_trade",
  "_source": "S1-bd-api",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-08-21T10:05:38Z",
  "recordType": "COMPANY",
  "duns": "1d6aec28aff542b40d3c2193a9a258f4",
  "primaryName": "Amazon.com, Inc.",
  "primaryNameForUrl": "amazoncom_inc",
  "primaryAddress": {
    "addressCountry": { "isoAlpha2Code": "US", "countryName": "United States" },
    "addressLocality": { "name": "Seattle" },
    "addressRegion": { "name": "Washington", "abbreviatedName": "WA" },
    "postalCode": "98109-5210",
    "streetAddress": { "line1": "410 Terry Ave N" }
  },
  "addressLocalityNameFormatted": "Seattle",
  "addressRegionNameFormatted": "Washington",
  "addressCountryName": "United States",
  "salesRevenue": "716,924",
  "companyNameUrl": "amazoncom_inc.1d6aec28aff542b40d3c2193a9a258f4",
  "companyUrlBuilt": "https://www.dnb.com/business-directory/company-profiles.amazoncom_inc.1d6aec28aff542b40d3c2193a9a258f4.html",
  "searchRank": 1,
  "industryPathQueried": "retail_trade"
}

profile — a COMPANY_PROFILE row

Key fields lifted to the top level for spreadsheets; the complete nested record (overview, financials, corporate family, competitors, similar companies, breadcrumb) is kept alongside them.

{
  "_input": "profile:apple_inc.ec7f550b3a97b94d919d837672573959",
  "recordType": "COMPANY_PROFILE",
  "companyNameResolved": "Apple Inc.",
  "dunsNumber": "060704780",
  "directoryKey": "ec7f550b3a97b94d919d837672573959",
  "websiteResolved": "www.apple.com",
  "revenueFormatted": "$416.16 billion",
  "keyPrincipalResolved": "Timothy D Cook",
  "companyLocationResolved": "1 Apple Park Way Cupertino, CA, 95014-0642 United States",
  "stockExchangeResolved": "NASDAQ:AAPL",
  "maskedFieldCount": 58,
  "overview": {
    "tradeStyleName": "Apple",
    "parentIndustryName": "Manufacturing",
    "industries": {
      "Communications Equipment Manufacturing": "communications_equipment_manufacturing",
      "Computer and Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing": "computer_and_peripheral_equipment_manufacturing"
    }
  },
  "financials": {
    "annualIncomes": [
      { "year": "2025", "revenue": 416161.0, "revenueAccuracy": "Actual" }
    ]
  },
  "companyLinkage": { "totalPrincipals": 13, "totalContacts": "50,061" }
}

taxonomy — an INDUSTRY row

{
  "_input": "taxonomy",
  "recordType": "INDUSTRY",
  "sectorName": "Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction",
  "industryTitle": "Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction",
  "industryPath": "mining_quarrying_and_oil_and_gas_extraction",
  "naicsCode": "21",
  "industryUrl": "/business-directory/industry-analysis.mining_quarrying_and_oil_and_gas_extraction.html"
}

SEARCH_SUMMARY — one per query

{
  "recordType": "SEARCH_SUMMARY",
  "mode": "search",
  "totalMatches": 20195,
  "returnedCount": 2,
  "requestsMade": 1,
  "resultWindowReached": false,
  "notes": "D&B reports 20195 matching companies but its directory only pages through 1000 per query; split the work by country or employee-count band to reach the rest",
  "companyNameQueried": "apple"
}

Field	Type	Description
primaryName	string	Company name
duns	string	D&B's directory key for the company
dunsNumber	string	The real 9-digit D‑U‑N‑S number (profile rows only)
companyUrlBuilt	string	Direct link to the company's D&B profile page
industryName	string	Industry classification
locationType	string	Parent, Subsidiary, Branch, Single Location
salesRevenue / revenueFormatted	string	Annual revenue where published
keyPrincipalResolved	string	Named executive (profile rows)
stockExchangeResolved	string	Ticker where listed
maskedFieldCount	integer	How many fields D&B withheld for this company
totalMatches	integer	How many companies D&B says match your query
resultWindowReached	boolean	Whether the per-query row limit was hit

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Notes and limits

• About 1,000 companies per query. D&B's directory stops paging at roughly 1,000 rows regardless of how many matches it reports. To collect more of a large industry, split the work — run it per state, or per city, or per employee-count band. Every SEARCH_SUMMARY row tells you totalMatches versus returnedCount so you can see when this applies.
• Some fields are withheld per company. D&B publishes different amounts for different businesses; detailed financials in particular are usually held back for large public companies. Withheld fields are null, and maskedFieldCount reports how many there were. Revenue, key principal, website, address and industry are the most reliably present.
• enrichWithProfile costs one request per company. Leave it off for large listing runs and turn it on for shortlists.
• Use Residential proxy on the platform for the most reliable results.
• Contact/people data is not collected. This actor returns company information only.
• Last verified against the live site: 2026‑08‑21.