# Directory Listing Quality Auditor (`seeb/directory-listing-quality-auditor`) Actor

Audit public directory listing pages for missing business details, weak descriptions, and local SEO quality signals.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/seeb/directory-listing-quality-auditor.md
- **Developed by:** [Techionik](https://apify.com/seeb) (community)
- **Categories:** SEO tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$25.00 / 1,000 dataset items

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Directory Listing Quality Auditor

Find weak directory listings that local SEO teams can improve or prospect.

### Why use this Actor?

Audit public directory listing pages for missing business details, weak descriptions, and local SEO quality signals.

It is built for clean marketplace-ready output: no huge raw HTML dumps, no noisy nested records, and no confusing fields. Each result is a compact business signal that can go directly into a spreadsheet, Airtable, CRM, or monitoring workflow.

### Best for

- Audit local listing quality
- Find local SEO prospects
- Score directory completeness

### Input

The input is intentionally simple:

- `startUrls` - public pages to analyze
- `maxPagesPerStartUrl` - how many same-domain pages to inspect
- `maxResultsPerPage` - maximum clean results saved from each page
- `includeEvidence` - save a short evidence snippet
- `proxyConfiguration` - optional Apify proxy settings

#### Example input

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
        {
            "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_based_in_Austin,_Texas"
        },
        {
            "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_restaurant_chains_in_the_United_States"
        }
  ],
  "maxPagesPerStartUrl": 2,
  "maxResultsPerPage": 10,
  "includeEvidence": true
}
```

### Output

Each dataset item contains only useful fields:

- `name`
- `summary`
- `category`
- `matchedSignals`
- `priceOrValue`
- `date`
- `score`
- `domain`
- `resultUrl`
- `pageUrl`
- `errorMessage`

#### Example output

```json
{
  "status": "ok",
  "name": "Example matched result",
  "summary": "A short useful sentence explaining the relevant finding.",
  "category": "pricing",
  "matchedSignals": [
    "phone",
    "website",
    "hours"
  ],
  "priceOrValue": "$29/month",
  "date": "2026-07-09",
  "score": 51,
  "domain": "en.wikipedia.org",
  "resultUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_based_in_Austin,_Texas",
  "pageUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_based_in_Austin,_Texas",
  "errorMessage": null
}
```

### Pricing

Recommended monetization is pay per saved result at **$0.0020 per result**.

Users also pay normal Apify platform usage costs, such as compute, storage, and proxy usage where applicable.

### Notes and limitations

- Works on public HTML pages.
- Login-only, CAPTCHA-heavy, and heavily blocked websites may need proxies or may fail.
- The Actor extracts public page signals; it does not access private accounts or restricted data.
- JavaScript-only pages may return fewer results because this lightweight version is optimized for speed and low compute cost.

### Search keywords

directory audit, local seo, listing quality, business listings, lead generation

# Actor input Schema

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

Add public URLs for Directory Listing Quality Auditor. Start with category, pricing, directory, article, or listing pages.

## `maxPagesPerStartUrl` (type: `integer`):

How many same-domain pages to inspect from each start URL.

## `maxResultsPerPage` (type: `integer`):

Maximum clean results to save from each page.

## `includeEvidence` (type: `boolean`):

Save a short text snippet explaining why the result matched. Turn off for smaller output.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

How many pages to process at the same time.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Optional proxy settings. Most public pages work without proxy.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=plumbers&find_loc=Austin%2C+TX"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.yellowpages.com/new-york-ny/restaurants"
    }
  ],
  "maxPagesPerStartUrl": 3,
  "maxResultsPerPage": 20,
  "includeEvidence": true,
  "maxConcurrency": 5,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `overview` (type: `string`):

No description

## `summary` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "startUrls": [
        {
            "url": "https://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=plumbers&find_loc=Austin%2C+TX"
        },
        {
            "url": "https://www.yellowpages.com/new-york-ny/restaurants"
        }
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("seeb/directory-listing-quality-auditor").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "startUrls": [
        { "url": "https://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=plumbers&find_loc=Austin%2C+TX" },
        { "url": "https://www.yellowpages.com/new-york-ny/restaurants" },
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("seeb/directory-listing-quality-auditor").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=plumbers&find_loc=Austin%2C+TX"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.yellowpages.com/new-york-ny/restaurants"
    }
  ]
}' |
apify call seeb/directory-listing-quality-auditor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,seeb/directory-listing-quality-auditor"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/zaZuxtplVxZOHvLCf/builds/8uGq1sgWvlHk2zKqM/openapi.json