# Gelbe Seiten Scraper - German Business Leads & Emails (`seemuapps/gelbe-seiten-scraper`) Actor

Scrape German businesses from Gelbe Seiten by trade and city - name, phone, email, website, address, rating and reviews. Export B2B leads for any branch.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/seemuapps/gelbe-seiten-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Seemu Scraping](https://apify.com/seemuapps) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.50 / 1,000 business listings

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.

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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.

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# README

## Gelbe Seiten Scraper - German Business Leads & Emails

Extract German business listings from Gelbe Seiten, Germany's largest business directory. Search any trade or company type in any city or postcode and get a clean lead list with phone numbers, email addresses, websites, full addresses and ratings.

### What you get

For every business:

- **name, category** - company name and its main trade (e.g. Klempnereien, Zahnärzte, Steuerberater)
- **phone, phones** - main phone number plus any additional numbers
- **email** - contact email, wherever the business publishes one
- **website**
- **street, postalCode, city, district, address** - e.g. `Torstr. 105-107, 10119 Berlin (Mitte)`
- **rating, reviewCount** - average star rating and number of reviews
- **badge, isPaidListing** - partner level and premium listing flags
- **description** - the business's own summary
- **detailUrl, listingId, logoUrl**

Turn on **Include business details** to also get:

- **email** for many more businesses
- **services** - the keywords and services the business lists
- **latitude, longitude** - GPS coordinates
- **openingHours, paymentMethods**
- the full **description**

### Use cases

- **B2B lead generation** - build lists of tradespeople, medical practices, law firms, agencies and more in any German city
- **Sales prospecting** - get direct phone numbers and emails for outreach campaigns
- **Local market research** - count and map competitors by trade and district
- **Data enrichment** - add phone, website and address data to existing company lists
- **Agency outreach** - find local businesses without a website or with low ratings

### How to use

1. Enter one or more **Search terms**, e.g. `Klempner`, `Zahnarzt`, `Steuerberater`, `Friseur`.
2. Enter one or more **Locations**: a city, town or postcode such as `Berlin`, `München` or `10115`.
3. Set **Max businesses** (0 = no limit). Every search term is combined with every location.
4. Optionally turn on **Include business details** for emails, services, coordinates and opening hours.
5. Run the actor and export the results from the **Dataset** tab as CSV, Excel, JSON or Google Sheets.

You can also paste Gelbe Seiten search URLs (e.g. `https://www.gelbeseiten.de/suche/klempner/berlin`) into **Start URLs**.

### Output example

```json
{
  "name": "A + M Heizung-Sanitär GmbH",
  "category": "Klempnereien",
  "phone": "0162 2 30 90 09",
  "email": "pruessing@a-m-hsl.de",
  "website": "https://www.heizungsanitaer-berlin.de",
  "street": "Torstr. 105- 107",
  "postalCode": "10119",
  "city": "Berlin",
  "district": "Mitte",
  "country": "DE",
  "rating": null,
  "reviewCount": null,
  "latitude": 52.530052,
  "longitude": 13.403331,
  "services": ["Heizungsbau", "Sanitär", "Rohrreinigung", "Badsanierung"],
  "paymentMethods": ["Bar", "Rechnung"],
  "detailUrl": "https://www.gelbeseiten.de/gsbiz/1aea7ffa-a033-49f1-a642-45a8132ae29c",
  "searchTerm": "Klempner",
  "searchLocation": "Berlin"
}
```

### Good to know

- Gelbe Seiten also lists nearby and related businesses for a search (e.g. heating engineers for "Klempner"). Use **Max businesses per search** to keep each search focused.
- The same business found by two searches is returned only once.
- Gelbe Seiten publishes an email address for many listings, but not for every business.

### Related directory scrapers

- **PagineGialle Scraper** - Italian business leads
- **Thomson Local Scraper** - UK business leads

# Actor input Schema

## `searchTerms` (type: `array`):

What to search for on Gelbe Seiten - a trade, business type or company name, e.g. "Klempner", "Zahnarzt", "Steuerberater". Each term is searched in every location.

## `locations` (type: `array`):

Cities, towns or postcodes in Germany to search in, e.g. "Berlin", "München", "10115".

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

Gelbe Seiten search results URLs to scrape directly, e.g. https://www.gelbeseiten.de/suche/klempner/berlin. Used in addition to the search terms above.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of businesses to return across all searches. 0 = no limit.

## `maxItemsPerSearch` (type: `integer`):

Optional cap for each search term + location combination. 0 = no per-search limit.

## `includeDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Also open each business page for email address, full description, services/keywords, GPS coordinates, payment methods and opening hours (one extra request per business).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchTerms": [
    "Klempner"
  ],
  "locations": [
    "Berlin"
  ],
  "maxItems": 100,
  "maxItemsPerSearch": 0,
  "includeDetails": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

One record per business: name, category, phone, email, website, street, postalCode, city, district, rating, reviewCount, plus description, services, coordinates and payment methods with details enabled.

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

Businesses found per search and pages fetched.

# 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 = {
    "searchTerms": [
        "Klempner"
    ],
    "locations": [
        "Berlin"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("seemuapps/gelbe-seiten-scraper").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 = {
    "searchTerms": ["Klempner"],
    "locations": ["Berlin"],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("seemuapps/gelbe-seiten-scraper").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 '{
  "searchTerms": [
    "Klempner"
  ],
  "locations": [
    "Berlin"
  ]
}' |
apify call seemuapps/gelbe-seiten-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,seemuapps/gelbe-seiten-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

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/t6butPXzxxuKbLbpq/builds/LIw9jBcwG5dQMu8md/openapi.json