German Trade Fair Exhibitor Monitor

Turn public German trade fair exhibitor directories into clean rows for market research, sourcing, partner scouting, and sales preparation.

This Actor reads public German trade fair exhibitor directories across several source families: Messe Düsseldorf VIS directories, Messe Frankfurt exhibitor search, Koelnmesse ASDB pages, and NürnbergMesse search indexes. It returns normalized company rows with event, country, city, hall / stand, public profile URL, company website where available, and a practical lead reason.

It is not a contact scraper. It does not collect personal emails, personal names, phone numbers, account-gated data, or anything behind login.

What it does

• Reads public exhibitor directories through public website APIs or server-rendered directory pages used by the fair websites.
• Normalizes exhibitors across selected events.
• Deduplicates the same company across selected sources.
• Adds canonical public profile URLs and company websites when exposed in public profile metadata.
• Filters by keyword, country, and city.
• Supports newOnly monitoring for scheduled runs.
• Writes a SUMMARY object with source health and monitoring state.

Current sources

Messe Düsseldorf / VIS family

• MEDICA / COMPAMED public exhibitor directory
• boot Düsseldorf public exhibitor directory
• A+A public exhibitor directory
• Caravan Salon Düsseldorf public exhibitor directory
• drupa public exhibitor directory
• EuroCIS public exhibitor directory
• EuroShop public exhibitor directory
• glasstec public exhibitor directory
• interpack public exhibitor directory
• K public exhibitor directory
• ProWein public exhibitor directory
• REHACARE public exhibitor directory
• TOP HAIR public exhibitor directory
• wire public exhibitor directory
• Tube public exhibitor directory
• Valve World Expo public exhibitor directory
• XPONENTIAL Europe public exhibitor directory

Messe Frankfurt family

• Ambiente public exhibitor directory
• Christmasworld public exhibitor directory
• Creativeworld public exhibitor directory
• Heimtextil public exhibitor directory
• Automechanika Frankfurt public exhibitor directory
• ISH public exhibitor directory
• Light + Building public exhibitor directory

Koelnmesse family

• Anuga public exhibitor directory
• imm cologne public exhibitor directory
• ISM Cologne public exhibitor directory
• spoga+gafa public exhibitor directory

NürnbergMesse family

• embedded world public exhibitor directory
• Interzoo public exhibitor directory
• FACHPACK public exhibitor directory
• POWTECH TECHNOPHARM public exhibitor directory

The custom eventUrls input is still limited to compatible public Messe Düsseldorf VIS directory URLs. Other source families are exposed as verified built-in events because they need family-specific API/search parameters.

Good first runs

MEDICA exhibitors from Germany

{
  "events": ["medica"],
  "country": "Germany",
  "maxItems": 50
}

Marine-related boot Düsseldorf exhibitors

{
  "events": ["boot"],
  "keyword": "marine",
  "maxItems": 50
}

A+A exhibitors by keyword

{
  "events": ["aplusa"],
  "keyword": "shoes",
  "maxItems": 50
}

Ambiente exhibitors by keyword

{
  "events": ["ambiente"],
  "keyword": "design",
  "maxItems": 50
}

Anuga exhibitors from Germany

{
  "events": ["anuga"],
  "country": "Germany",
  "maxItems": 50
}

embedded world software exhibitors

{
  "events": ["embeddedWorld"],
  "keyword": "software",
  "maxItems": 50
}

Custom Messe Düsseldorf-style event URL

Use this when a public Messe Düsseldorf event uses the same VIS directory structure but is not listed in the dropdown yet.

{
  "events": [],
  "eventUrls": ["https://www.k-online.com/vis/v1/en/directory/a"],
  "keyword": "plastic",
  "maxItems": 50
}

Weekly monitoring

The first run creates the baseline. Later runs with the same stateKey return only exhibitors that were not seen before.

{
  "events": ["medica", "boot"],
  "country": "Germany",
  "newOnly": true,
  "stateKey": "german-exhibitors-weekly",
  "maxItems": 100
}

Who this is for

User	Useful when you need
Sales teams	A shortlist of companies before a trade fair
Market researchers	Company-level exhibitor data by event, country, city, or keyword
Agencies	Structured fair data for CRM prep, segment research, or client reports
Sourcing teams	Supplier, manufacturer, distributor, or partner candidates from public directories

Output fields

Each dataset row includes:

• companyName
• eventName
• eventLabels
• country
• city
• hallStand
• website
• profileUrl
• description
• logoUrl
• premium
• matchedKeyword
• matchedCountry
• matchedCity
• leadReason
• rankScore
• sourceName
• sourceDirectoryUrl
• detectedAt

Example row shape:

{
  "companyName": "Example Medical GmbH",
  "eventName": "MEDICA / COMPAMED",
  "country": "Germany",
  "city": "Düsseldorf",
  "hallStand": "Hall 12 / Stand A34",
  "website": "https://www.example.com",
  "profileUrl": "https://www.medica-tradefair.com/vis/v1/en/exhibitors/...",
  "leadReason": "Matched country Germany; MEDICA exhibitor",
  "sourceName": "MEDICA / COMPAMED"
}

Fields vary by exhibitor profile. The Actor keeps the public profile URL so the source row can be checked before outreach or CRM import.

Use cases

• Build a shortlist of exhibitors for a sales team before a trade fair.
• Track new exhibitors in a market segment or country.
• Map suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, or partner candidates.
• Feed CRM enrichment or research workflows with structured fair data.
• Compare exhibitor presence across German events without browsing directory pages manually.

How it is different from contact scrapers

Some exhibitor scrapers try to collect personal contact names, emails, and phone numbers. This Actor does not do that.

The trade-off is deliberate:

• cleaner company-level rows
• lower privacy and support risk
• better fit for market mapping, sourcing, and CRM preparation
• fewer brittle selectors tied to hidden profile widgets

Use it to find and segment companies. Check the official exhibitor profile or company website before contacting anyone.

SUMMARY and source health

Each run writes a SUMMARY record to the key-value store. Check it when a run is empty or lower than expected.

The summary includes:

• normalized input
• selected events
• custom event URLs
• source health per directory
• raw and emitted row counts
• duplicate counts
• newOnly state when monitoring mode is used

Pricing

This Actor charges per emitted dataset row:

• $0.002 per exhibitor row
• 100 emitted rows cost about $0.20
• 1,000 emitted rows cost about $2.00

There is no Actor-start fee at launch. If a run returns zero rows, there are no dataset rows to charge for.

Safety boundaries

This Actor only reads public exhibitor directory data. It does not:

• bypass CAPTCHA
• create accounts
• log into fair portals
• scrape private contact details
• send outreach
• submit forms

Users are responsible for how they use exported company data in their own workflows.

Related German opportunity Actors

• German Tender Monitor for public procurement tenders.
• German Funding Monitor for public funding programme rows.

Changelog

0.1.6

• Added verified Messe Frankfurt exhibitor-search sources: Ambiente, Christmasworld, Creativeworld, Heimtextil, Automechanika Frankfurt, ISH, and Light + Building.
• Added verified Koelnmesse ASDB sources: Anuga, imm cologne, ISM Cologne, and spoga+gafa.
• Added verified NürnbergMesse Algolia sources: embedded world, Interzoo, FACHPACK, and POWTECH TECHNOPHARM.
• Added source-family dispatching while keeping the existing dataset row schema stable.
• Decoded common HTML entities in exhibitor names, labels, and descriptions from public source responses.

0.1.3

• Added verified Messe Düsseldorf-style event sources beyond MEDICA and boot.
• Added eventUrls for compatible public Messe Düsseldorf VIS directory URLs.
• Fixed custom-only runs so events: [] with eventUrls does not fall back to MEDICA and boot.

0.1.0

• Initial exhibitor monitor.
• MEDICA / COMPAMED and boot Düsseldorf sources.
• Keyword, country, and city filters.
• Company-level public profile and website extraction where available.
• newOnly monitoring state.
• Source-health summary.