# Clutch.co B2B Agency Profile Scraper (`shawnle204/clutch-agency-scraper`) Actor

Scrapes agency/company listings from Clutch.co directory pages (name, website, rating, reviews, pricing, location, services).

- **URL**: https://apify.com/shawnle204/clutch-agency-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Shawn L](https://apify.com/shawnle204) (community)
- **Categories:**
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $4.00 / 1,000 results

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?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
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.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Clutch.co Agency Scraper

Scrapes B2B agency/company profiles from [Clutch.co](https://clutch.co) directory listing pages — the default `/agencies` directory or any category page (`/developers`, `/web-design`, `/seo-firms`, etc.).

### What it does

Given one or more Clutch directory URLs, the actor:

1. Fetches each listing page and parses every agency card on it.
2. Follows pagination via the `?page={n}` query parameter until either a page returns no cards, `maxItems` is reached, or `maxPagesPerStartUrl` is hit.
3. Pushes one dataset item per agency as it's scraped (streamed, not batched at the end).

It uses Crawlee's `BeautifulSoupCrawler` — Clutch's listing pages are server-rendered, so no headless browser is needed.

### Input

| Field | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `startUrls` | array | `[{"url": "https://clutch.co/agencies"}]` | Clutch directory/category URLs to crawl. |
| `maxItems` | integer | `50` | Max agency profiles to scrape across all start URLs. |
| `maxPagesPerStartUrl` | integer | `50` | Safety cap on paginated pages followed per start URL. |
| `minRequestDelaySecs` / `maxRequestDelaySecs` | number | `1.5` / `3` | Randomized delay range applied before each request. |
| `proxyConfiguration` | object | Apify Proxy, `RESIDENTIAL` group | Proxy config. Residential is recommended — Clutch rate-limits/blocks datacenter IPs. |

Example input:

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://clutch.co/agencies" },
    { "url": "https://clutch.co/web-design" }
  ],
  "maxItems": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] }
}
```

### Output

One dataset item per agency:

```json
{
  "company_name": "Power Digital",
  "website": "https://powerdigitalmarketing.com/growthplan/?utm_source__c=thirdpartydirectory&...",
  "clutch_profile_url": "https://clutch.co/profile/power-digital",
  "tagline": "Power Digital is a comprehensive advertising agency specializing in...",
  "min_project_size": "$5,000+",
  "hourly_rate": "$100 - $149 / hr",
  "employee_count": "250 - 999",
  "location": "San Diego, CA",
  "rating": 4.8,
  "review_count": 66,
  "services_focus": ["15% Advertising", "25% Social Media Marketing", "..."],
  "verified_status": true
}
```

Fields Clutch doesn't display for a given card (e.g. an undisclosed hourly rate) come back as `null` rather than a guessed value.

Note: `website` is the agency's real external URL — Clutch wraps outbound links in an `r.clutch.co/redirect?...` tracking redirect, which is unwrapped automatically. `tagline` is the card's description blurb (Clutch doesn't expose a separate short tagline on listing pages), so it can run a sentence or two.

### Local development

```bash
pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
pytest
```

Parser tests run against real captured Clutch markup in `tests/fixtures/` — no network access required.

To run the actor itself locally against the live site:

```bash
mkdir -p storage/key_value_stores/default
cat > storage/key_value_stores/default/INPUT.json <<'EOF'
{
  "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://clutch.co/agencies" }],
  "maxItems": 5,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": false }
}
EOF
python -m src
```

Results land in `storage/datasets/default/`.

### Deploying

```bash
apify push
```

# Actor input Schema

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

Clutch.co directory/category URLs to crawl, e.g. https://clutch.co/agencies, https://clutch.co/developers, https://clutch.co/web-design, https://clutch.co/seo-firms.

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

Maximum number of agency profiles to scrape across all start URLs.

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

Safety cap on how many paginated listing pages (?page=n) to follow per start URL.

## `minRequestDelaySecs` (type: `number`):

Lower bound of the randomized delay applied before each listing-page request.

## `maxRequestDelaySecs` (type: `number`):

Upper bound of the randomized delay applied before each listing-page request.

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

Apify Proxy configuration. Residential proxies are strongly recommended for Clutch.co.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://clutch.co/agencies"
    }
  ],
  "maxItems": 50,
  "maxPagesPerStartUrl": 50,
  "minRequestDelaySecs": 1.5,
  "maxRequestDelaySecs": 3,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `agencies` (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://clutch.co/agencies"
        }
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ]
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("shawnle204/clutch-agency-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 = {
    "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://clutch.co/agencies" }],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("shawnle204/clutch-agency-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 '{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://clutch.co/agencies"
    }
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}' |
apify call shawnle204/clutch-agency-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,shawnle204/clutch-agency-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/RSb3LhLaddd99O5BT/builds/cGaSKX4JRRkfAa2Df/openapi.json