🌿 AgriTech B2B Export Intelligence — Buyer Discovery

Find international B2B buyers for agricultural commodities across 7 global trade platforms — automatically. Built for exporters of essential oils, spices, rice, organic products, and agro-commodities who want to reach buyers directly without paying brokers.

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⚡ What It Does

This actor scrapes buying leads (RFQs) and supplier listings from major B2B trade directories. It extracts buyer requests, filters by country / order size / age, deduplicates results, scores each lead by priority, and delivers a clean dataset sorted so the best opportunities are always at the top.

The Problem It Solves

A lemongrass oil distiller in rural India has zero visibility into the fact that a buyer in Frankfurt posted a 500 kg purchase request on Alibaba 6 hours ago at $28/kg — while local brokers offer $14/kg. That $7,000 gap on a single order is what middlemen pocket.

This actor kills that information asymmetry.

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🌐 Platforms Scraped (7 sources)

Platform	Lead Type	Notes
Go4WorldBusiness	🛒 Buying Leads	RFQs from international buyers
EC21	🛒 Buying Leads	Global B2B buying offers
TradeIndia (Buy Requirements)	🛒 Buying Leads	Active purchase requirements
Alibaba (RFQ / Sourcing)	🛒 Buying Leads	Global buyer RFQs
TradeIndia (Products)	🏭 Supplier Intel	Price & supplier benchmarks
Alibaba (Product Search)	🏭 Supplier Intel	Global supplier prices & MOQs
IndiaMart	🏭 Supplier Intel	India supplier prices & locations

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📊 Output Fields

Every lead in the dataset includes:

Field	Description
leadScore	Priority score 0–100 — combines freshness, lead type, quantity, platform reliability
isFresh	Boolean — true if posted ≤7 days ago (use the 🔥 Fresh Leads view)
leadType	buying_lead or supplier_listing
buyerCountry	Detected buyer/supplier country
commodity	Matched commodity from your input list
title	Full listing title / buyer request
description	Buyer details, specs, requirements
quantity	Raw quantity text from the listing
quantityKg	Normalized to kg for easy filtering
postedDate	ISO date (YYYY-MM-DD)
ageDays	Days since posted
platform	Source platform name
contactUrl	Direct link to the lead / buyer profile
leadId	Stable deduplication ID
scrapedAt	ISO timestamp of this run

Dataset Views

View	What It Shows
🛒 Buying Leads	All RFQs / purchase requests only
🔥 Fresh Leads	Only leads ≤7 days old (actually filtered)
🏭 Supplier Listings	Market intelligence / competitor data
📊 All Results	Everything, sorted by leadScore
🌍 By Country	All results with country column prominent

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📥 Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
commodities	String List	["lemongrass essential oil"]	Products to search. Be specific.
buyerCountries	String List	[] (all)	Filter to specific buyer countries. Supports aliases (US, UAE, UK). Leave empty for worldwide.
includeUnknownCountries	Boolean	true	When a country filter is active, include leads where country couldn't be detected.
maxPages	Integer	5	Pages per platform per commodity. More = more results + higher cost.
maxRequestsPerCrawl	Integer	200	Hard cost cap on total HTTP requests.
minOrderQuantityKg	Integer	25	Skip leads below this order size. Set to 0 to include all.
maxLeadAgeDays	Integer	30	Skip leads older than this. Set to 365 for max coverage.
notifyWebhookUrl	String	""	Optional POST webhook called on completion with lead summary.
debugMode	Boolean	false	Save raw HTML pages to Key-Value Store for troubleshooting.
proxyConfig	Proxy	RESIDENTIAL	RESIDENTIAL proxies strongly recommended for Alibaba & IndiaMart.

Quick-Start Input

{
    "commodities": ["lemongrass essential oil", "citronella oil", "basmati rice"],
    "buyerCountries": [],
    "maxPages": 3,
    "minOrderQuantityKg": 0,
    "maxLeadAgeDays": 60,
    "maxRequestsPerCrawl": 200,
    "proxyConfig": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]
    }
}

Country Filter Examples

"buyerCountries": ["United States", "Germany", "Japan"]
"buyerCountries": ["US", "UK", "UAE", "France"]
"buyerCountries": ["Saudi Arabia", "Qatar", "Kuwait"]

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💡 Lead Score Explained

Each lead gets a priority score from 0–100 so you know which to contact first:

Component	Max Points	Logic
Freshness	40 pts	Linear: 40 (today) → 0 (90+ days old)
Lead Type	35 pts	Buying lead = 35, Supplier listing = 5
Has Quantity	15 pts	Parseable order quantity present = +15
Platform Weight	10 pts	Weighted by platform reliability/signal quality

Score 80+ = Fresh buying lead with quantity → contact immediately
Score 50–79 = Good lead, worth pursuing
Score < 50 = Market intel / older leads

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👤 Who Is This For?

User Type	Use Case
🌿 Essential oil exporters	Find buyers for lemongrass, citronella, vetiver, eucalyptus, peppermint oil
🌶️ Spice exporters	Find buyers for turmeric, black pepper, cardamom, cumin, chili
🍚 Rice & grain exporters	Find buyers for basmati, non-basmati, organic rice, wheat, millet
🌱 Organic product exporters	Find buyers for moringa, ashwagandha, spirulina, dried herbs
🏭 Commodity traders	Scan multiple commodities across markets daily
📊 Export consultants	Generate market intelligence reports for exporter clients
👨‍🌾 Farmer Producer Organizations	Find direct international buyers, bypass middlemen

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💰 Cost & Performance

Configuration	Approx. Requests	Approx. CU Cost
1 commodity, 3 pages	~21 requests	~0.5–1 CU
3 commodities, 5 pages	~105 requests	~2–4 CU
5 commodities, 5 pages	~175 requests	~3–6 CU
10 commodities, 10 pages	~700 requests	~15–25 CU

Tip: Use maxRequestsPerCrawl to cap cost. RESIDENTIAL proxy usage adds to cost.
Run with maxPages: 3 and maxLeadAgeDays: 30 for daily monitoring with minimal spend.

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🛡️ Anti-Bot & Proxy Notes

• RESIDENTIAL proxies are highly recommended — Alibaba and IndiaMart frequently block datacenter IPs
• The actor automatically waits for Cloudflare challenges (up to 30 seconds)
• Platform health is tracked per run: if a platform is consistently blocked, it's flagged in the run log and RUN_SUMMARY
• Cookie consent popups are auto-dismissed
• If Alibaba blocks consistently, reduce maxConcurrency and use RESIDENTIAL proxy group

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🔍 Troubleshooting

"No leads found"

1. Set debugMode: true and check Key-Value Store for DEBUG_* HTML files — see what the page actually returned
2. Try minOrderQuantityKg: 0 and maxLeadAgeDays: 365 to relax filters
3. Check RUN_SUMMARY in Key-Value Store for the countriesFound map — leads may exist but be filtered by your country list
4. Switch to RESIDENTIAL proxies if on datacenter

"Fresh Leads view is empty"

This view filters on isFresh = true (leads posted ≤7 days). Increase maxLeadAgeDays and re-run — platforms may not have fresh leads for niche commodities.

Platform blocked warning

Check platformHealth in RUN_SUMMARY. If a platform shows BLOCKED, try:

• RESIDENTIAL proxy group
• Reduce maxConcurrency to 1–2
• Run debugMode: true to see the HTML challenge page

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📝 Output Example

{
    "rank": 1,
    "leadScore": 87,
    "isFresh": true,
    "platform": "tradeindia-buyingleads",
    "leadType": "buying_lead",
    "title": "Required Lemongrass Essential Oil — 500 kg/month",
    "description": "We need steam-distilled lemongrass oil, citral content >75%, from India origin.",
    "commodity": "lemongrass essential oil",
    "commodityMatchConfidence": "high",
    "buyerCountry": "Germany",
    "quantity": "500 kg",
    "quantityKg": 500,
    "postedDate": "2025-04-14",
    "ageDays": 2,
    "contactUrl": "https://www.tradeindia.com/...",
    "scrapedAt": "2025-04-16T10:30:00.000Z"
}

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📣 Webhook Integration

Set notifyWebhookUrl to receive a POST request when the run completes:

{
    "event": "actor_complete",
    "actorId": "agritech-buyer-discovery",
    "runDate": "2025-04-16T10:30:00.000Z",
    "leadsCount": 134,
    "buyingLeads": 89,
    "freshLeads": 12,
    "commodities": ["lemongrass essential oil"]
}

Use this to trigger an email alert, Slack message, or update a Google Sheet automatically.

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⚠️ Legal & Ethical Use

This actor scrapes publicly visible data from B2B trade directories for market research and lead discovery. Use scraped data in accordance with each platform's Terms of Service and applicable laws. Do not use scraped contact information for spam. Always verify buyer intent before outreach.