IQS Directory Scraper

Pull industrial supplier and manufacturer listings from IQS Directory at scale — company names, full US addresses, direct phone and fax, websites, full company descriptions, and the product categories each company serves. One clean row per company, ready for your CRM or sourcing sheet. Built for procurement teams, manufacturers' sales reps, and supply-chain analysts who need a structured supplier list without copying companies off the directory one card at a time.

Why This Scraper?

• 15 ready-to-pick product categories — CNC Machining, Metal Stamping, Injection Molding, Die Casting, Springs, Gears, Forgings, Wire Forming, Conveyors, Electric Motors, Plastic Molding, Rubber Molding, Sheet Metal Fabrication, Pressure Vessels, and Heat Exchangers — selected from a plain-English dropdown, no URL hunting required.
• Stated quality certifications lifted into their own field — ISO 9001, ISO 9002, ISO 13485, ISO 14001, AS9100, QS-9000, TS 16949, ITAR, NADCAP, ASME, FDA and MIL-SPEC are pulled out of a company's own write-up into a clean array instead of staying buried in paragraph text. Around one US shop in eight names a standard (more in medical and aerospace categories), so it works as a shortlisting filter rather than a column every row carries.
• Full structured US address — street, city, state, and ZIP delivered as separate fields, so you can sort by state or filter by region the moment the data lands in a spreadsheet.
• Direct phone AND fax — both contact numbers per company, captured straight from the profile, not just a click-to-call link.
• Paste any IQS Directory URL — target a niche category page or drop in a single company profile link; URL-baked filters are honored exactly as you set them on the site.
• State listings come back as one state only — paste a state page such as the California CNC machining listing and every row is a California company. IQS Directory mixes neighbouring-state shops into its state pages; those are dropped for you, and the run reports exactly how many it removed.
• Profile-level enrichment toggle — flip one switch to open each company's profile for the street address and ZIP, fax number, full description, and complete category list, or leave it off for a fast name + location + phone sweep.
• Clean result cap, not a page cap — ask for exactly the number of companies you want and the run stops on that number, never a row over. Finish under it and the summary tells you why in plain English: the state is out of companies in that category, or some companies are listed on more than one of the pages you asked for.
• Up to 100,000 companies per run — sweep an entire category's supplier pool, or set a tight cap to sample a market in seconds.

Use Cases

Procurement & Sourcing

• Build a shortlist of qualified suppliers for a new part or program
• Find backup and second-source manufacturers in a single category
• Compare stated capabilities and equipment before sending an RFQ
• Map domestic suppliers by state to shorten lead times

Sales Lead Generation

• Build call lists of manufacturers with direct phone and fax numbers
• Target reps' territories by state and product category
• Enrich an existing prospect list with websites and descriptions
• Find shops whose own descriptions name the processes you sell into

Competitive & Market Research

• Size the supplier landscape for a product category
• Track which manufacturers serve adjacent categories
• Benchmark how a competitive set describes its capabilities and equipment
• Spot companies offering complementary capabilities

Supply-Chain Mapping

• Inventory available manufacturers across multiple categories at once
• Cross-reference suppliers by the full list of categories they serve
• Flag the vendors that publish a quality standard such as ISO 9001 or AS9100
• Maintain a refreshed master list of approved-vendor candidates

Getting Started

Quick Start — Pick a Category

The simplest run — just choose a product category:

{
    "category": "cnc-machining",
    "maxResults": 100
}

Full Detail with a Cap

Enrich every company from its profile page for the street address, fax number, and complete category list:

{
    "category": "metal-stampings",
    "scrapeCompanyDetails": true,
    "maxResults": 500
}

Paste Your Own URLs

Mix a category listing page and a single company profile in one run:

{
    "searchUrls": [
        "https://www.iqsdirectory.com/springs/",
        "https://www.iqsdirectory.com/profile/acme-spring-company-12345/"
    ],
    "scrapeCompanyDetails": true,
    "maxResults": 1000
}

Input Reference

What to Scrape

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
searchUrls	array	[]	Paste one or more IQS Directory URLs — category listing pages or individual company profile pages. Filters baked into the URL are honored as-is. Leave blank to use the Category picker.
category	select	CNC Machining	Pick a popular product category: CNC Machining, Metal Stamping, Injection Molding, Die Casting, Springs, Gears, Forgings, Wire Forming, Conveyors, Electric Motors, Plastic Molding, Rubber Molding, Sheet Metal Fabrication, Pressure Vessels, or Heat Exchangers. Ignored when you paste URLs.

Detail Level & Limits

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
scrapeCompanyDetails	boolean	true	When on, opens each company's profile for the street address and ZIP, fax, full description, and complete category list. When off, returns only the faster listing-card data (name, location, phone, website, short blurb).
maxResults	integer	100	Maximum number of companies to collect across all categories and URLs. Set to 0 for no cap. The run stops on the exact number you ask for — never a row over — and explains itself if it finishes under.

Output

Each company is one flat row. Here's a representative result with full detail enabled:

{
    "name": "Acme Precision Machining, Inc.",
    "street": "1450 Industrial Parkway",
    "city": "Cleveland",
    "state": "OH",
    "zip": "44114",
    "address": "1450 Industrial Parkway, Cleveland, OH 44114",
    "phone": "216-555-0142",
    "fax": "216-555-0143",
    "website": "https://www.acmeprecision.com",
    "description": "Acme Precision Machining is an ISO 9001 and AS9100 certified CNC machining shop serving aerospace and medical markets since 1978...",
    "category": "CNC Machining",
    "categories": ["CNC Machining", "Swiss Screw Machining", "Wire EDM"],
    "certifications": ["ISO 9001", "AS9100"],
    "videoUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRIr4ME9AhE",
    "profileUrl": "https://www.iqsdirectory.com/profile/acme-precision-machining-12345/",
    "sourceUrl": "https://www.iqsdirectory.com/cnc-machining/"
}

Company & Contact

Field	Type	Description
name	string	Company name
phone	string	Primary phone number
fax	string	Fax number (from the profile, when present)
website	string	Company website URL
description	string	Company description or capabilities blurb

Address

Field	Type	Description
street	string	Street address (full-detail mode)
city	string	City
state	string	State or province
zip	string	ZIP / postal code (full-detail mode)
address	string	Single-line address — street, city, state and ZIP in full-detail mode (1450 Industrial Parkway, Cleveland, OH 44114); city and state otherwise

Classification & Source

Field	Type	Description
category	string	The IQS category under which the company was found
categories	array	All product categories the company is listed under (full-detail mode)
certifications	array	Quality standards the company names in its own write-up (ISO 9001, ISO 9002, AS9100, ISO 13485, ITAR, and more). Empty for most companies — around one in eight names one
videoUrl	string	Company or product video link, when the profile publishes one — a genuine video URL, never a repeat of website. Uncommon: roughly one company in twenty has one
profileUrl	string	IQS Directory company profile URL
sourceUrl	string	The listing URL the company was collected from

Tips for Best Results

• Page one is a curated featured set — raise maxResults past the first handful of cards to reach a category's full supplier pool, which lives on the deeper listing pages.
• Leave scrapeCompanyDetails on for fax and the street address — those only appear on profile pages, and the longer profile write-up also surfaces a few extra certifications. Turn it off when you just need a fast name + location + phone sweep across many companies.
• Use the dropdown for the 15 popular categories, paste a URL for anything niche — for a category not in the picker, copy its IQS Directory listing URL into searchUrls. Paste a state listing URL when you want one state only; the run keeps that state's companies and tells you how many out-of-state entries it removed.
• Treat certifications as a shortlisting filter, not a column to rank on — only companies that name a standard in their own write-up carry one, so use it to pull an ISO 9001 or AS9100 shortlist out of a big sweep, never to rule a supplier out.
• Sort by state to plan domestic sourcing — the split address fields let you group suppliers by region without parsing a single address string.
• Mix categories and URLs in one run — combine a dropdown category with pasted profile and listing URLs to build a multi-category master list in a single pass.
• Start with a small maxResults — run 50–100 first to confirm the categories and fields match your needs, then scale up.

Pricing

From $2.50 per 1,000 results — well below the typical industrial-directory scraper rate, with no surprises on the bill. Bronze, Silver, and Gold subscribers pay progressively less; the table below shows total cost at each discount tier.

Results	No discount	Bronze	Silver	Gold
100	$0.30	$0.28	$0.265	$0.25
1,000	$3.00	$2.80	$2.65	$2.50
10,000	$30.00	$28.00	$26.50	$25.00
100,000	$300.00	$280.00	$265.00	$250.00

No compute or time-based charges — you pay per result, plus a small fixed per-run start fee. A "result" is one company row in the output dataset. Platform usage fees depend on your Apify plan.

Integrations

Export data in JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or RSS. Connect to 1,500+ apps via:

• Zapier / Make / n8n — Workflow automation
• Google Sheets — Direct spreadsheet export
• Slack / Email — Notifications on new results
• Webhooks — Trigger custom APIs on run completion
• Apify API — Full programmatic access

Legal & Ethical Use

This actor is designed for legitimate B2B research, supplier sourcing, and sales prospecting. Users are responsible for complying with applicable laws and IQS Directory's Terms of Service. The data collected is business contact information published for trade purposes — use it for outreach and analysis that respects anti-spam regulations, and do not use it for harassment or any unlawful purpose.