Herold.at Scraper — Austrian Business Directory Data

Scrape business listings from Herold.at, Austria's yellow pages directory. Search by trade/category keyword and city, and export clean structured business records with names, categories, addresses, phone numbers, emails, websites, and ratings. No login, no cookies, no API key.

Why use this actor?

Herold.at is the reference business directory for Austria. Installers, electricians, tax advisors, doctors, restaurants, garages: if a business wants to be found in Austria, it is listed on Herold. Because Herold serves contact details openly (phone, email, and website are all rendered server-side per listing, not hidden behind a click), a single results-page fetch already returns near-complete records for most businesses.

Typical uses:

• Lead generation — build prospect lists for a trade and Austrian city, ready for a CRM import.
• Local market research — count and map businesses per category and region, compare cities.
• Data enrichment — match business names to addresses, phone numbers, emails, websites, and ratings.
• Competitor analysis — list every provider in a category around a city, sorted with ratings.

The actor reads the server-rendered results pages directly, so records are complete and consistent. It only returns contact details that businesses publish openly on the directory.

How to scrape Herold.at data

1. Open the actor and set a Trade / Category (Branche) — the keyword exactly as it appears in the Herold.at URL, such as installateur, elektriker, zahnarzt, or friseur.
2. Set a City (Stadt) — an Austrian city or town (wien, graz, linz, salzburg).
3. Set Max Results to the number of businesses you want.
4. Leave Fetch detail pages for missing contact info off unless you specifically need the small number of businesses whose email or website is not already on the results page.
5. Keep the datacenter proxy prefill and click Start — Herold.at shows no anti-bot protection, so datacenter proxies work reliably.
6. When the run finishes, export the dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel, or pull it from the Apify API.

The actor loads the first results page and then pages through /seite/2/, /seite/3/, and so on automatically until it reaches your Max Results or runs out of matching businesses.

Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
searchQuery	String	No	Trade or category keyword in German, exactly as used in the Herold.at URL (e.g. installateur, elektriker). Defaults to installateur if empty.
location	String	No	Austrian city or town (e.g. wien, graz). Defaults to wien if empty.
fetchDetails	Boolean	No	When true, fetch each business's detail page to fill in email/website for the small share of listings missing them on the results page. Default false.
maxResults	Integer	No	Maximum number of businesses to return (default: 100, max: 2000).
proxyConfiguration	Object	No	Proxy settings. Datacenter proxies are sufficient — no anti-bot protection observed on Herold.at.

Example input:

{
    "searchQuery": "installateur",
    "location": "wien",
    "fetchDetails": false,
    "maxResults": 100,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
}

Output

One record per business listing:

Field	Type	Description
businessName	String	Business name as listed on Herold.at
category	String	Trade/category (Branche) this listing was found under, e.g. Installateur
address	String	Street address, when published on the listing
zipCode	String	Austrian postal code (PLZ)
city	String	City
phone	String	Phone number, when publicly listed
website	String	Business's own website, when published
email	String	Business email address, when published
listingText	String	Short free-text presentation from the listing
rating	Number	Average customer rating (0–5), when shown
reviewCount	Number	Number of customer reviews, when shown
url	String	Full URL of the business profile on Herold.at
businessId	String	Internal Herold.at listing ID
searchQuery	String	The keyword that returned this business
searchLocation	String	The city used for the search
scrapedAt	String	ISO timestamp of the scrape

Example output:

{
    "businessName": "Lugar Installateur GmbH",
    "category": "Installateur",
    "address": "Triester Straße 346",
    "zipCode": "1230",
    "city": "Wien",
    "phone": "+43 1 8862759",
    "website": "https://www.lugar.at/wien23/",
    "email": "office@lugar.at",
    "listingText": "Ihr Spezialist für Bad-Badrenovierung-Heizung-Sanitär-Wärmepumpen-Notdienst. Über 20 Jahre Berufserfahrung. Alles aus einer Hand.",
    "rating": 4.5,
    "reviewCount": 28,
    "url": "https://www.herold.at/gelbe-seiten/wien/N1JdH/lugar-installateur-gmbh/",
    "businessId": "516863",
    "searchQuery": "installateur",
    "searchLocation": "wien",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-07-13T00:18:06.854Z"
}

Cost estimate

The actor uses lightweight HTTP requests (no browser) and datacenter proxies. Each results page carries around 31 listings with phone, email, and website already inline, so most runs need one request per ~30 businesses. A 100-result run typically finishes in well under a minute and uses only a few cents of platform credits plus the per-result fee. Turning on fetchDetails adds one extra request only for the small share of businesses missing email or website, so cost stays close to the base run.

Tips

• Search keywords and city names are the same words you would type into the Herold.at URL. German trade keywords match best (installateur, not "plumber").
• Most businesses already publish phone, email, and website on the results page — leave fetchDetails off for the fastest, cheapest run and turn it on only if you need to chase the remaining gaps.
• rating and reviewCount only appear when the business has published customer reviews; expect them on a subset of records.
• Multi-word cities work the same way Herold.at expects them, lowercase with spaces (e.g. bad ischl).

Limitations

• The actor scrapes the results-list pages (plus optional detail-page enrichment); fields that only exist elsewhere on Herold.at (opening-hours tables, photo galleries) are not included.
• Herold.at covers Austria only.
• category reflects the trade/category you searched under, not a business's full self-declared category list — Herold.at does not expose a per-listing category tag on the results page.

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Legal

This actor only extracts business information that is publicly listed on the Herold.at directory, where businesses publish it precisely to be found and contacted. No login is bypassed and no private data is collected. You are responsible for using the data in compliance with applicable laws (GDPR, competition law) in your jurisdiction.