🚀 Member, Vendor & Supplier Directory Scraper

Extract clean, structured records from public HTML directories — without scraping clutter, maps, or login-only pages.

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✨ Why use this actor?

This actor is built for public directory-style websites where businesses, members, vendors, or suppliers are already visible in HTML.

It works especially well for:

• Member directories
• Vendor directories
• Supplier directories
• Chamber-style business directories
• Listing pages with dedicated profile pages
• Public HTML directories with visible listing cards

Instead of dumping messy raw HTML into your dataset, this actor focuses on saving only the fields that are genuinely useful for research, outreach, and lead generation.

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✅ Best for

Use this actor when you need to collect structured records from websites such as:

• Association member directories
• Vendor and supplier directories
• Chamber or chamber-style listings
• Public business/member profile pages
• Listing-based directories with visible website and contact details

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📦 Typical output

Depending on what the target site publicly exposes, the actor can extract:

• Organization name
• Category
• City
• Region / state / province
• Phone
• Email
• Website
• Source category name
• Profile URL
• Short description

The dataset is intentionally kept clean and practical so it is easier to use in spreadsheets, CRMs, outreach workflows, and research pipelines.

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🎯 Ideal use cases

This actor is a great fit for:

• Lead generation
• Vendor discovery
• Supplier research
• Association member research
• Public directory extraction
• Building niche outreach lists
• Collecting structured company records from public HTML listings

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⚙️ Input

Start URLs

One or more public directory, category, or listing URLs.

Crawl Mode

Choose how the actor should run:

• Collect items
  Tries to save up to the target number of results per start URL.

• Crawl pages
  Crawls up to the target number of pages per start URL and saves what it finds.

Max Items Per URL

Maximum number of results to save for each start URL.

Max Pages Per URL

Maximum number of pages to crawl for each start URL.

Use Apify Proxy

Enable proxy usage if the target site rate-limits or blocks repeated requests.

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🧾 Output fields

Saved results may include:

• organizationName
• category
• city
• region
• phone
• email
• website
• sourceCategoryName
• profileUrl
• description

Only fields with meaningful values are saved, which helps keep the dataset useful and easy to work with.

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💼 What this actor supports well

This actor performs best on:

• Public HTML directories
• Directories with visible listing cards
• Directories with dedicated detail/profile pages
• Chamber-style and association-style listings
• Vendor and supplier directories with public detail pages

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🚫 What this actor is not for

This actor is not intended for:

• Login-protected directories
• JavaScript-heavy apps that hide content behind client-side rendering
• Google Maps-style interfaces
• Arbitrary websites that are not directories
• Private portals or highly customized internal systems

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📝 Notes

• Results depend on the target site’s public HTML structure.
• Some directories expose data directly on listing pages.
• Others require the actor to open detail/profile pages.
• Some sites only expose names and websites.
• Others also expose phone, email, city, region, and descriptions.
• If a site blocks requests, enabling Apify Proxy may improve reliability.

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👍 Recommended usage

For best results:

1. Start with one URL at a time
2. Use Collect items when building lead lists
3. Use Crawl pages when testing a new directory
4. Enable proxy if the site appears blocked or rate-limited

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🏁 Summary

Member, Vendor & Supplier Directory Scraper is a focused actor for extracting structured records from public HTML directories.

It is designed for practical business use, clean output, and reliable scraping of:

• member directories
• vendor directories
• supplier directories
• chamber-style listings
• profile-based public business directories