# Member, Vendor & Supplier Directory Scraper (`techionik9993/member-vendor-supplier-directory-scraper`) Actor

Scrape structured records from public HTML member, vendor, supplier, and chamber-style directories. Best for listing pages and profile-based directories that expose company names, websites, contact details, and descriptions in visible HTML.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/techionik9993/member-vendor-supplier-directory-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Techionik](https://apify.com/techionik9993) (community)
- **Categories:** Automation, Developer tools, Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, NaN bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.30 / result item

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases.
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?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md):

```bash
npm install apify-client
```

In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md):

```bash
pip install apify-client
```

In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md):

````bash
# MacOS / Linux
curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash
# Windows
irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex
```bash

In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md).

If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

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

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).


# README

## 🚀 Member, Vendor & Supplier Directory Scraper

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

---

### ✨ 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.

---

### ✅ 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

---

### 📦 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.

---

### 🎯 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

---

### ⚙️ 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.

---

### 🧾 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.

---

### 💼 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

---

### 🚫 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

---

### 📝 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.

---

### 👍 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

---

### 🏁 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

# Actor input Schema

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

Public directory, category, listing, or search-result URLs to start from.
## `crawlMode` (type: `string`):

Choose whether the actor should collect a target number of items or crawl a target number of pages per start URL.
## `maxItemsPerStartUrl` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of results to save for each start URL. Set 0 to disable this limit.
## `maxPagesPerStartUrl` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of pages to crawl for each start URL. Set 0 to disable this limit and use the internal safety cap.
## `useApifyProxy` (type: `boolean`):

Enable Apify Proxy if the target site rate-limits repeated requests.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://annapolischambermd.chambermaster.com/list/category/cafes-175"
    }
  ],
  "crawlMode": "collectItems",
  "maxItemsPerStartUrl": 10,
  "maxPagesPerStartUrl": 0,
  "useApifyProxy": false
}
````

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (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://annapolischambermd.chambermaster.com/list/category/cafes-175"
        }
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("techionik9993/member-vendor-supplier-directory-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://annapolischambermd.chambermaster.com/list/category/cafes-175" }] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("techionik9993/member-vendor-supplier-directory-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).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://annapolischambermd.chambermaster.com/list/category/cafes-175"
    }
  ]
}' |
apify call techionik9993/member-vendor-supplier-directory-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=techionik9993/member-vendor-supplier-directory-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
{
    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "Member, Vendor & Supplier Directory Scraper",
        "description": "Scrape structured records from public HTML member, vendor, supplier, and chamber-style directories. Best for listing pages and profile-based directories that expose company names, websites, contact details, and descriptions in visible HTML.",
        "version": "0.0",
        "x-build-id": "npytjRwTAeiEXQsCG"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
        "/acts/techionik9993~member-vendor-supplier-directory-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-techionik9993-member-vendor-supplier-directory-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/techionik9993~member-vendor-supplier-directory-scraper/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-techionik9993-member-vendor-supplier-directory-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
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                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
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                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK",
                        "content": {
                            "application/json": {
                                "schema": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/techionik9993~member-vendor-supplier-directory-scraper/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-techionik9993-member-vendor-supplier-directory-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "components": {
        "schemas": {
            "inputSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "required": [
                    "startUrls",
                    "crawlMode"
                ],
                "properties": {
                    "startUrls": {
                        "title": "Start URLs",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "Public directory, category, listing, or search-result URLs to start from.",
                        "items": {
                            "type": "object",
                            "required": [
                                "url"
                            ],
                            "properties": {
                                "url": {
                                    "type": "string",
                                    "title": "URL of a web page",
                                    "format": "uri"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    },
                    "crawlMode": {
                        "title": "Crawl Mode",
                        "enum": [
                            "collectItems",
                            "crawlPages"
                        ],
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Choose whether the actor should collect a target number of items or crawl a target number of pages per start URL.",
                        "default": "collectItems"
                    },
                    "maxItemsPerStartUrl": {
                        "title": "Max Items Per URL",
                        "minimum": 0,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Maximum number of results to save for each start URL. Set 0 to disable this limit.",
                        "default": 10
                    },
                    "maxPagesPerStartUrl": {
                        "title": "Max Pages Per URL",
                        "minimum": 0,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Maximum number of pages to crawl for each start URL. Set 0 to disable this limit and use the internal safety cap.",
                        "default": 0
                    },
                    "useApifyProxy": {
                        "title": "Use Apify Proxy",
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "description": "Enable Apify Proxy if the target site rate-limits repeated requests.",
                        "default": false
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "object",
                        "properties": {
                            "id": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "actId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "userId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "startedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "inputBodyLen": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2000
                                    },
                                    "rebootCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "restartCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "resurrectCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "computeUnits": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "options": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "build": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "latest"
                                    },
                                    "timeoutSecs": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 300
                                    },
                                    "memoryMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1024
                                    },
                                    "diskMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2048
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "buildId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultDatasetId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultRequestQueueId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "buildNumber": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "1.0.0"
                            },
                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "usage": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "usageTotalUsd": {
                                "type": "number",
                                "example": 0.00005
                            },
                            "usageUsd": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "number",
                                        "example": 0.00005
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```