JustDial Scraper — India Business Listings & Reviews

Extract structured business data from JustDial, India's largest local business directory. Give it a city and a category (search term) and the actor returns clean, deduplicated business records — including the phone number, the single most valuable field for lead generation and local-market research.

Built for analysts, sales teams, lead-gen agencies, and AI agents. Works in Claude, ChatGPT & any MCP-compatible AI agent.

What you get per business

Field	Description
name	Business name
phone	Primary contact number (plain text, ready to dial)
address	Full street address
area	Locality / neighbourhood
city	City
category	JustDial category / business type
rating	Average star rating (0–5)
rating_count	Number of ratings / reviews
latitude, longitude	Geo-coordinates for mapping
pincode	Postal code
verified	Whether JustDial marks the listing verified
url	Direct link to the JustDial listing
docid	JustDial's internal listing id (stable key)
scraped_at	ISO timestamp of the scrape

Empty fields are dropped from each record rather than emitted as null, so output stays compact. A final {"_type":"summary", ...} record reports how many businesses were scraped.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Notes
searchQuery	string	Restaurants	The category or search term (e.g. Gyms, Dentists, Hotels, Interior Designers).
city	string	Mumbai	Any Indian city — Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Chennai, etc.
maxResults	integer	100	1–1000. How many businesses to return.
proxyConfiguration	object	Residential / IN	Indian residential proxy. Strongly recommended (see below).

Example input

{
  "searchQuery": "Restaurants",
  "city": "Mumbai",
  "maxResults": 50,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"], "apifyProxyCountry": "IN" }
}

How it works

JustDial's search pages are a server-rendered Next.js application. This actor fetches the search page over plain HTTP (using a browser-grade request fingerprint), reads the embedded __NEXT_DATA__ JSON island that JustDial ships in the page, and decodes its columnar results table into clean records. For deeper result sets it then calls JustDial's internal mobile-search endpoint to page through additional listings, reusing the same browser session and signed request header.

The actor is a lightweight 512 MB HTTP scraper — no headless browser, so it is fast and cheap to run.

Proxy & reliability

JustDial is protected by Akamai Bot Manager, which throttles by IP reputation: a datacenter IP, or any IP that has made several recent requests, is served an empty stub instead of real data. To get reliable results:

• Use Indian residential proxies (the prefilled default). The actor opens a fresh proxy session per attempt and automatically retries across several rotating residential IPs until one gets through.
• If a run returns zero results with a blocked_by_antibot note, simply re-run — residential IPs rotate and the next attempt usually succeeds.
• The first page of results (10 businesses) is the most reliable surface. Larger maxResults values depend on the pagination endpoint, which can occasionally be rate-limited on a given session; re-running fills in the rest.

The actor never fails on zero results — it logs the reason and exits cleanly with an empty summary so it composes safely inside automations and agent workflows.

Pricing

This actor uses pay-per-result pricing:

• First 25 businesses are FREE (per Apify account, lifetime).
• After that, $0.002 per business — i.e. $2 per 1,000 businesses.

You are only ever charged for real business records delivered to your dataset. Empty searches, anti-bot blocks, and failed runs are never charged. The summary record is free.

Use cases

• Lead generation — pull every gym, salon, clinic, or restaurant in a city with phone numbers ready for outreach.
• Local market research — map competitor density, ratings, and locations across neighbourhoods.
• Data enrichment — match and enrich an existing list of businesses with phone, address, and geo.
• AI agents — wire JustDial lookups into Claude, ChatGPT, or any MCP client for on-demand local-business answers.

Notes & limits

• JustDial returns roughly the top ~100 results for a typical city + category query; very large maxResults values are capped by what JustDial exposes.
• Phone numbers come from JustDial's primary contact field; some listings simply do not publish a number, in which case phone is omitted for that record.
• Respect JustDial's terms and applicable laws when using scraped data, especially for outreach.