📞 Telefonbuch.de Scraper

🎯 Turn Germany's national phone book into a clean, ready-to-use contact database — businesses, people and reverse phone lookups, all in one place.

This scraper pulls structured records from Das Telefonbuch (telefonbuch.de / dastelefonbuch.de): company name, full street address, the complete phone number, category, decoded email address, website, fax, opening hours, GPS coordinates and ratings. Search by business keyword and city, by a person's last name, or run a reverse lookup to find out who owns a phone number.

🚀 What Does It Do?

This scraper automatically searches Das Telefonbuch and collects structured, ready-to-use data — no manual browsing, no copy-pasting numbers one by one. Just set your search and hit Start.

💡 Three ways to search:

1. 🏢 Business search — find companies by keyword/category (e.g. Friseur, Zahnarzt, Restaurant) in any German city, or nationwide.
2. 👤 People search — look up private phone-book entries by last name, optionally narrowed to a city.
3. 🔁 Reverse phone lookup — paste a phone number and find out who it belongs to.

📋 Or use Direct URL Mode — paste any telefonbuch.de search or entry page and it's picked up automatically.

👥 Who Is This For?

🏢 Use Case	💬 How It Helps
📣 Sales & lead generation	Build targeted B2B contact lists by industry and city — names, phones and emails ready to import
📊 Market researchers	Map how many businesses of a given type operate in each region
🤝 Recruiters & agencies	Quickly source local business contacts for outreach campaigns
🗂️ CRM & data teams	Enrich and verify existing records with fresh addresses, phones and websites
🔎 Investigators & journalists	Reverse-lookup unknown numbers and confirm business details
🏘️ Local service providers	Scout competitors and partners in your own city

✨ Features

• 🏢 Business, people & reverse search — three modes in one actor
• 📞 Complete phone numbers — reconstructs the full number the site tries to hide
• 📧 Decoded emails — recovers protected email addresses automatically
• 🌐 Websites, fax & opening hours — the full contact profile when you enable details
• 📍 GPS coordinates — exact latitude/longitude for mapping and routing
• ⭐ Ratings & reviews — aggregate score plus per-source breakdown (golocal, 11880, and more)
• 🇩🇪 Nationwide or city-scoped — search a single town or all of Germany
• 🎛️ Smart Filters — search type, keyword, city, result caps and detail depth
• 🔄 Incremental Monitoring — recurring runs return only what changed, typically 80–95% cheaper
• ♻️ Deduplication — every entry appears once, even across paginated results
• ⚡ Fast & Scalable — hundreds of records per run, no proxy required
• 📤 Export Anywhere — Download results as JSON, CSV, Excel, or push to Google Sheets, Zapier, Make, or your CRM

🎛️ Filters & Options

Option	What It Does
🔀 Search Type	Choose businesses, people, or reverse phone lookup
🏷️ Search Query	The business keyword, last name, or phone number to look up
🏙️ Location	Narrow the search to a German city (leave empty for nationwide)
📖 Fetch Full Details	Open each entry for email, website, fax, opening hours, GPS and ratings
🔄 Incremental Monitoring	Return only new/changed entries on recurring runs
🔢 Max Results	Control how many entries to extract per run
🔗 Direct URLs	Optionally paste specific telefonbuch.de URLs to scrape

📦 What You Get (Output Fields)

Every entry includes:

🪪 Identity

Field	Example
entryId	0001129856758
recordType	business
name	Adlon Holding GmbH
category	Hotels Berlin
detailUrl	https://adresse.dastelefonbuch.de/Berlin/1-Hotels-Adlon-Holding-GmbH-Berlin-Friedrichstr.html

📞 Contact

Field	Example
phone	030 30 11 17-0
fax	030 30 11 17-77
email	info@adlon-holding.de
emails	["info@adlon-holding.de"]
website	http://www.adlon-holding.de

📍 Address & Location

Field	Example
street	Friedrichstr. 71
postalCode	10117
city	Berlin
district	Mitte
latitude	52.513263
longitude	13.389743

🕑 Hours & Ratings

Field	Example
openingHours	["Mo 09:00-17:00", "Tu 09:00-17:00"]
openStatus	Geschlossen
ratingValue	5.0
ratingCount	1
ratingSources	[{ "source": "11880", "score": 5.0, "reviewCount": 1, "url": "https://www.11880.com/..." }]

📊 Example Output

{
    "entryId": "0001129856758",
    "recordType": "business",
    "name": "Adlon Holding GmbH",
    "category": "Hotels Berlin",
    "phone": "030 30 11 17-0",
    "fax": null,
    "email": "info@adlon-holding.de",
    "emails": ["info@adlon-holding.de"],
    "website": "http://www.adlon-holding.de",
    "street": "Friedrichstr. 71",
    "postalCode": "10117",
    "city": "Berlin",
    "district": "Mitte",
    "latitude": 52.513263,
    "longitude": 13.389743,
    "openingHours": ["Mo 09:00-17:00", "Tu 09:00-17:00", "We 09:00-17:00", "Th 09:00-17:00", "Fr 09:00-17:00"],
    "openStatus": "Geschlossen",
    "ratingValue": 5.0,
    "ratingCount": 1,
    "ratingSources": [
        { "source": "11880", "score": 5.0, "reviewCount": 1, "url": "https://www.11880.com/branchenbuch/berlin/..." }
    ],
    "hasRatings": true,
    "logoUrl": "https://ies.v4all.de/0122/TB/1126/1/8291/5178291_210x130.png",
    "detailUrl": "https://adresse.dastelefonbuch.de/Berlin/1-Hotels-Adlon-Holding-GmbH-Berlin-Friedrichstr.html",
    "searchType": "business",
    "searchQuery": "Hotel",
    "searchLocation": "Berlin",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-07-07T12:00:00.000Z"
}

📋 Dataset Views

The Apify Console gives you 2 ready-made table views to quickly browse your results:

View	What It Shows
📊 Overview	Name, phone, address, category, email, website — the lead-generation essentials
📋 All Fields	Every single field — the complete dataset including ratings, hours and coordinates

❓ FAQ

🤔 Does it get the full phone number? Yes. Das Telefonbuch hides part of each number in the page to deter scrapers — this actor reconstructs the complete, dialable number every time.

🤔 Are email addresses included? Yes, when you enable full details. The site obfuscates emails to hide them from bots; the actor decodes them back to plain text.

🤔 What's the difference between the cheap and detailed modes? The default (cheap) mode returns name, full address, phone and category straight from the results page. Enable Fetch Full Details to also get email, website, fax, opening hours, GPS coordinates and ratings.

🤔 Can I search all of Germany at once? Yes — leave the city empty for a nationwide business search. Note that Das Telefonbuch serves up to ~500 results per query, so for very large industries it's best to split by city or postcode.

🤔 Can I export the data? Yes — JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, HTML, RSS. You can also push data directly to Google Sheets, Zapier, Make, or any webhook/API endpoint.

🤔 How often should I run this? For fresh data, run daily or weekly. Turn on Incremental Monitoring to only pay for what changed, and schedule automatic runs on Apify with a few clicks.

🤔 Does it work with proxies? It runs perfectly without any proxy. For very large or very fast runs you can optionally enable Apify's datacenter proxy.

🛠️ Need Custom Filters or Features?

I'm happy to customize this scraper for your specific needs! 🤝

Whether you need:

• 🎯 Additional filters (specific categories, postcode ranges, private-vs-business only, rating thresholds)
• 📊 Extra data fields or custom output formats
• 🔄 Integration with your CRM, Google Sheets, or database
• ⏰ Scheduled scraping with automatic deduplication
• 🌐 Scraping from other German directory platforms (Gelbe Seiten, Das Örtliche) alongside Das Telefonbuch

👉 Don't hesitate to reach out via private message — I respond quickly and I'm always open to building exactly what you need. No request is too small or too specific!

⚖️ Legal & Ethical Use

This scraper collects only publicly available information from Das Telefonbuch. It does not access private data, bypass authentication, or log in to any account. Please use the data responsibly and in compliance with applicable laws and platform terms of service.