Yellow Pages Worldwide Business Leads Scraper

Extract business contact information (including emails) from Yellow Pages–style directories across 11 countries.
Enter a query (e.g., restaurants Toronto) and get up to 1000 leads with name, phone, address, website, and email.

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TL;DR

• Choose country: us, ca, uk, de, fr, es, it, ro, au, br
• Enter search: "restaurants Toronto" or just "restaurants"
• Get leads with emails in seconds

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Quick Start

1. Pick a country (e.g., ca)
2. Set your query (e.g., restaurants Toronto)
3. Start the run
4. Download results in JSON/CSV/Excel

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What You Get

• Business Name
• Phone Number
• Full Address
• City (auto-extracted)
• Website URL
• Email Address (scraped from business website)
• Category & Country
• Extraction Status

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Supported Countries

Country	Code	Website
United States	us	yellowpages.com
Canada	ca	yellowpages.ca
United Kingdom	uk	yell.com
Germany	de	gelbeseiten.de
France	fr	pagesjaunes.fr
Spain	es	paginasamarillas.es
Italy	it	paginegialle.it
Romania	ro	paginiaurii.ro
Australia	au	yellowpages.com.au
Brazil	br	guiamais.com.br

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Input Configuration

{
  "targetSite": "ca",
  "searchQuery": "restaurants Toronto",
  "maxResults": 500,
  "emailExtractionMode": "aggressive"
}

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Parameters

• targetSite (required): Country code from supported list
• searchQuery (required): Keywords + optional location
  • "restaurants" - searches entire country
  • "restaurants Toronto" - searches in Toronto
  • "plumbers Berlin" - searches plumbers in Berlin
• maxResults: 1–1000 (default: 1000)
• emailExtractionMode:
  • "standard" - checks only main page
  • "aggressive" - also checks contact pages

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Output Example

{
  "01_name": "Joe's Pizza Restaurant",
  "02_address": "123 Main Street, Toronto, ON M5V 3A8",
  "03_city": "Toronto",
  "04_country": "CA",
  "05_website": "https://www.joespizza.ca",
  "06_phone": "(416) 555-0123",
  "07_email": "info@joespizza.ca",
  "08_category": "restaurants Toronto",
  "09_label": "FOUND",
  "10_emailCount": 1,
  "11_scrapedAt": "2024-01-15T10:30:45.123Z",
  "12_sourceUrl": "https://www.yellowpages.ca/bus/ontario/toronto/joes-pizza/123456.html"
}

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Email Status Labels

• FOUND: Email successfully extracted
• NOT_FOUND: Website exists but no email
• NO_WEBSITE: No website listed
• ERROR: Website failed to load
• EXTRACTION_FAILED: Technical error

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Features

Smart Location Parsing

• Understands queries like:
  • restaurants Toronto → restaurants in Toronto
  • plumbers → plumbers in whole country
  • hotels Paris → hotels in Paris

Advanced Email Extraction

• Checks main website pages
• Scans contact/about pages
• Decodes obfuscated emails
• Bypasses Cloudflare protection
• Extracts from JavaScript & JSON-LD

Bulletproof Design

• Residential proxy rotation
• Human-like behavior simulation
• Automatic popup/cookie handling
• Session management & retries

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Performance

• Up to 50 businesses processed simultaneously
• 1–2 seconds per business
• Blocks media for faster loads
• Pagination handled automatically
• Can extract up to 1000 results per run

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Statistics Example

EXTRACTION COMPLETE - SUMMARY

• Total businesses processed: 500
• Emails found: 245 (49%)
• Time elapsed: 625 seconds
• Average: 1.3 sec/business

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Search Tips

• Be specific: "italian restaurants" better than just "restaurants"
• Add location: "dentists Montreal"
• Use local terms: "avocat Paris" works better than "lawyer Paris" in France
• Works best with service-type businesses (restaurants, shops, contractors)

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Notes & Limits

• Depends on businesses having websites & visible emails
• Some use only contact forms → no email
• Speed varies by site and email extraction mode
• Requires residential proxies for stability
• Max 50 concurrent requests, session rotation every 100 requests

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Troubleshooting

Few results found?

• Try broader search terms
• Remove location to search entire country
• Check if the business type exists in that region

Low email discovery rate?

• Switch to "aggressive" mode
• Some industries have lower email visibility
• Modern sites often use contact forms instead

Slow extraction?

• Normal in aggressive mode
• Each website visit takes 1–3 seconds
• Reduce maxResults for faster runs

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License

Use only for legitimate business purposes. Comply with:

• Website terms of service
• Local data protection laws (GDPR, etc.)
• Anti-spam regulations
• Ethical guidelines

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Tech Stack

Built with Apify Actor, Crawlee, and Playwright.