SelectedFirms Scraper — Global B2B Agencies & IT Companies API

Scrapes SelectedFirms — a global B2B ratings directory of IT service firms, software companies, and digital agencies across 100+ countries — into clean JSON on Apify.

Store: https://apify.com/umararshad2/selectedfirms-scraper

This Actor is an independent, unofficial tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by SelectedFirms.

Why this Actor

SelectedFirms ranks agencies across software, web, mobile, AI, ecommerce, cloud, and marketing, with optional country paths (USA, UK, Canada, Australia, UAE, India, and others). Procurement and lead-gen teams need structured vendor lists (SF rating, review count, team size, hourly rate, budget band, website, published contact) without copying directory pages. Dedicated Store coverage of this directory was empty when this Actor shipped. It is a global companies scraper — not a Pakistan-only or India-only product. Country is an optional filter on a worldwide catalog.

What it scrapes

Public pages only. robots.txt allows / and does not disallow /companies/ or /agency/.

1. Directory listings — https://selectedfirms.co/companies/{category} and ?page=N (schema.org ItemList / LocalBusiness JSON-LD, about 50 agencies per page)
2. Agency profiles — https://selectedfirms.co/agency/{slug} (website, founded year, team size, hourly rate, budget band, phone, email, and social links when the agency published them)
3. Direct URLs — pass directory or agency links via startUrls

Uses Crawlee CheerioCrawler (server-rendered HTML). No login. Defaults to Apify Proxy, concurrency 2, and about 30 requests/minute.

Built-in category shortcuts

Input category	Directory path
software-development	/companies/software-development
web-development	/companies/web-development
mobile-app-development	/companies/mobile-app-development
web-design	/companies/web-design
ai-development	/companies/ai-development
digital-marketing	/companies/digital-marketing-agencies
ecommerce	/companies/ecommerce-development
it-services	/companies/it-services-companies
blockchain	/companies/blockchain-development
cloud-computing	/companies/cloud-computing-services

Optional country (usa, uk, canada, australia, uae, india, …) scopes the path. Leave it empty for the worldwide listing. Unknown country slugs redirect to the global category.

Pricing (PPE)

$1.20 / 1,000 companies via custom event company-scraped ($0.0012 each), plus a small apify-actor-start ($0.00005 per GB of memory, minimum one). No platform-usage pass-through. The synthetic event apify-default-dataset-item is not enabled, so a company is not billed twice.

Memory: 512–2048 MB (default 1024).

Example input

{
  "category": "software-development",
  "country": "usa",
  "maxCompanies": 100,
  "maxPages": 3,
  "includeProfileDetails": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true }
}

Or pass explicit URLs:

{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://selectedfirms.co/companies/ai-development",
    "https://selectedfirms.co/agency/magneto-it-solutions"
  ],
  "maxCompanies": 50,
  "includeProfileDetails": true
}

Example output

{
  "companyId": "magneto-it-solutions",
  "name": "Magneto IT Solutions",
  "profileUrl": "https://selectedfirms.co/agency/magneto-it-solutions",
  "website": "https://magnetoitsolutions.com/",
  "rating": 5,
  "reviewCount": 72,
  "hourlyRate": "Undisclosed",
  "employees": "50-249",
  "minBudget": "$25000+",
  "foundedYear": 2009,
  "city": "New York",
  "region": "New York",
  "country": "USA",
  "phone": "1 416 904 4907",
  "email": "info@magnetoitsolutions.com",
  "description": "Magneto IT Solutions is a global, AI-driven Digital Commerce and Growth Marketing Partner…",
  "services": ["Ecommerce Development", "Software Development"],
  "socialLinks": ["https://www.linkedin.com/company/magneto-it-solutions"],
  "category": "it-services-companies",
  "position": 1,
  "source": "selectedfirms",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-30T04:30:00.000Z"
}

Proxy notes

Directory JSON-LD usually loads with datacenter or automatic proxy. If a run returns a challenge page or zero companies, set apifyProxyGroups to ["RESIDENTIAL"]. The Actor does not invent rows when a page is blocked.

Use cases

• Global B2B agency and IT vendor lists for outbound
• Category and country landscape maps
• Team-size, hourly-rate, and budget-band benchmarking
• CRM enrichment with public SelectedFirms ratings
• Procurement shortlists

Responsible use

• Public directory and profile fields only. No login, no private accounts, no bypass of access controls.
• Business contact details are collected only when they are already shown on the public agency profile.
• Polite rate limits (low concurrency, capped pages). Do not use this Actor to overload the site.
• You are responsible for complying with SelectedFirms' terms, robots signals, and applicable privacy and marketing laws (including consent rules before you email anyone).
• Do not present the output as an official SelectedFirms API or as endorsed by SelectedFirms.

Keywords

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