ImportYeti Scraper - Find Any Company's Suppliers

Type in a brand and get the overseas factories that actually ship to it, from public US customs records.

Every ocean container entering the United States generates a bill of lading, and those records are public. That means the supplier list of almost any US importer is knowable: who makes their product, in which country, on which shipping lane, under which HS code. The problem is that this data is spread across millions of filings, and the tools that index it either charge enterprise subscriptions or hand you a scraped row with no shipment context. This Actor takes a company name and returns its suppliers, its product categories and its trade lanes as clean rows you can sort, filter and enrich.

✅ What you get / ❌ what this isn't

✅ What you get	❌ What this isn't
The overseas suppliers behind a named importer, with address and country	Not a generic company directory
One charge per company profile, however many suppliers it has	Not per-row billing that punishes you for researching a big importer
HS codes with shipment counts, weight and TEU	Not just a name and a URL
Port-to-port lanes with an estimated freight spend	Not a list with no shipment context
Search by brand, product or supplier name	Not URL-only input
Supplier profiles that work the same way, so you can go both directions	Not importer-only
No actor start fee	Not a per-run fee charged before any row exists
An honest cap and a stated source of record	Not a claim to cover trade the source never sees

🔎 Why use this Actor

• Billed per profile, not per row. One profile opens once and yields its whole supplier list, HS-code breakdown and lane table. A company with 150 suppliers costs exactly the same as one with three, which is the opposite of how per-row pricing behaves.
• Both directions. A /company/ profile gives you an importer's suppliers. A /supplier/ profile gives you a factory's customers. Both parse through the same path, so you can walk a supply chain in either direction.
• Shipment context on every row. Supplier rows carry 12-month shipment counts, HS-code rows carry shipments, weight and TEU, lane rows carry an estimated freight spend. That is what separates a sourcing shortlist from a list of names.
• Search that takes a product, not just a company. Terms like lithium battery return the importers moving that product, which is how you find competitors you had not heard of.
• Dates you can sort. The source serves DD/MM/YYYY; every date is normalized to ISO so mostRecentShipment sorts correctly.
• Deduplicated. The underlying page repeats the same supplier across several rendering fragments. Rows are deduplicated per profile before they reach you.

👥 Who it's for

Sourcing and procurement teams, competitive intelligence analysts, trade finance and logistics sales, and anyone who needs to know who really makes a product.

• Find the factories behind a competitor's product line.
• Build a vetted supplier shortlist in a country you are moving production to.
• Find importers moving a specific HS code, as a lead list for freight or trade services.
• Check how concentrated a company's supply chain is before relying on it.
• Walk from a factory to its other customers to see who else it serves.

Example tasks

Ready-made runs you can open and start without configuring anything:

• Find a brand's suppliers
• Importers of a product category
• Supplier shortlist by country

⚙️ How to find a company's suppliers

1. Put one or more names into Companies or products to look up. A brand (Nike), an importer, a supplier, or a product (lithium battery) all work.
2. Set Profiles to open per term. Each profile opened returns that company's full supplier list, HS codes and lanes. Set it to 0 to return search results only, which is much faster and cheaper.
3. Leave the three Include switches on unless you want a narrower dataset.
4. Click Start. Rows stream in per profile, so you can watch results arrive and export any time from the Storage tab as JSON, CSV or Excel.

Go the other way

Paste a /supplier/... URL into Direct profile URLs and you get that factory's own profile instead, letting you see which other importers it ships to.

📥 Input

{
  "searchQueries": ["Nike"],
  "companyUrls": [],
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 10,
  "maxCompaniesPerQuery": 2,
  "includeSuppliers": true,
  "includeHsCodes": true,
  "includeTradeLanes": true
}

• searchQueries - brand, importer, supplier or product names. Required unless you supply companyUrls.
• companyUrls - ImportYeti company or supplier profile links you already have. A bare slug such as nike-usa also works. These skip search.
• maxResultsPerQuery - matching companies and suppliers per term. Default 20, they arrive 10 per page.
• maxCompaniesPerQuery - how many top results to open for their full profile. Default 5. Set 0 for search results only.
• includeSuppliers, includeHsCodes, includeTradeLanes - which row types to return. All default true.
• maxSuppliersPerCompany - caps supplier rows per profile. Default 100. Advanced.

📤 Output

companyName	supplierName	supplierCountry	shipments12m
Nike Usa	Apl Logistics Vietnam	Vietnam	0
Nike Usa	Worldon Vietnam	Vietnam	0
Nike Usa	Damco India	Jordan	0

Rows are typed by itemType, and the Output tab has a tab per type. supplier rows carry the supplier's filed address, region, country code and its own profile URL. company rows carry totalShipments, shipments12m, shipmentsYoyPercent, the counts of suppliers, HS codes and lanes found, and the distinct supplier countries. hs-code rows carry the code, its description, shipments, share of the company's total, weight and TEU. trade-lane rows carry loading port, unloading port and region, shipments, TEU and estimatedShippingCostUsd. search-result rows carry the match's address, lifetime shipments and ISO mostRecentShipment.

💵 How much does it cost?

You are charged per profile opened, not per row, plus a small amount per search result. Opening one company profile typically returns around 90 rows across suppliers, HS codes and lanes, and costs the same whether that company has three suppliers or 150. There is no actor start fee, so a run that finds nothing costs you nothing. A measured run opening 30 profiles returned 2,797 rows in 29 seconds.

Set Profiles to open per term to 0 when you only want to see which companies match a term; search results are priced far below profiles.

🔁 Run it on the Apify platform

Schedule it to re-check a supplier list monthly, or call it from the API and drop the rows straight into your warehouse. Results export as JSON, CSV, Excel or XML, and the dataset can be pushed onward through webhooks or the Make, Zapier and n8n integrations, so a new supplier appearing on a competitor's profile can land in Slack or a CRM on its own.

⚠️ Limits and caveats

• US seaborne imports only. The source is US customs bill-of-lading data. Air freight, road and rail freight, and trade that never enters the United States do not appear. A company with no US ocean imports legitimately returns nothing.
• Names are as filed, not as branded. Customs filings are typed by freight forwarders, so the same company appears as several spellings and addresses. otherNamesCount and otherAddressesCount on search rows tell you when that is happening, and it is worth checking more than one match for a large brand.
• Freight forwarders show up as suppliers. A consolidator that moved the container is filed the same way the factory is, so names like "Apl Logistics" appear alongside real manufacturers. Treat the supplier list as the shipping record it is, not a vetted factory list.
• estimatedShippingCostUsd is the source's estimate, not a filed number.
• The source meters requests per IP. The Actor rotates its own exit addresses to stay inside that budget, which is why very large runs pace themselves rather than failing.
• Shipment counters can read 0 on a supplier that has not shipped in the last 12 months while still having a long history. Use the profile's totalShipments for the lifetime figure.

🧩 Related Actors

• 1688 Product Scraper - once you know which Chinese factory supplies a product, price the product itself.
• IndiaMART Export Supplier Scraper - the same sourcing question on the Indian supplier base, with GST and export credentials.
• Google Maps Business Scraper - turn a supplier's filed address into contact details.
• Website Email Scraper - find a way to contact a supplier once you have its name and country.

❓ FAQ

Where does this data come from? Public US customs bill-of-lading records, as indexed by ImportYeti. No login or API key is needed.

Am I charged per supplier row? No. You are charged once per profile opened, and every supplier, HS-code and lane row that profile produces is included.

Can I find a factory's customers instead of a company's suppliers? Yes. Paste a /supplier/... profile URL into companyUrls, or search the supplier's name directly.

Why does a huge company show only a few hundred shipments in 12 months? Filings are attributed to the exact name and address on the bill of lading, and large groups file under many entities. Search the brand and check the several matches, using otherNamesCount as the hint.

Does it cover imports into countries other than the US? No. This is US import data, and the Actor does not pretend otherwise.

🛠️ Support

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