ThomasNet US Supplier & Manufacturer Scraper

Extract verified North American manufacturer and supplier leads from ThomasNet — company name, capabilities, certifications, estimated revenue, employee count, year founded, direct website, location, and key contacts — from any keyword or category search.

Built for procurement teams, sales/lead-gen agencies, and e-commerce brands sourcing non-China supply-chain alternatives.

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Why use this actor

• No account, no login, no API key required.
• Rich, structured detail per supplier — not just a name and a link, but capabilities (materials, industries, production scale), certifications (ISO 9001, AS9100, ITAR, FDA…), revenue band, headcount, founding year, and the company's direct website.
• Search by anything — keywords or category phrases ("cnc machining", "medical injection molding", "titanium forging"). Run many terms in one go.
• Optional deep enrichment — pull each supplier's full profile for key personnel, company-authored descriptions, and exact geo-coordinates.
• Automatic de-duplication across all your search terms, plus automatic retries on temporary hiccups.
• Stable JSON output ready for pipelines, CRMs, spreadsheets, or databases (download as JSON, CSV, or Excel).

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How it works

1. You give the actor one or more search terms (keywords or category phrases).
2. For each term, the actor finds the most relevant US/North-American suppliers and pulls their full details — company name, description, manufacturing capabilities, certifications, estimated revenue, employee count, year founded, direct website, phone, and location.
3. (Optional) Turn on profile enrichment to add each supplier's key personnel, company-written description, and map coordinates.
4. Results stream into your dataset, de-duplicated and ready to download as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

You don't manage any scrapers, browsers, accounts, or infrastructure — just provide search terms and press Run.

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Use Cases

Non-China supply chain sourcing Search for the specific components you buy overseas ("custom injection molding", "PCB assembly", "stainless steel castings") and get a verified list of US/North-American alternatives — with revenue size, certifications, and direct contact info — ready to hand to your procurement team.

Defense & aerospace vendor qualification Filter the output for certifications containing "ITAR", "AS9100", or "NADCAP" to build a shortlist of pre-qualified suppliers for a government or aerospace program. The actor returns the exact certification names, so qualification screening is a single spreadsheet filter.

B2B sales prospecting Run 20 specific category terms in one job, de-duplicate, and export a targeted manufacturer list to your CRM. Use annualSales, numberEmployees, and industries to score and tier each lead before the first outreach.

Market landscape mapping Search a product category and analyze the output by location and yearFounded to understand where US manufacturing capacity is concentrated, how fragmented the supplier base is, and which players are long-established vs. newer entrants.

Procurement due diligence Turn on enrichProfiles to pull key personnel names and titles for every supplier on your shortlist — so you know exactly who to call and at what company before the first conversation.

Input

{
  "searchTerms": ["cnc machining", "injection molding"],
  "maxSuppliersPerTerm": 25,
  "enrichProfiles": true,
  "enrichmentConcurrency": 3,
  "cacheBuster": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]
  }
}

Field	Type	Description
searchTerms	array	Required. One or more keywords/category phrases to search (e.g. "cnc machining", "medical injection molding"). Use several specific terms for the widest coverage.
maxSuppliersPerTerm	integer	Max suppliers to collect per term. Default: 25.
enrichProfiles	boolean	Fetch each supplier's full profile page for extra detail (key personnel, company-authored description, geo-coordinates). Slower but richer. Default: false.
enrichmentConcurrency	integer	How many profiles to enrich at once. Default: 3.
cacheBuster	boolean	Keeps results fresh and correct for each distinct term. Recommended on. Default: true.
proxyConfiguration	object	Residential proxy is strongly recommended for reliable results at scale. Default: Apify Residential.

Coverage tip: each search term returns up to 25 of the most relevant suppliers. To build a large list, supply many specific terms (e.g. "5-axis cnc machining", "swiss screw machining", "exotic metal cnc machining") rather than one broad term — narrower terms also produce better-targeted leads. Duplicates are removed automatically.

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Output

Each supplier becomes one dataset record. Real sample (enrichment on; long lists truncated):

{
  "_source": "thomasnet-suppliers",
  "_input": "custom die stamping",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-05-29T14:32:00Z",
  "name": "Aggressive Engineering Corp.",
  "tgramsId": "298240",
  "description": "Custom manufacturer of dies, tooling, fixtures and stampings. Dies include stamping, single hit, progressive, transfer, coining, forming, drawing, blanking, secondary, hand transfer and swaging dies. Fixtures and tooling includes checking, welding, inspection, and assembly fixtures ...",
  "categories": [
    "Medical Diaphragm Stampings",
    "Medical Stampings",
    "Custom Stampings",
    "Die Stampings",
    "Stampings"
  ],
  "materials": ["Aluminum", "Beryllium Copper", "Bi-Metal", "Brass", "... 26 more"],
  "industries": ["Aerospace", "Agriculture", "Automotive", "Construction", "... 6 more"],
  "productionScale": ["High Volume", "Long Run", "Low Volume", "Production Runs", "... 2 more"],
  "certifications": ["ITAR", "MIL-1-45208A"],
  "annualSales": "$5 - 9.9 Mil",
  "numberEmployees": "10-49",
  "yearFounded": "1968",
  "website": "https://www.aggrengr.com/",
  "primaryPhone": "(714) 995-8313",
  "location": "Anaheim, CA, USA",
  "address": {
    "address1": "1235 N. Knollwood Cir",
    "city": "Anaheim",
    "state": "CA",
    "stateName": "California",
    "zip": "92801",
    "country": "USA",
    "latitude": 33.84795634,
    "longitude": -117.957907
  },
  "personnel": [
    { "name": "Kathy Carter", "title": "Controller" }
  ],
  "logoUrl": "https://cdn.thomasnet.com/ccp/00298240/232866.png",
  "profileUrl": "https://www.thomasnet.com/company/aggressive-engineering-corp-298240/profile",
  "_enriched": true
}

Field	Type	Description
name	string	Company name.
tgramsId	string	Stable ThomasNet company id — use it to de-duplicate or join downstream.
description	string	Company profile summary.
categories	array	Primary manufacturing categories the company is listed under.
materials	array	Materials the company works with.
industries	array	Industries served.
productionScale	array	Production scale (prototype, low/high volume, long run…).
certifications	array	Named certifications detected (ISO 9001, ISO 13485, AS9100, ITAR, FDA, MIL-spec…). Critical for defense/government sourcing.
annualSales	string	Estimated annual revenue band.
numberEmployees	string	Estimated employee-count band.
yearFounded	string	Year the company was founded.
website	string	The company's direct website (not a ThomasNet link).
primaryPhone	string	Primary contact phone.
location	string	Convenience City, State, Country string.
address	object	Full structured address incl. ZIP and map coordinates.
personnel	array	Key contacts (name + title). Enrichment only.
descriptionByCompany	string	Longer company-authored description. Enrichment only.
logoUrl	string	Company logo image URL.
profileUrl	string	Canonical ThomasNet profile link.
_source	string	Always thomasnet-suppliers — identifies the producing actor.
_input	string	The search term that produced this record.
_scrapedAt	string	UTC timestamp (ISO 8601).
_enriched	boolean	Present when the record was deepened via its profile page.

Every original ThomasNet field is also passed through verbatim, so any data point on a listing is available even if it isn't in the table above.

Failure records

If a search term can't be retrieved, the actor emits a clear marker instead of failing silently, so you always know which inputs were processed:

{
  "_source": "thomasnet-suppliers",
  "_error": true,
  "_errorCode": "blocked_by_waf",
  "_input": "swiss screw machining",
  "_detail": "...",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-05-29T14:34:12Z"
}

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Tips for best results

• Use Residential proxy (the default) for larger runs — it keeps success rates high across many search terms.
• Go broad with terms, not depth. Many specific search terms yield far more total suppliers than a single generic one, and the actor removes duplicates for you.
• Turn on enrichProfiles when you need key personnel or full company-authored descriptions; leave it off for fast, lightweight list-building.

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