YellowPages.ca Scraper

Extract structured business data from YellowPages.ca search results. This actor scrapes listings for lead generation, market research, and competitive analysis, delivering CRM-ready datasets. It's priced at $3.99 per 1,000 saved listings.

Actor: fatihtahta/yellowpages-canada-scraper

Overview

The actor takes a YellowPages.ca search URL (e.g., "Plumbers in Vancouver") and extracts all visible business listings. It's designed for practical use cases like building contact lists, mapping local markets, or gathering competitor information.

Key Features

• Phone Numbers & Direct Links: Extracts phone numbers and resolves YellowPages' redirect URLs to actual merchant website links.
• Hybrid Data Extraction: Combines structured JSON-LD data with DOM scraping to capture comprehensive details, including open/closed status, categories, ratings, and ad flags.
• Full Pagination: Automatically follows "Next" page links or increments page numbers in the URL to scrape deep into search results.
• Resilient Operation: Uses sessions and modern headers. Configure Apify proxies in your run settings for better reliability.
• Multiple Output Formats: Results are available for download as JSON, CSV, Excel, or HTML with clean, normalized field names.

How to Use

1. Go to the actor page: YellowPages.ca Scraper | With Numbers | $3.99 / 1k and click Try actor.
2. In the Input field, paste a YellowPages.ca search URL.
3. Optionally, set the maxResults parameter (default: 50,000).
4. Click Start.
5. Download your dataset from Storage → Dataset in your preferred format.

Tip: Start with a low maxResults value to test your target URL and data quality before a large run.

Input Configuration

The input is a JSON object with the following parameters:

• targetUrl (string, required): A YellowPages.ca search results page URL.
  • Example: https://www.yellowpages.ca/search/si/1/Car+Repair/Toronto+ON
• maxResults (number, optional): A hard limit on the number of listings to save. Default is 50000. Min: 1, Max: 1,000,000.

Example Input:

{
  "targetUrl": "https://www.yellowpages.ca/search/si/1/Plumber/Vancouver+BC",
  "maxResults": 1200
}

Output Data

Each result item is a structured object containing the following key data points:

• Business Info: name, detailUrl (YP listing page), category, features.
• Contacts: contacts.phone, contacts.website (direct URL), contacts.bookingUrl.
• Location: Full address fields, geo coordinates (if available).
• Status & Ratings: openStatus (e.g., "Open now"), ratings.ypStars, ratings.ypCount.
• Review: bestReview snippet with author and text.
• Metadata: isAd (boolean flag), indexOnPage, analytics.listingId, source (data origin method).

Example Output Item:

{
  "name": "Example Plumbing Co.",
  "detailUrl": "https://www.yellowpages.ca/bus/...",
  "category": "Plumbers",
  "contacts": {
    "phone": "+1 (555) 123-4567",
    "website": "https://exampleplumbing.com"
  },
  "address": {
    "streetAddress": "123 Main St",
    "addressLocality": "Vancouver",
    "addressRegion": "BC"
  },
  "openStatus": "Open now",
  "ratings": {
    "ypStars": 4,
    "ypCount": 42
  },
  "isAd": false
}