📇 Canada411.ca Contact Scraper Actor Automatically extract business or personal contact information from Canada411.ca ## 🌟 What Does This Actor Do? This Apify actor automates the process of extracting contact information from Canada411.ca. It: 1. Starts from a search results URL you provide. 2. Paginates through all available result pages. 3. Extracts contact details such as: * 🧑 Name * ☎️ Phone Number * 🏠 Address * 🔗 Source Profile URL All data is stored in the Apify dataset and can be exported to JSON, CSV, Excel, or any other supported format. --- ## 🛠️ Input Configuration Provide the following fields to control scraping: ### 1. start_urls (Required) List of Canada411 search URLs to scrape. Example format: json [ { "url": "https://www.canada411.ca/search/?stype=si&what=john&where=montreal" }, { "url": "https://www.canada411.ca/search/?stype=si&what=alex&where=toronto" } ] ### 2. max_pages (Optional) Maximum number of pages to scrape per URL. * null or 0: scrape all available pages * 3: scrape only first 3 pages for each start_url ### 3. max_concurrency (Optional) Maximum concurrent page scraping operations per search URL. Default: 20 ### 4. proxy_url (Optional) Custom proxy URL string. If not provided, the actor will use Apify’s Proxy service. --- ## 🧠 Features * ✅ Automatic Pagination — Follows "Next" links until all results are fetched or page limit is reached * ✅ Concurrent Processing — Scrapes multiple start URLs and paginated pages in parallel * ✅ Fault Tolerance — Handles and logs request failures, timeouts, and page errors gracefully * ✅ Modular Structure — Easy to extend for extracting more fields --- ## 📦 Output Format Scraped data is stored in an Apify dataset. Each contact includes: json { "name": "Alex Tremblay", "phone": "416-555-1234", "address": "123 Example St, Toronto, ON", "source_url": "https://www.canada411.ca/res/..." } You can download the data in: * 📄 CSV/Excel — Tabular format for business use * 🧾 JSON — Ideal for API pipelines or development * 🧠 JSONL / XML / Parquet — Advanced formats via Apify's export tools --- ## 🔁 Example Input json { "start_urls": [ { "url": "https://www.canada411.ca/search/?stype=si&what=dentist&where=calgary" } ], "max_pages": 5, "max_concurrency": 10 } --- ## 🚀 Use Cases * 📞 Building B2B or B2C contact lists * 🏥 Scraping local professionals (e.g. doctors, lawyers, dentists) * 🧼 Lead generation for cleaning, plumbing, and service businesses * 📍 Researching regional contact density