Das Örtliche Scraper

Extracts business listings and detailed information from the German directory service dasoertliche.de. This actor is designed for gathering structured data for lead generation, market research, and business intelligence in the German market.

Overview

This is a web scraping actor that programmatically collects business data from Das Örtliche. It navigates search results, handles pagination, and extracts detailed profiles including contact info, addresses, categories, and ratings.

Key Features

• Search Flexibility: Initiate scrapes via direct URLs (startUrls) or by providing search queries (queries).
• Location Filtering: Optionally narrow results to a specific German city using the city parameter.
• Pagination Handling: Automatically follows "next page" links to collect comprehensive results.
• Detailed Extraction: Captures a wide array of fields from each business listing, from basic contact details to reviews and opening hours.
• Result Limiting: Control the scale of your scrape with the maxItems parameter.

How to Use

Configure the actor run by providing input in JSON format. You must supply at least one of startUrls or queries to start the scrape.

Input

The actor accepts the following input fields:

• startUrls (array, optional): An array of direct URLs to Das Örtliche search result pages or business detail pages.
• queries (array, optional): An array of search query strings. The actor will construct the appropriate search URLs for dasoertliche.de.
• city (string, optional): A city name (e.g., 'Berlin') to filter all searches.
• maxItems (integer, optional): The maximum number of business listings to extract.
• proxyConfiguration (object, optional): Configuration for Apify Proxy. Default is { "useApifyProxy": false }.

Example Input:

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.dasoertliche.de/Ergebnisse/M%C3%B6beltransporte/Aachen.html" }
  ],
  "queries": ["Buchhaltung", "Steuerberater"],
  "city": "München",
  "maxItems": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}

Output

The actor outputs a dataset where each item is a JSON object representing a business listing. Key fields include:

{
  "title": "Business Name",
  "url": "https://www.dasoertliche.de/...",
  "address": "Full address string",
  "telephone": ["+49 123 456789"],
  "telefax": ["+49 123 456780"],
  "website": "http://www.example.com",
  "email": "info@example.com",
  "category": ["Primary Category"],
  "categoryUrl": ["https://www.dasoertliche.de/Themen/..."],
  "totalRating": 4,
  "rating": "4/5 Sternen",
  "openingHours": [],
  "reviewSources": [...],
  "reviews": [...]
}

The dataset is available in the Apify platform in formats like JSON, CSV, and Excel for download or integration via API.