Simple YellowPages Scraper (USA)

An Apify actor for scraping business listings from Yellow Pages. It extracts structured data by searching with keywords and locations or by using direct URLs. Built on Apify SDK, it runs on the Apify platform or locally.

Key Features

• Flexible Search: Use keyword/location combinations or provide specific Yellow Pages URLs (startUrls).
• Comprehensive Data: Extracts business name, address, phone, ratings, review snippets, categories, images, and listing URLs.
• Deep Crawling: Automatically paginates through search results to collect more listings.
• Proxy Support: Configurable to use Apify Proxy for reliable, large-scale scraping.
• Custom Output: Optional extendOutputFunction allows you to enrich the default dataset.

How to Use

1. Run the actor on your Apify account.
2. Configure the input (see below).
3. Start the run. Scraped data is stored in a dataset.
4. Download results in JSON, CSV, Excel, or HTML formats.

Input Configuration

You must provide either a search/location pair or a starting URL.

Option 1: Search by keyword and location

{
  "search": "Dentist",
  "location": "Los Angeles",
  "maxItems": 5,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": false },
  "extendOutputFunction": "($, record) => { return {}; }"
}

Option 2: Use a direct Yellow Pages URL

{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.yellowpages.com/search?search_terms=dentist&geo_location_terms=Los+Angeles%2C+CA",
      "method": "GET"
    }
  ],
  "maxItems": 5,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": false },
  "extendOutputFunction": "($, record) => { return {}; }"
}

• maxItems: Limits the total number of listings scraped.
• proxyConfiguration: Set "useApifyProxy": true for better success rates.
• extendOutputFunction: Optional JavaScript function to modify or add fields to each output record.

Output

The actor outputs an array of objects to a dataset. Each record contains available data from the listing.

Example Output Item:

{
  "name": "Frieden, Richard A DDS",
  "address": "6360 Wilshire Blvd, Ste 506Los Angeles, CA 90048",
  "phone": "(323) 655-3854",
  "rating": 5,
  "reviewSnippet": "Good team of experts and assistants...",
  "categories": ["Dentists"],
  "image": "https://i1.ypcdn.com/blob/bad0e9d8f429589b829a8308630c5628cea5905f",
  "url": "https://www.yellowpages.com/los-angeles-ca/mip/frieden-richard-a-dds-14640832?lid=1002105049104"
}

Note: Not all fields (like rating, image, or reviewSnippet) are present for every business, as it depends on the source listing.