Sulekha Business Scraper

An Apify actor that extracts detailed local business listings from Sulekha.com.

Overview

This actor scrapes business data from Sulekha.com, a platform for local service providers. It's built with Puppeteer for reliable page rendering and handles pagination automatically. Use it to collect leads, business directories, or market research data.

Key Features

• Comprehensive Data: Extracts business name, phone, address, city, working hours, services, website, and ratings/reviews.
• Automatic Pagination: Scrapes multiple pages from each starting URL.
• Structured Output: Returns clean JSON/CSV data ready for analysis.
• Configurable: Control the depth of scraping via the max pages setting.

How to Use

1. Deploy: In your Apify Console, create a new Actor (Blank Node.js template). Paste the provided input schema and JavaScript (main.js) source code.
2. Configure Input: Set your Start URLs (Sulekha category/city links) and optional Maximum Pages.
3. Run: Start the actor. It will process the URLs and scrape the data.
4. Export: Once finished, download the results from the Dataset tab in JSON, CSV, or Excel format.

Input Configuration

Configure the run via these input fields:

• Start URLs: (Required) One or more Sulekha category or location URLs.
  • Example: https://www.sulekha.com/beauty-parlour-services/chennai
• Maximum Pages: (Optional, Default: 5) Limits the number of pagination pages scraped per start URL.

Output

The actor outputs an array of objects, with each object containing the fields for one business. Data is saved to the Apify dataset.

Example Output Item:

{
  "name": "Lakme Salon",
  "phone": "090030 12345",
  "address": "Anna Nagar, Chennai - 600040",
  "rating": "85",
  "category": "Beauty Parlour Services",
  "website": "https://lakmeindia.com"
}

Full list of extracted fields: Business Name, Phone Number, Address, City/Location, Working Hours, Category/Services, Website, Ratings/Reviews.

Requirements

• An Apify account.
• Node.js 18+ environment (handled by Apify platform).
• Sufficient Apify compute credits for your scraping volume.