Yellow Pages Kenya Scraper

An Apify actor that extracts business listings from Yellow Pages Kenya. It scrapes verified contact details like phone numbers, emails, addresses, and websites. Useful for lead generation and data automation.

Key Features

• Category Search: Search by business type (e.g., hotels, dental-clinic).
• Clean Data: Filters out placeholder emails and phone numbers, and excludes social media links from website results.
• Pagination: Automatically scrapes multiple pages of results.
• Proxy Support: Built-in support for Apify Proxy with optimized settings.
• Performance: Efficiently handles 50-100 listings in 10-18 minutes.

How to Use

Configure the actor with a JSON input. The most basic setup requires a searchTerm and maxItems.

Basic Input Example:

{
  "searchTerm": "hotels",
  "maxItems": 50,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}

Input Configuration

Required Fields:
* searchTerm (string): The business category to search for. Use lowercase with hyphens (e.g., "restaurants", "real-estate-agents").
* maxItems (integer): Maximum number of businesses to scrape. Set to 0 for unlimited (not recommended). For testing, use 10-20 items.

Optional Fields:
* startUrls (array): An array of specific Yellow Pages Kenya URLs to scrape directly.
* proxyConfiguration (object): Controls proxy usage.
* For most runs: {"useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["SHADER"]}
* For difficult sites: Use "RESIDENTIAL" proxy group.
* For local testing only: {"useApifyProxy": false}

Input & Output

What Gets Scraped:
Each result includes the following fields with typical success rates:
* name: Business name (100%)
* phone: Kenyan number in +254 format (85-95%)
* email: Business email (70-85%)
* address: Physical location (60-75%)
* url: Business website, excluding social media (40-60%)

Sample Output:

[
  {
    "name": "Hilton Nairobi",
    "phone": "+254719026000, +254732120000",
    "email": "hilton_nairobi@hilton.com",
    "address": "Mama Ngina Street, Nairobi",
    "url": "https://www.hilton.com/nairobi"
  }
]

Performance & Cost

Scraping Time:
* 50 items: ~10 minutes
* 100 items: ~18 minutes

Cost Estimates:
* Compute: ~0.02 CU ($0.005) for 50 businesses.
* Proxy (Datacenter): ~$0.10-0.20 per 100 businesses.
* Proxy (Residential): ~$2-3 per 100 businesses.