BBB Business Leads Scraper

What this Actor scrapes

BBB (Better Business Bureau) accreditation and letter-grade ratings are a trust signal SMB lead-gen agencies, franchise HQs, insurers, and reputation-monitoring teams all want at scale, but bbb.org fronts every page with a bot-management challenge most scrapers can't clear. This Actor discovers businesses by category+location search or enriches a list of direct BBB profile URLs, returning name, contact info, BBB rating/accreditation, address, and years in business as clean, typed dataset rows.

What we handle for you

• 🛡️ Browser fingerprint rotation — curl-cffi impersonates real Chrome / Firefox / Safari TLS handshakes so the target sees a browser, not Python.
• 🌐 Residential proxy rotation via Apify Proxy — fresh session and exit IP on every block.
• 🔁 Retries with exponential backoff on 408 / 429 / 5xx — up to 5 attempts per page, Retry-After honoured.
• 🧱 Rate-limit-aware pacing — when the target pushes back, we slow down instead of getting banned.
• 🧊 Clean, typed dataset rows — Pydantic-validated, ISO-8601 timestamps, stable IDs, JSON / CSV / Excel export straight from the Apify Console.
• 💰 Pay-Per-Event pricing — you only pay for results that hit your dataset. No data, no charge.

Use cases

• SMB lead-gen prospecting — build fresh prospect lists by category and metro, with BBB rating and accreditation baked in as a pre-qualifying trust signal.
• Franchise HQ territory audits — enumerate accredited vs. non-accredited competitors across a franchise footprint.
• Insurance and vendor vetting — check accreditation status, complaint counts, and years-in-business before onboarding a contractor or vendor.
• Reputation monitoring — enrich an existing business list with current BBB rating, review counts, and accreditation dates via direct profile URLs.

Input

Paste this into the Apify Console, or send it as the run input over the API. Proxy settings are on by default; you rarely need to touch them.

{
  "searchQueries": [
    {
      "category": "plumber",
      "location": "Austin, TX"
    }
  ],
  "profileUrls": [
    "https://www.bbb.org/us/tx/austin/profile/plumber/calixto-plumbing-0825-1000223803"
  ],
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 5,
  "maxTotalResults": 10,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "BUYPROXIES94952"
    ]
  }
}

Output

One row per result, schema-validated before it is written. Export JSON, CSV, Excel or XML from the run, or read it over the API.

business_namebbb_idbusiness_idcanonical_urlphoneaddressbbb_ratingaccreditedaccreditation_dateyears_in_businesswebsitecategorycomplaint_countreview_countaverage_review_scorescraped_at

{
  "business_name": "Calixto Plumbing",
  "bbb_id": "0825",
  "business_id": "1000223803",
  "canonical_url": "https://www.bbb.org/us/tx/austin/profile/plumber/calixto-plumbing-0825-1000223803",
  "phone": "(512) 945-3143",
  "address": {
    "street": "1200 Main St",
    "city": "Austin",
    "state": "TX",
    "zip_code": "78753-6003"
  },
  "bbb_rating": "A+",
  "accredited": true,
  "accreditation_date": "2018-03-14",
  "years_in_business": 8,
  "website": "https://calixtoplumbing.com",
  "category": "Plumber",
  "complaint_count": 2,
  "review_count": 14,
  "average_review_score": 4.6,
  "scraped_at": "2026-08-12T10:00:00Z"
}

Pricing

You pay only for results that land. Cap any run with maxTotalChargeUsd. See pricing & billing for worked examples.