ImportYeti Alternative Scraper

What this Actor scrapes

importyeti.com aggregates US Customs bill-of-lading filings (public record under the US Trade Act and FOIA) into free-to-browse importer/supplier trade profiles — the same underlying data ImportYeti, Panjiva, and ImportGenius charge $99-$399+/mo to access. This Actor wraps importyeti.com's keyless JSON search endpoint directly, writing one structured row per matched company: shipment counts, most-recent activity, country, address, and linked trademarks.

Give it company names or product keywords (searchQueries) or direct ImportYeti profile URLs (profileUrls) and it resolves each one to a matched importer or supplier row, deduplicated by URL slug so the same company matched twice is only pushed and charged once.

What we handle for you

• 🛡️ Browser fingerprint rotation — curl-cffi impersonates real Chrome / Firefox / Safari TLS handshakes so importyeti.com sees a browser, not Python.
• 🌐 Residential proxy by default via Apify Proxy — the site challenges requests from flagged datacenter IPs, so this is the first Actor in our fleet where RESIDENTIAL ships on by default, not opt-in.
• 🔁 Retries with exponential backoff on 408 / 429 / 5xx — up to 5 attempts, Retry-After honoured.
• 🧱 Fresh session + profile rotation on every block — a bot-check or 403/429 mints a new proxy session and browser fingerprint before retrying.
• 🧊 Clean, typed dataset rows — Pydantic-validated, ISO-8601 timestamps, deduplicated by slug, JSON / CSV / Excel export straight from the Apify Console.
• 💰 Pay-Per-Event pricing — you pay only for results that hit your dataset. No data, no charge (beyond the small actor-start warm-up fee).

Use cases

• Sales prospecting — build a list of US importers already shipping a competitor's product category, ranked by shipment volume.
• Sourcing research — find foreign suppliers already shipping into the US for a given product, without cold-emailing trade shows.
• Competitive intel — track how often a competitor's known importer or supplier appears in fresh filings.
• M&A / supply-chain diligence — sanity-check a target company's declared trade volume and country exposure in minutes.

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": [
    "Patagonia"
  ],
  "profileUrls": [
    "https://www.importyeti.com/company/patagonia"
  ],
  "companyTypeFilter": "any",
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 2,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}

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.

company_namecompany_typecountrycountry_codeaddresstotal_shipmentsmost_recent_shipment_dateother_addresses_countother_names_counttrademarksprofile_urlslugsource_queryrankscraped_at

{
  "company_name": "Patagonia, Inc.",
  "company_type": "importer",
  "country": "United States",
  "country_code": "US",
  "address": "259 W Santa Clara St, Ventura, CA 93001",
  "total_shipments": 4218,
  "most_recent_shipment_date": "2026-06-30",
  "other_addresses_count": 6,
  "other_names_count": 3,
  "trademarks": [
    "Patagonia"
  ],
  "profile_url": "https://www.importyeti.com/company/patagonia",
  "slug": "patagonia",
  "source_query": "Patagonia",
  "rank": 1,
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-19T12:00:00+00:00"
}

Pricing

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