Manta Business Directory Scraper

What this Actor scrapes

manta.com aggregates US small/mid-size business listings into a free public directory searchable by category and location. This Actor wraps its search-results pages directly, writing one structured row per listing: name, phone, full address, category, SIC code, employee-count and revenue estimates, website, and founding year — firmographic signal most directory scrapers don't carry alongside contact data.

What we handle for you

• 🛡️ A real browser, not a script — Manta fronts its directory with a bot wall, so we drive a hardened Firefox (Camoufox) with a genuine fingerprint rather than an HTTP client pretending to be one.
• 🌐 Residential proxy rotation via Apify Proxy — fresh session and exit IP on every block.
• 🔁 Two separate retry budgets — a bot wall (429 / 403) and a dead proxy tunnel are different problems, so we retry them independently on fresh exits. A flaky proxy can no longer burn the budget reserved for real blocks, and the failure message names whichever actually gave out.
• 🧱 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

• Sales/SDR prospecting — build a call or email list of SMBs in a category and city or state, with phone and address ready to dial.
• Local-market research — gauge how many businesses of a category operate in a metro, with firmographic (size/revenue/founding-year) signal alongside contact data.
• Agency lead lists — marketing agencies pulling fresh local-business leads by vertical without paying for a directory subscription.
• Competitive landscape mapping — see who else serves a category+location before entering a market.

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.

{
  "searchTerm": "plumbers",
  "location": "Austin, TX",
  "maxResults": 10,
  "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.

business_namephonestreet_addresscitystatezip_codecategorysic_codeemployee_count_estimaterevenue_estimatewebsiteyear_establishedlisting_urlsearch_termlocation_queryscraped_at

{
  "business_name": "Austin Plumbing Pros LLC",
  "phone": "(512) 555-0134",
  "street_address": "4210 S Lamar Blvd",
  "city": "Austin",
  "state": "TX",
  "zip_code": "78704",
  "category": "Plumbing Contractors",
  "sic_code": "1731",
  "employee_count_estimate": "1-4",
  "revenue_estimate": "Less than $500,000",
  "website": "https://austinplumbingpros.example.com",
  "year_established": 2011,
  "listing_url": "https://www.manta.com/c/mabc1234/austin-plumbing-pros-llc",
  "search_term": "plumbers",
  "location_query": "Austin, TX",
  "scraped_at": "2026-08-01T12:00:00Z"
}

Pricing

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