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Online Directory Lead Scraper (YP.com)

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With Yellow Pages’ local business directory—part of the world’s leading local commerce and business listing platform—booming, are you wasting countless hours manually collecting business information such as business names, contact numbers, physical addresses, customer ratings, operating hours, service categories, client reviews, and service coverage areas? Faced with Yellow Pages’ massive repository of business content, spanning millions of local businesses, paginated search results and multi-dimensional filtering options, efficiently acquiring structured business data to accurately find reliable partners for procurement teams or identify target customers for local marketers has become a common challenge for many local business owners, procurement specialists, individual consumers, marketing professionals, and market research teams. Say goodbye to tedious manual copy-and-paste and page-by-page recording of business details or service specifications. BrowserAct will revolutionize the way you access Yellow Pages’ local business data.




What is BrowserAct Data Scraper ?

BrowserAct is a powerful automated data extraction tool that lets you easily scrape required data from any web page without programming knowledge. It can efficiently capture key local business data from Yellow Pages’ massive repository of listing content, including business profiles, contact details, customer feedback, and service specifications. What can it do for you?

  • Yellow Pages Local Business Data Scraping: Our Yellow Pages crawler can intelligently identify and extract core business data from the platform. This includes business names (e.g., “Los Angeles Plumbing Co.,” “Sunny Side Dental Clinic”), contact numbers, physical addresses, customer ratings, operating hours, service categories (e.g., plumbing, dentistry, home improvement), client reviews, service coverage areas, and available coupons & deals. It covers all critical information needed to track local business dynamics on Yellow Pages.
  • AI-Powered Field Suggestions: Using AI to intelligently identify the structure of Yellow Pages pages, such as business listing pages, business detail pages, and coupons & deals sections, it quickly suggests and extracts key fields like "business name, contact number, customer rating, operating hours, service category". No manual positioning is needed, and structured data is generated directly to support efficient analysis.
  • Ideal Users: Suitable for local business owners, procurement specialists, individual consumers, marketing professionals, and market research teams. It helps you obtain structured Yellow Pages local business data to drive decisions—like finding reliable service partners and optimizing local marketing strategies—or meet practical needs, such as comparing service quality, evaluating business credibility and tracking local deal updates.




Features and Workflow Capabilities

  • Input Parameters for Effective Conecte ImĂłvel Scraping. Detailed explanation of required input parameters, presented in a table for clarity:

Parameter

Required

Description

Example Value

YP_Link

Yes

The base URL of the site to start scraping from.

https://www.yellowpages.com

business_category

Yes


plumbers

city_location

Yes


Brooklyn




Step 1: Create Workflow and Set Input Parameters

  • Click the "Workflow" button in the left sidebar, then "Create" to name your workflow (e.g., "Financial Data Automation").
  • Define customizable inputs for flexibility:
YP_Link
business_category
city_location

Step 2: Add Navigation and Search Actions 📍

  • Click the "+" icon to add actions. Start with "Visit Page" and enter "Visit /url" to direct the workflow to the specified URL, such as https://www.yellowpages.com. BrowserAct's AI will automatically understand the page structure, powering your Forbes web scraper without hassle.

Step 3: Add "Extract Data" Action 📊

  • Click "+" and select "Extract Data." In the description box, specify what to extract and set limits, such as:
    • extract data for each Service provider - add Business fields to "Business" - add phone number to "Phone" - add Location to "Location" - add title to "Name"
  • The AI will interpret your request and precisely scrape Rightmove houses list—no CSS selectors, no XPath, no coding required. This makes BrowserAct a seamless job scraper for scraping jobs from the internet.

Step 4: Add Output, Publish, and Run 📈

  • Click "+" and select "Finish: Output Data." Choose CSV as the output format and enable "Output as a file" for easy downloading.

  • Click "Publish" to save and finalize your Forbes scraper.

  • Navigate to the "Run" section. Adjust parameters if Forbes (or use defaults), then click "Start" to execute the scrape.

Step 5: Download the Results

  • Before downloading, you can preview the scraped results to see if they meet your expectations.




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