Manta Scraper

Scrape US business listings from Manta.com — business name, category, address, phone, website, hours, social links, description, employee count, year founded, and more.

Manta.com is one of America's longest-running small business directories with over 16 million US company listings. This Actor searches by business type and location, visits every matching profile page, and delivers a clean structured dataset you can filter, export, and analyze immediately.

Why use Manta Scraper?

Who	What they scrape Manta for
Sales teams	Build prospecting lists of local businesses in a target city
Lead generation agencies	Pull verified business contact details for outbound campaigns
Market researchers	Map competitive density of a business category across a region
Data analysts	Enrich a CRM with missing firmographic data from public listings
SEO agencies	Audit local business online presence and NAP consistency

How to use Manta Scraper

1. Go to the Input tab and enter your search queries. You can:
   • Paste a Manta search URL like https://www.manta.com/search?search=restaurants&city=New+York&state=New+York&country=United+States
   • Or provide direct profile URLs like https://www.manta.com/c/mmgg6nz/starbucks-corporation
2. Set max items — how many business listings you want (free users capped at 10).
3. Set max pages — how many search result pages to follow per query.
4. Click Start and watch the run progress in the Log tab.
5. Export your data from the Output tab as JSON, CSV, Excel, or XML.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
searchQueries	array	—	Manta search URLs to start from (required)
directProfileUrls	array	[]	Direct business profile URLs to scrape
maxItems	integer	50	Maximum listings to scrape (0 = unlimited for paid)
maxPages	integer	5	Max search result pages per query
useApifyProxy	boolean	—	(inside proxyConfiguration) Route through Apify proxy
useApifyProxy + apifyProxyGroups: ["UNBLOCKER"]	object	{"useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["UNBLOCKER"]}	Unblocker required — Manta is behind Cloudflare, which blocks datacenter/residential proxy IPs (403/590). Unblocker bypasses Cloudflare bot protection.

Output example

{
  "url": "https://www.manta.com/c/mmgg6nz/starbucks-corporation",
  "businessName": "Starbucks Corporation",
  "category": "Restaurants and Bars > Restaurants > Coffee shop",
  "address": "2401 Utah Avenue S Seattle, WA 98134",
  "city": "Seattle",
  "state": "WA",
  "zipCode": "98134",
  "phone": "(206) 447-1575",
  "website": "http://www.starbucks.com",
  "email": null,
  "hours": "Mon-Fri 5:00AM-8:00PM; Sat-Sun 5:00AM-8:00PM",
  "description": "We are a privately held company in Seattle, WA proudly doing business for 41 years.",
  "employeeCount": null,
  "yearFounded": null,
  "annualRevenue": null,
  "sicCode": "5812",
  "naicsCode": null,
  "socialLinks": null,
  "isClaimed": false,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-29T07:40:00.000Z"
}

Data fields

Field	Description
url	Manta profile URL
businessName	Company name
category	Industry breadcrumb (e.g. "Restaurants > Coffee shop")
address	Full street address
city, state, zipCode	Parsed address components
phone	Business phone number
website	Company website URL (unwrapped from Manta redirect)
email	Contact email (if listed)
hours	Operating hours
description	About / description text
employeeCount	Number of employees (if listed)
yearFounded	Year business was established
annualRevenue	Annual revenue estimate
sicCode	SIC industry code
naicsCode	NAICS industry code
socialLinks	Object with twitter, facebook, linkedin, instagram, youtube URLs
isClaimed	Whether the business has claimed their Manta listing

Pricing / Cost estimation

• Free tier: 10 business listings per run
• Paid tier: Unlimited listings per run
• Each profile page visit counts as one Apify compute unit
• CheerioCrawler is lightweight (plain HTTP), so runs are fast and cheap
• Proxy usage through Apify is optional

Tips

• Use specific search terms — "HVAC contractor" works better than "contractor"
• Combine city + state for best results — Manta's search is location-sensitive
• Direct profile URLs skip search pagination entirely — fastest option
• Apify Unblocker proxy is required — Manta is behind Cloudflare bot protection, which blocks regular datacenter and residential proxy IPs (403/590 errors). Unblocker bypasses it without a browser.
• Lower concurrency if you're getting rate-limited

Strategy notes

This Actor uses CheerioCrawler (plain HTTP, no browser). Recon found Manta is a server-rendered site — it is not Next.js (no __NEXT_DATA__) and exposes no internal search API (the only /api/ calls are an image CDN and an error logger). All profile data is present in the raw HTML, including a LocalBusiness JSON-LD block (name, address, geo, SIC, employees, website). Search result pages are server-rendered cards with simple &pg=N pagination.

Important: Manta is behind Cloudflare bot protection. It works fine from ordinary home/residential IPs (plain HTTP returns 200), but Cloudflare blocks datacenter and residential proxy IPs — so on Apify you must route through the UNBLOCKER proxy group, which is purpose-built to bypass Cloudflare. That is the actor's default.

Profile extraction uses the JSON-LD block as the primary source with HTML selectors as fallback; the Detailed Information table supplies opening date, annual revenue, SIC/NAICS codes, and employee count. This keeps it fast and cheap compared to a browser-based approach.

FAQ

Does this handle pagination? Yes — it follows search result pages up to your maxPages limit.

What if a profile is blocked? The Actor retries up to 3 times with exponential backoff. If still blocked, it logs the error and moves on.

Can I scrape by state or zip code? Yes — use Manta's search URL format with state= and city= parameters.

Is this legal? This Actor scrapes publicly available business listing data. Always review Manta's Terms of Service and comply with applicable data protection regulations.

Support

Found a bug or need a feature? Open an issue on the Issues tab. For custom scraping solutions, reach out via the Apify platform.