# TaxBuzz Scraper — Tax Preparers, CPAs & Accountant Leads (`scrapesage/taxbuzz-scraper`) Actor Scrape TaxBuzz for tax & accounting professionals by location: CPAs, tax preparers, enrolled agents, tax attorneys, accountants & bookkeepers with direct contact email, phone, firm, address, specialties, rating, reviews & a lead score. Monitoring mode. No login, no API key, no browser. - **URL**: https://apify.com/scrapesage/taxbuzz-scraper.md - **Developed by:** [Scrape Sage](https://apify.com/scrapesage) (community) - **Categories:** Lead generation, Agents, Integrations - **Stats:** 16 total users, 2 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing from $8.00 / 1,000 tax professional records This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events. Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows. In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours, and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store. In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server. Actors are written with capital "A". ## How to integrate an Actor? If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects. You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready. The best way to integrate Actors is as follows. - **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use). - **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`. - **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`. - **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`. - **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below. For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ## TaxBuzz Scraper — Tax Preparers, CPAs & Accountant Leads (Emails, Phones & Reviews) > **Disclaimer:** This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by TaxBuzz or any of its subsidiaries. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. "TaxBuzz" is referenced only to describe the publicly available website this Actor collects data from. Extract **complete tax & accounting professional data from TaxBuzz** — CPAs, tax preparers, enrolled agents, tax attorneys, accountants and bookkeepers in any US city. Every record ships with a **direct contact email and phone**, the firm name, full street address, specialties, star rating and review count — turning the largest US tax-pro directory into a clean, ready-to-use **B2B lead list**. No login, no cookies, no browser — fast JSON-grade extraction with a built-in retry on transient blocks. ### Why this TaxBuzz scraper? Most "accountant lead" tools scrape Google Maps and hand you a name and a phone number. This actor pulls every field TaxBuzz exposes — including the **verified contact email that sits right on each listing** — and ships the richest dataset in the category: | Data | Google-Maps lead tools | This actor | |---|---|---| | Direct contact **email** | ❌ needs a website crawl | ✅ on the listing | | Phone | ✅ | ✅ | | Firm / business name | partial | ✅ | | Designation (CPA, EA, Tax Attorney, Bookkeeper…) | ❌ | ✅ | | Specialties (Tax Planning, Bookkeeping, Audit, Payroll…) | ❌ | ✅ | | Star rating + review count | ✅ | ✅ | | Full street address + extra office locations | partial | ✅ opt-in | | Client review text (rating, date, body) | ❌ | ✅ opt-in | | Website + social links | partial | ✅ opt-in | | Lead score (0–100) | ❌ | ✅ | | Website email/phone enrichment | ❌ | ✅ opt-in | | Monitoring mode (only new pros) | ❌ | ✅ | ### Use cases - **Lead generation** — tax & accounting firms are high-value buyers for SaaS, fintech, payroll, lending, insurance and professional services. Filter by designation, rating and specialty and reach them directly with the listing **email** and **phone**. - **Sales prospecting for tax/accounting software** — build targeted lists of independent CPAs, EAs and bookkeepers by city for practice-management, tax-prep, bookkeeping and client-portal tools. - **Market & competitor mapping** — count and profile tax pros by city, designation, rating and specialty to size territories and spot underserved markets. - **Recruiting & M\&A** — find practice owners and firms by location for staffing, acquisition or partnership outreach. - **Directory & data enrichment** — append firm, designation, specialty and contact data to an existing list of accountants. ### How to use 1. [Sign up for Apify](https://console.apify.com/sign-up) — the free plan is enough to try this actor. 2. Open the **TaxBuzz Scraper**, choose designations (e.g. `cpa`, `tax-preparer`) and locations (e.g. `New York, NY`), and click **Start**. 3. Watch professionals stream into the dataset table. 4. **Export** as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or RSS — or pull results programmatically via the [Apify API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2). ### Input ```json { "mode": "search", "designations": ["cpa", "tax-preparer"], "locations": ["New York, NY", "Los Angeles, CA"], "maxResults": 200, "includeProfileDetails": true, "includeReviews": false, "enrichContactEmails": false, "withEmailOnly": true, "monitorMode": false } ``` - **mode** — `search` (designations × locations) or `startUrls` (paste TaxBuzz URLs). - **designations** — one per row: `tax-preparer`, `cpa`, `enrolled-agent`, `tax-attorney`, `accountant`, `bookkeeper`. - **locations** — US cities as `City, ST` (`New York, NY`, `Houston, Texas`). TaxBuzz listings are city-based, so include a city. For a few large metros TaxBuzz's own city page is broken — the actor detects that automatically and serves the search from the nearest covered city instead (noted per record in `searchNote`), so you still get local, distance-sorted leads. - **startUrls** — TaxBuzz profile URLs (`…/find-the-best-cpa///`) or listing URLs (`…/pros///` or the older `…/find-the-best-…` form). Auto-detected and routed. Profile-URL scrapes automatically recover the listing-card email too. - **maxResults** — cap on professionals for the whole run (listings paginate automatically). - **includeProfileDetails** *(default true)* — open each profile for the full street address, extra office locations, website, socials and total review count. - **includeReviews** *(default false)* — also output client review records (rating, author, date, text). - **enrichContactEmails** *(default false)* — crawl the pro's own website (home + contact/about) for extra emails, phones and socials. TaxBuzz already supplies a direct email on most listings. - **withEmailOnly / withPhoneOnly / minRating** — output filters. - **monitorMode** *(default false)* — emit ONLY professionals (and reviews) not seen in previous runs. Pairs with Apify Schedules. ### Output One record per professional (`type: "professional"`), plus optional review records (`type: "review"`): ```json { "type": "professional", "designation": "cpa", "designationLabel": "CPA", "name": "Anthony Apodaca", "firmName": "Apodaca CPA", "profileUrl": "https://www.taxbuzz.com/find-the-best-cpa/california/monrovia/anthony-apodaca", "email": "anthony@apodaca-cpa.com", "phone": "(626) 305-4220", "city": "Monrovia", "state": "CA", "zip": "91016", "fullAddress": "123 E Foothill Blvd, Monrovia, CA 91016", "rating": 5, "reviewCount": 1, "specialties": ["Tax Planning", "Tax Preparation", "Bookkeeping"], "website": "https://www.apodaca-cpa.com/", "socialLinks": { "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthonyapodaca" }, "imageUrl": "https://www.taxbuzz.com/...jpg", "searchDesignation": "cpa", "searchLocation": "Los Angeles, CA", "leadScore": 88, "scrapedAt": "2026-06-15T12:00:00.000Z" } ``` ### How much does it cost to scrape TaxBuzz? This Actor uses Apify's **pay-per-event** pricing: you are charged only for the results it delivers, with no monthly rental and no start fee. The events it can charge are: - **Tax professional record** - One tax/accounting professional with contact email, phone, firm, address, specialties, rating & lead score. - **Client review** - One client review with rating, date and text. - **Website contact enrichment** - Crawl a professional's own website for extra emails, phones & social links. The current price of each event is shown on the **Pricing** tab of this page. Set a maximum total charge on the run if you want a hard cap on spend, and use the input limits to control how much the Actor fetches. ### Automate & schedule Run this actor on autopilot and pull results into your own stack: - **[Apify API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2)** — start runs, fetch datasets, and manage schedules over REST. - **[apify-client for JavaScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/)** and **[apify-client for Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/)** — official SDKs. - **[Schedules](https://docs.apify.com/platform/schedules)** — run it daily/weekly with **monitoring mode** to capture only newly listed tax pros in a city; perfect for lead pipelines. - **[Webhooks](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/webhooks)** — trigger downstream actions (CRM import, Slack alert, email sequence) the moment a run finishes. ```js import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client'; const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'MY_APIFY_TOKEN' }); const run = await client.actor('scrapesage/taxbuzz-scraper').call({ mode: 'search', designations: ['cpa', 'enrolled-agent'], locations: ['Chicago, IL'], maxResults: 300, withEmailOnly: true, }); const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems(); console.log(`Got ${items.length} tax & accounting leads`); ``` ### Integrate with any app Connect the dataset to 5,000+ apps — no code required: - **[Make](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/make)** — multi-step automation scenarios. - **[Zapier](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/zapier)** — push new tax-pro leads straight into your CRM. - **[Slack](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/slack)** — get notified when a monitored city gets new professionals. - **[Google Drive / Sheets](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/drive)** — auto-export every run to a spreadsheet. - **[Airbyte](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/airbyte)** — pipe results into your data warehouse. - **[GitHub](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/github)** — trigger runs from commits or releases. ### Use with AI assistants (MCP) The output is clean, LLM-ready JSON. Call this actor from Claude, ChatGPT, or any agent framework through the **[Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp)** — ask your assistant to "find CPAs in Austin with reviews and list their emails" and let it run this scraper for you. ### Agent-ready: autonomous payments (x402 & Skyfire) This actor is **agent-ready** — AI agents can discover it, run it, and **pay for it autonomously**, with no Apify account and no human in the loop. It uses [pay-per-event](https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/publishing/monetize/pay-per-event) pricing and [limited permissions](https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/development/permissions), so it qualifies for Apify's agentic-payment standards: - **[x402](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/x402)** — an open, HTTP-native payment protocol. Agents pay per run in USDC on the Base network directly through the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp) — no account, no API key. - **[Skyfire](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/skyfire)** — agent-to-service payments for fully autonomous AI-agent workflows. Building an AI agent, MCP tool, or autonomous data pipeline? This scraper is ready to plug in and pay as it goes. ### More scrapers from scrapesage Build a complete **professional-services & B2B lead-gen stack**: - **[FindLaw Scraper](https://apify.com/scrapesage/findlaw-scraper)** — lawyers, law firms and legal leads. - **[Financial Advisor & Broker Scraper](https://apify.com/scrapesage/financial-advisor-scraper)** — advisors and brokers from FINRA + SEC. - **[Healthgrades Scraper](https://apify.com/scrapesage/healthgrades-scraper)** — doctors, reviews and provider leads. - **[WebMD Scraper](https://apify.com/scrapesage/webmd-scraper)** — doctors, reviews and provider leads. - **[Insurance Agent Scraper](https://apify.com/scrapesage/insurance-agent-scraper)** — State Farm & Farmers agent leads. - **[US Business Formation Scraper](https://apify.com/scrapesage/us-business-formation-scraper)** — new LLC & company leads. - **[Companies House Scraper](https://apify.com/scrapesage/companies-house-scraper)** — UK companies, directors and PSCs. - **[Bark Scraper](https://apify.com/scrapesage/bark-scraper)** — local service-provider leads. ### Tips - **Cover a metro fully**: add nearby cities to `locations` (e.g. `Brooklyn, NY`, `Queens, NY`) — TaxBuzz lists each pro under their own city. - **Faster runs**: turn off `includeProfileDetails` for a listing-only pass — it still includes name, firm, city, phone, **email**, rating and specialties. - **Cost control**: profile and website-enrichment calls only fire when enabled, and `deduplicateProfiles` skips overlaps across searches. - **Recurring monitoring**: combine [Schedules](https://docs.apify.com/platform/schedules) with `monitorMode` to capture only newly listed professionals over time. ### FAQ **How do I scrape tax preparers or CPAs for a specific city?** Put the city in `locations` as `City, ST` (e.g. `Dallas, TX`) and choose one or more `designations` (`cpa`, `tax-preparer`, `enrolled-agent`, `tax-attorney`, `accountant`, `bookkeeper`). **Where do the emails come from?** TaxBuzz publishes a contact email on most professional listings — this actor reads that public email directly, so no website crawl is needed. With `enrichContactEmails` on, it can additionally crawl the pro's own website for more contacts. **Can I export to Google Sheets, CSV, or Excel?** Yes — one click in the dataset view, or automatically on every run via the [Google Drive integration](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/drive). **How do I get only new professionals over time?** Turn on `monitorMode` and run on a [Schedule](https://docs.apify.com/platform/schedules) — each run returns only pros not seen before. **Is scraping TaxBuzz legal?** This actor collects publicly available data only. You are responsible for using the data in compliance with applicable laws (GDPR/CCPA for personal data) and TaxBuzz's terms. **A field is null — why?** Some listings genuinely omit a phone, website or rating. Fields are `null` only when the data doesn't exist, not because the scraper skipped them. **Why does a record mention a different nearby city in `searchNote`?** TaxBuzz's own city page is broken for a handful of large metros (e.g. Los Angeles, San Diego, Dallas, San Antonio, Phoenix) — their server returns a *nationwide* featured list instead of local pros. This actor detects that and automatically serves your search from the nearest covered city page, which is distance-sorted and covers the same metro, so the leads stay local. The substitution is recorded per record in `searchNote` and in the run status message. If no covered nearby city exists, the search is skipped (or, with `includeNationwideFallback` on, the nationwide list is emitted with `nonLocal: true`). **My run returned fewer results than expected / zero results — what happened?** Check the run's status message — it explains exactly what happened: a transient TaxBuzz block (just re-run in a few minutes; blocks clear on fresh proxy IPs), a broken city page that was skipped, a small city simply not having that many pros, or the run stopping early to beat its own timeout. Runs always end **Succeeded** with whatever was collected; raise the run timeout or lower `maxResults` if you see the early-stop note. **Do I need Residential proxy?** No — the default datacenter proxy works well. Residential is supported (non-US exits are automatically pinned to US IPs, since TaxBuzz is US-only), and if a selected proxy keeps failing at the network level the actor automatically retries those pages through the default datacenter proxy and says so in the status message — you get your data either way. **The run stopped before reaching maxResults.** Large runs self-terminate shortly before the run's timeout so your results and monitoring state are saved (instead of the platform killing the run). Increase the run timeout (default 1 hour) for big multi-city crawls. ### Data & lawful use This Actor reads business and professional listings that the professionals themselves published to be found: names, roles, firms, ratings and the contact details shown on the public listing. Because those details belong to identifiable people, treat the output as personal data. If you are in the EU or UK you are the data controller for what you do with it: have a lawful basis (usually legitimate interest for B2B prospecting or market research), keep any outreach relevant to the professional's line of work, honour opt-outs and deletion requests, and do not use the output for spam. Under [Apify's Standard Actor Contract](https://docs.apify.com/legal/standard-actor-contract), which governs your use of this Actor, you are the controller of any personal data in your input and output and scrapesage acts only as your processor: that data is processed solely to run your job, written only to your own Apify storage, never used for any other purpose and never shared onward. If you need help with a data-subject request that involves this Actor's output, open an issue on the Issues tab. ### Disclaimer **This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by TaxBuzz or any of its subsidiaries. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.** "TaxBuzz" and any related marks are the property of their respective owners and are used here only in a descriptive, nominative sense - to identify the publicly accessible website from which this Actor collects data. This Actor is not an official TaxBuzz product, is not authorised or certified by TaxBuzz, and does not distribute TaxBuzz software. It collects only publicly available information; you are responsible for ensuring your use of that data complies with applicable laws, regulations and the terms of the source website. ### Need help? Open an issue on the actor's **Issues** tab, or visit the [Apify help center](https://help.apify.com/). Feature requests are welcome — this actor is actively maintained. # Actor input Schema ## `mode` (type: `string`): Search builds a list from designations × locations. Start URLs scrapes specific TaxBuzz profile or listing URLs you paste in. ## `designations` (type: `array`): Which kinds of tax/accounting professionals to pull. One per row. Allowed: tax-preparer, cpa, enrolled-agent, tax-attorney, accountant, bookkeeper. (Search mode.) ## `locations` (type: `array`): US cities to search, as "City, ST" — e.g. "New York, NY", "Los Angeles, CA", "Houston, Texas". TaxBuzz listings are city-based, so a city is required. One per row. (Search mode.) For a few large metros TaxBuzz's own city page is broken — the actor detects that and automatically serves the search from the nearest covered city (noted per record in searchNote), so you still get local leads. ## `startUrls` (type: `array`): TaxBuzz URLs to scrape directly: profile URLs (…/find-the-best-///) or listing URLs (…/find-the-best-//). Auto-detected and routed. One per row. (Start URLs mode.) ## `maxResults` (type: `integer`): Cap on professional records across the whole run. Listings are paginated automatically until this cap or the city is exhausted. ## `includeProfileDetails` (type: `boolean`): Open each professional's profile page for the richer record: full street address, all office locations, website, social links, total review count and services. One extra request per professional. Turn off for a faster, listing-only run (which already includes name, firm, city, phone, email, rating and specialties). ## `includeReviews` (type: `boolean`): Also output client review records (type `review`) parsed from each profile page: rating, author, date and text. In monitoring mode only NEW reviews are returned. ## `maxReviewsPerProfile` (type: `integer`): How many reviews to output per professional when 'Include client reviews' is on. ## `enrichContactEmails` (type: `boolean`): Opt-in extra lead enrichment: crawl each professional's own website (home + contact/about) for additional emails, phones and social links. Only runs for professionals that list a website. TaxBuzz already supplies a direct contact email on most listings. ## `withEmailOnly` (type: `boolean`): Output only professionals that have a contact email (from TaxBuzz or, if enabled, the website crawl). ## `withPhoneOnly` (type: `boolean`): Output only professionals that have a phone number. ## `minRating` (type: `integer`): Only output professionals with at least this star rating (0–5). 0 = no rating filter. ## `deduplicateProfiles` (type: `boolean`): Skip a professional already emitted in this run (by profile URL) — useful when several searches overlap. ## `includeNationwideFallback` (type: `boolean`): For a few large metros TaxBuzz's own city page is broken and serves a NATIONWIDE 'featured pros' list instead. The actor first re-routes such searches to the nearest covered city automatically. Turn this on to emit the nationwide featured list (records flagged nonLocal: true) when no covered nearby city is available, instead of skipping. ## `monitorMode` (type: `boolean`): Remember what was already returned and emit ONLY records not seen in previous runs (new professionals, and new reviews per profile). Pairs with Apify Schedules to track new listings over time. ## `monitorStoreName` (type: `string`): Named key-value store that holds the 'already seen' ids for monitoring mode. Use a different name per tracked search to keep their histories separate. ## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`): Maximum parallel requests for profile/enrichment fetches. Lower it for very large runs if you see transient blocks; raise it for speed. ## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`): Proxy settings. The default Apify datacenter proxy works well — transient blocks are retried automatically on fresh IPs. Residential proxy is also fully supported if you prefer it (slightly slower and pricier; not needed for normal runs). ## `urlsFromFile` (type: `string`): Paste a list of URLs (one per line), OR one link to a .txt/.csv file, Google Sheet or Google Drive file containing them. Lets you import many Start URLs at once instead of typing each. Google Sheet/Drive share links are handled automatically. ## Actor input object example ```json { "mode": "search", "designations": [ "tax-preparer" ], "locations": [ "New York, NY" ], "maxResults": 100, "includeProfileDetails": true, "includeReviews": false, "maxReviewsPerProfile": 20, "enrichContactEmails": false, "withEmailOnly": false, "withPhoneOnly": false, "minRating": 0, "deduplicateProfiles": true, "includeNationwideFallback": false, "monitorMode": false, "monitorStoreName": "taxbuzz-monitor", "maxConcurrency": 6, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true } } ``` # Actor output Schema ## `results` (type: `string`): All scraped records in the default dataset. Professional rows carry the full profile, a direct contact email/phone and a lead score; review rows carry their own rating and text. # API You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup. ## JavaScript example ```javascript import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client'; // Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token // Replace the '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "designations": [ "tax-preparer" ], "locations": [ "New York, NY" ], "urlsFromFile": "" }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("scrapesage/taxbuzz-scraper").call(input); // Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any) console.log('Results from dataset'); console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`); const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems(); items.forEach((item) => { console.dir(item); }); // 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs ``` ## Python example ```python from apify_client import ApifyClient # Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token # Replace '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "designations": ["tax-preparer"], "locations": ["New York, NY"], "urlsFromFile": "", } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("scrapesage/taxbuzz-scraper").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}") for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "designations": [ "tax-preparer" ], "locations": [ "New York, NY" ], "urlsFromFile": "" }' | apify call scrapesage/taxbuzz-scraper --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,scrapesage/taxbuzz-scraper" } } } ``` The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer ` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations). ## OpenAPI specification Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/7Bb1PpD6xSDQ9WqcL/builds/wkOZy1ceCRimhIroM/openapi.json