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Clutch.co data,
at warehouse scale.

We extract agency profiles, verified client reviews, service focus metrics, and Leaders Matrix rankings from Clutch.co. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3 or BigQuery on your cadence.

Agencies extracted
184,291 /month
Reviews parsed
1.2M /total
Matrix updates
42,819 /run
Active pipelines
37
Uptime
99.98%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from clutch.co

Structured, schema-consistent data across all major object types — delivered clean, typed, and ready to query.

Complete list of extractable fields for Agency Profiles objects from clutch.co. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

agency_idnametaglineratingreview_countmin_project_sizeavg_hourly_rateemployeeslocationfoundedwebsite_urlprofile_url
agency_profiles
● 200 OK
"agency_id": "1049281",
"name": "DataFlirt Engineering",
"tagline": "Data Extraction at Scale",
"rating": 4.9,
"review_count": 42,
"min_project_size": "$10,000+",
"avg_hourly_rate": "$50 - $99",
"employees": "50 - 249"
# agency_idnametaglineratingreview_countmin_project_size
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Complete list of extractable fields for Verified Reviews objects from clutch.co. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

review_idagency_idclient_nameclient_companyproject_typeproject_costrating_overallrating_qualityrating_schedulerating_costrating_willingnessreview_textfeedback_summary
verified_reviews
● 200 OK
"review_id": "rev_98231",
"agency_id": "1049281",
"project_type": "Custom Software Development",
"project_cost": "$50,000 to $199,999",
"rating_overall": 5.0,
"rating_quality": 5.0,
"rating_schedule": 4.5,
"review_text": "They delivered the data pipeline exactly as specified."
# review_idagency_idclient_nameclient_companyproject_typeproject_cost
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Complete list of extractable fields for Service Lines objects from clutch.co. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

agency_idservice_categoryservice_namepercentagefocus_areasframeworksplatformslanguages
service_lines
● 200 OK
"agency_id": "1049281",
"service_category": "Development",
"service_name": "Web Scraping",
"percentage": 80,
"focus_areas": "['Data Engineering', 'ETL']",
"languages": "['Python', 'SQL']"
# agency_idservice_categoryservice_namepercentagefocus_areasframeworks
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Complete list of extractable fields for Leaders Matrix objects from clutch.co. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

matrix_idcategoryyearagency_idrankquadrantability_to_deliver_scorefocus_score
leaders_matrix
● 200 OK
"category": "Top B2B Service Providers",
"year": 2025,
"agency_id": "1049281",
"rank": 14,
"quadrant": "Market Leaders",
"ability_to_deliver_score": 38.5,
"focus_score": 41.2
# matrix_idcategoryyearagency_idrankquadrant
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Complete list of extractable fields for Portfolio Items objects from clutch.co. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

portfolio_idagency_idclient_nameproject_titleproject_descriptionindustrytechnologies_usedimage_urls
portfolio_items
● 200 OK
"portfolio_id": "port_4412",
"agency_id": "1049281",
"client_name": "Acme Corp",
"project_title": "Global Price Intelligence",
"industry": "Retail",
"technologies_used": "['Scrapy', 'PostgreSQL']"
# portfolio_idagency_idclient_nameproject_titleproject_descriptionindustry
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Capabilities

Everything you need from Clutch.co, nothing you don't

Our Clutch.co scraper handles every layer of the directory. We parse agency profiles, verified reviews, and service lines while managing Cloudflare protection and session limits.

Full Agency Metadata

Extract company size, minimum project value, average hourly rates, foundation year, and global office locations.

Granular Review Parsing

Capture overall ratings alongside specific subscores for quality, schedule, cost, and willingness to refer.

Service Focus Breakdown

Map exact percentage allocations across service lines, frameworks, and programming languages for every agency.

Leaders Matrix Tracking

Monitor quadrant positions and specific ability to deliver scores across hundreds of specific industry categories.

Portfolio & Client Extraction

Collect historical project descriptions, client names, and technology stacks from agency portfolio pages.

Cloudflare Bypass

Navigate aggressive bot protection and Turnstile challenges using residential IPs and realistic browser fingerprints.

Location Based Filtering

Target agencies by specific city, state, or country directories to build hyper local competitive intelligence.

Incremental Updates

Track new reviews and rating changes without scraping the entire directory from scratch every single run.

Website URL Resolution

Capture direct outbound links to agency websites for downstream lead generation and enrichment workflows.

// engagement pipeline

From agency list to warehouse record

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide target categories, locations, or specific agency URLs. We design the extraction schema together.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

We configure Scrapy crawlers, proxy rotation, and Cloudflare handling specifically for clutch.co.

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Schema validation, null rate checks, and sample review parsing before full launch.

Delivery
ongoing

JSON, CSV, or Parquet pushed to your S3 bucket or BigQuery dataset on agreed cadence.

Under the hood

How our Clutch.co pipeline handles the hard parts

Clutch.co protects its directory with aggressive rate limiting and Cloudflare Turnstile. Here is how we maintain steady extraction.

pipeline-monitor · clutch.co · live ● active
// fingerprinting
Identity rotation
TLS fingerprintrandomised
User-agentrotated
IP poolresidential
Challenges blocked0
// pagination
Page coverage
48,291 pages queued running
// observability
Pipeline health
99.9%
uptime
142ms
p99 lat
0.3%
null rate
2
alerts
Antibot layer
Cloudflare Turnstile resolution

Clutch.co uses Cloudflare heavily. Our crawlers use residential ISP proxies with realistic browser fingerprints and automated Turnstile solvers to maintain steady access without blocks.

Data structure
Complex nested review DOM

Reviews on Clutch contain multiple nested subscores and conditional fields based on project type. We maintain strict XPath and CSS selector chains to normalise this unstructured HTML into clean JSON.

Rate limiting
Controlled concurrency

Aggressive scraping triggers immediate IP bans. We distribute requests across thousands of residential IPs and enforce strict concurrency limits per subnet to mimic natural browsing behaviour.

Pagination
Deep directory traversal

Category pages often span hundreds of paginated results. Our pipeline state management ensures deep traversal without dropping records or getting stuck in infinite redirect loops.

Change detection
Only scrape new reviews

For ongoing monitoring, we maintain a hash index of existing reviews. Subsequent runs only extract and process new client feedback to reduce compute cost and downstream processing load.

Applications

Who uses Clutch.co data and how

Teams across industries use clutch.co data to build competitive products and smarter operations.

01
Lead Generation for SaaS

Software vendors extract agency profiles to identify partners who specialise in specific technology stacks.

02
Competitor Analysis

Agencies monitor competitor pricing, minimum project sizes, and new client reviews to adjust market positioning.

03
M&A Targeting

Private equity firms screen the directory for highly rated boutique agencies matching specific revenue and headcount criteria.

04
Vendor Sourcing Platforms

Procurement platforms ingest Clutch data to enrich their internal vendor catalogues with verified reputation metrics.

05
Market Research

Analysts track hourly rate trends and service focus shifts across different geographies and industry verticals.

06
Reputation Management

PR firms monitor client reviews across multiple agencies to track sentiment and identify service delivery issues.

Why DataFlirt

"Clutch.co holds the most accurate B2B agency reputation dataset available, but extracting nested review metrics requires dedicated infrastructure."

Most teams underestimate the investment required to scrape Clutch.co reliably. You need residential proxies, Cloudflare bypass mechanisms, and complex DOM parsing for nested service lines. DataFlirt absorbs that complexity so your engineers can focus on analysis.

Technical Spec

Clutch.co scraper technical capabilities

Everything supported by our clutch.co scraper — rendered SPA elements, auth walls, rate-limit evasion and beyond.

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright sessions required for dynamic review loading and charts
Supported
Cloudflare bypass
Automated Turnstile resolution and fingerprint spoofing
Supported
Residential proxy rotation
ISP grade residential IPs rotated per request
Supported
Category pagination
Deep traversal of all subcategories and location pages
Supported
Review subscores
Extraction of quality, schedule, and cost specific ratings
Supported
Service line mapping
Percentage based breakdown of agency focus areas
Supported
Change detection
Hash based diffing to only emit new or updated reviews
Supported
Webhook delivery
HTTP POST per new review for real time alerting
Supported
User account dashboards
Gated data inside the agency administration panel
Partial
Gated internal lead messages
Private direct messages sent through the Clutch platform
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the Clutch.co pipeline

Open-source tooling on proven cloud infra — no vendor lock-in, full observability.

ScrapyPlaywrightPython 3.12RedisPostgreSQLApache AirflowAWS LambdaS3CloudWatch2CaptchaCapSolverResidential ProxiesDockerKubernetesGrafanaPrometheus
Scrapy + Playwright Stack

Scrapy handles crawl orchestration and deduplication. Playwright handles JavaScript rendering and Turnstile challenges. Combined via custom middleware.

Residential Proxy Infrastructure

We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies to avoid Cloudflare blocks. Rotation happens per request with strict concurrency controls.

Cloud Native Orchestration

Pipelines run on AWS. Airflow handles scheduling and dependency management. All state is stored in managed PostgreSQL.

Output & Delivery

Your data, your destination

Data delivered to where your team already works — no new tooling required.

JSON
Newline delimited or nested schema versioned per run
CSV
Flat file with typed columns for direct analysis
XLS
Standard spreadsheet format for business teams
Parquet
Columnar format for BigQuery and Snowflake
AWS S3
Direct bucket delivery compatible with any data lake
Webhook
HTTP POST per record for real time processing
API
REST endpoints to query your extracted dataset
PostgreSQL
Direct database upsert with conflict resolution
S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
// faq

Common questions.

About clutch.co scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.

Ask us directly →
Is scraping Clutch.co legal?

Scraping publicly available directory information is generally permissible under applicable law. DataFlirt targets only public agency profiles and reviews. We do not extract personal data or circumvent authentication walls. Clients should review terms of service and consult legal counsel.

How do you handle Cloudflare protection?

We use residential ISP proxies, full Playwright browser sessions with realistic fingerprints, and automated Turnstile solvers. Our request timing is modelled on human behaviour to avoid triggering aggressive blocks.

Can you extract data from specific geographic locations?

Yes. We can configure the pipeline to target specific city, state, or country directory paths to build highly targeted regional datasets.

Do you capture the detailed review subscores?

Yes. We parse the entire review DOM to extract overall ratings alongside specific scores for quality, schedule, cost, and willingness to refer.

How fresh is the data?

We can configure pipelines to run daily, weekly, or monthly depending on your requirements. Change detection ensures we only process new reviews on subsequent runs.

Can I request a sample dataset before committing?

Yes. We provide a sample run of up to 500 agency profiles as part of the pre engagement scoping process so you can validate schema fit and data quality.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=clutch.co ready

Tell us what
to extract.
We do the rest.

20-minute scoping call. Pilot dataset within the week. Production within two. Whether you need a one time directory export or continuous review monitoring across 100K agencies, we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.

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