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Dlook directory data,
at warehouse scale.

We extract business listings, ABNs, operating hours, local reviews, and contact metadata from Dlook. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.

Profiles extracted
1.2M /month
Category updates
42.1K /24h
Review records
18.4K /run
Active pipelines
42
Uptime
99.94%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from dlook.com.au

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

Complete list of extractable fields for Business Profiles objects from dlook.com.au. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

dlook_idbusiness_nameabnacnprimary_categorysub_categoriesdescriptionyear_establishedemployee_countclaimed_statusprofile_urllogo_url
business_profiles
● 200 OK
"dlook_id": "dlk-892144",
"business_name": "Sydney Plumbing Specialists",
"abn": "12 345 678 901",
"primary_category": "Plumbers",
"claimed_status": true,
"year_established": 2008,
"profile_url": "https://www.dlook.com.au/plumbers/sydney-nsw/sydney-plumbing-specialists"
# dlook_idbusiness_nameabnacnprimary_categorysub_categories
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Complete list of extractable fields for Contact Details objects from dlook.com.au. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

business_idphone_primaryphone_mobilefaxemail_addresswebsite_urlfacebook_urllinkedin_urltwitter_urlcontact_personcontact_rolelast_verified
contact_details
● 200 OK
"business_id": "dlk-892144",
"phone_primary": "(02) 9876 5432",
"phone_mobile": "0412 345 678",
"website_url": "https://www.sydneyplumbingspecialists.com.au",
"email_address": "info@sydneyplumbingspecialists.com.au",
"facebook_url": "https://facebook.com/sydplumbing",
"last_verified": "2023-10-14T08:22:00Z"
# business_idphone_primaryphone_mobilefaxemail_addresswebsite_url
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Complete list of extractable fields for Location Data objects from dlook.com.au. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

business_idstreet_addresssuburbstatepostcodelatitudelongitudeservice_areasis_mobile_businessdirections_url
location_data
● 200 OK
"business_id": "dlk-892144",
"street_address": "124 George Street",
"suburb": "Sydney",
"state": "NSW",
"postcode": "2000",
"latitude": -33.8688,
"longitude": 151.2093
# business_idstreet_addresssuburbstatepostcodelatitude
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Complete list of extractable fields for Reviews & Ratings objects from dlook.com.au. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

review_idbusiness_idreviewer_nameratingreview_titlereview_textreview_dateresponse_textresponse_datehelpful_count
reviews_& ratings
● 200 OK
"review_id": "rev-44921",
"business_id": "dlk-892144",
"reviewer_name": "John D.",
"rating": 5.0,
"review_title": "Fast and reliable",
"review_text": "Arrived within an hour of calling. Fixed the leak quickly.",
"review_date": "2023-09-12"
# review_idbusiness_idreviewer_nameratingreview_titlereview_text
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Complete list of extractable fields for Operating Hours objects from dlook.com.au. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

business_idmonday_openmonday_closetuesday_opentuesday_closewednesday_openwednesday_closethursday_openthursday_closefriday_openfriday_closeweekend_hourspublic_holidays
operating_hours
● 200 OK
"business_id": "dlk-892144",
"monday_open": "07:00",
"monday_close": "17:00",
"weekend_hours": "Closed",
"public_holidays": "By appointment only",
"thursday_open": "07:00",
"thursday_close": "17:00"
# business_idmonday_openmonday_closetuesday_opentuesday_closewednesday_open
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Capabilities

Extract Australian business intelligence at scale

Our Dlook scraper navigates state and suburb taxonomies, bypasses rate limits, and structures raw directory HTML into clean, queryable datasets for B2B lead generation and market analysis.

Complete Profile Extraction

Capture business name, ABN, ACN, descriptions, and operational metadata directly from listing pages.

Contact Data Mining

Extract phone numbers, mobile contacts, email addresses, and external website URLs for direct outreach.

Geospatial & Address Parsing

Normalised extraction of street, suburb, state, and postcode fields, alongside embedded latitude/longitude coordinates.

Review Aggregation

Scrape customer feedback, star ratings, and owner responses to gauge local business reputation.

Category Traversal

Systematically crawl Dlook's category trees and state/suburb directories to ensure 100% coverage of target verticals.

Operating Hours Structuring

Convert unstructured text-based opening hours into strict, machine-readable daily timeframes.

Social Profile Resolution

Identify and extract linked Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn profiles associated with the business.

ABN Validation Checks

Cross-reference extracted ABNs against standard regex patterns to ensure data hygiene before delivery.

Delta Updates

Run incremental crawls to detect new businesses, closed locations, or updated contact details since the last run.

// engagement pipeline

From category URL to warehouse record

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide target categories (e.g., Plumbers), states, or specific Dlook URLs. We design the extraction schema.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

We configure Scrapy crawlers, proxy rotation for AU IPs, and pagination logic to traverse the directory.

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Schema validation, null-rate checks on phone numbers, and location normalisation before full launch.

Delivery
ongoing

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

Under the hood

Overcoming directory extraction challenges

Business directories employ rate limiting and structural inconsistencies. Here is how our infrastructure handles Dlook.

pipeline-monitor · dlook.com.au · 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
Pagination logic
Deep category traversal

Dlook paginates heavily across state and suburb intersections. Our crawlers map the entire taxonomy tree, ensuring no listings are orphaned or missed during deep pagination runs.

Anti-bot layer
AU residential proxies

To prevent IP bans and rate limiting, we route requests through Australian residential proxies, mimicking local user traffic and adhering to safe concurrency limits.

Data normalisation
Address and phone standardisation

Directory inputs are notoriously messy. We apply post-processing to standardise AU phone formats (e.g., stripping spaces) and separate addresses into strict street/suburb/state/postcode fields.

DOM variations
Handling claimed vs unclaimed listings

Claimed profiles feature different DOM structures than free listings. Our selector chains account for both templates, ensuring consistent data extraction regardless of the listing tier.

Change detection
Efficient delta updates

For ongoing monitoring, we hash business records. Subsequent crawls only deliver new listings or businesses that have updated their contact details or hours.

Applications

Who uses Dlook data — and how

Teams across industries use dlook.com.au data to build competitive products and smarter operations.

01
B2B Lead Generation

Sales teams extract target verticals by state and suburb to build highly segmented outreach lists for outbound campaigns.

02
Local SEO & Citation Auditing

Agencies monitor Dlook listings to ensure NAP (Name, Address, Phone) consistency across the web for their clients.

03
Market Research

Analysts map business density by category and postcode to identify underserved regions or saturated markets in Australia.

04
Competitor Analysis

Franchises monitor local competitors' reviews, ratings, and operating hours to benchmark performance.

05
Data Enrichment

CRM administrators enrich existing incomplete leads with ABNs, verified phone numbers, and social media links.

06
GIS & Mapping

Logistics and mapping platforms ingest latitude/longitude coordinates to plot commercial nodes across Australian suburbs.

Why DataFlirt

"Dlook contains a wealth of Australian SME data, but extracting it accurately requires navigating complex taxonomy trees and standardising messy user-generated inputs."

Scraping business directories seems trivial until you hit rate limits, inconsistent address formats, and deep pagination loops. DataFlirt manages the proxy rotation, DOM parsing, and data normalisation, delivering clean, structured AU business records directly to your warehouse.

Technical Spec

Dlook scraper — technical capabilities

Everything supported by our dlook.com.au scraper — rendered SPA elements, auth walls, rate-limit evasion and beyond.

Category taxonomy traversal
Automated mapping of industry > state > suburb hierarchies
Supported
Address normalisation
Post-processing to split strings into street, suburb, state, and postcode
Supported
Phone formatting
Standardisation of AU landline and mobile number formats
Supported
Review pagination
Extraction of all historical reviews on a business profile
Supported
Delta updates
Hash-based change detection for incremental data delivery
Supported
Geo-coordinate extraction
Parsing embedded map data for latitude and longitude
Supported
User account dashboards
Access to business owner analytics and private metrics
Partial
Private messaging to businesses
Automated submission of lead forms or direct messages
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the Dlook 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 deep taxonomy traversal. Playwright manages JavaScript execution for dynamically loaded contact details or map widgets.

AU Proxy Infrastructure

We utilise Australian residential proxies to mimic local traffic, avoiding geo-blocks and aggressive rate limiting common on regional directories.

Cloud-Native Orchestration

Pipelines run on AWS ECS. Airflow manages scheduling and retry logic. Data normalisation occurs in-flight before delivery to your warehouse.

Output & Delivery

Your data, your destination

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

JSON
Nested structures for business profiles and associated reviews
CSV
Flat file with typed columns for direct CRM import
XLS
Excel format for manual sales team distribution
Parquet
Columnar format for BigQuery, Snowflake, Athena
AWS S3
Direct bucket delivery on a scheduled cadence
Webhook
HTTP POST per new business listing discovered
API
REST endpoint to query your extracted dataset
Postgres
Direct database upsert with conflict resolution
S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
// faq

Common questions.

About dlook.com.au scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.

Ask us directly →
Is scraping Dlook legal?

Scraping publicly available business listings is generally permissible. However, users must comply with the Australian Privacy Principles (APP) and the Spam Act 2003 when utilising extracted email addresses or phone numbers for marketing. DataFlirt extracts only public data; we do not provide legal advice on your downstream usage.

Can you extract email addresses?

Yes, where email addresses are publicly visible on the Dlook business profile or embedded in mailto links, our scraper will extract them.

How do you handle incomplete business profiles?

Our schema accepts null values for fields that a business has not provided (e.g., missing fax numbers or operating hours). We implement null-rate monitoring to ensure structural changes haven't broken the selectors.

Can I target specific industries or states?

Yes. We can scope the pipeline to crawl only specific category URLs (e.g., Electricians) or restrict the extraction to specific states like NSW or VIC.

How often can the data be refreshed?

For directory data, we typically recommend weekly or monthly refresh cycles to capture new listings and contact updates without incurring unnecessary compute costs.

Do you normalise the location data?

Yes. We parse the raw address strings into structured street, suburb, state, and postcode fields to ensure compatibility with standard CRM and GIS systems.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=dlook.com.au 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-off export of a specific industry or a continuous feed of new Australian business listings — we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.

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