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RUN - 41 active pipelines - expertise.com live

Expertise.com data,
at warehouse scale.

We extract professional listings, contact information, selection criteria scores, and service areas from Expertise.com. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.

Professionals extracted
342K /month
Cities covered
4,812 /run
Criteria scores
2.1M /month
Active pipelines
41
Uptime
99.98%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from expertise.com

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

Complete list of extractable fields for Professional Listings objects from expertise.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

business_idbusiness_namecategorycitystateexpertise_badge_yearprimary_phonewebsite_urloverall_ratingreview_countdescriptionprofile_url
professional_listings
● 200 OK
"business_id": "exp-law-chi-8492",
"business_name": "Smith & Associates Legal",
"category": "Personal Injury Lawyers",
"city": "Chicago",
"state": "IL",
"expertise_badge_year": "2025",
"primary_phone": "312-555-0198",
"overall_rating": 4.9
# business_idbusiness_namecategorycitystateexpertise_badge_year
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Complete list of extractable fields for Selection Criteria objects from expertise.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

business_idreputation_scorecredibility_scoreexperience_scoreavailability_scoreprofessionalism_scoretotal_scorevariables_analysedcuration_status
selection_criteria
● 200 OK
"business_id": "exp-law-chi-8492",
"reputation_score": 98,
"credibility_score": 100,
"experience_score": 95,
"availability_score": 90,
"professionalism_score": 96,
"total_score": 96.4,
"variables_analysed": 25
# business_idreputation_scorecredibility_scoreexperience_scoreavailability_scoreprofessionalism_score
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Complete list of extractable fields for Contact & Location objects from expertise.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

business_idstreet_addresssuite_numbercitystatezip_codelatitudelongitudegoogle_maps_urlemail_addresssocial_links
contact_& location
● 200 OK
"business_id": "exp-law-chi-8492",
"street_address": "120 N LaSalle St",
"suite_number": "Suite 1400",
"city": "Chicago",
"state": "IL",
"zip_code": "60602",
"latitude": 41.8832,
"longitude": -87.6324
# business_idstreet_addresssuite_numbercitystatezip_code
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Complete list of extractable fields for Service Offerings objects from expertise.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

business_idprimary_categorysub_servicesservice_area_radiusoperating_hoursemergency_service_availablelicensed_statusinsured_statuslanguages_spoken
service_offerings
● 200 OK
"business_id": "exp-law-chi-8492",
"primary_category": "Personal Injury",
"sub_services": "['Car Accidents', 'Medical Malpractice', 'Workers Compensation']",
"operating_hours": "Mon-Fri 09:00-17:00",
"emergency_service_available": true,
"licensed_status": "Verified",
"languages_spoken": "['English', 'Spanish']"
# business_idprimary_categorysub_servicesservice_area_radiusoperating_hoursemergency_service_available
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Complete list of extractable fields for Review Summaries objects from expertise.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

business_idsource_platformaverage_ratingtotal_reviewsfive_star_countone_star_countsentiment_summaryplatform_urlscrape_timestamp
review_summaries
● 200 OK
"business_id": "exp-law-chi-8492",
"source_platform": "Google Business Profile",
"average_rating": 4.9,
"total_reviews": 342,
"five_star_count": 315,
"one_star_count": 4,
"scrape_timestamp": "2026-03-14T10:22:00Z"
# business_idsource_platformaverage_ratingtotal_reviewsfive_star_countone_star_count
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Capabilities

Extract local business intelligence accurately

Our Expertise.com scraper navigates city directories, parses selection criteria, and normalises contact details across thousands of local professional categories with anti-bot circumvention built in.

Full Business Profiles

Extract business names, addresses, phone numbers, website URLs, and operational hours across all service categories and US cities.

Selection Criteria Scores

Capture the proprietary 25-variable scoring system including reputation, credibility, experience, and professionalism metrics.

Location Normalisation

Clean and structure address data into distinct street, city, state, and zip code fields for easy geographic querying.

Review Aggregation Data

Extract review counts and average ratings across external platforms as summarised on the Expertise.com profile.

Category & Service Mapping

Map primary business categories to specific sub-services and specialties listed on the professional profile.

Award & Badge Tracking

Identify consecutive years a business has won the Expertise.com top professional badge in their local market.

Multi-City Directory Scraping

Traverse the entire directory structure across 4,000+ US cities to build a comprehensive national database.

Change Detection

Monitor directories for new entrants, dropped businesses, or changes in contact information with hash-based diffing.

High-Volume Execution

Process thousands of category-city combinations concurrently using our distributed scraping infrastructure.

// engagement pipeline

From city list to warehouse record

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide target categories, US states, or specific city lists. We design the extraction schema together.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

We configure Scrapy crawlers, proxy rotation, session management, and parsing logic for expertise.com.

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Schema validation, null-rate checks, and location data normalisation before full launch.

Delivery
ongoing

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

Under the hood

How our Expertise.com pipeline handles the hard parts

Directory scraping at scale requires strict data normalisation and resilient traversal logic. Here is how we maintain data quality.

pipeline-monitor · expertise.com · 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
Anti-bot layer
Residential proxy rotation

Directory sites monitor request velocity heavily. Our crawlers use US-based residential ISP proxies with realistic browser fingerprints and randomised request timing to prevent IP bans and CAPTCHA walls.

Data normalisation
Strict address and phone formatting

Local business data is notoriously messy. We run post-extraction normalisation pipelines to ensure phone numbers follow E.164 format and addresses are split into queryable components.

Directory traversal
Handling deep pagination and categories

Expertise.com features thousands of city-category combinations. Our spiders map the entire site hierarchy to ensure 100% coverage without missing deep paginated results.

Schema stability
Resilient selectors with fallback chains

Directory layouts change frequently. Our selector strategy uses multiple fallback chains per field so a minor CSS class update does not break your data pipeline overnight.

Monitoring & alerting
24/7 pipeline health

Every run emits structured logs to our observability stack. We alert on null-rate spikes, missing contact fields, and coverage drops to maintain data integrity.

Applications

Who uses Expertise.com data

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

01
B2B Lead Generation

Sales teams extract high-quality, pre-vetted local business contacts to build targeted outbound campaigns.

02
Local SEO Analysis

Agencies monitor top-ranked businesses across cities to understand directory presence and reputation metrics.

03
Market Research

Analysts track the density of specific service providers across US metros to identify underserved markets.

04
Competitor Tracking

Local businesses monitor category rankings and criteria scores to benchmark against top performers in their city.

05
Vendor Sourcing

Procurement teams use the database to find highly rated contractors, legal counsel, and service providers nationally.

06
Insurance & Risk Assessment

Underwriters verify professional credentials, license status, and public reputation scores for liability policies.

Why DataFlirt

"Expertise.com curates the top local professionals in the US - providing a pre-filtered dataset of high-value B2B contacts that standard maps scrapers cannot match."

Extracting directory data at scale requires more than simple HTTP requests. It demands rigorous normalisation of contact details, reliable traversal of deep category hierarchies, and residential proxies to avoid rate limits. DataFlirt manages this infrastructure so you receive clean, structured business records ready for immediate use.

Technical Spec

Expertise.com scraper - technical capabilities

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

JavaScript rendering
Playwright sessions for dynamic content and hidden contact details
Supported
CAPTCHA bypass
Automated CapSolver integration for directory rate limits
Supported
Residential proxy rotation
US-based ISP residential proxies rotated per request
Supported
Address normalisation
Post-processing to split and format street, city, state, zip
Supported
Phone number formatting
E.164 standardisation applied to all extracted numbers
Supported
Change detection (diffs)
Hash-based diff to only emit records with changed fields
Supported
Category mapping
Hierarchical extraction of primary categories and sub-services
Supported
Webhook delivery
HTTP POST per record or batch for downstream ingestion
Supported
Claimed business private dashboard data
Internal analytics and lead data requiring business owner authentication
Partial
Direct messaging to professionals
Automated submission of contact forms via the Expertise platform
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the directory 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, deduplication, and retry logic. Playwright handles JavaScript rendering and interaction flows for complex directory pages.

US Proxy Infrastructure

We maintain pools of US residential ISP proxies. Rotation happens per-request to prevent directory rate-limiting and ensure continuous extraction.

Cloud-Native Orchestration

Pipelines run on AWS Lambda and ECS. Airflow handles scheduling and dependency management. All state stored in managed Postgres.

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 - Excel/Sheets compatible
XLS
Legacy spreadsheet format for direct business user consumption
Parquet
Columnar format for BigQuery, Snowflake, Athena
AWS S3
Direct bucket delivery - compatible with any data lake
Webhook
HTTP POST per record for real-time downstream processing
API
REST endpoints to query your extracted directory datasets
PostgreSQL
Upsert into your existing schema with conflict resolution
S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
// faq

Common questions.

About expertise.com scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.

Ask us directly →
Is scraping Expertise.com legal?

Scraping publicly available directory information is generally permissible under applicable law. DataFlirt targets only public, non-authenticated business profiles, contact details, and criteria scores. We do not extract personal consumer data or circumvent authentication walls.

How do you handle rate limits and IP blocking?

We use US-based residential ISP proxies and realistic request timing modelled on human behaviour. We monitor for HTTP 429/503 errors in real time and trigger pool rotation automatically.

Can you extract data for specific cities or categories only?

Yes. We configure the pipeline scope based on your requirements. You can provide a list of specific US cities, states, or professional categories to target.

Do you normalise the contact data?

Yes. Phone numbers are formatted to standard E.164, and addresses are split into street, city, state, and zip code fields for immediate database ingestion.

How fresh is the directory data?

Full catalogue refreshes at weekly or monthly cadences complete within a specified window depending on the target volume. Delta exports ensure you only receive updated records.

What is the minimum viable engagement?

Our smallest packages start at a defined category list with monthly delivery. For nationwide catalogue extraction, we price based on volume and delivery frequency.

Can I request a sample dataset before committing?

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

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=expertise.com 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 specific local category export or a continuous nationwide directory feed - we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.

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