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Local business data,
at warehouse scale.

We extract business names, addresses, phone numbers, categories, operating hours, and reviews from Yellowpages. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.

Businesses extracted
1.2M /day
Contact updates
3.4M /24h
Review records
412K /run
Active pipelines
114
Uptime
99.94%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from yellowpages.com

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 yellowpages.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

yp_idbusiness_namestreet_addresscitystatezip_codephone_numberwebsite_urlprimary_categoryyears_in_businessratingreview_countclaimed_statusprofile_url
business_profiles
● 200 OK
"yp_id": "45918231",
"business_name": "Apex Plumbing Services",
"street_address": "123 Main St",
"city": "Austin",
"state": "TX",
"zip_code": "78701",
"phone_number": "(512) 555-0198",
"primary_category": "Plumbers",
"rating": 4.5,
"review_count": 42
# yp_idbusiness_namestreet_addresscitystatezip_code
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Complete list of extractable fields for Operating Hours objects from yellowpages.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

yp_idmonday_hourstuesday_hourswednesday_hoursthursday_hoursfriday_hourssaturday_hourssunday_hoursholiday_exceptionsis_24_hours
operating_hours
● 200 OK
"yp_id": "45918231",
"monday_hours": "08:00 AM - 05:00 PM",
"tuesday_hours": "08:00 AM - 05:00 PM",
"friday_hours": "08:00 AM - 05:00 PM",
"saturday_hours": "Closed",
"sunday_hours": "Closed",
"is_24_hours": false
# yp_idmonday_hourstuesday_hourswednesday_hoursthursday_hoursfriday_hours
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Complete list of extractable fields for Reviews & Ratings objects from yellowpages.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

review_idyp_idauthor_namereview_datestar_ratingreview_titlereview_bodysourcehelpful_votesbusiness_response
reviews_& ratings
● 200 OK
"review_id": "rev_8912347",
"yp_id": "45918231",
"author_name": "John D.",
"star_rating": 5,
"review_date": "2026-03-12",
"review_body": "Fixed our leak in under an hour. Highly recommended.",
"source": "yellowpages"
# review_idyp_idauthor_namereview_datestar_ratingreview_title
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Complete list of extractable fields for SERP & Rankings objects from yellowpages.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

search_termsearch_locationrank_positionyp_idbusiness_nameis_sponsoredad_copyphone_numberdistance_milesscraped_at
serp_& rankings
● 200 OK
"search_term": "plumber",
"search_location": "Austin, TX",
"rank_position": 3,
"yp_id": "45918231",
"is_sponsored": false,
"distance_miles": 2.4,
"scraped_at": "2026-05-12T10:15:00Z"
# search_termsearch_locationrank_positionyp_idbusiness_nameis_sponsored
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Complete list of extractable fields for Services & Metadata objects from yellowpages.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

yp_idgeneral_infopayment_methodsneighborhoodsaka_namessocial_linksemail_addressesbrands_carriedlanguages_spokenbbb_rating
services_& metadata
● 200 OK
"yp_id": "45918231",
"payment_methods": "['Visa', 'MasterCard', 'Amex', 'Cash']",
"neighborhoods": "['Downtown', 'East Austin']",
"social_links": "['facebook.com/apexplumbing']",
"languages_spoken": "['English', 'Spanish']",
"bbb_rating": "A+"
# yp_idgeneral_infopayment_methodsneighborhoodsaka_namessocial_links
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Capabilities

Everything you need from Yellowpages

Our Yellowpages scraper handles location spoofing, pagination, and data normalisation to deliver clean local business records without the typical directory scraping headaches.

Full NAP Extraction

Extract accurate Name, Address, and Phone number records for millions of local businesses across all US zip codes.

Category Taxonomy Mapping

Capture primary and secondary categories to map businesses accurately into your internal industry classifications.

Review & Rating Mining

Extract star ratings, review counts, and full text reviews to gauge local business reputation and sentiment.

SERP Tracking

Monitor organic vs sponsored rank positions for specific service keywords across targeted local markets.

Operating Hours Parsing

Extract and standardise complex operating hours, including weekend availability and 24-hour service flags.

Sponsored Listing Detection

Identify businesses paying for premium placement to build targeted lists of high-intent B2B prospects.

Pagination & Deep Crawling

Traverse thousands of search result pages reliably without missing records or getting trapped in infinite loops.

Geospatial Targeting

Crawl directory results by specific city, state, or zip code parameters to build hyper-local datasets.

Scheduled Updates

Run one-off bulk exports or configure continuous pipelines at weekly or monthly cadences to track new business listings.

// engagement pipeline

From search queries to warehouse records

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide target categories, keywords, or zip codes. We design the extraction schema together.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

We configure Scrapy crawlers, proxy rotation, and location headers for yellowpages.com.

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Schema validation, null-rate checks, and address formatting normalisation before full launch.

Delivery
ongoing

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

Under the hood

How our Yellowpages pipeline handles the hard parts

Directory scraping looks easy until you try to scale it. Here is how we maintain high yield and clean data.

pipeline-monitor · yellowpages.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

Yellowpages employs rate limiting and IP blocking for high-volume requests. Our crawlers route traffic through US-based residential ISP proxies to distribute load and maintain uninterrupted access.

Data normalisation
Standardised address and phone formatting

Directory data is notoriously messy. We parse raw HTML text into clean, structured fields, splitting full addresses into street, city, state, and zip components, and stripping special characters from phone numbers.

Pagination traps
Intelligent crawl traversal

Deep search results often contain duplicate listings or loop infinitely. Our spiders maintain stateful crawl frontiers and deduplicate records by unique YP identifiers to ensure precise coverage.

Change detection
Only re-scrape what changes

For ongoing monitoring, we maintain a hash index of last-seen values per business. Subsequent runs only push diffs, saving you compute cost and downstream processing load.

Monitoring & alerting
24/7 pipeline health

Every run emits structured logs to our observability stack. We alert on null-rate spikes or layout changes and repair selectors before you notice missing data.

Applications

Who uses Yellowpages data

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

01
B2B Lead Generation

Sales teams build targeted outreach lists of local businesses filtered by category, location, and years in business.

02
Local SEO Monitoring

Agencies track client rankings against competitors for specific local service keywords across multiple zip codes.

03
Market Mapping

Enterprise strategy teams analyse business density and category saturation to inform expansion and franchise planning.

04
Competitor Analysis

Service businesses monitor competitor pricing signals, promotional offers, and review sentiment in local markets.

05
Data Enrichment

CRM administrators append accurate phone numbers, addresses, and operating hours to incomplete existing database records.

06
Telemarketing & Outreach

Call centres ingest fresh, verified phone number lists mapped to specific verticals for outbound campaigns.

Why DataFlirt

"Yellowpages remains the most structured directory of local business NAP data on the internet, but capturing it across thousands of zip codes requires serious infrastructure."

Most teams underestimate the investment required: reliable Yellowpages scraping requires rotating residential proxies, aggressive pagination handling, rate limit circumvention, and constant schema normalisation. DataFlirt absorbs that complexity so your engineers can focus on the analysis, not the infrastructure.

Technical Spec

Yellowpages scraper technical capabilities

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

Pagination handling
Traverses all search result pages reliably
Supported
Residential proxy rotation
US-based ISP IPs rotated per request to avoid rate limits
Supported
Category taxonomy mapping
Extracts primary and secondary business categories
Supported
Review extraction
Captures star ratings, dates, and full review text
Supported
Sponsored ad detection
Distinguishes organic listings from paid placements
Supported
Change detection (diffs)
Hash-based diff to only emit changed records
Supported
Webhook delivery
HTTP POST per record or batch
Supported
User account passwords
Extraction of private user billing or profile data
Partial
Direct business messaging
Automated form submissions to contact businesses
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the Yellowpages 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 any required JavaScript rendering and interaction flows.

Residential Proxy Infrastructure

We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies. Rotation happens per-request to bypass directory rate limits and IP bans.

Cloud-Native Orchestration

Pipelines run on AWS Lambda and ECS. Airflow handles scheduling, dependency management, and SLA alerting.

Output & Delivery

Your data, your destination

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

JSON
Newline-delimited or nested array
CSV
Flat file with typed columns
XLS
Excel format for business users
Parquet
Columnar format for data warehouses
AWS S3
Direct bucket delivery
Webhook
HTTP POST per record
API
REST endpoints to query your dataset
PostgreSQL
Direct database upserts
S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
// faq

Common questions.

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

Ask us directly →
Is scraping Yellowpages legal?

Scraping publicly available business information from directories is generally permissible under applicable law. DataFlirt targets only public, non-authenticated NAP data and reviews. We do not extract personal data or circumvent authentication walls. Clients should review Yellowpages ToS and consult legal counsel for specific use cases.

How do you handle Yellowpages rate limits?

We use US-based residential ISP proxies and request timing modelled on human behaviour. Our infrastructure automatically rotates IPs when rate limits are detected to maintain pipeline throughput.

Which locations do you support?

We can extract data across all US zip codes and cities supported by the yellowpages.com platform.

How fresh is the data?

We can run pipelines on weekly or monthly cadences to capture new business listings, updated phone numbers, and fresh reviews.

Can you extract emails?

Yes, if the business has published an email address on their public Yellowpages profile, we extract it. However, directory email coverage varies by category.

What is the minimum viable engagement?

Our minimum engagements typically start at a defined list of target categories and zip codes. Contact us with your volume requirements for a scoped quote.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=yellowpages.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 one-off export of plumbers in Texas or a continuous feed of local businesses across the US, we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.

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