Yelp Business Leads — Email & Contact Enrichment

Turn Yelp into a ready-to-contact prospect list, not a listing dump. Search any niche + city (e.g. plumbers in Austin, TX) and get one clean lead per business with everything Yelp shows — name, phone, website, rating, reviews, category, address, hours — plus the part every other Yelp scraper leaves out: a contactable email, social-media handles, and extra phone numbers harvested from the business's own website, with the email run through a deliverability check.

A Yelp listing tells you a business exists. This actor gives you a way to actually reach the owner — so the output drops straight into a cold-email or CRM workflow instead of needing a second enrichment tool.

What makes it different

Other Yelp scrapers stop at the listing: name, phone, maybe a website link. To email those prospects you then need a second tool to visit each site and dig out an address. This actor does both jobs in one run:

1. Yelp listing — the full business profile (phone, website, rating, reviews, hours, category, address).
2. Website enrichment — for every business with a website, it visits the homepage + contact/about page and pulls:
   • Email — the best contactable address, de-obfuscated (handles name [at] domain tricks)
   • Deliverability — MX lookup + best-effort SMTP probe → emailStatus (deliverable / risky / unknown) + a 0–100 score
   • Socials — LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X/Twitter, YouTube, TikTok
   • Extra phones — any numbers on the site beyond the Yelp listing

Plus the reliability the field is short on: Yelp is reached through a managed-access browser that handles the protected target, so it keeps returning leads on days request-based scrapers get blocked.

What you need

Nothing but a search. No Yelp account, no API key, no proxy or email-tool subscription of your own:

• Search terms — e.g. plumbers, HVAC contractors, dentists, med spas
• Location — e.g. Austin, TX, New York, NY, 90210

…or paste direct Yelp business URLs for targeted lookups.

Input

Field	Type	Description
searchTerms	string[]	Keywords: "plumbers", "law firms", "dentists"
location	string	City / state / zip: "Austin, TX", "90210"
businessUrls	string[]	Direct Yelp URLs or business aliases (instead of search)
maxResults	integer	Max per search term (0 = all, up to Yelp's ~240 cap)
enrichContacts	boolean	ON by default — visit each website for email + socials
verifyEmails	boolean	MX + best-effort SMTP deliverability on the best email
includeReviews	boolean	Add up to 3 recent review snippets per business
categories	string	Category alias filter, e.g. "plumbing"
sortBy	string	best_match / rating / review_count / distance

Turn enrichContacts off for a faster, listing-only run (name, phone, rating, category) when you don't need emails.

Output (per business lead)

{
  "business_id": "WavvLdfdP6g8aZTtbBQHTw",
  "name": "Gary's Plumbing & Heating",
  "url": "https://www.yelp.com/biz/gary-s-plumbing-austin",
  "phone": "(512) 444-1234",
  "website": "https://garysplumbingatx.com",
  "address": "1234 Lamar Blvd",
  "city": "Austin",
  "state": "TX",
  "zip": "78703",
  "rating": 4.5,
  "review_count": 247,
  "categories": "Plumbing, Water Heater Installation/Repair",
  "is_closed": false,
  "search_term": "plumbers",
  "hours_open": "Mon: 08:00-18:00; Sat: 09:00-14:00",
  "email": "gary@garysplumbingatx.com",
  "emailStatus": "deliverable",
  "emailScore": 100,
  "emailIsRole": false,
  "mxFound": true,
  "allEmails": ["gary@garysplumbingatx.com", "info@garysplumbingatx.com"],
  "socials": {
    "facebook": "https://facebook.com/garysplumbingatx",
    "instagram": "https://instagram.com/garysplumbingatx"
  },
  "websitePhones": ["+15124441234"],
  "enrichedFrom": ["https://garysplumbingatx.com/contact"],
  "enrichmentStatus": "enriched",
  "scraped_at": "2026-06-15T10:30:00+00:00",
  "parse_confidence": 1.0
}

enrichmentStatus tells you what happened per lead: enriched (contacts found), no_contacts (site had none), fetch_failed (site unreachable), no_website (no site on Yelp), or disabled (enrichment off).

Use cases

• Cold email + outreach — build a list of local businesses with a verified email, ready for your sequencer
• Sales prospecting — phone and email and socials per business, no second enrichment tool
• Agency lead gen — pull targeted local-business lists with contact data to sell or work
• Local market research — compare ratings, review counts and categories across a territory

Pricing

Pay-per-lead: billed per business returned, enrichment included. No subscription, no minimums, and no separate charge for the email step — compute runs on your own Apify account.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need a Yelp API key, a proxy, or an email-finder subscription? No. You supply a search term and location; the actor reaches Yelp, visits each business website, and returns the contact data in one run.

How accurate are the emails? Each business's best email is picked (a personal, on-domain address beats a generic info@) and checked: MX always, plus an SMTP probe where the mail host is reachable. emailStatus + emailScore tell you how confident to be. Some hosts block SMTP probing, in which case the email is still returned with an unknown status and the MX result.

What if a business has no website? You still get the full Yelp listing (name, phone, rating, etc.) with enrichmentStatus: "no_website". You're never charged extra for the enrichment attempt.

Will it keep working when Yelp blocks other scrapers? Yelp is reached through a managed-access browser that handles its protection layer, so it stays reliable on days request-based scrapers return nothing.

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Not affiliated with Yelp Inc. Collects publicly available business information for legitimate lead-generation and research use; respect Yelp's terms and applicable law.

Integrations

The JSON/dataset output drops into the tools you already run, no glue code:

• n8n / Make / Zapier — pipe every new lead into 500+ apps (Google Sheets, Airtable, HubSpot, your CRM): n8n, Make, Zapier.
• Webhooks — fire your endpoint the moment a run finishes (docs).
• MCP server — expose this actor as a tool to Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client so an AI agent can pull leads mid-conversation (guide).
• API & SDKs — fetch the dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel through the Apify REST API or the Python / JS SDKs.

See all Apify integrations.