# Cheapest Europages Scraper (`serp.cheap.ofc/cheapest-europages-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Europages (the EU B2B company directory, 3M+ companies) at the lowest price per result: company search and full profiles — name, address, phone, VAT id, email, named contacts, homepage, employees, certifications and products. Pay per result, no start fee, no subscription.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/serp.cheap.ofc/cheapest-europages-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [serp.cheap](https://apify.com/serp.cheap.ofc) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Other, Integrations
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.50 / 1,000 company searches

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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Actors are written with capital "A".

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- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
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- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## Cheapest Europages Scraper — EU B2B company search & lead data

### The price you see is the price you pay

Scrape **Europages** — Europe's largest B2B company directory (**3M+ companies**) — at a low, honest
**pay-per-result** price. **No start fee, no subscription, no metered surprises.** Extract
**company search results** and **full company profiles** including postal address, phone, **VAT id**,
email, **named contacts with their own emails and phone numbers**, website, employee count,
founding year, certifications and the company's product portfolio.

Perfect for **B2B lead generation, sales prospecting, supplier sourcing and market research** — the
data Europages exposes per company is unusually rich for a public directory.

### What you can scrape

| Mode | What you get |
|------|--------------|
| 🔍 `search` | Company cards for any industry/product term: name, address (street, city, zip, country), phone, homepage, employee count, founding year, distribution area, supplier types, product count, logo and a profile URL. 30 companies per page, multiple pages. |
| 🏢 `company` | Full profile for specific companies: everything above **plus VAT id, company email, named contact people (first/last name, role, email, phone), certifications, main business area, latitude/longitude and the product portfolio**. |
| 🩺 `selftest` | Validates both endpoints above, free. Schedule it as a health check. |

### Why this one

- 💰 **Pure pay-per-result** — a flat price per company with **no start fee** and **no
  subscription**. We absorb the Apify compute/proxy cost instead of billing it on top, so the
  per-result price **is** the whole bill.
- 🧠 **Clean, typed data** — fields come back structured and consistent (no guessing at CSS
  selectors that break weekly).
- 🧾 **Real lead data** — profiles carry VAT ids, direct emails and **named contacts with their own
  phone/email**, exactly what sales and sourcing teams need.
- 🧱 **No login, no cookies** — only public pages. The default Apify proxy works — no residential
  proxy needed.
- 🩺 **Self-monitoring** — every run validates both endpoints' output shape, so breakages are caught
  and fixed fast.

### Example input

Search companies for an industry/product term:

```json
{
    "mode": "search",
    "query": "cnc machining",
    "searchPages": 2,
    "maxItems": 60
}
```

Full profiles for specific companies (profile URLs or bare slugs — the URLs returned by `search`
work directly):

```json
{
    "mode": "company",
    "companyUrls": [
        "https://www.europages.co.uk/en/company/center-shqiptare-italia-22327426"
    ]
}
```

### Output

Results are written to the default dataset, one record per company. The `search` view and `company`
view (see the run's **Output** tab) each show the most useful columns; the raw JSON below is the
full record.

#### `search` — one record per company card

```json
{
    "query": "cnc machining",
    "companyId": 22340418,
    "name": "TECHNILUB",
    "slug": "technilub-22340418",
    "url": "https://www.europages.co.uk/en/company/technilub-22340418",
    "phone": "+33557260110",
    "homepage": "https://www.technilub.fr",
    "street": "…",
    "city": "MERIGNAC",
    "zipcode": "33700",
    "countryCode": "FR",
    "latitude": 44.83,
    "longitude": -0.65,
    "foundingYear": 1985,
    "employeeCount": "10-49",
    "distributionArea": "world",
    "supplierTypes": ["distributor"],
    "productCount": 350,
    "logoUrl": "https://…/logo.jpeg",
    "images": ["https://…", "…"]
}
```

| Field | Type | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| `companyId` | number | Europages company id |
| `name` | string | Company name |
| `slug` / `url` | string | Profile slug and full URL — usable directly as `company`-mode input |
| `phone` / `email` | string | Direct phone / email (email often on the profile) |
| `homepage` | string | Company website |
| `street` / `city` / `zipcode` / `countryCode` | string | Postal address |
| `latitude` / `longitude` | number | Geocoded location |
| `foundingYear` | number | Year founded |
| `employeeCount` | string | Size band, e.g. `10-49` |
| `distributionArea` | string | `local` / `europe` / `world` |
| `supplierTypes` | array | e.g. `production`, `distributor`, `wholesaler` |
| `productCount` | number | Products the company lists on Europages |
| `logoUrl` / `images` | string / array | Logo and gallery image URLs |
| `query` | string | Echoes the search term |

#### `company` — full profile per company

```json
{
    "companyId": 22327426,
    "name": "Center Shqiptare Italia",
    "url": "https://www.europages.co.uk/en/company/center-shqiptare-italia-22327426",
    "description": "We are a handcrafted company specializing in custom packaging…",
    "email": "info@centershqiptare.com",
    "phone": "+390683394947",
    "vatId": "IT11012111008",
    "homepage": "https://shop.dvmcentershqiptare.com/home.html",
    "contacts": [
        { "firstName": "Edina", "lastName": "Daja", "role": "custom", "email": "eda@centershqiptare.com", "phone": "+35532230015" }
    ],
    "street": "VIA TOPINO 35",
    "city": "Roma",
    "zipcode": "00199",
    "countryCode": "IT",
    "foundingYear": 2004,
    "employeeCount": "5-9",
    "mainBusinessArea": "Packaging material",
    "supplierTypes": ["production", "customer_specific_manufacturing"],
    "certificatesCount": 0,
    "productCount": 16,
    "products": [
        { "id": "36435623", "name": "…", "url": "https://www.europages.co.uk/en/products/…", "image": "https://…" }
    ]
}
```

| Field | Type | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| `companyId` / `name` / `url` | | Identity |
| `description` | string | Full company description |
| `email` / `phone` / `fax` | string | Company contact details |
| `vatId` | string | VAT / tax id where published |
| `homepage` | string | Company website |
| `contacts` | array | **Named people** — `{ firstName, lastName, title, role, email, phone }` |
| `street` / `city` / `zipcode` / `countryCode` | string | Postal address |
| `latitude` / `longitude` | number | Geocoded location |
| `foundingYear` / `employeeCount` | | Firmographics |
| `mainBusinessArea` | string | Primary Europages category |
| `supplierTypes` | array | Manufacturer / distributor / etc. |
| `certificates` / `certificatesCount` | array / number | Certifications |
| `products` | array | Product portfolio — `{ id, name, url, description, image }` |

> Rows that fail (e.g. an invalid URL) are still written, as `{ url, error }`, so a partial batch is
> transparent rather than silently dropped.

### Pricing

Pay per result, no start fee. See [PRICING.md](./PRICING.md) for the full breakdown.

| Event | Price | Per 1,000 |
|-------|-------|-----------|
| `company-search` | $0.0025 | $2.50 |
| `company-detail` | $0.0034 | $3.40 |

**Cheaper than every other Europages scraper on the Apify Store — on both events — with no start
fee.** The category leader charges **$0.013/result**; the actor literally named "(Cheap)" charges
**$0.007**; the next-cheapest full-detail scraper is **$0.0035** flat. A complete contact record
(VAT + email + named contacts, each with their own phone/email) for **$0.0034**, and cheap
**$0.0025** listing scans for high-volume prospecting, both with Apify platform usage absorbed and
**zero start fee** (some competitors charge up to **$0.09** just to start a run).

### Notes

- The proxy is handled automatically — leave **Proxy configuration** empty. The default Apify proxy
  works — no residential proxy required.
- `company` mode needs the **profile URL or slug**; the URLs returned by `search` mode work directly
  as `company` input.
- Data reflects what each company publishes on Europages — some fields (email, VAT, contacts) are
  present only on companies that filled them in.

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

What to scrape: 'search' (company cards for a search term), 'company' (full profiles for specific companies), or 'selftest' (free health check).

## `query` (type: `string`):

For 'search' mode — a product/industry keyword, e.g. 'packaging', 'cnc machining', 'olive oil'.

## `searchPages` (type: `integer`):

For 'search' mode — how many result pages to fetch (30 companies per page).

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

For 'search' mode — stop after this many companies (0 = no cap, fetch every company on the requested pages).

## `companyUrls` (type: `array`):

For 'company' mode — Europages profile URLs (https://www.europages.co.uk/en/company/<slug>) or bare slugs. The URLs returned by 'search' mode work directly here.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Leave empty — the default Apify proxy works, no residential proxy required. Advanced users can override the proxy group.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "search",
  "query": "packaging",
  "searchPages": 1,
  "maxItems": 0,
  "companyUrls": [
    "https://www.europages.co.uk/en/company/center-shqiptare-italia-22327426"
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `search` (type: `string`):

No description

## `company` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "query": "packaging",
    "companyUrls": [
        "https://www.europages.co.uk/en/company/center-shqiptare-italia-22327426"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("serp.cheap.ofc/cheapest-europages-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "query": "packaging",
    "companyUrls": ["https://www.europages.co.uk/en/company/center-shqiptare-italia-22327426"],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("serp.cheap.ofc/cheapest-europages-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "query": "packaging",
  "companyUrls": [
    "https://www.europages.co.uk/en/company/center-shqiptare-italia-22327426"
  ]
}' |
apify call serp.cheap.ofc/cheapest-europages-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=serp.cheap.ofc/cheapest-europages-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/nLKrc9AvhIUE0ij8s/builds/tYdLpSzJtpWXSAa76/openapi.json