Hitta.se Scraper — Swedish Business Directory Data

Scrape business listings from hitta.se, Sweden's largest business and people directory. Search by trade/category keyword and city, and export clean structured business records with names, categories, addresses, postal codes, cities, phone numbers, emails, ratings, and coordinates. No login, no cookies, no API key.

Why use this actor?

hitta.se is the default place Swedes look up a business, a tradesperson, or a phone number — it covers restaurants, craftsmen, shops, clinics, and every other trade searchable by category and place. Every listing carries the data a sales or research team actually needs: what the business does, where it sits, and how to reach it.

Typical uses:

• Lead generation — build prospect lists for a trade and city, ready for a CRM import.
• Local market research — count businesses per category and region, compare cities and counties.
• Data enrichment — match business names to addresses, phone numbers, emails, and coordinates.
• Competitor analysis — list every provider in a category around a location.

The actor reads hitta.se's own search-result data directly (the same structured data the site's frontend renders from), so records are complete and consistent. It only returns contact details that businesses publish openly on the directory.

How to scrape Hitta.se data

1. Open the actor and set a Search Query (kategori + ort) — a category/trade keyword and a city together, in Swedish, such as restaurang stockholm, elektriker göteborg, or frisör malmö. A company name also works.
2. Set Max Results to the number of businesses you want.
3. Keep the residential proxy prefill and click Start.
4. When the run finishes, export the dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel, or pull it from the Apify API.

hitta.se uses a single combined search box for category + location (there is no separate location field on the site itself), so type both together the way you would on hitta.se. The actor pages through the results automatically (25 listings per page) until it reaches your Max Results or runs out of matching businesses.

Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
searchQuery	String	No	Category/trade keyword and city together, in Swedish (e.g. restaurang stockholm, elektriker göteborg). Defaults to restaurang stockholm if empty.
maxResults	Integer	No	Maximum number of businesses to return (default: 50, max: 5000).
proxyConfiguration	Object	No	Proxy settings. Residential proxies recommended for reliable access at scale.

Example input:

{
    "searchQuery": "restaurang stockholm",
    "maxResults": 100,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]
    }
}

Output

One record per business listing:

Field	Type	Description
businessId	String	Internal hitta.se listing ID
businessName	String	Business name as listed on hitta.se
category	String	Primary business category, in Swedish (e.g. Restaurang, Mat & Dryck). Not every listing carries a category tag.
street	String	Street address and number
postalCode	String	Swedish postal code (postnummer)
city	String	City/locality
district	String	City district, when available
county	String	Swedish county (län)
phone	String	Phone number, when publicly listed
email	String	Business email address, when published
website	String	Business's own website. Only shown on hitta.se for paying/promoted listings, so not every business has one.
rating	Number	Average customer rating (0–5), when the business has reviews
reviewCount	Number	Number of customer reviews
latitude	Number	WGS84 latitude of the business address
longitude	Number	WGS84 longitude of the business address
url	String	Full URL of the business detail page on hitta.se
searchQuery	String	The query that returned this business
scrapedAt	String	ISO timestamp of the scrape

Example output (from a real restaurang stockholm run):

{
    "businessId": "hnsbbxyf",
    "businessName": "Knut Restaurang & Bar",
    "category": "Restaurang, Mat & Dryck",
    "street": "Upplandsgatan 17",
    "postalCode": "11360",
    "city": "Stockholm",
    "district": "Stockholms Adolf Fredrik",
    "county": "Stockholms län",
    "phone": "08-30 40 57",
    "email": "knut@restaurangknut.se",
    "website": "https://restaurangknut.se/",
    "rating": 3.8,
    "reviewCount": 5,
    "latitude": 59.338161003148244,
    "longitude": 18.052815217994137,
    "url": "https://www.hitta.se/verksamhet/knut-restaurang-och-bar-hnsbbxyf",
    "searchQuery": "restaurang stockholm",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-08-01T19:40:04.183Z"
}

You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel.

Cost estimate

The actor uses lightweight HTTP requests (no browser). Each request returns 25 businesses. A 100-result run typically finishes in under a minute and uses only a few cents of platform credits plus the per-result fee.

Tips

• Search queries are the same words you would type in hitta.se's own search box — Swedish keywords match best (snickare, not carpenter).
• Combine category and location in one string: bageri uppsala, advokat linköping. A bare category (e.g. restaurang) searches nationwide.
• Website, rating, and category are only present on a subset of listings — hitta.se only surfaces a website link for paying/promoted businesses, and not every business carries a category tag or has reviews yet. Name, address, city, and phone are present on nearly every record.
• Company names work directly as a search query too, if you already know who you're looking for.

Limitations

• The actor reads the business-directory search results; it does not fetch individual detail pages, so fields that only live there (full review text, opening hours tables) are not included.
• hitta.se covers Sweden only.
• Category and rating data reflect what businesses have chosen to publish — free listings often carry no category tag, which is a site characteristic, not a scraping gap.

Legal

This actor only extracts business information that is publicly listed on the hitta.se directory, where businesses publish it precisely to be found and contacted. No login is bypassed and no private data is collected. You are responsible for using the data in compliance with applicable laws (GDPR, competition law) in your jurisdiction.

Related scrapers

• Allabolag Scraper — Swedish company register data (financials, board members) for the same market.
• Das Telefonbuch Scraper — the German equivalent business directory.
• Proff.no Scraper — the Norwegian equivalent business/company directory.
• Hemnet Scraper — Sweden's biggest real-estate listings site, for enriching addresses with property data.

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