Back to projects

№ 033Sales & marketingScript

Local Business Research Scraper

A checkpointed scraper that builds lists of local-service businesses by trade and region.

Python scraping work for collecting local-business listings and organizing them into research exports. Includes checkpointed collection and regional lookup support.

  • Python
  • Web scraping
  • CSV
  • Data collection
The export: name, rating, reviews, years, contact, address. Sample rows.
The export: name, rating, reviews, years, contact, address. Sample rows.

The problem

A market-research list of one trade across many cities is days of copy and paste.

Who it is for

Outreach or market research.

What it does

  1. 01

    Seed list and filter

    Curated metros; restrict to chosen states.

    Metro seed list and state filter.
    Metro seed list and state filter.
  2. 02

    Resume

    A checkpoint file so a long run can stop and continue.

  3. 03

    Export

    Name, city, state, rating, reviews, years, contact, address, to CSV.

    The export: name, rating, reviews, years, contact, address. Sample rows.
    The export: name, rating, reviews, years, contact, address. Sample rows.

How it works

A single Python script using requests and BeautifulSoup against public directory pages. No API keys.

  • Python
  • web scraping
  • CSV
Role
Built by Vas.
Status
Script.

Related

Next project

Microinvest API Documentation

Reference docs for an accounting API. 35 endpoints, each with a runnable example.