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Building a list from the Yellow Pages by scraping

by Achillies
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Hey,

I am looking at building a list of as many business addresses for a certain business type so I can do a Direct Mail campaign for lead generation purposes. For example if I wanted to find build a list of as many 'dentists' in the U.K.

Has anyone had any success doing this using one of the softwares on the market, can recommend one or has an alternative method or service that you would also recommend?

Much appreciated.
#building #list #pages #scraping #yellow
  • Profile picture of the author DJL
    There is a current WSO that incorporates this functionality (and much more):

    Power Lead Snatcher
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  • Profile picture of the author Ninja Ana
    OR check it out Herschyf16's software, it was one of the WSO earlier last month too, works really well, but not from YP, its direct from google though.

    Best of luck for finding your ideal software!
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  • Profile picture of the author JoshP
    The problem that I've found with many UK yellow page scrapers is that they typically rely on yell.com to scrape. The problem with that is that yell.com only shows 10 pages of results for any search query. So if there were 1,500 dentists you would only be able to scrape about 150 or so.
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  • Profile picture of the author Achillies
    Thanks for the answers, JoshP if you narrowed your search on a city by city basis, would you then be able to attain them all? (all be it a slow process of scraping each city)

    I will check out the recommendations, thanks.
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