Use case

Business directory scraping without your own crawler.

Directory pages hide behind pagination, rate limits and geo-specific listings. UnblockingAPI handles browser rendering, country-level routing and retries - you focus on the leads.

BuyerSales & lead-gen teams
OutcomeNever work from a stale list

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Ask your agent

"Pull every business in this category and flag the ones with a new listing this week."

lead-board
Sample data

Category watch · 4 listings · refreshed daily

Northside Plumbing Co.PlumbingNew
Harbor Legal GroupLegal servicesUpdated
Bright Leaf BakeryBakeryNew
Summit Auto RepairAutomotiveActive

Every fetch renders the page fresh - no cached listings.

99.98%
success rate
<1s
avg response
Global
reach

Built for directory data workflows.

Common workflows for sales, research and market-mapping teams.

Lead research

Fetch public directory pages and pull contact details and categories into your own lead pipeline.

New listing alerts

Poll directory category pages and notify your application when new businesses appear.

Market mapping

Collect listings across a region to map coverage, density and category gaps.

Rating and review tracking

Track public ratings and review counts over time for the businesses you follow.

Contact-page discovery

Fetch listing pages and follow through to contact or website links for outreach workflows.

Local business research

Collect directory data at scale to support market-entry or competitive research.

A new listing isn't a data point. It's a lead.

What you actually do when the directory changes.

A new business joins the directory.

Get it in your pipeline before your competitor calls first.

A listing's contact info changes.

Keep outreach lists current instead of bouncing emails.

A category gets new entrants.

Track market density before you commit to a territory.

A competitor's client gets listed elsewhere.

See where your market actually shows up, not just where you look.

The fetching layer is the hard part.

Building it yourself means maintaining all of this:

Browser rendering infrastructure
Proxy rotation and geo-targeting
Retry logic and failure handling
Anti-bot and rate limit handling
Monitoring and scaling
Country-specific content delivery

Frequently asked questions

The core API returns the fully rendered page - your application parses the fields it needs. If you'd rather not write a parser, the visual editor lets you tap the business name, category, rating or contact link you want on the rendered page and it builds a reusable extraction template for you.

Yes. Add a country code to route the request through that region for localized directory results.

Yes - fetch the directory listing, extract the link, then fetch that page the same way. Both requests go through the same rendering and routing.

Talk to us - we can help tune rendering, routing and request strategy for your specific targets.

Tracking a specific competitor instead? See the competitor research use case, or real estate listings if you're mapping property.

No code

Don't want to write any code at all?

unblock_fetch hands back the full rendered page. For clean fields instead - a price, a title, a whole list - build a template visually in the editor: load the page, tap what you want, done. No CSS selectors to write by hand.

Save it and it's a reusable API endpoint - same account, same key, same as the built-in templates. Build the structure once, then call it from your app - or your AI agent - forever.

Try the editor

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amazon.comSample data

Select one item. Similar items are detected automatically.

Website

Sony WH-1000XM5

4.6

$299.99

Bose QuietComfort

4.5

$249.00

Bang & Olufsen Beoplay

4

$1,714.99

Extracted JSON

{ "products": [
  { "name": "Sony WH-1000XM5", "price": 299.99, "currency": "USD", "rating": 4.6 },
  { "name": "Bose QuietComfort", "price": 249, "currency": "USD", "rating": 4.5 },
  { "name": "Bang & Olufsen Beoplay", "price": 1714.99, "currency": "USD", "rating": 4 }
] }

Tap one item, get every item - as an array.

Working on a directory data workflow?

Test a public directory URL or talk to us about a difficult target. We'll help you figure out the right rendering, routing and request strategy.

UnblockingAPI is built for public web data and responsible use. Site-specific success depends on the target page, region, rendering mode and anti-bot behavior.