How to scrape Yellow Pages data (step by step)

Install Yellow Pages Scraper on Windows, choose the directory, and enter a keyword (the type of business) and a location. Run the search, let it collect the matching listings, then export the names, addresses, phones, faxes and emails to CSV or Excel. There is no coding and no browser extension.

That is the whole loop: pick who you want and where, run it, export. The software handles the tedious part — walking each result and pulling the fields into rows — so instead of copying listings by hand you get a structured list you can open in a spreadsheet or import into a CRM. The steps below break it down.

Five steps take you from a blank screen to an exported spreadsheet: install the app, choose the directory, enter a keyword and location, run the search, and export. Each step is point-and-click, so you can build a targeted list in minutes without any technical setup.

Yes. You search by keyword or category together with a location, so you can target, for example, “plumbers” in a specific city, and the scraper collects only those matching listings. Change the keyword or the city and you get a different, equally focused list.

This is what separates a useful prospect list from a raw data dump. Because you decide both the industry and the geography, you can slice a directory into exactly the segment you need — one trade in one town, or the same trade across an entire region by repeating the search per city. The tighter your keyword and location, the more relevant every row in your export.

After a search finishes, choose Export and select Excel (or CSV or XML). The extracted business fields are written to a spreadsheet with each detail in its own column, so you can open it, sort and filter it, and import it straight into your CRM or mail-merge tool.

There is a dedicated guide to this on the Extract Yellow Pages to Excel page, but the short version is that the export is already structured — name, address, phone, fax, email and website each get a column — so no reformatting is needed before you use the file.

Yes. Where a listing publishes a business email, it is captured alongside the name, address and phone. Email coverage depends on what each directory shows for that business — not every listing includes one — so the email column fills in wherever the directory makes it available.

If email is your priority, target categories and directories that tend to publish contact addresses, and combine the results with the other fields for a fuller record. For contacts beyond directory listings, the sister tool Email Address Finder collects email addresses from search engines and web pages.

It depends on how many listings match and your internet connection, but because the software automates the collection, a targeted search of one category in one city typically produces a usable list in minutes — rather than the hours it would take to copy each listing by hand.

Broader searches across many categories or a whole region naturally take longer simply because there is more to collect. The practical approach is to keep each search focused, export it, then run the next segment — you build up a large, clean database one targeted pull at a time instead of one enormous run.

Extracting publicly listed business contact details is generally lower-risk than collecting personal data, because directories publish those listings for people to find. You should still respect each directory’s terms of service, collect at a reasonable rate, and use the data only for legitimate B2B purposes. This is general information, not legal advice.

The collection and the use of the data are judged separately: gathering public business listings is one thing, and how you email or call them is governed by anti-spam laws such as CAN-SPAM, CASL and the GDPR. The Is web scraping legal? page covers the laws, the leading court cases and how to stay on the right side of them.