They are skilled to the point that they can often still convince businesses to advertise in the yellow pages!īusinesses often still advertise in the phone book because in doing so, they get their ad or business listing “bundled” with other related products and services that the phone directory company offers. If you have ever met a yellow pages salesperson, you'll agree they are very skilled in their sales techniques. They'll do "the math" in an attempt to make sense of advertising in a way that is no longer effective. Thus, if you keep advertising in the phone book, you'll end up getting ten times more visibility. They’ll go on to explain that they also have 100x fewer businesses actually posting advertisements in the directory. The phone book salesperson will admit they only have 10% of the readership they enjoyed during the yellow pages' golden ages. They'll try to sway you to keep advertising in the printed directory and they use tried and tested sales ‘logic’ to do this. Your local phone directory provider (or "yellow pages" company) will try to convince you that some people still use their hardcopy directory. Phone directory companies have some clever tricks up their sleeve, to explain why they think it’s still a good idea to print and distribute hard copies. All jokes aside, if no one uses the phone book anymore except for during a party trick or maybe as kindling to start a campfire, why are they still printing them? The only thing the phone book was good for that day, was a good laugh. I forgot the trick and thus failed in my attempt to display a feat of strength. The last time I had a phone book in my hands was a few years ago when I tried to impress my father-in-law by tearing his phone book in half. Let's face it, Google® is the modern-day "yellow pages" we all use to find the products and services we need. Remember using the phone book or your local "Yellow Pages" to find everything from a plumber to pizza? If you're like me, you don't have any use for a hardcopy phonebook anymore. The output from this function will get merged with the default output.Ever wonder why local phone directory companies still print hardcopy phone books? The answer to this mind-boggling question, which we all ask ourselves when we find a new edition of the phone book on our doorstep, will surprise you. This function takes a Cheerio object and a Cheerio representation of the record element ($, record) as arguments, so you can choose which other attributes you would like to add.
#YELLOW PAGES CONTACT NUMBER UPDATE#
You can use this function to update the default output of this actor. The average consumption is about 0.04 Compute unit per 2000 results scraped.
Keep in mind that it is much more efficient to run one longer scrape (at least one minute) than more shorter ones because of the startup time. Please note that not all of the attributes will be present with all the results. "infoSnippet": "*Please contact us for more information", "address": "1601 N Long Beach Blvd, Compton, CA 90221", If you have access to Apify proxy, you can set to enable proxy usageĮither the search and location attributes or the startUrls atrribute has to be set. More information in Extend output function Maximum number of pages that will be scrapedįunction that takes a Cheerio object and a Cheerio representation of the record element ($, record) as arguments and returns data that will be merged with the default output. List of Request objects that will be deeply crawled. It is build on top of Apify SDK and you can run it both on Apify platform and locally. It allows you to search records based on a combination of search term and location or a list of URLs. Yellow Pages Scraper is an Apify actor for scraping information from Yellow Pages listings.
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