Research a service category
Find businesses offering a service in your chosen area. Use the returned listings to narrow down which businesses to investigate.
Build a local business shortlist without copying every listing.
Find local businesses for a service and area you want to research. Run it from your dashboard, download the result, or keep checking with a monitor.
Built for useful work
Search for a trade, save the returned businesses and review their listing pages. Keep the same service wording and location when comparing results across runs.
Find businesses offering a service in your chosen area. Use the returned listings to narrow down which businesses to investigate.
Gather a starting set of businesses for an editorial or market research project. Check the original pages before publishing any details.
From source to working data
Extract businesses matching a local service search.
How it works
Your setup stays in Monocrawl. Start with one run and review the result before doing more.
Open the template and complete Services list URL on Yelp.com. The form shows the supported settings.
Check the credit quote, then approve the request. A single run gives you a result to inspect before using a larger list.
Return to the saved run, download your data, and bring it into the spreadsheet or workflow you already use.
One template. Three ways to use it.
Run a single request for today’s research, a quick comparison or a one-off export.
Open this scraperCreate a monitor with a schedule and monthly credit cap. Choose email, Slack, Discord or webhook receipts.
Create a monitorHave several inputs? Run a batch and review its combined quote before approving the work.
Run a listScheduled checks use the same collection scope. Change detection is available where the endpoint supports it.
Know the cost before you start
Review the cost in your dashboard before running. For monitors, you also choose how often to check and how much to spend each month.
Optional monitor receipts. Connect and select the destinations you want during setup.
A few useful details
Check the inputs and collection scope, then try a request with the settings that match your task.
Read the endpoint referencePaste a full URL. Only the supported filters listed below are accepted.
Example: https://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=plumber&find_loc=New+York
Supported URL settings: Search terms, Location.
The response contains business listings for the service and location. It does not fetch a complete review history or all businesses in the region.
Only service and location filters are supported. A directory result is a starting point for research, not a verified prospect or permission to contact someone.
Saves the first result page only; additional pages are not fetched. Unsupported URL filters are rejected. Supports service and location; other search filters are rejected.
Yes. Choose Create a monitor to repeat the same request on a schedule. Review the creation fee, estimated check cost, delivery options and monthly credit cap before approving. Scheduling does not add automatic pagination or AI analysis.
Dashboard scraper results are retained for 30 days within your 50 MB / 1,000-run allowance. Each saved result has a 2 MB compressed limit. Check its storage status and download data you need to keep longer.
Yes. Connect your agent to Monocrawl through Integrations. Ask it to use the corresponding scraper, explain the settings and show the cost before running.
Your next step
Find local businesses for a service and area you want to research. Your template is ready in the dashboard.