Clutch Companies Scraper

Use this Clutch scraper to export Clutch company listings from service-category and location URLs into a clean dataset for lead generation, vendor sourcing, market research, and competitor tracking. The current route queries Clutch's authorized, read-only MCP directory interface instead of waiting on Cloudflare-protected HTML pages.

Use it when you need a structured list of agencies or service providers from Clutch directory pages such as software developers, web developers, SEO agencies, or location-filtered categories. The Actor works as a Clutch company scraper for listings and as a practical Clutch.co scraper when you need data through Apify API, MCP, schedules, or integrations.

What data can it export?

Each company record includes structured provider fields returned by Clutch:

• Company name and Clutch profile URL
• Explicit Clutch source attribution and provider-profile link
• Website and employee fields retained as nullable compatibility fields
• Logo URL and verified badge status
• Rating and review count
• Minimum project size and hourly rate
• Location
• Listing description/summary
• Services and service-focus text
• Source URL, page URL, result position, scrape timestamp, and diagnostics

Profile-only fields such as full reviews, phone numbers, detailed postal address, legal filings, social links, websites, and employee counts are not included in this listing route.

Input recipes

Quick software-development lead sample

{
  "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://clutch.co/developers" }],
  "maxResults": 5,
  "maxPagesPerUrl": 1
}

Compare two service categories

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://clutch.co/developers" },
    { "url": "https://clutch.co/web-developers" }
  ],
  "maxResults": 100,
  "maxPagesPerUrl": 2
}

Input example

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://clutch.co/developers" },
    { "url": "https://clutch.co/web-developers" }
  ],
  "maxResults": 50,
  "maxPagesPerUrl": 2,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true }
}

Input settings

Output example

{
  "dataSource": "Clutch",
  "sourceAttributionUrl": "https://clutch.co/profile/example-company",
  "searchUrl": "https://clutch.co/developers",
  "pageUrl": "https://clutch.co/developers",
  "position": 1,
  "companyId": "123456",
  "name": "Example Company",
  "profileUrl": "https://clutch.co/profile/example-company",
  "websiteUrl": null,
  "logoUrl": "https://img.shgstatic.com/clutch-static-prod/...png",
  "isVerified": true,
  "rating": 4.8,
  "reviewCount": 86,
  "reviewCountText": "86 reviews",
  "minProjectSize": "$25,000+",
  "hourlyRate": "$25 - $49 / hr",
  "employees": null,
  "location": "Lisbon, Portugal",
  "description": "A software development company...",
  "services": ["Custom Software Development"],
  "serviceFocus": ["Custom Software Development", "Web Development"],
  "tags": ["Custom Software Development", "Web Development"],
  "allProjectsText": null,
  "allProjectsUrl": null,
  "sourceCategory": "developers",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-02T17:46:01.472Z",
  "diagnostics": { "status": "ok", "inputIndex": 0, "pageNumber": 1, "cardsOnPage": 5, "duplicate": false, "warnings": [], "route": "official-clutch-mcp" }
}

Who is it for?

This Actor is useful for sales teams building agency lead lists, marketers mapping service-provider categories, procurement teams shortlisting vendors, founders researching competitors, and analysts monitoring Clutch directory changes over time.

Tips for best results

• Start with one Clutch category URL and a small maxResults value to verify your filters.
• Increase maxPagesPerUrl for deeper exports.
• Use Clutch service-category URLs and human-readable location paths. Opaque numeric browser-filter parameters may not map to the official directory filters.
• De-duplication is based on Clutch profile URLs, so overlapping categories will not create duplicate rows.

Source attribution and responsible use

Every record identifies Clutch as its source and includes a direct provider-profile link. Preserve those fields when displaying or exporting the data. Use the Actor for authorized provider research and discovery, respect applicable data-retention and usage requirements, and do not remove source attribution.

Limits and troubleshooting

The Actor uses Clutch's official read-only MCP provider search. It retries transient failures within a shared four-minute work deadline, checkpoints unfinished pages, and fails loudly if no valid provider records are available. Profile reviews, contact details, outbound websites, and arbitrary browser-only filters are outside the current listing contract.

API usage

Node.js

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('fetch_cat/clutch-companies-scraper').call({
  startUrls: [{ url: 'https://clutch.co/developers' }],
  maxResults: 25,
  maxPagesPerUrl: 1,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient
import os

client = ApifyClient(os.environ["APIFY_TOKEN"])
run = client.actor("fetch_cat/clutch-companies-scraper").call(run_input={
    "startUrls": [{"url": "https://clutch.co/developers"}],
    "maxResults": 25,
    "maxPagesPerUrl": 1,
})
items = client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).list_items().items
print(items)

cURL

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/fetch_cat~clutch-companies-scraper/runs?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"startUrls":[{"url":"https://clutch.co/developers"}],"maxResults":25,"maxPagesPerUrl":1}'

MCP and agents

Use the Apify MCP server with this tool enabled:

https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch_cat/clutch-companies-scraper

Add it to Claude Desktop or Claude Code with a command like:

claude mcp add apify-clutch "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch_cat/clutch-companies-scraper"

Example MCP JSON configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify-clutch": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch_cat/clutch-companies-scraper"
    }
  }
}

Example prompts:

• "Export 25 software development companies from Clutch and summarize the top-rated vendors."
• "Run the Clutch Companies Scraper for this category URL and return names, locations, ratings, and profile URLs."

Support

If you need a Clutch category route that does not work, open an issue on the Actor page and include the input URL, run ID, and expected result count.