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Thomasnet.com Scraper

A powerful scraper designed to extract detailed company data from Thomasnet.com, giving you structured business information for research, lead generation, and automation workflows. This scraper efficiently collects company profiles, contact details, service categories, and metadata—making industrial data gathering fast, reliable, and scalable.

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Introduction

The Thomasnet.com Scraper collects structured information about manufacturing and industrial companies listed on Thomasnet. It solves the challenge of manually researching suppliers by fully automating discovery and data extraction at scale. This tool is ideal for researchers, lead generators, analysts, procurement teams, and automation engineers.

Why Use This Scraper

  • Automatically extracts detailed manufacturing company profiles.
  • Captures structured and enriched business metadata.
  • Supports multiple starting URLs for broad coverage.
  • Maintains reliability through concurrency and retry controls.
  • Streamlines B2B lead generation and market research operations.

Features

Feature Description
Multi-URL Scraping Supports multiple Thomasnet search result URLs to maximize coverage.
Detailed Company Extraction Gathers names, contacts, descriptions, categories, rankings, and personnel.
Proxy Support Ensures stable, anonymous data collection at scale.
Configurable Performance Control concurrency, limits, retries, and scraping depth.
Clean Structured Output Delivers standardized JSON ready for pipelines and databases.

What Data This Scraper Extracts

Field Name Field Description
name The company’s official name.
website URL of the company’s website.
primaryPhone Main company phone number.
description Company description, capabilities, and services.
families Array of service/product families the company belongs to.
headings Categories or headings under which the company is listed.
personnel Key company staff members and their roles.
annualSales Reported annual sales volume.
numberEmployees Employee count range.
address Full address object including city, state, ZIP, and coordinates.
tgramsId Unique Thomasnet identifier.
isAdvertiser Whether the company advertises on Thomasnet.
social Social networks or related links.
item Nested summary object with alternate or raw indexed fields.

Example Output

[
      {
        "__typename": "Company",
        "tgramsId": "30828201",
        "name": "Focus Fab, LLC",
        "website": "http://focusfab.com/",
        "primaryPhone": "(888) 449-4877",
        "description": "Custom CNC machining, fabrication and assembly services...",
        "numberEmployees": "10-49",
        "families": [
            { "id": "157558", "name": "Assembly Services" }
        ],
        "address": {
            "address1": "5540 Parkwood Circle",
            "city": "Bessemer",
            "state": "AL",
            "zip": "35022",
            "country": "USA"
        },
        "personnel": [
            { "name": "David Lomasney", "title": "Owner" }
        ]
      }
]

Directory Structure Tree

Thomasnet.com Scraper/
├── src/
│   ├── main.js
│   ├── utils/
│   │   ├── parser.js
│   │   └── request_handler.js
│   ├── extractors/
│   │   └── thomasnet_company_extractor.js
│   └── config/
│       └── settings.example.json
├── data/
│   ├── input.sample.json
│   └── output.sample.json
├── package.json
└── README.md

Use Cases

  • Sales teams use it to collect B2B leads, enabling them to target verified industrial suppliers quickly.
  • Researchers use it to analyze manufacturing ecosystem data, improving market intelligence accuracy.
  • Procurement departments use it to identify new vendors, helping them expand supply chain options.
  • Automation engineers integrate it into pipelines to enrich databases, ensuring fresh, standardized industrial data.
  • Competitive analysts use it to track service categories and capabilities, generating insights into market positioning.

FAQs

Q: Can I scrape multiple regions or categories at once? Yes. Add multiple Thomasnet search URLs to the input, and the scraper will process them sequentially or in parallel depending on your concurrency settings.

Q: Does the scraper handle blocked requests or captchas? The scraper uses proxy rotation and retry logic to reduce failures and improve stability across large datasets.

Q: What output formats are supported? Output is generated in clean JSON, which you can convert to CSV or Excel using any standard tooling.

Q: How large of a dataset can I scrape? With proper concurrency and proxy settings, the scraper can handle thousands of companies reliably.


Performance Benchmarks and Results

Primary Metric: Processes an average of 120–180 company profiles per minute depending on concurrency and network conditions.

Reliability Metric: Maintains a 98%+ request success rate with proxy support and retry logic enabled.

Efficiency Metric: Optimized request handling provides high throughput with minimal resource overhead.

Quality Metric: Generates near-complete profile coverage, including headings, families, personnel, and address metadata for the majority of listings.

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