Tutorial Shows How to Extract Italian Business Listings from PagineGialle with Python

A new tutorial explains how to use Python and the PagineGialle Scraper Actor on Apify to collect Italian business leads from paginegialle.it into structured fields such as name, category, phone, email, address and coordinates. The author reports that plain HTTP clients were frequently blocked by an AWS WAF challenge on the site, with only a small share of test pages loading, which is why the scraper's fetch layer is used. The Actor reads structured Schema.org data embedded in each listing page, so one fetch can yield up to 30 businesses without visiting each profile. The workflow requires Python 3.11 or newer, a free Apify account and an API token, and can be adapted to other Italian cities and categories by changing the search queries. The guide also covers handling missing email values and results that fall in neighbouring localities.