Quick answer: there is no export button. Yellow Pages sites don’t offer any built-in way to download listings, so if you want them in a spreadsheet you have three realistic options. You can copy listings in by hand, which is fine for a handful. You can collect them semi-manually with a structured template, which holds up to a couple hundred. Or you can use a scraper tool that exports Yellow Pages to Excel or CSV directly, which is the only sensible route once you’re talking thousands. This post walks through all three, plus the cleanup step afterward that decides whether the file is actually usable.
Why there’s no official export
Directories earn money from attention on their pages: ads, sponsored placements, upgraded business profiles. Every visitor who reads listings on the site can be shown those. A “Download as CSV” button would hand over the value and skip the ad impressions, so no directory offers one. It’s not an oversight, it’s the business model.
The data itself is a different matter. A Yellow Pages listing is public business information: a company’s name, phone number, and address, published specifically so people can find and contact it. Moving that information into a spreadsheet doesn’t expose anything private. You’re changing its format, not its nature. That’s also why every Yellow Pages data export is something you build yourself; the directory will never build it for you.
Option 1: copy listings into a spreadsheet template, by hand
Unfashionable, but for small jobs it works. The trick is to build the template before you collect anything, so every lead lands in the same shape. A column set that has served us well:
- Business name
- Category (as the directory shows it)
- Phone
- Email: often missing from the listing itself; leave it blank rather than guessing
- Website
- Address
- Source + date: which directory, and when you collected it
- Status: new / contacted / replied, so the sheet doubles as a mini-CRM
Realistic throughput: once the template exists and you find a rhythm, expect roughly 30-40 listings per hour, a minute or two each including the tab-switching. That’s honest work for an afternoon if you need 50 landscapers in one city. It also comes with a quiet benefit: you eyeball every lead as you enter it, so obvious junk never makes it into the sheet.
If your whole campaign needs fewer than about 100 leads and it’s a one-off, this is genuinely enough. Setting up anything fancier would take longer than the typing.
Option 2: semi-manual collection with spreadsheet tricks
Between typing and scraping there’s a middle ground: copy chunks of the results page and let your spreadsheet do the splitting.
The basic move is to select a whole page of search results in the browser, copy it, and paste into a sheet as plain text (Ctrl+Shift+V in Google Sheets, or Paste Special > Text in Excel). Each listing arrives as a clump of lines. From there, the spreadsheet’s own tools break the clumps into columns: Text to Columns in Excel, or the SPLIT and TEXTSPLIT functions where your version has them, splitting on line breaks, commas, or whatever separator the paste produced.
Done carefully, this is several times faster than typing. It is also messier than it sounds. Listings aren’t uniform (one has a slogan line, the next doesn’t; one shows “25 Years in Business”, the next shows an ad) so the formula that splits one page cleanly scrambles the next. In practice, a chunk of the time you saved goes into fixing misaligned rows. Up to a few hundred rows the trade is still decent. Past that point error rates climb faster than the row count, and you end up doing quality control on a file you no longer trust.
Option 3: a scraper that exports Yellow Pages to Excel natively
A scraper automates exactly what you’d otherwise do by hand. It opens the search results for your keywords and locations, visits each listing, copies the fields into a table, and moves to the next page. The difference is that it does this a few thousand times without getting bored, and at the end it hands you a formatted CSV or Excel file instead of a browser full of tabs. Your part of the workflow shrinks to: type keywords, pick locations, click start, open the file.
That’s the category. Our own tool in it is Reoon YellowPages Scraper, a desktop app for Windows and Mac that works with the YellowPages directories of the US, UK, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, India, and Australia. It captures 18 data fields per listing and exports straight to CSV or Excel. One feature matters more than the rest for outreach: since listings often show no email address, the scraper can also crawl each business’s own website to find contact details the directory never had. There’s a free basic version with limited daily searches, so you can run a real search on your own niche and judge the output before deciding anything.
After the export: make the file usable
Whichever method produced it, the raw file is not ready for outreach yet. Three cleanup steps make the difference.
Remove duplicates first. Directories list the same business under several categories (a plumber shows up under “Plumbing”, “Heating Contractors”, and “Drain Cleaning”) so a keyword-based collection usually contains the same company two or three times. Dedupe on phone number or website rather than business name, because names vary (“Smith & Sons” vs “Smith and Sons LLC”) while numbers don’t.
Strip the junk rows. Sponsored listings from outside your target area, businesses with no contact details at all, half-parsed leftovers from manual collection. Sort the sheet by each column once; the garbage tends to cluster at the top or bottom, where you can delete it in blocks.
Verify the email column before any outreach. This is the step people skip and then regret. Directory data ages badly: businesses close, staff change, domains get abandoned, and the address a listing showed two years ago quietly dies. In the scraped lists we see, it’s common for 10-25% of addresses to fail verification. Send to a list like that unchecked and the bounce rate alone can get your sending account flagged before the campaign finishes. Run the column through an email verifier and keep only the addresses confirmed deliverable. The full workflow (dedupe, formatting fixes, verification, and what to do with the risky leftovers) is in our guide to cleaning a scraped email list.
Raw material vs. ready leads
Every method above gets Yellow Pages data into a spreadsheet. None of them gets you a good list on its own. The export is raw material; the cleaning and verification are what make it worth money, because outreach results depend far more on list quality than on list size. If you’re building the whole pipeline, from choosing search terms to first contact, our guide to getting leads from Yellow Pages covers the process end to end.
And before you send anything to whatever you export today: Reoon Email Verifier gives you free verification credits every day, no card required, enough to check your email column and find out which of those addresses are still alive.
FAQ
Can you export Yellow Pages listings directly?
No. Yellow Pages sites offer no download or export function, and that’s deliberate: the directories earn from visits to their pages, not from handing out data files. To get listings into a spreadsheet, you either copy them manually or use a scraper tool that exports Yellow Pages to CSV or Excel for you.
Is it legal to export Yellow Pages data?
In general, collecting public business listings for your own prospecting is widely done, and the information itself (names, phones, addresses) is published so that people will use it. That said, directory terms of service typically restrict automated access, and the rules on using the data (especially for email outreach) differ by country. This isn’t legal advice. The short version: collect publicly listed business data, use it respectfully, and follow the outreach laws that apply where you operate.
What data can you get from a Yellow Pages listing?
A typical listing shows the business name, category, phone number, and address, usually a website link, and sometimes extras such as ratings, years in business, or social profiles. Email addresses are the notable gap: most listings don’t display one. A scraper like Reoon’s captures 18 fields per listing, covering all of the above where the listing provides them.
How do I get the emails that listings don’t show?
From the business’s own website. Most companies publish a contact address somewhere on their site even when their directory listing has none. Manually, that means visiting each site and hunting through contact pages, which gets old after about ten leads. Reoon YellowPages Scraper automates it with a built-in website crawler that visits each business’s site and pulls contact details into your export. However you gather them, verify the addresses before sending: website-harvested contacts need the same check as everything else.
