/bbb/businesses/search

POST /api/bbb/businesses/search

Price: 5 credits

Search Better Business Bureau businesses by keyword and location, optionally filtered by BBB rating, accreditation and search radius. Returns name, image, BBB rating, accreditation, phone, categories, address and profile URL for each business.

How to use it

Search BBB businesses by keyword (name or category) and optional location (City, ST or ZIP). Filter by rating (A/B/C/D/F), accredited_only and radius (5/10/25/50/100 miles). Each result has id, name, image, bbb_rating, is_accredited, phone, category, categories, address/city/state/zip_code, rating_score, bbb_name and profile_url.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• keyword string required — Business name or category to search for (examples: "plumbing"; minLength: 1)
• location string — City and state or ZIP code to search near (default: ""; examples: "New York, NY")
• rating string nullable — Only return businesses with this BBB rating (one of: "A", "B", "C", "D", "F")
• accredited_only boolean — Only return BBB accredited businesses (default: false)
• radius string nullable — Search radius in miles around the location (one of: "5", "10", "25", "50", "100")
• count integer required — Max number of results to return (min: 1)

Response

• @type string (default: "BbbBusinessSearchResult")
• id string nullable
• name string nullable
• image string nullable
• bbb_rating string nullable
• is_accredited boolean nullable
• phone string nullable
• category string nullable
• categories array (default: [])
• address string nullable
• city string nullable
• state string nullable
• zip_code string nullable
• rating_score number nullable
• bbb_name string nullable
• profile_url string nullable
• local_profile_url string nullable

Errors

• 422 — The request body did not validate Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.
• 408 — The request ran past its time limit Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.
• 412 — The entity was not found, or a precondition failed Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.
• 429 — Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.
• 500 — Something broke on our side Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.
• 529 — Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

Response headers

• X-Error — Error message text (present only on error)
• X-Request-ID — Unique request identifier
• X-Execution-Time — Execution time in seconds
• X-Result-Count — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.
• X-Total-Available-Results — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.
• X-Warning — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.
• X-Retry-After — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.