ImportYeti Scraper

ImportYeti Scraper: US customs import records, who buys from whom and what they ship

Give it a brand, a factory name or a product, and you get the trade relationships behind it: who ships to whom, how many shipments, the goods, the HS code, the ports at each end, and the first and last shipment dates. No ImportYeti account, nothing to install.

Read this before you budget a run. It is US sea freight only, and only as much history as ImportYeti's own page shows. Air, rail, trucking and outbound shipments are not in the source at all, and a company page lists its largest partner relationships and most recent bills of lading rather than everything ever filed.

🏷️ What ImportYeti Scraper does

US inward vessel manifests name the importer and the shipper, and are disclosable unless the importer has filed to keep them confidential. ImportYeti indexes those records. This reads them back out as rows.

resultType decides what a row is, and it is the setting that changes everything else:

A company page runs the table one way and a supplier page runs it the other, so counterpartRole comes back as supplier when you start from a buyer, and buyer when you start from a factory.

Big importers file under several names. maxProfilesPerQuery is how many of those name variants actually get opened, and raising it is how you widen the partner list for one brand.

📥 What you give it

{
  "searchQueries": ["solar panels"],
  "startUrls": ["https://www.importyeti.com/company/nike-usa"],
  "resultType": "partners",
  "maxItems": 200,
  "maxProfilesPerQuery": 3
}

📤 What you get back

A real partners row, from a supplier page, run on 14 September 2026:

{
  "profileType": "supplier",
  "profileName": "Magnus Green Solar Panels",
  "profileUrl": "https://www.importyeti.com/supplier/magnus-green-solar-panels",
  "profileAddress": "Manufacturing Llc National Industries Park Plot Tp010505 Jebel Ali South Dubai United Arab Emirates",
  "profileCountry": "United Arab Emirates",
  "profileCountryCode": "AE",
  "profileTotalShipments": 46,
  "databaseUpdated": "2026-10-09",
  "rowType": "partner",
  "counterpartRole": "buyer",
  "counterpartName": "Unique Solar",
  "counterpartUrl": "https://www.importyeti.com/company/unique-solar",
  "counterpartAddress": "539 W Commerce St, # 7680, Dallas, Tx 75208, Us",
  "counterpartCountry": "United States of America",
  "counterpartCountryCode": "US",
  "counterpartLocation": "Dallas",
  "shipments": 41,
  "shipmentsLast12Months": 0,
  "weightKg": 1237689,
  "teu": 146,
  "productDescription": "Solar Panels, Solar Modules Xemirates, Solar Modules Solar Modules, Solar Panels Xxcontact United Arab Emirates, Solar Modules",
  "hsCode": "8541.43",
  "hsCodes": ["8541.43", "2202.10", "7317.00", "6101.10"],
  "topProductCategory": "Electric motors/Appliances",
  "originPort": "Jebel Ali",
  "originPortCountry": "United Arab Emirates",
  "destinationPort": "Savannah, Ga.",
  "destinationPortCountry": "United States of America",
  "destinationPortRegion": "Georgia",
  "lastShipmentDate": "2025-04-01",
  "firstShipmentDate": "2023-10-01",
  "isRelatedParty": false,
  "counterpartTopBuyers": [
    { "name": "Magnus Green Solar Panels Manufactu", "shipments": 42 },
    { "name": "Magnus Green Solar Panels", "shipments": 41 },
    { "name": "Asun Solar", "shipments": 12 }
  ],
  "searchQuery": "solar panels",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-14T05:44:19.208Z"
}

shipments rows add shipmentDate, billOfLading, masterBillOfLading, houseBillOfLading, billTypeCode, quantity, quantityUnit, containers, declaredValueUsd, estimatedShippingCostUsd and shippingRoute. profiles rows add alsoKnownAs, website, email, phone, tradingPartnerCount, topCountries, and nested tradeLanes, tradingPartners and recentShipments.

🧾 Reading the output

Result rows carry no charged field at all. The flag is only on the sample and diagnostic rows, to mark them as not real results.

▶️ How to run it

1. Open ImportYeti Scraper and click Try for free. 2. Type a brand, factory or product into Company or product terms, or paste ImportYeti links into ImportYeti URLs. 3. Pick What each row should be. Start on Trading partners. 4. Set Maximum rows and Profiles to open per search term. Start small, around 50 rows. 5. Click Start, then download the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read it from the Apify API.

💰 How much does it cost?

$0.025 per 1,000 rows, plus $0.0005 for each company page opened. Flat on every Apify plan.

Two prices because the two things are not alike. One company page can produce 45 partner rows, and pricing all of it per row would charge you more for the same work. Nothing is billed for the sample row, for diagnostic rows, for a page ImportYeti would not serve, or for a 404.

💡 What people use it for

• Finding who actually manufactures for a brand, then pulling that factory's other customers out of

counterpartTopBuyers.

• Supplier due diligence, using firstShipmentDate, lastShipmentDate and shipmentsLast12Months

to see whether a relationship is live or historic.

• Lead lists of US importers in a product category, by searching the product rather than a company.
• Checking a competitor's sourcing country mix and port lanes before committing to your own.
• Watching shipments mode on a schedule and diffing on billOfLading for new arrivals.

🚧 What it does not do

• Sea freight into the US only. No air, no rail, no trucking, no exports.
• Partners and recent bills of lading, not full history. A company with hundreds of thousands

of shipments on record still shows its largest relationships and its most recent bills.

• Ports are per lane, not per shipment. null means ImportYeti lists no lane out of that

country, which is more useful than a guessed port.

• Email and phone are usually withheld. ImportYeti masks them, so those fields are filled only

on the pages that show them, which is not often.

• Names come as filed. Manifests are typed by hand, so Wal Mart and Nike Usa are what you

get. Match on counterpartUrl, not on the name.

• partners, shipments and profiles write at the end. Every company page is read first and

the rows arrive together, so a run that hits its timeout delivers nothing. Keep maxItems sensible and run several times rather than once, very large.

• Throughput has a ceiling. ImportYeti limits how many company pages one visitor can open in a

short window, so a very large run can come back short. Pages it would not serve become uncharged RATE_LIMITED rows.

🧭 Which business data scraper do you need?

❓ Questions people ask

How do I find a brand's suppliers? Put the brand in Company or product terms and leave the mode on Trading partners. Every row is one supplier, with country, shipment count, HS code and its own ImportYeti page.

How do I find a factory's customers? Paste a supplier URL into ImportYeti URLs, or type the factory's name into Company or product terms and set Search for to Foreign suppliers only. The table runs the other way and counterpartRole comes back as buyer.

Do I need an ImportYeti account? No. This reads public pages and nothing behind a login.

Why did I only get 45 suppliers for a big importer? That is the length of the table on that page. Raise Profiles to open per search term, because large importers file under several names and each name has its own page and its own table.

Which mode is cheapest? search, because it never opens a company page. It gives you the matching companies and their URLs, which you can then feed back in.

Is this legal? The underlying records are US customs data published by the government, and this reads pages ImportYeti serves publicly. Apify's write-up on scraping and the law is a good starting point, and we are not lawyers.

🆘 If something breaks

Open the Issues tab on the actor page. Send the term or URL you used and the run ID. The errorCode on the diagnostic row usually names the problem on its own.