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Legal companies and page discovery

What follows is the honest set of ways to get page discovery on legal companies, including the ones that are not ours. Mamba Labs builds the Apify actors named here, so Page Finder Extractor is something you run yourself against your own list of legal companies.

Where this starts

Legal companies and page discovery: the answer is public, scattered, and nobody has time to collect it. Start from this: legal companies are partnerships that publish partner lists and almost nothing else, and page discovery follows. Know this about legal companies before any page discovery: practice areas are the real segmentation and they sit in a navigation menu rather than a data field. If you would rather try it than read about it, Page Finder Extractor does page discovery for legal companies today.

What is at stake

The question about legal companies is simple and the work is opening several hundred websites and clicking around each one.

Traditional Search Tools

  • The bar or law society register, for legal companies. Free, authoritative, and it confirms the firm and its people.
  • Google with a site operator. Free and precise. Fine for twenty companies, and rate limited into uselessness past that.
  • Screaming Frog. Crawls a whole site and finds every page matching a pattern. Built for one site at a time rather than a list of hundreds.
  • Guessing the URL. Try slash pricing. It works surprisingly often and fails silently, which is the problem.
  • Search the site. A site search in Google with the term you want gets you there in one query per company. Reliable, and it is still one query per company.

Preconfigured tasks

A task is one of these actors with the inputs already filled in for a specific version of this job. Open one, swap in your own list, and run it without setting anything up from scratch.

Mamba Labs Apify Actors

These are the actors we built for this job. If yours is not covered here, search from the bar at the top of the page or contact us here and tell us what you need.