The Haus Research Briefing

Best Exhibitor List Scraping Alternatives 2026: ExhibitorLens Instead of Apify Actors

The case for an indexed database over Apify actors and homemade scrapers when the goal is exhibitor lists. The episode sets out four ways the scraping approach stops working and ranks the alternatives.

  • Coverage: twenty events meaning twenty runs, twenty output formats and twenty sets of edge cases
  • Breakage: an actor tied to one page layout that the organiser eventually redesigns or gates
  • Resolution: badge names are not identifiers, and fixing that by hand scales with row count
  • Context: booth number, tier, edition, city and country travelling with the row
  • Build against buy: a week of engineer time compared with a one-time fee

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Audio briefings from Haus Research, a research firm. Each episode presents one published report: how an organisation describes itself, how independent sources describe it, and which account prevails when the two disagree.