Scraping YellowPages with Python in 2026: What Actually Works (and What Doesn't)

I spent a week trying to scrape YellowPages.com with Python. Most tutorials online are from 2021-2023 and silently fail now. Here's what I found. The tutorials are all broken If you Google "scrape yellowpages python", you'll find guides using requests + BeautifulSoup . They look clean, they make sense, and they don't work. import requests from bs4 import BeautifulSoup url = " https://www.yellowpages.com/search?search_terms=plumbers&geo_location_terms=Austin%2C+TX " resp = requests . get ( url ) # resp.status_code == 403. Every time. YellowPages.com moved behind Cloudflare sometime in 2023. Every request now passes through a JavaScript challenge. requests can't execute JavaScript, so it gets a 403 or an empty challenge page. Same with httpx , urllib3 , or any pure HTTP library. What about Selenium/Playwright? Headless browsers can execute the JS challenge: from playwright.sync_api import sync_playwright with sync_playwright () as p : browser = p . chromium . launch ( headless = True ) p