Apify Marketing Agency Database

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Someone wants a marketing agency database
• A list of digital marketing agencies
• A B2B agency directory as structured data
• Top agencies by service

Example prompts

• “/apify-marketing-agency-database”

Requirements

• A credential in APIFY_TOKEN

Workflow steps

7 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1Pick the Clutch directory URL that already encodes your segment. Clutch has a page for most service and location combinations, for example…
2. 2Start with maxPagesPerDirectory:1 and a small maxItems. Look at the row shape and the category before paying for a deep sweep.
3. 3Raise maxPagesPerDirectory to go deeper. Each page is a separate request, so this is the main cost lever; maxItems is the hard ceiling.
4. 4Filter by choosing a more specific Clutch URL, then filter the dataset afterward on rating, min_project_size, or location.
5. 5Sponsored and featured cards repeat across pages. The Actor de-duplicates by profile URL for the whole run, so you are never billed twice…
6. 6Check result_type before treating a row as an agency. An error row carries error_message and error_type.
7. 7To enrich a shortlist, pass the profile_url values into the apify-company-data-api skill for full records and reviews.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1eb0cd0. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are bash).

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  Hosts in commands or code, which the agent is likely to contact:

  • clutch.co
  • mcp.apify.com

  Also links to:

  • apify.com
  • docs.apify.com

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:

  • APIFY_TOKEN

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Apify Marketing Agency Database loads about 2.5k tokens when it runs, and up to ~3.6k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 204 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,069 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~204

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~2.5k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~3.6k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from apify/awesome-skills at commit 1eb0cd0, republished under its MIT licence (© apify). 1,069 words, ~2,458 tokens.

name

apify-marketing-agency-database

description

Build a marketing agency database from Clutch.co with the Clutch.co Agency API Actor (johnvc/clutch-agency-api). Point it at any Clutch directory or category or location URL and get one JSON row per listed agency: name, profile_url, website, rating, review_count, verification, min_project_size, hourly_rate, employees, location, and service_lines. Pagination and cross-page de-duplication are handled for you, so one company is never billed twice. Use when someone wants a marketing agency database, a list of digital marketing agencies, a B2B agency directory as structured data, top agencies by service or city, or to export agencies from Clutch into a spreadsheet, CRM, or vector store. Billed per listing delivered with no start fee, and MCP-ready for Claude and other AI agents.

author

John Cole

author_url

https://github.com/johnisanerd

license

MIT

metadata.version

1.0

metadata.keywords

marketing agency database, clutch, agency directory, list of digital marketing agencies, b2b directory, agency list

apify actors call "johnvc/clutch-agency-api" -i '{"mode":"directory","directoryUrls":["https://clutch.co/agencies/digital-marketing"],"maxPagesPerDirectory":1,"maxItems":50}' \
  --json \
  --user-agent apify-awesome-skills/apify-marketing-agency-database \
  2>/dev/null

apify actors call "johnvc/clutch-agency-api" -i '{"mode":"directory","directoryUrls":["https://clutch.co/us/agencies/digital-marketing"],"maxPagesPerDirectory":3,"maxItems":200}' \
  --json \
  --user-agent apify-awesome-skills/apify-marketing-agency-database \
  2>/dev/null

apify actors info "johnvc/clutch-agency-api" --input \
  --user-agent apify-awesome-skills/apify-marketing-agency-database \
  2>/dev/null

apify actors info "johnvc/clutch-agency-api" --json \
  --user-agent apify-awesome-skills/apify-marketing-agency-database \
  2>/dev/null

apify datasets get-items <DATASET_ID> --format json \
  --user-agent apify-awesome-skills/apify-marketing-agency-database \
  2>/dev/null

© apify, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 2 other files (references) in skills/apify-marketing-agency-database of apify/awesome-skills.

• SKILL.md
• references/actor-index.md
• references/gotchas.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1eb0cd0