BBB API endpoint
Use Crawlora's BBB Scam Tracker Search API to extract supported public BBB data as structured JSON. This page includes request parameters, cURL examples, response schema, error behavior, credit cost, and a Playground link for testing before integration.
/bbb/scamtracker/searchSearches bbb.org Scam Tracker's consumer-reported-scam database by free-text query, scam category, targeted-victim state/province, reported-scammer state/province, report-date range, and/or dollar-loss range, paginated 10 results/page. Omit every filter to browse the most-recent-first feed. Credential-free public Better Business Bureau data. This is a separate BBB dataset from the bbb-search/bbb-business/bbb-business-complaints business-rating family -- consumer-reported scam incidents, not business ratings. Developers commonly use this endpoint for data enrichment, monitoring, research dashboards, internal automation, and agent-native workflows that need repeatable structured public web data. Authentication uses the documented Crawlora headers, and usage is metered with the credit cost shown on this page.
Request parameters are generated from the active endpoint catalog. Required values must be sent before Crawlora can call the upstream public web data source.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| query | string | No | Free-text search (phone number, website, email, business name, scam ID, description). Omit to browse the most-recent feed | ||
| scam_type | string | No | Scam category filter Allowed values: Advance Fee Loan, Bank/Credit Card Company Imposter, Business Email Compromise, Charity, Counterfeit Product, COVID-19, Credit Cards, Credit Repair/Debt Relief, CryptoCurrency, Debt Collections, Employment, Fake Check/Money Order, Fake Invoice/Supplier Bill, Family/Friend Emergency, Foreign Money Exchange, Government Agency Imposter, Government Grant, Healthcare/Medicaid/Medicare, Home Improvement, Identity Theft, Investment, Moving, Online Purchase, Other, Phishing, Rental, Retail Business, Romance, Scholarship, Sweepstakes/Lottery/Prizes, Tax Collection, Tech Support, Travel/Vacation/Timeshare, Utility, Vanity Award, Worthless Problem-solving Service, Yellow Pages/Directories | ||
| state | string | No | Optional 2-letter targeted-victim state/province code (US state or Canadian province) | ||
| scammer_state | string | No | Optional 2-letter reported-scammer state/province code (US state or Canadian province) -- where the scammer is reported to be, not the victim | ||
| date_from | string | No | Optional report-date range start (YYYY-MM-DD), inclusive. Must be set together with date_to | ||
| date_to | string | No | Optional report-date range end (YYYY-MM-DD), inclusive. Must be set together with date_from | ||
| min_dollars_lost | integer | No | Optional minimum reported dollar loss. Must be set together with max_dollars_lost | ||
| max_dollars_lost | integer | No | Optional maximum reported dollar loss. Must be set together with min_dollars_lost | ||
| page | integer | No | Result page (10 per page), default 1 | ||
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/bbb/scamtracker/search?query=coffee&scam_type=Advance+Fee+Loan&page=1" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
Send your scraping API key in the x-api-key header. Use the console API Keys page to rotate or select the active key.
Endpoint usage is metered in credits. The plan prices, included credits, limits, and overage rates below match the active backend billing configuration.
| Plan | Price | Included credits | Daily cap | Rate limit | Overage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | 2,000 | 500 daily credits | 5/min | No overage |
| Starter | $9/mo | 20,000 | 5,000 daily credits | 15/min | $0.75/1,000 overage credits when enabled |
| Growth | $29/mo | 100,000 | 25,000 daily credits | 45/min | $0.45/1,000 overage credits when enabled |
| Pro | $79/mo | 400,000 | No daily cap | 120/min | $0.30/1,000 overage credits |
| Business | $199/mo | 1,200,000 | No daily cap | 300/min | $0.20/1,000 overage credits |
| Enterprise | $499/mo | 5,000,000 | No daily cap | 1,000/min | $0.12/1,000 overage credits |
This endpoint is executed through Crawlora's managed scraping infrastructure.
Crawlora does not silently return bad data when the upstream page cannot be used.
| Status | Common failure case |
|---|---|
| 400 | Invalid input or missing required parameter |
| 429 | Plan or endpoint rate limit exceeded |
| 500 | Internal execution error |
| 502 | Upstream platform failed, returned unusable HTML, or served a challenge page that could not be resolved |
When possible, Crawlora returns structured error context so your integration can retry, back off, or inspect the request.
| Status | Description | Schema |
|---|---|---|
| 400 | Bad Request | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 500 | Internal Server Error | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 503 | Service Unavailable | #/definitions/app.Response |
{
"code": 200,
"msg": "OK",
"data": {
"query": "amazon",
"page": 1,
"total_results": 13845,
"results": [
{
"id": "1397267",
"category": "Employment - Amazon's Remote Recruitment Team Imposter",
"description": "They contacted me and said that they would offer $500-$1200 per day...",
"dollars_lost": "$0.0",
"victim_location": "Glens Falls, NY, USA - 12801",
"date_reported": "August 19, 2026",
"business_name_used": "Amazon's Remote Recruitment Team.Imposter",
"url": "https://www.bbb.org/scamtracker/lookupscam/1397267"
}
],
"source_url": "https://www.bbb.org/scamtracker/lookupscam?q=all%3Damazon"
}
}Request schema
No body schema
Response schema
#/definitions/bbbscamtracker.searchResponseDoc
| Field | Type | Required | Enum | Bounds | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| code | integer | No | 200 | |||
| data | bbbscamtracker.SearchResponse | No | ||||
| data.date_from | string | No | 2026-01-01 | |||
| data.date_to | string | No | 2026-01-31 | |||
| data.max_dollars_lost | integer | No | 1000000 | |||
| data.min_dollars_lost | integer | No | 500000 | |||
| data.page | integer | No | 1 | |||
| data.query | string | No | amazon | |||
| data.results | array | No | ||||
| data.results[].business_name_used | string | No | AltRX | |||
| data.results[].category | string | No | Online Purchase | |||
| data.results[].date_reported | string | No | August 19, 2026 | |||
| data.results[].description | string | No | ||||
| data.results[].dollars_lost | string | No | $149 | |||
| data.results[].id | string | No | 1397968 | |||
| data.results[].url | string | No | ||||
| data.results[].victim_location | string | No | Chesapeake, VA, USA - 23322 | |||
| data.scam_type | string | No | Phishing | |||
| data.scammer_state | string | No | NY | |||
| data.source_url | string | No | ||||
| data.state | string | No | TX | |||
| data.total_results | integer | No | 747374 | |||
| msg | string | No | OK |
Use environment variables for secrets and keep Crawlora API keys server-side.
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/bbb/scamtracker/search?query=coffee&scam_type=Advance+Fee+Loan&page=1" \
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