I'm creating an app, and I need a basic business directory data per city such as restaurant's name, address, and phone#, and import it into my database.
Anyone knows where I can do that?
Is there anything like it that's free? maybe not too expensive?
Thanks in advance.
The two ways are compile it yourself for free from the resources below, but it would be time consuming and very resource intensive:
Yellow Pages Directory
White Pages Directory
IRS Records
Company Registration Records
I found two commercial resources, This one claims 20 million business for $80 http://www.usadatabase.info/features.html and http://leads.infousa.com/USBusinesses.aspx?bas_vendor=190000 requires a signup to access there pricing and database information. There may be other resources less expensive or better, but these seemed like something you can compare against. If you don't need a static database the suggestions of using the google places api seem the best.