supplier directory profiles

One-record-per-company listings exposing a paper firm's location, business type and product categories, typical of B2B marketplaces.

PaperIndex holds about 6,633 supplier profile URLs covering manufacturers, converters, waste-paper traders and machinery vendors.

In this catalog it appears concretely: - estimated_size on paper-products--paperindex-paper-industry-directory — "About 6,633 supplier profile URLs in the supplier-profile sitemap; site claims 7,125 suppliers across 8,456 categories". - tags. - coverage.granularity — "One record per listed company profile".

A label on a listing is not a deliverable. Teams that license on the strength of a product-name match routinely find the shipped files cover a narrower slice than they assumed, and backfilling history afterwards costs more than the license ever did.

The failure mode is concrete: the label appears in a listing, the delivered files tell a different story, and the gap surfaces mid-project when fixing it is most expensive.

You rarely have to take a vendor's word for it. 82.4% of the 1,744 datasets Datadory catalogs are free to access, and estimated_size on paper-products--paperindex-paper-industry-directory lets you inspect the real artifact before any budget is committed.

Treat every claim of this attribute as testable:

1. Open estimated_size on paper-products--paperindex-paper-industry-directory and confirm its record — "About 6,633 supplier profile URLs in the supplier-profile sitemap; site claims 7,125 suppliers across 8,456 categories" — against the files you actually receive.
2. Open tags and compare its listing against the delivered artifact before paying for a commercial equivalent.
3. Open coverage.granularity and confirm its record — "One record per listed company profile" — against the files you actually receive.
4. Pin down update cadence in writing. Across this catalog, 22.6% of 1,744 datasets refresh daily and 64 still arrive only through a manual request form, so ask exactly how fresh each release is.
5. Check whether definitions are verified at all. Field definitions are verified for 1495 of 1,744 datasets (85.7%), and any source you license should meet that bar.
6. Price the delivery route before the license. In this catalog bulk download is the most common access method (725 datasets) ahead of official APIs (574), and 379 sources still require scraping — a maintenance cost that lands on you, not the vendor.

See the term applied to real records: paper-products data.

Adjacent concepts worth reading next: - recovered paper - robots txt crawl delay - web scraping