How can I filter a large directory of company links by location?

Check the link titles and award names first—some directories include the country or region after a dash, even when the main company description doesn’t show it. If that information is present, filtering the extracted link text may be much easier than visiting each page.

You can extract the links and names from the page using the browser console, then save the results as CSV for review. For example: [...document.querySelectorAll('a')].map(a => `${a.textContent.trim()},${a.href}`).join('n'). You could then fetch the linked pages with a script and search their text for a list of target cities or regions. Be aware that browser security restrictions may prevent fetching pages on other domains directly from the console.

If the location is included in the directory text or link titles, try your browser’s Find feature with city, country, or region names. However, this won’t help if the location only appears on the linked company pages.

For hundreds or thousands of pages, automation is probably the practical approach. Extract the URLs, download the pages in batches, and search the downloaded text for countries, states, cities, or other geographic terms. An AI tool can help classify the results afterward, but the matches should still be checked because locations may be described inconsistently or refer to an office rather than headquarters.

A search engine query such as site:corporatevision-news.com "Manchester" can sometimes find the relevant linked pages without opening every entry. This is quick, but it depends on the pages being indexed and on the location being written consistently.