How can I find companies by location across a large directory of links?

A site-specific search may find many of them without any scripting. Try searches such as site:example.com "Manchester" or site:example.com "Spain", replacing the domain and location with what you need. This depends on the pages being indexed and won’t catch every variation, but it’s a quick first pass.

For a list of hundreds or thousands of companies, automate the first stage: collect each company name and URL, download the pages with a script, then search the page text for a controlled list of countries, states, cities, or regions. You can also use an AI tool to classify the extracted text, but manually verify the results because locations may be written inconsistently or refer to an office, award category, or service area rather than headquarters.

The directory may contain useful location clues in the link title or award name, such as a country appearing after a dash. Check the page HTML and link text before crawling every destination. If that information isn’t present, a script or data-extraction tool will save a lot of time compared with opening each page by hand.

If the location is already visible in the directory text, you can use your browser’s find feature to search for a city or region. Since it sounds like the location is usually on the linked pages instead, extract the links first with the browser console. For example: [...document.querySelectorAll('a')].map(a => a.href).join('n'). You can save the results and search or fetch the pages in batches. Be aware that browser requests to other domains may be blocked by CORS, so downloading them with a command-line tool or small script is often easier.