Local Business Leads

Find local businesses for any search query + location — name, category, address, coordinates, phone, website and opening hours — using free OpenStreetMap data over plain HTTP. No headless browser, no API key, no per-request fees.

Feed it a query like coffee shop and a location like Algiers, Algeria, and get back one dataset row per business lead, ready to drop into a CRM, an outreach list, or an AI agent's research step.

How it works

1. Geocode — your location text is resolved to a bounding box via OpenStreetMap Nominatim (respecting its usage policy: max 1 request/second, proper User-Agent).
2. POI search — the Overpass API is queried for points of interest inside that bounding box. Common query words map to OSM tags (coffee → amenity=cafe, hotel → tourism=hotel, pharmacy → amenity=pharmacy, …); anything else falls back to a case-insensitive search over business names and tags.
3. Normalize — each result becomes a clean lead: name, amenity=cafe-style category, composed street address, city, country, latitude/longitude, phone, website, opening hours, plus the OSM element type/id for traceability.

Because it's pure HTTP against free APIs, a search costs essentially nothing to run.

Input

Field	Description
query	What kind of business to find, e.g. coffee shop, restaurant, hotel, pharmacy, gym (required)
location	Where to search, e.g. Algiers, Algeria, Austin, Texas (required)
maxResults	Max leads to return (default 20, up to 200)

Example input:

{
  "query": "coffee shop",
  "location": "Algiers, Algeria",
  "maxResults": 20
}

Output

One dataset row per business lead:

Field	Description
name	Business name (when tagged in OSM)
category	Category as OSM tag, e.g. amenity=cafe
address, city, country	Address composed from OSM addr:* tags
latitude, longitude	Coordinates
phone, website, openingHours	Contact details and hours (when tagged)
osmType, osmId	OpenStreetMap element type and id

Pricing

Event	Price
Lead scraped	$0.002 per business lead successfully scraped

You are only charged for leads that are actually delivered — failed searches cost nothing. (Apify platform usage costs are paid by you as usual.)

Data note

All business data comes from OpenStreetMap, the free community map of the world. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License (ODbL) — see openstreetmap.org/copyright. Coverage and detail vary by area: dense city centers tend to have rich listings, rural areas sparser ones. Fields like phone, website and opening hours are only present when OSM contributors tagged them.

Quality rules (measured in an October 2026 audit of real runs):

• Only named businesses are returned. About a third of raw OSM POIs have no name tag; those rows are dropped, never delivered and never charged.
• City falls back to the location you searched when a business's own tags do not carry one, and addresses are completed by reverse geocoding when the tags have none.
• Even so, expect sparse fields outside well-mapped regions: in the same audit, phone numbers were present for about 1 in 9 businesses and websites for about 1 in 25, with much denser coverage in France/Western Europe than in Algeria. If a field matters to you, treat this Actor as a discovery tool, not a verified directory.
• Address accuracy spot check (October 2026): 20 delivered addresses were checked against independent reverse geocoding of their own coordinates. 16 of 20 matched exactly. The other 4 were coarse (locality only) or sat in a neighbouring commune of the same metro area — none pointed to a wrong street. Each row states where its address came from (addressSource: osm_tag, reverse_geocoded, or none) and whether its city is the searched-location fallback (cityIsFallback).