OSM Local Business Lead Finder

Same idea as a Google Maps lead scraper — pick a trade, pick a location, get back a deduplicated, contact-enriched, scored lead list — built on OpenStreetMap instead. No Google Maps actor dependency, no per-listing scraping fee baked into your cost.

What it does

1. Expands your vertical into the OSM tags operators in that trade actually get mapped under (craft=electrician, shop=car_repair, office=lawyer, and so on).
2. Queries OpenStreetMap's Overpass API for matching businesses within your radius of each location.
3. Collapses duplicates — the same shop tagged under two overlapping categories, or picked up at the edge of two adjacent location searches, becomes one row.
4. Optionally visits each business website to pull email addresses and social profiles.
5. Scores every row 0–100 on completeness and contactability, and flags the specific gaps that make a business worth pitching.
6. Drops anything failing your filters before billing.

A note on data quality

OpenStreetMap has no rating or review count — that's the one thing a Google Maps-based scraper has that this doesn't. What it has instead: no cost pass-through for the underlying map data, and often better coverage of small independent trades in areas volunteer mappers have paid attention to. opportunitySignals here are about listing completeness (no website, no phone, sparse tagging) rather than reputation.

Opportunity signals

• no_website — no site listed on the map at all
• no_phone — no contact number
• missing_hours — no posted hours
• sparse_listing — fewer than 4 tags total, usually means a placeholder pin nobody's finished mapping
• possible_chain — name suggests a corporate entity, deprioritize for local outreach

Input

Only locations is required, as coordinates — see below for why.

{
  "vertical": "contractors",
  "locations": ["35.5951,-82.5515"],
  "radiusMeters": 6000,
  "maxLeads": 200,
  "enrichContacts": true
}

Why coordinates instead of a city name

OpenStreetMap's free geocoder (Nominatim) blocks automated traffic from cloud/datacenter IPs outright, including Apify's — it's not a rate limit, it's a standing policy. Rather than ship a step that silently fails on shared infrastructure, this Actor asks for lat,lon directly. Right-click any point on openstreetmap.org or Google Maps to copy coordinates in seconds.

Pricing

Pay per event. You're billed for qualified leads returned and for leads with a resolved email, not for the underlying map query.

Performance note

Overpass is free, community-run infrastructure. Most queries return in 10–20 seconds; under load they can take noticeably longer or briefly fail. This Actor retries across two independent Overpass endpoints automatically and moves on to the next location rather than failing the whole run.