Google Maps Email Scraper & Lead Extractor
Pricing
Pay per usage
Extract business emails, phone numbers, websites, social media links, ratings, reviews, and opening hours from Google Maps. The most complete lead generation tool for B2B sales prospecting. Supports any location and language worldwide.
All notable changes to this Apify Actor. Built with transparent development — every version and its tradeoffs documented.
maxResults: 500 → needs ~28 min, Your run timeout: 5 min, Gap: ~23 min) so they immediately connect the failure to what they entered.[A]/[B]/[C]/[D] with dynamic values: Lower from 500 to ≤ 79, Raise timeout to 3600s, Split into 7 runs of 79, Disable validateEmails (−1s/lead)."Preflight failed: estimated runtime exceeds run timeout" to a self-contained human sentence: "Your input (maxResults=500) needs ~28 min but the run timeout is only 5 min. Stopped before charging you — 0 events billed. See log for 3-4 one-click fixes."Actor.exit(1) which, counter-intuitively, still resolves the run as status: SUCCEEDED, exitCode: 0 on Apify. Users would see a "green checkmark" run with zero results — indistinguishable from a genuinely empty dataset. Swapped to Actor.fail(statusMessage). Now:
publicActorRunStats30Days.FAILED counter separates preflight refusals from real timeouts in our observability.Error: Actor failed! instead of Success: Actor finished.maxResults so large even 2h isn't enough, (3) pin an older build. The estimator warned about this but didn't stop the run.
APIFY_TIMEOUT_AT env var (platform-set deadline) and compares it to the runtime estimate.estRuntime > availableTime, the actor exits with code 1 before scraping a single page — zero place-scraped / website-scraped events charged.maxResults would fit safely, how to split into multiple runs with sinceDatasetId, and which enrichment flags to disable.✅ Budget OK line so users see explicit confirmation that the run will fit..actor/actor.json defaultRunOptions.timeoutSecs bumped from 3600 to 7200 (2 hours). Covers ~900 leads at default concurrency.maxResults × searchQueries.length × feature flags, logs it on startup, and emits a ⚠️ warning if the estimate exceeds the default timeout — telling the user exactly how much to raise it (and why).maxResults description updated with timeout guidance so users see it before they launch a 1000-lead job.deliverability: "high", use sinceDatasetId for next run)M9Bd8gMh4NglVKIbt) — 64% email, 56% ownerNameROgK5EsNU6UtTSwFl) — 70% email, 79% FB page IDsgI04MuKrfPF4D4Ui8) — 85% email, 65% high-deliverabilitymarketing/showcase.md — cross-vertical dataset gallery with metrics breakdown and "how to reproduce" inputs.marketing/blog-post.md to reflect v1.2 features (deliverability grading, web signals, delta mode, Meta Ad Library).normaliseWebsite() now unwraps https://www.google.com/url?q=<real>&... wrapper URLs emitted by Google Maps, so downstream phases (email extraction, web signal analysis, email validation) operate on the real business domain. Previously, ~40% of results were scraping google.com instead of the real website — including false press@google.com primary emails.emailValidation field). Every primaryEmail is graded via MX / SPF / DMARC DNS lookups + best-effort SMTP RCPT TO probe. Output: {mxRecords, hasSpf, hasDmarc, smtpValid, isCatchAll, deliverability} with grade "high" / "medium" / "low" / "unknown". Agencies and cold-outreach teams can now skip invalid / catch-all addresses before burning sender reputation.webSignals + webQuality fields). Lightweight "Lighthouse without Lighthouse" — extracted from the HTML already fetched for email scraping, so zero extra cost. Outputs: httpsOnly, mobileResponsive, pageSizeKb, hasFavicon, hasOpenGraph, hasStructuredData. Perfect for web-dev agency outreach targeting.validateEmails (default true), extractWebSignals (default true).dns/promises + net — no new dependencies.sinceDatasetId input). Pass a previous run's dataset ID and the actor skips every place already present (matched by Google Maps placeId). Workflow win for scheduled runs: users pay only for new leads.enrichMetaAds input). For every business with a Facebook URL, the actor fetches the FB page, extracts the numeric page ID, and builds a targeted Meta Ad Library lookup URL (view_all_page_id=<ID> — ads from that specific page, not a noisy keyword search). Click-through reveals if the business is currently running Facebook/Instagram ads — a strong buying-intent signal.facebookPageId, metaAdLibraryUrl (always filled — page-specific when pageId extractable, keyword fallback otherwise).placeId Set with lowercase normalization for robust matching across runs.place-scraped events fire for skipped duplicates = users pay nothing for already-known leads.reviewKeywords PUA (Private Use Area) leak. Material Icons ligatures in Unicode range U+E000-U+F8FF were slipping through as "Sort", "All", etc. Added browser-side + Node-side filter: .replace(/[\uE000-\uF8FF]/g, '').ownerName extraction rate raised from 0% to 40%. Updated NW regex pattern to accept Mc/Mac/Van prefixes and hyphenated compound names. Previously "McDonald" was rejected because of the internal capital D; now "Pam Weekes & Connie McDonald" (Levain Bakery) and "Jatee Kearsley" (Je T'aime Patisserie) extract correctly.apify push within the same actor.json version.