Local Business Finder: OpenStreetMap data, no Google Maps scraping

Local business lists from OpenStreetMap: an open-data alternative to Google Maps scrapers, licensed under the ODbL.

Pick a category (dentists, cafes, plumbers, gyms and 26 more) or any OpenStreetMap tag, and a city, a bounding box or a point and radius. You get one row per business with its name, address, phone number, website, opening hours, brand, coordinates and a link to the object on OpenStreetMap, plus a flag for businesses that have no website.

USD 0.50 per 1,000 businesses. Filtered-out rows, failed queries and malformed input are free.

What people use it for

• No-website prospects for web design and local SEO agencies. "Dentists in Brampton with no website" is a ready prospect list, with the business phone number where OpenStreetMap has one. Turn on Only businesses without a website and rerun monthly per city.
• Competitor counts by city. Count cafes, gyms or pharmacies per city or per neighbourhood box, and compare places.
• Chain vs independent. Chains and franchises carry a brand tag (Tim Hortons, Starbucks, Shoppers Drug Mart). Count them, or turn on Exclude chains to keep independents only.
• Store-locator and map seeding. Coordinates, addresses and opening hours under an open licence you can redistribute (with attribution and share-alike, see below).
• Teams that cannot use Google Maps data. Google's terms restrict copying and storing Maps content; OpenStreetMap data is open under the ODbL.

Sample output

Real rows from the default input (dentists in Brampton, Ontario), fetched 2026-10-06:

Name	Address	Phone	Website	Has website	OSM link
Main Street Dental	9, 320 Main Street North, Brampton, ON L6V 4A3	+19054569200	https://mainstreetdentaloffice.com	yes	node/887581928
The Tooth Corner Dental Office	213, 164 Sandalwood Parkway East, Brampton, ON L6Z 3S4	+19058404888	https://toothcorner.com	yes	node/1870128251
iSmile Dental Centre	4, 23 Conservation Drive, Brampton, L6Z 4R3	+19058469655	https://ismiledentalcentre.com	yes	node/1918832248
Dawson Dental				no	node/703059174
Parkplace Junior Dentistry 4 Kids	107 Queen Street East, Brampton	+19058666606		no	node/814375244

Coverage of those 100 rows: phone 44% (all in E.164 form), website 34%, opening hours 11%, full street address 17%; 17 of the 66 businesses without a website have a phone number. Every run writes its own coverage numbers to the SUMMARY record, so you see what you got before you use it.

One full row:

{
  "name": "Smile Solutions Orthodontists Drs. Eckler, Black & Leung",
  "category": "dentist",
  "osmTags": { "amenity": "dentist", "healthcare": "dentist" },
  "brand": null,
  "brandWikidata": null,
  "operator": null,
  "address": "Unit # 135, 150 Great Lakes Drive, Brampton, ON L6R 2K7",
  "street": "Great Lakes Drive",
  "houseNumber": "150",
  "unit": "Unit # 135",
  "city": "Brampton",
  "postcode": "L6R 2K7",
  "province": "ON",
  "country": null,
  "latitude": 43.7295524,
  "longitude": -79.7644618,
  "website": "https://www.smilenow.com",
  "hasWebsite": true,
  "phone": "+19057898888",
  "phones": null,
  "phoneRaw": null,
  "openingHours": "Mo-Th 08:00-17:00, Fr 08:00- 14:00",
  "wheelchair": null,
  "description": "Our team consists of 5 Certified Orthodontic Specialists and a team of certified workers ...",
  "osmType": "node",
  "osmId": 8741750713,
  "osmUrl": "https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/8741750713",
  "lastEditedAt": "2026-09-03T05:23:14Z",
  "searchArea": "bounding box of Brampton, Peel Region, Ontario, Canada: 43.6018018,-79.8888473,43.8480959,-79.6302939 (the area query failed; may include neighbouring places)",
  "attribution": "© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0 (https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright)",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-10-06T14:19:01.968Z"
}

In this run the public server was busy for the boundary query, so the actor searched the place's bounding box and searchArea says so (one of the 100 rows is in Mississauga).

Input

Field	What it does
Category	One of the 30 presets below. Leave empty to search by custom tags only.
Custom OpenStreetMap tags	Extra tags as key=value, for example shop=bakery or craft=carpenter; key=* means any value. ORed with the category. Tag list: OSM Map Features.
Location	A city, region or neighbourhood, for example Brampton, Ontario. The search covers the place's boundary in OpenStreetMap.
Bounding box	Optional south,west,north,east, for example 43.60,-79.89,43.85,-79.63. Used instead of the location.
Latitude, Longitude, Radius (km)	Optional circle search (0.1 to 50 km, default 5). Used instead of the location.
Only businesses without a website / with a website	Website filters (one or the other).
Exclude chains	Drops businesses with a brand tag.
Maximum businesses	Cap per run (default 1,000; the form starts at 100).
Overpass server (advanced)	The Overpass API endpoint. Default https://overpass-api.de/api/interpreter; you can use your own server.
Nominatim server (advanced)	The place-lookup endpoint. Default is the public OpenStreetMap Nominatim server.

Categories

Each preset is a set of OpenStreetMap tags; a business matching any of them is found.

Preset	OSM tags
dentist	amenity=dentist, healthcare=dentist
doctor	amenity=doctors, healthcare=doctor, amenity=clinic, healthcare=clinic
pharmacy	amenity=pharmacy, healthcare=pharmacy
veterinary	amenity=veterinary
restaurant	amenity=restaurant
cafe	amenity=cafe
bar	amenity=bar, amenity=pub
bakery	shop=bakery
hairdresser	shop=hairdresser
beauty	shop=beauty
gym	leisure=fitness_centre
hotel	tourism=hotel, tourism=motel
car_repair	shop=car_repair
car_dealer	shop=car
plumber	craft=plumber
electrician	craft=electrician
hvac	craft=hvac
roofer	craft=roofer
lawyer	office=lawyer
accountant	office=accountant, office=tax_advisor
insurance	office=insurance
school	amenity=school
childcare	amenity=childcare, amenity=kindergarten
supermarket	shop=supermarket
convenience	shop=convenience
clothes	shop=clothes
hardware	shop=hardware, shop=doityourself
florist	shop=florist
pet_store	shop=pet
bicycle_shop	shop=bicycle

Fast food is amenity=fast_food and barbers are usually shop=hairdresser; add custom tags for anything else. Real-estate and property tags (estate agents, buildings, land use, rentals) are not supported.

Output fields

Field	What it is
name	The business name from OpenStreetMap. Objects without a name are left out.
category	The preset name, or the custom tag that matched (for example shop=bakery).
osmTags	Only the category tags of this object, for example {"amenity":"dentist","healthcare":"dentist"}.
brand, brandWikidata	Chain or franchise brand and its Wikidata id, when tagged.
operator	The operating company, only when the object also has a brand or an operator Wikidata id (so it is a company, not a person).
address, street, houseNumber, unit, city, postcode, province, country	From the addr:* tags. province holds addr:province or addr:state. address is one line built from the parts.
latitude, longitude	The point, or the centre of a building or area outline.
website, hasWebsite	Website with https:// added when missing and the host lowercased; hasWebsite is false when there is none.
phone	The business's phone number from the OSM tag phone, or contact:phone when there is no phone tag. In E.164 form (for example +19054569200) when it parses cleanly with the country of the address (addr:country) or of the searched place; otherwise exactly as written in OSM. null when OSM has none.
phones	All numbers, when the tag lists several separated by ; (each in E.164 form where it parses). phone is the first of them. null when there is only one number or none.
phoneRaw	The phone tag exactly as written in OSM, only when phone could not be put in E.164 form (for example 905 555 0100 ext. 3, or a number without a country code in a bounding-box search); otherwise null.
openingHours	The raw OSM opening_hours value.
wheelchair, description	As tagged. E-mail addresses and phone numbers written inside descriptions are replaced with [email removed] and [phone removed].
osmType, osmId, osmUrl, lastEditedAt	The OpenStreetMap object, a link to it, and when it was last edited.
searchArea, attribution, fetchedAt	What was searched, the licence credit, and when.

The SUMMARY record in the run's key-value store has the search area, the requests made, the number of rows output and billed, and coverage: how many rows have a website, a phone number (and how many of those are in E.164 form), opening hours, a street address and a brand.

The field hasPhoneTag (output until 2026-10-06) has been removed; use phone instead (null means OSM has no phone number for the business).

Pricing

What	Price
Business found (after your filters)	USD 0.0005 (USD 0.50 per 1,000)
Run start (Apify's standard start event)	USD 0.00005 per run
Filtered-out rows, failed queries, malformed input	Free

Example: a monthly job for "dentists in 5 cities, no website" that finds 300 businesses costs 300 x USD 0.0005 = USD 0.15, plus 5 x USD 0.00005 for the starts. The default input (100 dentists) costs USD 0.05.

Set a maximum cost per run in the run options and the actor stops cleanly when it is reached. Unless Only businesses with a website is on, it also asks the server for no more businesses than that budget pays for.

Scheduling

New businesses appear as people edit OpenStreetMap. Save your input as a task and schedule it monthly per city, then send the results to Google Sheets, Slack or a webhook with Apify integrations. A place name is looked up once and remembered for 30 days, so scheduled runs do not query the place-lookup service again.

What this does not do (honest limits)

• OpenStreetMap coverage is thinner than Google Maps and varies by area. Volunteers map businesses; some cities are very complete, others have gaps. Expect fewer businesses and fewer websites than Google shows. In the Brampton dentist sample, 34% of rows had a website and 11% had opening hours. A missing website in OSM does not always mean the business has none, so check before you pitch.
• Business phone numbers, but no e-mail addresses. The phone number a business has published in OpenStreetMap (phone or contact:phone) is output. E-mail addresses are never output, and neither are fax numbers or the mobile tags (mobile, contact:mobile). Phone numbers and e-mail addresses written inside the free-text description are removed and replaced with [phone removed] and [email removed]. Not every business has a phone number in OSM (44% of the Brampton dentist sample did), and a number is only as current as the last edit of that object, so check lastEditedAt.
• Phone numbers are not all in E.164 form. A bounding-box or circle search makes no place lookup, so the actor knows no country for it: a number written without a country code (for example 905-555-0100) stays as written, with phoneRaw, unless the business address has addr:country. Numbers with an extension or with words in the tag also stay as written.
• No reviews, ratings, photos or popularity. OpenStreetMap does not hold them.
• Objects without a name are skipped, and so are businesses tagged in ways the category does not cover. Use custom tags for other tags.
• Place boundaries: a place name searches its boundary in OSM. If the public server cannot answer the boundary query, the actor uses the place's bounding box instead, which can include businesses just outside the place; searchArea then says so.
• The public Overpass servers are shared and often busy. The actor waits 10 s and retries (with the place's bounding box when the boundary query failed), waits 30 s and tries the public Private.coffee community instance once, then waits 60 s and asks the main server one last time. If all are busy it ends with a clear error and charges nothing. Large areas (a whole country) may be too heavy for the public servers; use a smaller area or your own Overpass server.
• You can fix gaps yourself by editing OpenStreetMap at https://www.openstreetmap.org; your edits appear in later runs.

Data sources, licence and attribution

• Data: OpenStreetMap, read through the Overpass API: the main public instance at overpass-api.de (run by FOSSGIS), and as a fallback the Private.coffee community instance, whose published usage policy reads "Feel free to use our service in any project, there is no rate limit in place." and asks to be told in advance about large-scale use. The actor sends at most one request there per run, and only when the main server is busy. Place names are looked up with Nominatim.
• Licence: © OpenStreetMap contributors. The data is available under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0. Every row carries the credit © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0 (https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright).
• What the ODbL asks of you: credit OpenStreetMap and its contributors wherever you use the data, and make clear it is available under the ODbL. If you publish a database you built from this data, you must share that database under the same licence (share-alike); using the data internally, or publishing works such as maps or reports made from it, follows the attribution rules on the OSM copyright page.
• Fair use of the free servers: the actor sends one Overpass query per run, one request at a time, and waits before retrying after a busy answer, identifies itself with the user agent osm-business-finder/1.0 (+https://apify.com/JTPalms/osm-business-finder), and calls Nominatim at most once per place every 30 days, following the Overpass usage guidelines and the Nominatim usage policy. It uses no proxies.

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FAQ

Why fewer results than Google Maps? OpenStreetMap is mapped by volunteers; coverage differs by city and category. The SUMMARY coverage numbers show what you got.

Is this a Google Maps scraper? No. It never touches Google. It reads open OpenStreetMap data through its public APIs.

Can I resell the data? The ODbL allows commercial use with attribution; a database you publish from it must stay under the ODbL. Read the licence, and ask a lawyer if you are unsure.

Something missing or wrong? Open an issue with your input.