Local Business Lead Finder

What does Local Business Lead Finder do?

Turn any city + niche into a verified list of businesses — phone that formats, website that actually loads, email whose domain can receive mail — ready for outbound, agencies, and investor market maps.

This Actor is a Google Maps lead API alternative that does not fight Google. It reads OpenStreetMap (worldwide, no login), visits each business website for public emails and socials, then auto-verifies every row before you pay for it.

Austin dentists. Miami HVAC. London gyms. Same run. Dead domains never make the export.

Export CSV, Excel, JSON, or HTML. Schedule it. Call it from n8n, Make, Clay, or your own API.

---

How lead verification is automated

Raw lists get refunds. This Actor runs a four-check pipeline on every row before it hits your dataset. You are charged only for leads that survive.

Check	What the Actor does	Why a buyer cares
Email	Syntax + disposable-domain block + MX lookup + domain-matches-website	Stops the majority of instant bounces before Instantly / Smartlead ever sees them
Website	HTTP probe, HTTPS, title, parking / for-sale / coming-soon detection	You do not pitch a business that shut down last year
Phone	Digit rules, NANP / E.164, UK/AU/DE/FR trunk prefixes	SDRs do not waste dials on 555 junk or 4-digit stubs
Score	Composite 0–100 → verified / likely / unverified / dead	Sort hottest first. Filter onlyVerified or minScore: 70

What “verified” means here (honest):

• emailMx: true → the domain can receive mail. It is not a mailbox-exists guarantee (SMTP ping looks like spam and is blocked by most hosts).
• phoneE164 → the number is a real-world format for that country. It is not a “this line rings” carrier lookup.
• websiteStatus: live → the site returned a real page, not a parked / expired / for-sale shell.

That is the same bar agencies use to sell a list at 5–10× a raw Maps dump. Carrier-level phone lookup (Twilio) and mailbox-level email (NeverBounce / ZeroBounce) are optional paid add-ons later — not required to ship a list someone will buy.

Toggles that control quality

Input	Default	Effect
Verify emails, websites, and phones	on	Runs the pipeline above
Drop dead leads	on	Parked / unreachable rows never leave the dataset (and are not billed)
Only verified leads	off	Keep verificationStatus = verified only
Minimum verification score	0	e.g. 70 ≈ verified-only, 45 ≈ likely + verified

Turn Visit websites on (default) so email + parking checks have a real HTML page to read. Verification still MX-checks and probes sites if enrichment was skipped.

---

Why use Local Business Lead Finder?

Most “Maps scrapers” give you a name and a pin. Your SDRs still have to open 200 tabs to find an email, then bounce half of them. This Actor closes that gap.

You get outreach-ready, scored rows — not raw HTML.

• Any city on earth — US, UK, EU, AU, CA, and beyond
• 40+ niches: dentists, HVAC, lawyers, gyms, hotels, salons, clinics, and more
• Public phones from OSM + tel: links, normalized to E.164
• Public emails from homepage and contact pages, MX-checked
• Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, X, YouTube, TikTok when they are linked
• Deduped, scored, filterable (only with phone / only with email / only verified)
• Runs on Apify: schedules, webhooks, API, integrations, monitoring

Who buys this data

Buyer	What they do with it
Marketing / SEO agencies	Resell weekly verified local lists
SDR / outbound teams	Dial and email a fresh niche in a new metro without bounce spikes
Insurance, solar, home services	Call lists by trade that still exist
Recruiters	Employers in a city with a live site
Founders / operators	Count live competitors before opening a location

If you already sell “leads,” this is your factory. Verification is the reason a client does not churn.

---

What data can Local Business Lead Finder extract?

Field	Type	Why it matters
name	text	Business to contact
nicheLabel	text	Human-readable niche
phone	text	Original phone string
phoneE164	text	Dialer-ready +15124747575
email	text	First public inbox found
emails	array	All public inboxes on the site
emailMx	boolean	Domain has MX records
emailDomainMatch	boolean	Inbox is on the same domain as the website
website	link	Landing page for personalization
websiteStatus	text	live / parking / dead / unknown
verificationScore	number	0–100 composite
verificationStatus	text	verified / likely / unverified / dead
verificationNotes	array	Why the score landed there
address, city, state, postcode	text	Routing and territory
facebook, instagram, linkedin, twitter	link	Social / creative intel
lat, lon	number	Maps and distance
hasPhone, hasWebsite, hasEmail	boolean	Fast filters in Sheets
osmId	text	Stable id for refreshes

You can download the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, or HTML. Open the Verified view in the Output tab to sort by score.

---

How to scrape (and verify) local business leads

1. Click Try for free
2. Set City / location — Austin, TX, USA or Manchester, UK
3. Pick a Niche — Dentist, HVAC, Lawyer, Gym…
4. Set Max leads (start with 50)
5. Leave Visit websites for emails & socials on
6. Leave Verify and Drop dead leads on
7. Hit Start and wait for the green run
8. Open Output → Verified and export CSV

That’s it. No cookies, no Google account, no selector guessing.

Typical first runs

• dentist + Austin, TX, USA + 50 leads
• hvac + Phoenix, AZ, USA + only with phone
• lawyer + London, UK + only verified
• gym + Miami, FL, USA + min score 70

---

How much will it cost to scrape local businesses?

Pricing is pay-per-event on Apify — the customer’s Apify account is billed. You do not need Stripe, invoices, or a separate checkout.

Event	What it is	Price
Verified lead (lead)	One row that survived verification and was written to the dataset	$0.012

Dead / parked / filtered rows are not billed. Platform compute is covered by the event price (not charged on top).

Run	You pay Apify	What you get
50 leads (one city sample)	~$0.60	Outreach-ready CSV
200 leads	~$2.40	A week of SDR dialing
500 leads (metro list)	~$6.00	Agency-resellable sheet

Set a max total charge on the run if you want a hard cap. The Actor stops delivering when that cap is hit.

Turn Only verified or Min score 70 on so you never pay for a row you would delete.

The Apify free / trial credits are enough to demo a city. Larger plans unlock weekly schedules.

Author payout: Apify keeps 20% of event revenue and subtracts compute from your 80%. Default RAM is 1 GB so compute stays tiny next to the $0.012 lead fee.

---

Input

See the Input tab for the full form. The fields that matter:

• City / location — include region and country
• Niche — dropdown of 40+ OSM-mapped categories
• Max leads — 1 to 1,000
• Search radius — default 12 km; use 25–40 for large metros
• Visit websites — on by default; this is how emails appear
• Verify / Drop dead leads / Only verified / Min score — quality gates
• Custom OSM tags — optional power user, e.g. amenity=clinic
• Proxy — optional, only for website visits

---

Output

Every run writes one dataset row per business, highest score first. Example:

[
  {
    "name": "Barton Hills Dental",
    "nicheLabel": "Dentist",
    "phone": "+1 512-555-0142",
    "phoneE164": "+15125550142",
    "email": "hello@exampledental.com",
    "emailMx": true,
    "emailDomainMatch": true,
    "website": "https://exampledental.com",
    "websiteStatus": "live",
    "verificationScore": 96,
    "verificationStatus": "verified",
    "address": "2410 Barton Hills Dr",
    "city": "Austin",
    "state": "TX",
    "instagram": "https://www.instagram.com/exampledental",
    "hasPhone": true,
    "hasEmail": true
  }
]

Download JSON, CSV, Excel, or HTML from the Output tab, or pull it via the Dataset API.

---

How to use the leads API

After a run:

GET https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/<DATASET_ID>/items?format=csv

Or start a run from n8n / Make / Clay with:

{
  "location": "Austin, TX, USA",
  "category": "dentist",
  "maxResults": 50,
  "enrichContacts": true,
  "verifyLeads": true,
  "dropDeadLeads": true,
  "onlyVerified": false,
  "minScore": 0
}

Schedule it weekly. Same city, fresh phones. Diff on osmId. Pipe the dataset webhook into HubSpot / Clay / a Google Sheet. That is daily distribution: one Actor schedule, every morning, verified rows only.

---

Tips

• Coverage follows OpenStreetMap. Dense US/EU downtowns are excellent. Sparse rural areas return fewer rows — increase radius or pick a larger town.
• Emails come from public websites, not from a magic inbox database. No website → no email. Filter with “only with website” when you need inboxes.
• MX ≠ inbox exists. A domain with MX can still have a typo local-part. Domain-match emails (hello@theirdomain.com) are the hottest.
• Start without a proxy. Add Apify Proxy only if website enrichment gets blocked.
• Deduped by name + address. Safe to re-run a city next month and diff on osmId.
• Custom tags let you chase niches not in the dropdown (shop=hearing_aids, amenity=clinic).

---

FAQ, disclaimers, and support

Is this a Google Maps scraper?

No. It does not open Google Maps. It uses OpenStreetMap plus the businesses’ own public websites. That is why it is stable, worldwide, and cheaper than cookie-heavy Maps Actors.

Will every row have an email?

No — only when the business publishes one. Use Only leads with an email or Only verified if you want a shorter, hotter list.

Does verification call the phone or send a test email?

No. Phone is format / E.164. Email is syntax + MX. Website is an HTTP GET. Nothing is placed in a mailbox and no carrier is billed.

Can I use this for cold email?

Only with a legitimate interest and in line with CAN-SPAM, GDPR, and local rules. This Actor collects public business contact details, not private personal inboxes.

Our Actors extract what businesses have chosen to publish on OpenStreetMap and on their public websites (name, address, phone, website, public email, public social links). They do not log into accounts, bypass paywalls, or scrape private user profiles. Results may still contain personal data. Personal data is protected by the GDPR in the European Union and by other regulations around the world. You should not use this data unless you have a legitimate reason. If you are unsure, consult your lawyers.

Something missing in my city?

OpenStreetMap coverage varies. Try a larger radius, a broader niche, or custom tags. If a run fails, open the Issues tab on this Actor with the city and niche you used.

Need it programmatically?

Use the API tab in the Console. Auth with your Apify token, pass the JSON input above, and poll the dataset.

Built for people who sell lists, book calls, or decide where to open next — not for people who want another HTML dump.