Fresh Lead Finder – Find Interested People in Real-Time

The fastest way to find people actively looking for your service, product, or seeking alternatives to your competitors — across Reddit and Facebook Groups in 20 languages, with built-in AI relevance filtering.

💎 Paid Apify plans only. This actor is gated behind any paid Apify plan (Starter, Scale, Business…). Free-tier accounts will receive an upgrade notice instead of leads.

⚡ A modern, open alternative to ReplyGuy — broader reach, multilingual, AI-filtered, pay-as-you-go.

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What This Actor Does

Tell Fresh Lead Finder what you sell (or who your competitor is), pick a market, and it surfaces real, recent public posts from people expressing buying intent right now:

• "Can anyone recommend a good plumber in San Francisco?"
• "Looking for a CRM for our agency"
• "Any alternative to HubSpot that's cheaper?"
• "Tired of Salesforce, what are you all using instead?"

Every result is a warm, context-rich lead you can approach with a relevant, timely reply.

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Why Fresh Lead Finder vs ReplyGuy

Feature	Fresh Lead Finder	ReplyGuy
Pricing	Pay per run (compute units)	$39–$199/month subscription
Platforms	Reddit + Facebook Groups	Primarily Reddit
Languages	20 (EN, IT, ES, FR, DE, NL, PT, PL, SV, DA, NO, FI, ZH, MS…)	English only
Search modes	Looking For + Alternative To	Keyword monitoring
AI relevance filter	Built-in — drops noise automatically	—
Data ownership	Full — exported to your dataset	SaaS
Integration	API, webhooks, Zapier, Make	Limited

If you want maximum coverage at minimum cost, need non-English markets, or simply prefer owning your own lead pipeline, Fresh Lead Finder is built for you.

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Use Cases

• Local service businesses — plumbers, lawyers, accountants — find people asking for help in their city
• SaaS founders — intercept users frustrated with competitors and shopping for alternatives
• Agencies — find B2B prospects actively searching for your services
• Recruiters — locate professionals signalling they need a better tool
• E-commerce brands — find buyers comparing products in your category
• Developers — discover devs struggling with a problem your tool solves

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How It Works

1. You enter a keyword (your service, product, or a competitor name), an optional location, and select a target market / language.
2. Fresh Lead Finder scans Reddit and Facebook Groups for posts matching active buying intent — in the native language of the market you chose.
3. An AI relevance filter automatically removes noise: articles, listicles, category pages, job posts, sponsored content, irrelevant matches.
4. Qualified leads stream into your dataset in real time — each new lead lands the moment the AI confirms it, no waiting for the whole run to finish.

Search Modes

🔍 Looking For — finds people actively searching for what you offer.

Catches intent like "can anyone recommend", "looking for", "need a", "best tool for", "quote for", "mi consigliate", "cerco", "ich suche", "je cherche", "busco" and dozens more across languages.

🔄 Alternative To — finds people frustrated with a competitor and shopping for alternatives.

Catches intent like "alternative to", "tired of", "alternativa a", "Alternative zu", "any alternative" and the equivalent in 20 languages.

Platforms Covered

Reddit (all public subreddits) · Facebook Groups (all public groups)

Two focused, high-signal sources where real people post real buying-intent questions. The AI relevance filter does the rest.

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Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
mode	looking_for | alternative_to	Search intent mode
keyword	string	What you sell (Looking For) or who your competitor is (Alternative To)
location	string	City, region or country (optional)
market	enum	Target language / market
afterDate	date (YYYY-MM-DD)	Only return posts published after this date (calendar picker, optional)

Available Markets

global · us · uk · ca · au · it · es · latam · br · fr · de · nl · pt · sg · cn · dk · fi · no · pl · se

Example Inputs

Find plumbers in San Francisco posting in the last 30 days:

{
  "mode": "looking_for",
  "keyword": "plumber",
  "location": "San Francisco",
  "market": "us",
  "afterDate": "2026-04-24"
}

Find people tired of HubSpot looking for alternatives:

{
  "mode": "alternative_to",
  "keyword": "HubSpot",
  "market": "global",
  "afterDate": "2026-01-01"
}

Find Italian businesses looking for a web agency in Milano:

{
  "mode": "looking_for",
  "keyword": "agenzia web",
  "location": "Milano",
  "market": "it"
}

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Output

Each item in the dataset is a fully qualified lead:

{
  "platform": "Reddit",
  "intent": "Looking For",
  "title": "Looking for a good plumber in San Francisco",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/.../...",
  "description": "Hey everyone, we just moved to SF and need a reliable plumber to fix a slow drain. Any recommendations?",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-24T10:32:00.000Z"
}

Output Fields

Field	Description
platform	Source platform (Reddit or Facebook Groups)
intent	Looking For or Alternative To
title	Title of the post
url	Direct link to the post
description	Post snippet / context
scrapedAt	ISO timestamp of when the lead was found

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Scheduling for Ongoing Lead Generation

Use Apify's built-in scheduler to run this actor daily or weekly and always have fresh leads in your pipeline:

1. Go to your actor run → Schedule
2. Set a cron: 0 8 * * 1-5 (every weekday at 8am)
3. Pipe the output dataset to Zapier, Make, n8n, or your CRM via webhook

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this legal? Yes. Fresh Lead Finder only accesses publicly available posts that anyone can read in a browser. It does not bypass any login, paywall, or rate limit. Always engage with leads responsibly and in compliance with each platform's terms of service.

How is this different from ReplyGuy? ReplyGuy is a subscription SaaS focused on Reddit. Fresh Lead Finder is a pay-per-use Apify actor that scans Reddit and Facebook Groups in 20 languages, automatically filters out noise with AI, streams qualified leads to your dataset in real time, and lets you export them via any downstream workflow.

How is this different from social listening tools like Mention or Brand24? Social listening tools monitor brand mentions. Fresh Lead Finder finds people expressing buying intent — they're asking for recommendations or alternatives, often without mentioning you at all. These are net-new prospects, not existing brand mentions.

Can I use this for non-English markets? Yes. Fresh Lead Finder works natively in Italian, Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Portuguese, Polish, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Mandarin Chinese, Malay, and more — with intent phrases tuned for each language.

Why are some runs returning fewer leads than others? The AI relevance filter is aggressive by design — it would rather drop a borderline result than waste your time on noise. If you're getting few leads, try: broadening your keyword, removing the location, switching markets, or extending the afterDate window.

How are leads qualified? Every result goes through an LLM-powered relevance check that decides whether the post is from a real person actively expressing buying intent — versus an article, listicle, ad, job post, category page, or irrelevant match. Only qualified leads land in your dataset.