# Restaurant & Business Leads – OpenStreetMap (Maps Alternative) (`nebulosa/osm-business-leads`) Actor

Extract restaurants, cafes, bars, hotels, shops and any business type for a city, area or radius from OpenStreetMap. Name, address, website, phone, opening hours, cuisine, diet tags, GPS. Cheap, no proxies, ODbL open data.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/nebulosa/osm-business-leads.md
- **Developed by:** [Nebulosa Data](https://apify.com/nebulosa) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Travel
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

Pay per usage

This Actor is paid per platform usage. The Actor is free to use, and you only pay for the Apify platform usage, which gets cheaper the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-usage

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Restaurant & Business Leads from OpenStreetMap: a Google Maps scraper alternative

Extract **restaurants, cafés, bars, hotels, shops and other local businesses** for any city, bounding box or radius from **OpenStreetMap**. You get name, address, GPS coordinates, website, phone, opening hours, cuisine, diet tags (vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free), outdoor seating, takeaway, delivery and more.

It's **fast and cheap**: one query per city, no browser, no proxies, no Google rate limits. The data is **open (ODbL)**, so you can reuse it in your product with attribution.

Use cases: **restaurant lead lists** for B2B sales (POS, delivery, menu/QR software, suppliers), market maps, store locators, hospitality analytics, and enriching CRM data.

### Output (per place)

`name`, `category`, `cuisine[]`, `brand`, `street`, `houseNumber`, `postcode`, `city`, `fullAddress`, `lat`, `lon`, `openingHours`, `website`, `menuUrl`, `phone`, `email`, `facebook`, `instagram`, `reservationUrl`, `wheelchair`, `outdoorSeating`, `takeaway`, `delivery`, `dietVegan`, `dietVegetarian`, `dietGlutenFree`, `stars`, `rooms`, `wikidata`, `osmUrl`, `googleMapsUrl`, `attribution`.

### How to use

```json
{
  "locations": ["Málaga", "Marbella"],
  "countryCode": "ES",
  "categories": ["restaurant", "cafe", "bar"],
  "requireWebsite": true,
  "maxItems": 1000
}
```

- **Cities**: use the local OpenStreetMap name (Kraków, Lisboa, München). Add the **country code** to avoid same-name towns.
- Or give a **bounding box** (`south,west,north,east`) or a **center point + radius**.
- **Categories**: restaurants, cafés, bars, pubs, fast food, hotels, guest houses, hostels, bakeries, supermarkets, hairdressers, gyms… or any **custom OSM tag** (`craft=brewery`, `tourism=museum`).
- Filters: only places with a website or a phone.

### Pricing

Pay per place saved. See the Pricing tab. Much cheaper per lead than browser-based Google Maps scrapers.

### Data quality and coverage

OpenStreetMap is edited by volunteers and businesses. City centres in Europe are well covered; contact fields are filled for a share of places (in our Málaga test, roughly half the cafés and restaurants near the centre had a website or phone). Use `requireWebsite` / `requirePhone` to get only contactable leads.

### FAQ

**Legal?** OpenStreetMap data is © OpenStreetMap contributors and licensed under the **ODbL 1.0**. You may use it commercially; keep the attribution and share-alike terms when you publish a derived database. Each record carries the attribution.

**Personal data?** The actor outputs business venue data as tagged in OSM. Contact fields can be turned off with `includeContacts: false`. Professions that are often single people (lawyers, accountants, doctors) are not offered as categories. If you use contact data for marketing, follow GDPR and ePrivacy rules in your country.

**Which servers are used?** Public Overpass API instances that allow commercial use (overpass.private.coffee, with the VK Maps instance as fallback). You can point it to your own Overpass server.

# Actor input Schema

## `locations` (type: `array`):

Names of cities, towns or districts as they appear in OpenStreetMap, e.g. Málaga, Kraków, Lisboa, Berlin. Use the local name. Combine with 'Country code' to avoid same-name places.

## `countryCode` (type: `string`):

Restricts the city lookup to one country, e.g. ES, PL, PT, DE, FR, IT. Recommended.

## `categories` (type: `array`):

Which kinds of places to extract.

## `customTags` (type: `array`):

Extra filters in key=value form, e.g. craft=brewery, shop=bicycle, tourism=museum. Each one is added as another category.

## `bbox` (type: `string`):

south,west,north,east in decimal degrees, e.g. 36.70,-4.45,36.74,-4.40. Used only when no cities are given.

## `center` (type: `string`):

e.g. 50.0614,19.9366 (Kraków Main Square). Used with 'Radius' when no cities and no bounding box are given.

## `radiusMeters` (type: `integer`):

Radius around the center point.

## `requireWebsite` (type: `boolean`):

Skip places without a website tag.

## `requirePhone` (type: `boolean`):

Skip places without a phone tag.

## `requireName` (type: `boolean`):

Skip places without a name.

## `includeContacts` (type: `boolean`):

Include the venue's public phone, email, website and social links as tagged in OpenStreetMap. Turn off if you only need locations.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of places to return (you pay per place).

## `overpassUrl` (type: `string`):

Optional. By default the actor uses public Overpass instances that allow commercial use (overpass.private.coffee, then the VK Maps instance as fallback). Set your own server URL here to use only that one.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "locations": [
    "Málaga"
  ],
  "countryCode": "ES",
  "categories": [
    "restaurant",
    "cafe",
    "bar"
  ],
  "radiusMeters": 1000,
  "requireWebsite": false,
  "requirePhone": false,
  "requireName": true,
  "includeContacts": true,
  "maxItems": 200
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "locations": [
        "Málaga"
    ],
    "countryCode": "ES"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("nebulosa/osm-business-leads").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "locations": ["Málaga"],
    "countryCode": "ES",
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("nebulosa/osm-business-leads").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "locations": [
    "Málaga"
  ],
  "countryCode": "ES"
}' |
apify call nebulosa/osm-business-leads --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,nebulosa/osm-business-leads"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/RE2bSmd0dLwuyqckl/builds/lApuYre93kFfnsXXM/openapi.json