🦂 Lead Scorpion - Google Maps Enterprise Scraper

The most robust, stealthy, and feature-rich Google Maps scraper available on Apify.

Tailored natively for the B2B SaaS Industry, Agencies, and Sales Teams. Built on top of Playwright and automated Chromium instances, this actor flawlessly mimics human interaction to bypass Google's aggressive anti-scraping mechanics with a near 100% success rate.

Stop wrestling with basic scrapers that get blocked or return messy data. Lead Scorpion is engineered to deliver pristine, highly-enriched B2B datasets directly to your CRM.

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✨ Core Enterprise Features

• 🤖 Anti-Bot Engine (Zero Blocks): Drives a fully-rendered Headless Browser. It automatically solves consent mechanics, scrolls through results naturally like a real user, and clicks dynamically. You won't face IP-blocks or Captcha interruptions.
• 🛡️ Built-in Proxy Integration: Designed specifically to work seamlessly with Apify Proxies, handling thousands of IP rotation events automatically.
• 📞 AI Deep Contact Enrichment (MUST-HAVE for B2B): It extracts standard Maps elements (Name, GPS, Rating), but it doesn't stop there. Our advanced AI module actually visits the company's website to scrape deeply nested Emails, LinkedIn Pages, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and more!
• 🌐 Smart Cross-Language Locators: Reads dynamic DOM attributes under the hood. This ensures your actor never breaks when Google randomly updates its UI layout class names or changes languages.
• 🏢 Claim Status Checking: Identifies if a local business is "Claimed" or "Unclaimed" on Google. This is a highly valuable parameter for SEO Agencies looking to sell "Google Business Profile Optimization" services!

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📦 How to Configure: Input Variables Explained

To get the absolute best results, you need to understand how the dashboard settings work. Here is exactly what each variable does:

1. The Core Targeting

• 🎯 Advanced Search Queries: Enter the precise business niches or keywords you want to dominate.
  • Example: "Marketing Agency", "Dental Clinic", "Plumber".
  • Pro-tip: Enter each niche on a separate line. The engine will search each one independently ensuring broader dataset yields.
• 📍 Geographical Targeting (Area): Define the city, state, or neighborhood.
  • Example: "in New York, NY", "London, UK".
  • How it works: The scraper automatically merges this with your Search Queries. If query is "Marketing Agency" and area is "London", it searches for "Marketing Agency London".
• 🔗 Inject Direct Maps URLs (Optional): If you already have a target list, bypass keywords! Paste direct Google Maps URLs (Place URLs or custom Search URLs) to scrape those exact pages instantly.

2. Scraping Depth & Speed

• 📊 Deep Scroll Limit (Per Keyword): Determines how deeply the virtual browser scrolls to find leads for EACH keyword.
  • Example: Setting this to 120 means fetching up to 120 companies per search term. If you have 5 search terms, expect ~600 total leads. Lower numbers are faster and cheaper. Higher numbers go deep into the city map.
• ⚡ Hardware Concurrency (Speed): The number of browser engines running simultaneously.
  • Recommendation: Keep between 5 to 10. Higher numbers speed up extraction but consume more Apify memory RAM. Setting this to 50 will likely crash your Apify container!

3. Data Enrichment Options

• 🧠 AI Enrichment Module (Contacts & Socials): Highly Recommended! When enabled, as soon as a lead is found on Maps, we aggressively navigate into their website to extract Direct Emails, LinkedIn, Instas, and TikToks.
• 💬 Scrape Client Sentiment (Reviews): The bot will click open the 'Reviews' tab and extract actual user comments and detailed text reviews. Great for understanding market reputation or finding pain points from 1-star reviews.
• 📸 Extract Business Photos: Captures URL image links (Showcases, logos). Turn OFF if you don't need pictures to slightly increase scraping speeds.
• 🌐 Output Localization (Language Code): Forces Google Maps to return data in a standard format (e.g., en-US, pt-BR, es-ES). Ensures uniformity when reading properties like 'Closed' or 'Open'.
• 🛡️ Enterprise Proxy Network: Leave this ON utilizing Apify Proxy. Without proxies, Google will shadow-ban your scraping attempt after ~30 results.

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🎯 Best Practices: DOs and DON'Ts

To guarantee the Scraper runs without errors and delivers the best ROI data, please follow these rules:

✅ DO (Correct Configurations)

• Do keep terms specific: "Dentist", "Software Company", "Italian Restaurant".
• Do utilize the Geographical Merger: Put the niche in Search Queries and the Area in Geographical Targeting. Let the scraper combine them.
• Do limit Max Concurrency: Keep Concurrency between 5-10 for extreme stability.

❌ DON'T (Incorrect Configurations)

• Don't use overly broad words without an Area: Searching "Company" globally will make Google Maps return chaotic lists and throttle the scraper.
• Don't put https:// URLs inside "Search Queries": If you have custom links, place them ONLY in the specific Direct Maps URLs input field.
• Don't disable Proxies for bulk runs: Unchecking the Proxy module will cause Google Maps to shadow-block your IP very quickly.

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📊 Dataset Payload Architecture (Output)

The actor structures data in a rich JSON / CSV payload, seamlessly exportable into CRMs like HubSpot, Salesforce or integrations like Zapier/Make!

{
  "searchString": "Marketing Agency in New York, NY",
  "title": "Miura Agency",
  "categoryName": "Advertising Agency",
  "address": "100 Broadway - New York, NY",
  "phone": "+1 (555) 123-4567",
  "website": "https://miuraagency.com/",
  "contactDetails": {
    "emails": ["contact@miuraagency.com", "ceo@miuraagency.com"],
    "facebook": "https://facebook.com/miurany",
    "instagram": "https://instagram.com/miura_agency",
    "linkedin": "https://linkedin.com/company/miura-new-york",
    "twitter": null,
    "youtube": null,
    "tiktok": "https://tiktok.com/@miuraagency"
  },
  "location": {
    "lat": 40.712776,
    "lng": -74.005974
  },
  "totalScore": 5.0,
  "reviewsCount": 185,
  "permanentlyClosed": false,
  "temporarilyClosed": false,
  "isClaimed": true,
  "placeId": "ChIJb..."
}

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👨‍💻 Primary B2B Use Cases

1. B2B Cold Outreach: Harvest tens of thousands of Emails, Phone Numbers, and LinkedIn profiles instantly to fuel your outbound sales pipelines.
2. Local SEO Agencies: Target companies with "isClaimed": false or low rating scores to easily sell Google Business Profile Optimization Services.
3. Database Population: Create massive geographical listings, business directories, and competitive analyses models.

-- ⚡ Crafted and maintained for massive B2B Extraction utility. Drop and conquer.