Local Business Leads Scraper — any category, any city, with website-platform detection

Generate B2B leads for any local business category — dentists, gyms, lawyers, plumbers, salons, real estate agencies, restaurants, and 50+ more — in any city worldwide, complete with website platform detection (WordPress, Wix, Shopify, Squarespace, Webflow, GoDaddy, Weebly, Joomla, Framer). At $5 per 1,000 leads, it's the flexible, low-cost way to build a prospect list for cold outreach or web/marketing agency pitches.

What does it do?

This actor takes a plain-English business category (e.g. "dentist," "hair salon," "plumber") and a location (city, region, or country), maps the category to the right OpenStreetMap tags, and pulls every matching business in the area. It then crawls each business's own website to extract a contact email, social profiles (Facebook, Instagram), and — the key differentiator — which website platform it runs on. That last part is gold for agencies: filter the output for businesses stuck on an outdated Wix or GoDaddy site and you have a warm list of prospects who visibly need a website upgrade.

Why use it / who's it for

• Web design & marketing agencies — find local businesses running on Wix, GoDaddy Website Builder, or Weebly (often a sign of a dated, DIY site) and pitch a redesign or SEO retainer.
• Freelancers on Fiverr/Upwork — generate a "100 dentists in Austin with emails" style lead list on demand for any client vertical without building a new scraper per niche.
• SaaS sales teams — any B2B tool sold to local businesses (booking software, payment processors, review management) can target by category and city.
• Franchise & market researchers — count and map competitor density for any category in a target city before opening a location.
• B2B lead-gen resellers — because it covers any category, one actor replaces dozens of niche scrapers.

How to use it

1. Enter a business category in plain English (e.g. dentist, gym, plumber, hair salon).
2. Enter a location — city and region/country (e.g. Austin, Texas).
3. Optionally set maxItems, a name keyword filter, or restrict to businesses with a website/email only.
4. Run the actor. It geocodes the location, pulls matching places from OpenStreetMap, then crawls each business website for contact details.
5. Export the results as CSV, JSON, or Excel — or connect the dataset straight to your CRM/outreach tool via API/webhook.

Output fields

Field	Description
name	Business name
category	OSM category tag (e.g. dentist, hairdresser, lawyer)
address	Street address
city	City
state	State/region
postal_code	Postal/ZIP code
phone	Phone number
website	Business website URL
email	Primary contact email found on the site
emails	All emails found while crawling the site
facebook	Facebook profile URL
instagram	Instagram profile URL
opening_hours	Opening hours (from OSM, if listed)
website_platform	Detected platform: WordPress, Wix, Shopify, Squarespace, Webflow, GoDaddy, Weebly, Joomla, or Framer
latitude / longitude	Coordinates
osm_type / osm_id	OpenStreetMap source identifiers
has_email / has_phone / has_website	Boolean flags for quick filtering

Input example

{
  "category": "hair salon",
  "location": "Miami, Florida",
  "maxItems": 200,
  "crawlEmails": true,
  "onlyWithEmail": false,
  "onlyWithWebsite": true,
  "maxPagesPerSite": 3,
  "concurrency": 8
}

How much does it cost?

This actor uses pay-per-result pricing at $0.005 per lead ($5 per 1,000 leads) — you're only charged for businesses actually returned, not for API calls or compute time. There's no subscription. New Apify users get a free tier of roughly 1,000 results to test the actor before spending anything. Scraping 500 dentists with emails costs about $2.50; 5,000 leads across multiple cities costs about $25.

Frequently asked questions

Is it legal to scrape local business data?

Yes. This actor only reads publicly available data from OpenStreetMap (an open-data project) and each business's own public website — the same information anyone could find by visiting the site. No login, no private data, no anti-bot circumvention.

How fresh is the data?

Business listings come from OpenStreetMap, which is community-maintained and updated continuously; most established businesses have accurate name/address/phone data. Website content (email, socials, platform) is crawled live on every run, so that part is always current at run time.

Can I search for any business category, not just the popular ones?

Yes — that's the point. 50+ common categories (restaurants, dentists, gyms, lawyers, salons, real estate, plumbers, and more) are pre-mapped for accuracy, but any other word you enter is automatically matched against OpenStreetMap's shop/amenity/office/craft/healthcare tags, so niche categories still work.

Why does website platform detection matter?

Knowing a business runs on Wix, GoDaddy, or Weebly (often associated with outdated, self-built sites) versus WordPress or Shopify lets agencies and freelancers pre-qualify leads before ever picking up the phone — pitching a redesign to someone visibly using a builder-tier platform converts far better than a cold, unqualified list.

Do I need an API key or proxy?

No. Discovery runs entirely on OpenStreetMap (Nominatim + Overpass) and enrichment crawls public websites directly — no API keys, no proxy configuration, and it runs fine from datacenter IPs.

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