Local Business & POI Scraper (OpenStreetMap)

Local businesses and points of interest — restaurants, shops, hotels, services and more — for any area, with contact details and coordinates. From OpenStreetMap via the public Overpass API. Free, keyless, no proxies — a free alternative to expensive Maps-based local-data APIs, without the Google Maps red ocean.

Search by plain place name ("Heidelberg") or a precise bounding box, filter by any OSM tag, and get clean, structured rows ready for lead-gen, directories or mapping.

What you get

One row per POI:

• Identity — name, type (e.g. amenity=restaurant), brand, cuisine
• Address — combined address, plus city, postcode, country
• Contact — phone, website, email, openingHours
• Geo — lat, lon
• OSM refs — osmType, osmId, osmUrl, and the full raw tags object for anything else you need

Output sample

{
  "name": "Restaurant Borchardt",
  "type": "amenity=restaurant",
  "address": "Französische Straße, 47, 10117, Berlin",
  "city": "Berlin",
  "postcode": "10117",
  "country": null,
  "phone": "+49 30 81886262",
  "website": "https://www.borchardt.com",
  "email": null,
  "openingHours": "Mo-Su 11:30-24:00",
  "cuisine": "german",
  "brand": null,
  "lat": 52.5145,
  "lon": 13.3907,
  "osmType": "node",
  "osmId": 1234567,
  "osmUrl": "https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1234567",
  "tags": { "...": "full OSM tags" }
}

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
filters	array	["amenity=restaurant"]	OSM tags to fetch, e.g. shop=bakery, tourism=hotel. A bare word = an amenity
area	string	—	Place/city name to search within, e.g. Heidelberg
bbox	string	—	Precise box south,west,north,east (overrides area)
maxResults	integer	500	Cap on POIs returned

Provide a location: either area (a place name) or bbox. Common filters: amenity=restaurant|cafe|bar|pharmacy|bank|fuel, shop=supermarket|bakery|clothes, tourism=hotel, leisure=fitness_centre, office=*.

Example input

{
  "filters": ["amenity=restaurant", "amenity=cafe"],
  "area": "Heidelberg",
  "maxResults": 500
}

Precise bounding box:

{ "filters": ["shop=bakery"], "bbox": "52.51,13.37,52.52,13.40" }

Why this actor

• Friendly area-name UX — pass a city name, no bounding-box math required.
• Any category — filter by any OSM tag, not a fixed list.
• Contact-rich — phone, website, email and opening hours where mapped.
• Keyless & unlimited — Overpass public API, no key, no anti-bot, far cheaper than Maps scrapers.

Pricing

Pay per result — $4.00 per 1,000 results (one POI = one result). No subscription or platform fees.

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Notes & limits

• Data is OpenStreetMap via the public Overpass API — free, no key, no anti-bot.
• Coverage and field completeness depend on OSM contributors (major cities are rich; phone/website present where mapped).
• area matches OSM boundary names; for precise control use bbox. Very large areas may be slow.
• OpenStreetMap data is © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) — attribute and use accordingly. This actor is an independent tool.