📍 Contractor Lead Scraper — Verified Emails, No Bounces

Maps Leads (Verified) — Google Maps business leads with VERIFIED emails that don't bounce

You give: a search query + a location — e.g. dentists + Austin TX. You get: one row per local business — name, category, address, phone, website — and, the part that actually matters, a verified, deliverable business email. You pay: only per verified lead — $0.02. Businesses with no verified email are returned free.

No browser automation, no scraping of protected sources. Google Maps data comes from the category-standard place crawler; the email is harvested from the business's own website and then put through a live SMTP deliverability check.

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Why "verified" is the whole point

The Google-Maps-leads category is huge — the leading actor does over a million paid runs a month. But the emails those tools hand you bounce. You import them, you send, and half of them die on the first send: your open rates crater and your sending domain reputation takes the hit.

Here, every VERIFIED row's email has been through:

harvested from the business's own site → syntax → MX record → live SMTP mailbox check → catch-all detection → confidence score

Only an address that a real mail server accepts, that is not catch-all, at confidence ≥ 0.80, is returned with a verified_email. Everything else is NO_EMAIL with a reason — never a silent, billed guess.

How it works

1. Source the map. Your query + location become a Google Maps search (dentists in Austin TX). We delegate to the category-standard Google Places crawler to get up to maxResults businesses with their name, category, address, phone and website. That crawler's per-result cost is upstream.
2. Find the email (free, local). For every business that has a website, we fetch its own homepage, /contact and /about, harvest every published address, and pick the best business email — info@, contact@, hello@, office@ first, then a named person on the business's domain. We drop noreply@, image filenames and tracking-pixel noise.
3. Verify (one batched check). All picked emails go to a proven Apify Store validator with real SMTP egress, in a single call per run.
4. Emit everything, charge for verified only. Every business is returned so you see full map coverage. You are charged only for rows that carry a VERIFIED deliverable email.

What each row gives you

Column	Meaning
action	VERIFIED (deliverable email) or NO_EMAIL (with reason)
name	Business name
category	Google Maps category
address	Full address
phone	Business phone
website	Business website
verified_email	The deliverable business email — only on VERIFIED
confidence	0–1 deliverability confidence
place_url	Google Maps place link
reason	On NO_EMAIL: no_website / no_published_email / catch_all_domain / email_rejected / email_unverified / verifier_unavailable
best_guess_email	On NO_EMAIL: the address we found but could not verify, clearly not verified

Honest by design

• We never invent an address and label it verified. VERIFIED means a live mail server accepted that specific mailbox.
• Catch-all domains — which accept everything and confirm nothing — are returned as NO_EMAIL (catch_all_domain) and are not charged.
• If the verifier is unavailable, we degrade to NO_EMAIL (verifier_unavailable) — never a fabricated "deliverable" result, never a charge.
• Businesses with no website or no published email are still in the output (free) so you keep full map coverage — you just don't pay for them.

For agents & automation

Call it via the Apify API or MCP. Pass {query, location, maxResults} and get back deduped business rows with verified emails — ideal as the first step in an outbound pipeline. Schedule it to refresh a local-market lead list into your CRM or sequencer. You pay only for the leads that are actually reachable.

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Input: query + location (required), optional maxResults (cost cap), mapsActorId, verifierActorId, requestTimeoutSecs.