🏗️ Contractor Leads Scraper — Construction Company Emails

Contractors spend money when you can reach them — building-materials suppliers, equipment rental, insurance and bonding agents, construction software, lead-resellers and marketing agencies all live off contractor lists. The problem: construction is fragmented across dozens of trades and thousands of small firms with no central directory. This scraper solves it trade by trade, city by city: company name, trade category, address, office phone, website, emails extracted from the company's own site, extra phone numbers, social profiles, rating and review count — $8 per 1,000 construction companies.

Trades covered out of the box

Select any mix in the input (each becomes its own search):

Trade	Who buys these leads
general contractor	Materials suppliers, construction SaaS, bonding agents
roofing contractor	Shingle/metal manufacturers, storm-restoration lead sellers
plumbing contractor	Wholesalers, home-warranty networks, dispatch software
electrician	Electrical suppliers, EV-charger programs
HVAC contractor	Equipment brands, maintenance-plan platforms
remodeling contractor	Kitchen/bath brands, financing providers

Anything else — excavation contractor in Tulsa, OK, concrete contractor in Boise, ID, painters in Las Vegas, NV — goes in the custom-queries box, one search per line.

Why live scraping beats contractor list vendors

Construction has the highest business churn of any B2B vertical: licenses lapse, LLCs dissolve, crews rebrand after a bad review cycle. A list bought in January is fiction by June. This actor discovers companies from the live Google Maps index the moment you run it, then crawls each company's public website for emails and contacts — so a roofer who registered in March is on your list in April, and the guy who folded isn't.

Extra signal built into every row:

• reviewsCount + rating — a proxy for job volume and quality; 200+ reviews means an established operation with real purchasing power.
• techStack — contractors on an ancient website are prime targets for web/marketing services.
• websitePhones[] — office lines beyond the Maps number; often the direct line that isn't answered by an IVR.
• latitude/longitude — territory mapping for field reps and route sales.

Getting a list in 3 steps

1. Tick the trades you sell to (default: general contractor).
2. Location: "Dallas, TX" — or any metro, county seat or town Google Maps knows.
3. Run, then export CSV/Excel for your dialer, or feed the JSON into Clay/Smartlead/your CRM through the Apify API. Schedule it monthly to keep territories fresh.

FAQ

How many contractors can I get per metro? Google Maps caps each search at roughly 120 results, so 6 trades × Dallas ≈ 400–700 unique companies after cross-trade deduplication. Suburb-level custom queries (Plano, Frisco, Arlington...) multiply that several times over.

What's the email hit rate for construction companies? Around 35–60%. Trades skew lower than office industries — many small crews have a Facebook page instead of a website. Rows without email still carry the Maps phone (the number the owner actually answers), and socialProfiles.facebook is a reliable fallback channel in this vertical.

Can I exclude one-truck operations? Post-filter on reviewsCount (e.g. ≥ 25) and require emailFound or a website — that removes most hobby operations. Conversely, web designers targeting contractors want onlyWithWebsite: false to find the site-less ones.

Are these residential or commercial contractors? Google Maps mixes both; category plus website content is your tell. Commercial GCs usually surface under general contractor with "construction company" categories and higher review counts.

Does it verify licenses? No — it delivers contact data. Cross-reference your state's license board (most publish searchable databases) using the company name and city from the output.

Can I run it for Canada, UK or Australia? Yes — builder in Leeds, UK, plombier in Montréal (language: "fr"), electrician in Brisbane, Australia all work through custom queries.

What does a full-territory pull cost? 600 leads = $0.02 start + $4.80 = $4.82. That's less than one PPC click in the roofing niche.

Pricing

Pay-per-event, no subscription: $0.02 per run start (2 GB memory) + $0.008 per construction company lead delivered. Filtered-out companies cost nothing.

Data sourcing & compliance

All data originates from public sources contractors use to advertise themselves: their Google Maps business profile and their own public website. Nothing is accessed behind logins, and no consumer/homeowner data is collected. Use of the contact data for outreach must follow your jurisdiction's rules (e.g. CAN-SPAM, TCPA for calls/SMS in the US, GDPR in the EU).

Foundation repair, waterproofing and structural trades

The six presets cover the trades most people ask for first. The specialty trades — often the ones with the biggest ticket sizes — come from Custom search queries, which override both the trade picker and location:

foundation repair contractor in Kansas City, MO
basement waterproofing company in Overland Park, KS
crawl space encapsulation contractor in Kansas City, MO
structural engineer contractor in Independence, MO

These companies typically run a single truck-based crew with one office phone and a lead-gen landing page, so phone and contactPageUrl land on almost every row while emailFound runs lower than it does for remodelers.

Pool builders, insulation crews and garage door installers

Three trades that never appear in generic "contractor" lists because Maps files them under their own categories:

pool builder in Sarasota, FL
spa and hot tub installer in Sarasota, FL
insulation contractor in Bradenton, FL
spray foam insulation company in Bradenton, FL
garage door installer in Venice, FL

Seasonality matters when you buy this list: pool and hardscape crews book out in spring and answer the phone in autumn, insulation crews are the reverse. reviewsCount is your proxy for crew size — under about 15 reviews is usually an owner-operator who will take the call himself.

Excavation, demolition and site work

excavation contractor in Nashville, TN
demolition contractor in Nashville, TN
grading and site work contractor in Murfreesboro, TN
septic installation contractor in Franklin, TN
land clearing company in Lebanon, TN

Heavy-civil outfits are the least likely of any trade to publish an email — many still run a one-page site or none at all. Leave onlyWithWebsite off for this segment: a row with only a name, address and phone is still a usable lead here, and you are charged the same whether the email was found or not, so filtering these out costs you coverage without saving money.