# No-Website Local Leads: Find Businesses With Weak Websites (`stromation/weak-website-local-leads`) Actor

Pick a business type and a US city. Get local businesses with no website, a dead one or a weak one, with phone, address, a 0-100 website score and plain reasons to pitch. Pay per lead; empty results are free.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/stromation/weak-website-local-leads.md
- **Developed by:** [Stromation LLC](https://apify.com/stromation) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, SEO tools, Business
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $3.00 / 1,000 business leads

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## No-Website Local Leads: Find Businesses With Weak Websites

Pick a type of business and a US city. Get a list of **local businesses that have no website, a dead one, or a weak one**, with business name, address, main phone, the website they are listed with, a **0 to 100 website weakness score** and **plain reasons** you can use as the first line of a pitch ("the site loads over plain http", "no mobile viewport tag", "the listed website does not load").

Built for web designers, SEO freelancers, site-builder and hosting sellers, and marketing agencies that need prospects who clearly need help, not a raw list of every business in town.

Places come from **Overture Maps open data** (not Google Maps, no scraping of search or review sites). Each business's own website is then checked live: public home page only, `robots.txt` respected, no logins, no CAPTCHA bypass. Business facts only: no personal emails, no personal phone numbers.

Try it: press **Try for free**. The prefilled input finds 10 weak-website dentists in Austin, TX.

### What you get per lead

| Field | Contents |
|---|---|
| **business** | Name, type, street address, city, ZIP, business main phone, social page links, distance from the city centre, map coordinates. |
| **website.listed** | The web address recorded for the business (or null). |
| **website.status** | `none_listed`, `social_or_directory_only` (only a Facebook, Yelp or similar page), `unreachable` (the site does not load), `checked`, or `could_not_check` (site blocks automated access; never counted as weak). |
| **website.weakness_score** | 0 to 100, higher means weaker. No website = 100, dead site = 100, social page only = 95, otherwise 100 minus the website score. |
| **website.check** | For live sites: score and grade, HTTPS and certificate days left, response time, mobile tag, what it is built with (Wix, Squarespace, WordPress and so on), and the issues with the fix for each. |
| **reasons / pitch_hook** | Plain-English reasons the web presence is weak, and the strongest one as an opening line. |
| **match_confidence, source** | Overture confidence that the business exists, record date, licence and attribution link. |

Example categories: dentists, restaurants, cafes, salons, gyms, vets, lawyers, accountants, plumbers/electricians/HVAC, builders, real estate, auto repair, hotels, daycares and more (29 in total).

### Pricing

Pay per event: **$0.003 per business lead returned** plus **$0.002 per live website check** on a returned lead (leads with no website or a dead site have no check, so they cost $0.003). A tiny flat start fee of $0.00005 per run. **Searches with no results and failures are free.** Healthy sites that are filtered out are never charged.

Spend is capped by **Max leads** (default 50, hard limit 500), by the run's maximum cost setting, and by an internal limit on websites checked per run.

### Input

```json
{
  "category": "dentist",
  "place": "Austin, TX",
  "maxLeads": 10,
  "radiusKm": 10,
  "onlyWeak": true,
  "includeNoWebsite": true,
  "websiteScoreBelow": 70
}
```

| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
| `category` | Type of business (dropdown). |
| `place` | US city and state, or ZIP code. |
| `maxLeads` | Hard limit on leads returned and charged. Default 50, maximum 500. |
| `radiusKm` | Search radius from the city centre, 1 to 20 km. Default 10. |
| `onlyWeak` | On (default): only weak, dead or missing websites. Off: every business with its score. |
| `includeNoWebsite` | Include businesses with no website or only a social page. Default on. |
| `websiteScoreBelow` | A site counts as weak below this score. Default 70. |

### Output example (real run, shortened)

Austin, TX dentists, 28 October 2026:

```json
{
  "status": "lead",
  "business": {
    "name": "Michael V Woolwine DDS",
    "category": "Dental offices",
    "address": "1500 W 38th St, Austin, TX 78731-6301",
    "phone": "+15124525713",
    "distance_km": 0.86
  },
  "website": {
    "listed": "http://woolwinedental.com/",
    "status": "checked",
    "weak": true,
    "weakness_score": 53,
    "check": {
      "score": 47,
      "grade": "D",
      "https": false,
      "response_ms": 237,
      "mobile_viewport_tag": false,
      "issues": [
        {
          "severity": "high",
          "found": "The site loads over plain http.",
          "fix": "Install a certificate and redirect http to https."
        },
        {
          "severity": "high",
          "found": "No mobile viewport tag.",
          "fix": "Add the viewport meta tag."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "reasons": [
    "The site loads over plain http. Browsers warn visitors and Google ranks secure sites higher.",
    "No mobile viewport tag. The page will not display properly on phones."
  ],
  "pitch_hook": "The site loads over plain http. Browsers warn visitors and Google ranks secure sites higher.",
  "source": {
    "provider": "Overture Maps Places",
    "release": "2026-10-21.0",
    "attribution": "https://docs.overturemaps.org/attribution/"
  }
}
```

(Shortened: the real row also has coordinates, social links, the Overture id and more issues.) The results table in the Apify console shows business, type, address, phone, listed website, status, weakness and pitch hook. Download as JSON, CSV or Excel.

### FAQ

**How good is the "no website" signal?** "No website listed" means none is recorded in the open data, not proof that none exists. Some businesses have a site the data has not picked up. Every such row says so; check with a quick search before pitching. Sites that are listed are checked live, so those findings are measured, not guessed.

**Where does the data come from, and can I use it commercially?** Overture Maps Places, open data whose source datasets are released under CDLA-Permissive-2.0, Apache-2.0 (Foursquare) and CC0. Commercial use is allowed; attribution is required if you republish the places data: credit Overture Maps Foundation, see https://docs.overturemaps.org/attribution/. Each row carries the source and licence.

**What if the listed website belongs to someone else?** Open data sometimes lists the wrong address. When none of the business name appears on the site, the row carries a note to check before pitching.

**Is this a Google Maps scraper?** No. It does not use Google, search results or review sites.

**Does it respect robots.txt?** Yes. The website check identifies itself as `StromationSiteAudit` and skips pages that robots.txt disallows. A site that answers 401, 403 or 429 is marked `could_not_check`, never as weak. No bot-protection bypass.

**Does it return personal data?** No. Business names, addresses and main phone numbers only. Where a sole practitioner's business is named after the person (for example "Dr. Smith DDS") that is the name the business lists publicly. No emails are collected and any email-shaped text is removed.

**What does an empty result cost?** Nothing.

**How many leads can I get?** Up to 500 per run. Dense cities have more businesses than a 10 km radius covers; raise the radius up to 20 km, or run again with another ZIP code.

**Which areas?** US cities and ZIP codes.

### Limits

US only. Radius up to 20 km from the city centre. Up to 500 leads per run. Website checks look at the public home page only. Places data is a snapshot and can be out of date (the record date is in each row).

### More from the same author

- **Bulk Website Audit** (stromation/bulk-website-audit): audit your own list of domains for SSL, SPF/DMARC, tech stack, AI-search readiness and mobile basics. This actor uses the same engine.
- **Company Dossier** (stromation/company-dossier): one sourced dossier for a US business from its name and city or its website.

# Actor input Schema

## `category` (type: `string`):

What kind of local business to look for.

## `place` (type: `string`):

A US city and state such as Austin, TX, or a ZIP code.

## `maxLeads` (type: `integer`):

Hard limit on leads returned (and charged) in this run. Maximum 500.

## `radiusKm` (type: `integer`):

Distance from the city centre, 1 to 20 km.

## `onlyWeak` (type: `boolean`):

On: return only businesses whose website is missing, dead or weak. Off: return every business found with its website score.

## `includeNoWebsite` (type: `boolean`):

Businesses with no website recorded, or only a social or directory page. Turn off to see only businesses that have a site that needs work.

## `websiteScoreBelow` (type: `integer`):

A site is weak when its 0-100 website score is below this number.

## `concurrency` (type: `integer`):

Parallel website checks, 1 to 20.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "category": "dentist",
  "place": "Austin, TX",
  "maxLeads": 10,
  "radiusKm": 10,
  "onlyWeak": true,
  "includeNoWebsite": true,
  "websiteScoreBelow": 70,
  "concurrency": 8
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `overview` (type: `string`):

No description

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "place": "Austin, TX",
    "maxLeads": 10
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("stromation/weak-website-local-leads").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "place": "Austin, TX",
    "maxLeads": 10,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("stromation/weak-website-local-leads").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "place": "Austin, TX",
  "maxLeads": 10
}' |
apify call stromation/weak-website-local-leads --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,stromation/weak-website-local-leads"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/rFaypoXmRwYDzNKkj/builds/NWz4AHNUQJQVSiujp/openapi.json