Google Maps Low Rating Leads

Find local businesses below your Google rating threshold - scored and ready for outreach. This Actor is for reputation-management and local SEO agencies that need qualified prospects, not a raw Google Maps export.

✅ What you get / ❌ what this isn't

You get	This is not
Only businesses at or below your rating threshold	Not a generic Maps dump
Phone, website, address, category, rating, and Maps URL	Not a review-text scraper
A contactability-aware lead score and reasons	Not a claim about review volume
Per-query diagnostics in the run OUTPUT record	Not affiliated with Google

🔎 Why use this Actor

Raw Maps results make you filter hundreds of businesses that do not have a visible reputation problem. This Actor applies the filter before delivery, so the dataset contains the prospects a reputation-management agency can actually contact.

👥 Who it's for

• Reputation-management and review-recovery agencies.
• Local SEO consultants.
• Sales teams prospecting local businesses by category and city.
• Automation builders sending filtered leads to a CRM or spreadsheet.

⚙️ How it works

1. Enter searches such as property management companies in Dallas, TX.
2. Choose the maximum rating, for example 4.0.
3. The Actor reads Google's structured Maps search feed through rotating proxies.
4. It emits only matching businesses, plus a per-query summary.

📥 Input

{
  "searchQueries": ["property management companies in Dallas, TX"],
  "leadFilter": "low_rating",
  "maxRating": 4.0,
  "maxLeadsPerQuery": 50,
  "countryCode": "us",
  "language": "en"
}

Use one category and city per query for the clearest results. Set leadFilter to all only for diagnostics.

📤 Output

{
  "recordType": "reputation_lead",
  "name": "Example Property Management",
  "category": "Property management company",
  "rating": 3.8,
  "phone": "+1 214-555-0123",
  "websiteUrl": "https://example.com",
  "leadScore": 60,
  "leadReasons": ["below-threshold rating (3.8)", "phone number available"],
  "googleMapsUrl": "https://maps.google.com/?cid=...",
  "searchQuery": "property management companies in Dallas, TX"
}

💵 Pricing

The intended price is $5 per 1,000 matching leads, with lower per-result prices on higher Apify plans. You pay for delivered matching rows, not every business scanned.

🔁 Automation ideas

• Schedule weekly city/category searches and send datasets to a CRM.
• Run one query per territory for local sales teams.
• Chain results into Website Contact Extractor for email enrichment.
• Deduplicate repeated territories with Lead List Deduplicator.

⚠️ Limits

• Google does not return low-rating businesses for every category or city; an empty lead set can be a valid result.
• This version filters on the star rating. It does not claim or filter by review count because the stable bulk endpoint does not expose that field consistently.
• Google may rate-limit individual proxy IPs. The Actor rotates sessions and retries retryable responses.
• Results reflect what Google shows for the requested country and language at run time.

🧩 Related Actors

• Google Maps No-Website Leads Scraper - prospects that need a website.
• Website Contact Extractor - emails, phones, and social profiles from business sites.
• Lead List Deduplicator - merge and clean prospect lists before CRM import.

❓ FAQ

Why is the result count lower than a normal Maps scraper?

Because this Actor charges and returns only businesses that pass your rating threshold.

Can I return all businesses?

Yes. Set leadFilter to all for diagnostics, but the product is designed around filtered low-rating leads.

Does it need a proxy?

Yes. Keep the default Apify residential proxy setting for reliable cloud runs.

🛠️ Support

Open an Actor issue with the run URL, search query, country code, and expected behavior. Do not include credentials or private lead data.