# Google Maps Local Business Leads Scraper (`coregent/google-maps-local-business-leads-scraper`) Actor

Scrape local business leads from Google Maps by keyword and location. Export clean, flat, CSV-friendly business data for outreach, SEO, web design sales, competitor research, and local lead generation.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/coregent/google-maps-local-business-leads-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Delowar Munna](https://apify.com/coregent) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Automation, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 8 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.80 / 1,000 business results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

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

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Google Maps Local Business Leads Scraper

![Google Maps Local Business Leads Scraper](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/coregentdevspace/google-maps-local-business-leads-scraper-assets/main/thumbnail-google-maps-local-business-leads-scraper.jpg)

Lead-focused Google Maps scraping by **keyword + location**. Returns a clean, flat, CSV-friendly business row per result — built for **outreach, SEO, web design sales, competitor research, and local lead generation**.

V1 deliberately avoids website crawling, email extraction, full review scraping, photos, menus, and AI enrichment so the run stays **fast and cheap**. You only pay for unique business rows that pass your filters and are successfully written to the dataset.

### ✨ Why this scraper

- **Lead-focused** — 28 flat fields tuned for cold outreach (phone, website, rating, review count, address parts, lead score, reason tags).
- **Pay-Per-Event** — `$` per saved unique business row. Duplicates, filtered rows, and failed pushes are not charged.
- **No login, no cookies, no sessions** — just keyword + location.
- **CSV-friendly output** — flat structure, no nested objects, drops cleanly into Sheets/Excel/CRMs.
- **Transparent lead score** — rule-based (no AI), explained below.

***

### 🚀 Quick start — sample inputs

#### Example 1 — single query

```json
{
  "searchQueries": [
    { "key": "plumbers", "value": "Canberra ACT" }
  ],
  "maxResults": 100,
  "country": "AU",
  "language": "en",
  "websiteFilter": "any",
  "phoneRequired": false,
  "includeOpeningHours": true,
  "includeCoordinates": true,
  "includeLeadScore": true,
  "deduplicateResults": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true }
}
```

#### Example 2 — multi-query, phone required, only businesses without a website (web-design lead list)

```json
{
  "searchQueries": [
    { "key": "electricians", "value": "Sydney NSW" },
    { "key": "dentists",     "value": "Melbourne VIC" },
    { "key": "cafes",        "value": "Brisbane QLD" }
  ],
  "maxResults": 200,
  "country": "AU",
  "language": "en",
  "minRating": 4.0,
  "minReviewCount": 10,
  "websiteFilter": "missingWebsite",
  "phoneRequired": true,
  "categoryFilter": "",
  "includeOpeningHours": true,
  "includeCoordinates": true,
  "includeLeadScore": true,
  "deduplicateResults": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true }
}
```

> The `searchQueries` field uses Apify's **Key/Value form editor** — the **Key** column is the business keyword (e.g. `plumbers`), the **Value** column is the location (e.g. `Canberra ACT`). Add one row per search.

***

### 📦 Output

The dataset has one view: **Business leads** — a 28-column flat table.

![Business leads table view](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/coregentdevspace/google-maps-local-business-leads-scraper-assets/main/google-maps-local-business-leads-scraper-output-business-leads-table-view.png)

#### Sample record — Business leads

```json
{
  "search_keyword": "electricians",
  "search_location": "Sydney NSW",
  "business_name": "Hello Electrical | Electrician Sydney",
  "category": "Electrician",
  "rating": 5,
  "review_count": 442,
  "phone": "+61 2 8000 1185",
  "website": "https://www.helloelectrical.com.au/",
  "website_domain": "helloelectrical.com.au",
  "address": "192 Edgeware Rd, Newtown NSW 2042, Australia",
  "street_address": "192 Edgeware Rd",
  "suburb": "",
  "city": "Newtown",
  "state": "NSW",
  "postcode": "2042",
  "country": "Australia",
  "google_maps_url": "https://www.google.com/maps/place/Hello+Electrical+%7C+Electrician+Sydney/",
  "place_id": "0x6b0d57cca361e2b1:0x3828b97e7714dc6d",
  "latitude": -33.9044935,
  "longitude": 151.1733881,
  "opening_hours": "Closes 5 pm",
  "is_open_now": true,
  "has_website": true,
  "has_phone": true,
  "lead_quality_score": 100,
  "lead_quality_label": "Strong",
  "reason_tags": [
    "has_phone",
    "has_website",
    "high_rating",
    "many_reviews",
    "complete_address",
    "category_found",
    "opening_hours_found",
    "outreach_ready"
  ],
  "scraped_at": "2026-05-05T05:20:53.092Z"
}
```

#### Output fields (28)

`search_keyword`, `search_location`, `business_name`, `category`, `rating`, `review_count`, `phone`, `website`, `website_domain`, `address`, `street_address`, `suburb`, `city`, `state`, `postcode`, `country`, `google_maps_url`, `place_id`, `latitude`, `longitude`, `opening_hours`, `is_open_now`, `has_website`, `has_phone`, `lead_quality_score`, `lead_quality_label`, `reason_tags`, `scraped_at`.

***

### 🎯 Lead quality score

Transparent rule-based score (0–100) computed from visible fields — no AI, no external enrichment.

| Signal              | Points |
| ------------------- | -----: |
| Has phone           |    +20 |
| Has website         |    +20 |
| Rating ≥ 4.3        |    +15 |
| Review count ≥ 30   |    +15 |
| Has full address    |    +10 |
| Category found      |    +10 |
| Opening hours found |    +10 |

**Labels**: `Strong` (80–100) · `Good` (60–79) · `Moderate` (40–59) · `Weak` (0–39).
**Reason tags** include `outreach_ready` when `has_phone`, `business_name`, and `address` are all present — sort by this tag to get a clean call/email list.

***

### 💰 Pricing

**Pay-Per-Event**. The actor charges a single `business-result` event for each unique, filtered business row that is successfully written to the dataset. The actor honors the user-configured per-run spending cap (Apify `eventChargeLimitReached`) and stops cleanly when reached.

Not charged:

- Duplicates (de-duplicated by `place_id`, listing URL, or name+address).
- Rows filtered out by `minRating`, `minReviewCount`, `websiteFilter`, `phoneRequired`, or `categoryFilter`.
- Rows missing a `business_name`.
- Failed dataset pushes.
- Anything after the per-run spending cap is reached.

***

#### 🚦 Proxy policy

Use **Apify Datacenter** proxy or **no proxy** for normal runs — both work reliably for Google Maps search at this actor's conservative concurrency.

**Apify Residential proxy is not supported.** The actor will fail at startup if `apifyProxyGroups` includes `RESIDENTIAL`. Reason: in pay-per-event actors, residential bandwidth (~/GB) is billed to the developer, not the run user, so a single bandwidth-heavy run could exceed the per-result event revenue.

If you genuinely need residential routing, supply your own residential provider via the proxy editor's **Custom proxy URLs** field — that traffic goes through your provider, not Apify, and is unaffected:

```
http://user:pass@proxy.iproyal.com:12321
http://user:pass@proxy.brightdata.com:22225
http://user:pass@proxy.oxylabs.io:7777
```

***

### 📊 Run summary

After each run, a `RUN_SUMMARY` entry is written to the key-value store:

```json
{
  "search_queries_total": 3,
  "successful_queries": 3,
  "failed_queries": 0,
  "raw_results_found": 240,
  "results_saved": 187,
  "duplicates_removed": 21,
  "filtered_out": 32,
  "charged_events": 187,
  "blocked_requests": 0,
  "retried_requests": 4,
  "runtime_seconds": 142,
  "scraped_at": "2026-05-05T12:00:00.000Z"
}
```

`charged_events` always equals `results_saved`.

***

### ⚙️ Filters

| Filter             | Effect                                                                |
| ------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `minRating`        | Drop businesses below this star rating (0 disables).                  |
| `minReviewCount`   | Drop businesses with fewer reviews (0 disables).                      |
| `websiteFilter`    | `any` / `hasWebsite` / `missingWebsite`.                              |
| `phoneRequired`    | If `true`, keep only businesses with a visible phone.                 |
| `categoryFilter`   | Case-insensitive contains match against the business category.        |
| `deduplicateResults` | Drop duplicates across queries (recommended ON).                    |

Filters are applied **after** extraction and **before** dataset push or event charge.

***

### 🚧 Limitations (V1)

- **Cards-only extraction**: V1 reads each business row directly from the search results panel and **does not click into individual place detail panels**. Phone, website, full opening hours, and `place_id` only appear when Google surfaces them on the card itself; otherwise these fields are empty/`null`.
- No website crawling, email extraction, or social link extraction.
- No full review text or sentiment.
- No photos, menus, prices, or popular times.
- No login/cookie/session-based scraping.
- Address parsing into street/suburb/city/state/postcode is best-effort; the full `address` field is the source of truth.
- Per-query hard cap is **500 results**; per-run hard cap is **5,000 results**.

***

### 🛠️ Technical notes

- **Stack**: Node.js 22 · Apify SDK 3 · Crawlee · Puppeteer.
- **Concurrency**: `min=1`, `max=3` (conservative to reduce blocking).
- **Memory**: 1 GB min · 2 GB default · 4 GB max.
- **Proxy**: Apify Proxy enabled by default; custom configs accepted.
- **Diagnostics**: On the first failed render (no feed, or feed but zero cards), the actor saves the page HTML and URL to the key-value store as `debug-no-feed-html` / `debug-zero-cards-html`.

# Actor input Schema

## `searchQueries` (type: `array`):

List of keyword + location pairs to search on Google Maps. Add one row per search — "Key" is the business keyword (e.g. plumbers), "Value" is the location (e.g. Canberra ACT). Each row becomes one search like "plumbers in Canberra ACT".

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of saved business rows per search query. Hard cap is 500 per query and 5000 per run.

## `country` (type: `string`):

Optional ISO country code used as a Google Maps locale hint, for example AU, US, GB. Leave empty to use the default Google locale.

## `language` (type: `string`):

Language code used for Google Maps UI (IETF BCP-47), for example en, es, de.

## `minRating` (type: `integer`):

Filter out businesses with a star rating below this value (0-5). Set to 0 to disable.

## `minReviewCount` (type: `integer`):

Filter out businesses with fewer than this many Google reviews. Set to 0 to disable.

## `websiteFilter` (type: `string`):

Filter by website availability. "any" keeps everything; "hasWebsite" keeps only businesses with a website; "missingWebsite" keeps only businesses without a website.

## `phoneRequired` (type: `boolean`):

If enabled, only keep businesses that have a visible phone number.

## `categoryFilter` (type: `string`):

Optional case-insensitive contains match against the business category. Leave empty to disable.

## `includeOpeningHours` (type: `boolean`):

Include opening hours summary when visible without expensive extra steps.

## `includeCoordinates` (type: `boolean`):

Include latitude/longitude when available from the listing URL.

## `includeLeadScore` (type: `boolean`):

Add lead\_quality\_score, lead\_quality\_label and reason\_tags to each row. When disabled, score fields are null/empty.

## `deduplicateResults` (type: `boolean`):

Remove duplicate businesses across queries using place\_id, listing URL, and name+address keys.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Apify Proxy configuration. Defaults to Apify Proxy enabled.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchQueries": [
    {
      "key": "plumbers",
      "value": "Canberra ACT"
    },
    {
      "key": "electricians",
      "value": "Sydney NSW"
    }
  ],
  "maxResults": 100,
  "country": "",
  "language": "en",
  "minRating": 0,
  "minReviewCount": 0,
  "websiteFilter": "any",
  "phoneRequired": false,
  "categoryFilter": "",
  "includeOpeningHours": true,
  "includeCoordinates": true,
  "includeLeadScore": true,
  "deduplicateResults": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

Flat 28-field table view of every business row pushed to the dataset.

# 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 = {
    "searchQueries": [
        {
            "key": "plumbers",
            "value": "Canberra ACT"
        },
        {
            "key": "electricians",
            "value": "Sydney NSW"
        }
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("coregent/google-maps-local-business-leads-scraper").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 = {
    "searchQueries": [
        {
            "key": "plumbers",
            "value": "Canberra ACT",
        },
        {
            "key": "electricians",
            "value": "Sydney NSW",
        },
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("coregent/google-maps-local-business-leads-scraper").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 '{
  "searchQueries": [
    {
      "key": "plumbers",
      "value": "Canberra ACT"
    },
    {
      "key": "electricians",
      "value": "Sydney NSW"
    }
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call coregent/google-maps-local-business-leads-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,coregent/google-maps-local-business-leads-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

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/54ojPv0RsPRvuZIhf/builds/1med6l788ETALkg6n/openapi.json