{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Software & SaaS Review","title":"How to Scrape Local Business Leads From Google Maps Without the Junk (2026)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":437,"description":"How to Scrape Local Business Leads From Google Maps Without the Junk (2026)\nThis episode walks through a real method for pulling local business leads from Google Maps using tools that cost close to nothing. The method comes from a post by Mike Lovatt on the r/B2BSales subreddit in October 2026. It uses three tools: Claude (the desktop app or Claude Code), DataForSEO, and Hunter. New DataForSEO accounts come with one dollar of free trial credit, enough for several Google Maps searches. Hunter's free plan gives you fifty email-finding and verification credits per month. The total cost is roughly a dollar. That makes it a sensible first test before you spend money on a contact database.\nThe process has three steps. First, connect Claude to DataForSEO through DataForSEO's official MCP server. Their help centre has a guide titled \"Connect Claude to DataForSEO MCP.\" You paste in your API login and password and the connection is live. Second, ask Claude to pull businesses from Google Maps with a specific prompt. \"Using DataForSEO, find artificial turf installers on Google Maps in San Jose. Give me name, website, phone, rating and review count in a table.\" Third, run each website through Hunter to find and verify the email address on the domain. Never skip verification. Sending to dead addresses flags your sending domain fast. Be specific about the trade. Search \"artificial turf installation,\" not \"landscaper.\" Ask Claude to visit each site and confirm the business actually does that work, and to pull the owner's name from the About page if one is listed. Lovatt ran this exact search in 2026. Searching \"landscapers in San Jose\" returned 50 results: 19 were tree services and only 11 mentioned turf anywhere on their site. Widening the area to the Bay Area fixed the list. The result was 36 real turf companies, 22 that mentioned turf on their own site, and zero tree services. Of the 36, only 9 listed an owner's name and 2 had a personal-looking email. The rest were shared...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/M57-zlUGHXBPDZrDLbepWRrOt_I4AFRWCzyAR4AHOW8/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lMmQ5/MDBjZmRkMTBlZDY1/ZWU4NzE5YTNkMTFk/NGY3My5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}