Lead scraper

What you can do with Lead scraper

# Open the scraper and choose a data source

1. Open Search Leads

   In the left sidebar, under Lead Generation, click Search Leads.

   The Business Lead Scraper page opens with the Find businesses form. The buttons at the top right take you to Saved Searches, Saved Leads and API Settings.

   

2. Choose free mode or an API

   The first time you open the scraper, it asks How do you want to find leads? After that, the Data source bar above the search form shows the source in use, which API keys are connected, and what a search costs: API requests on your own provider account, Google profile lookups made with your Google Places key (you can switch these off there), and your lead credits (each saved lead uses one). Click the source name to switch to another source. The ⋮ button beside it turns the Google profile lookup on or off and opens API Settings.

   1. Free — no API key searches OpenStreetMap. It has no API cost. Click Start free.
   2. Connect an API — better lead quality searches Google Places, HERE or TomTom with a key you get yourself. Far more of these listings have a phone number or website. Click Set up a provider to add a key (see Connect an API provider).

   

# Run a search

1. Enter what and where

   1. In the first box, type the kind of business, for example Dentist. You can also click one of the Popular shortcuts. A known business type gives precise results; any other word is matched against business names, which gives noisier results.
   2. In the second box, type a location such as a city. Pick a place from the suggestions to search that exact point.

   

2. Narrow the area and the size

   Country sits between the two search fields and limits the location suggestions to one country, so the right town is found. The rest is under Advanced search:

   1. Country — see above.
   2. Postal code — optional.
   3. Radius — the distance around the location, for example Within 10 km.
   4. Max leads — the most businesses the search will return (100, 500 or 1k).

   

3. Add filters (optional)

   Click Advanced search to open more options. The number on the button shows how many are on.

   • Contact and web — for example Has website, Has email or No website.
   • Social profiles — Has Facebook, Has Instagram, No social profile and more.
   • Business name — Name contains and Exclude keywords (comma separated).
   • Lead quality — Minimum lead score out of 100.
   • Ratings and status — ratings and reviews. These only work with Google Places; OpenStreetMap has no ratings.

   

4. Start the search and watch progress

   Click Start Search at the bottom of the form. A progress card shows each stage — Searching, Extracting, Enriching, Detecting technologies, Analyzing website, Calculating scores and Completed — and running totals such as Businesses Found, Emails Found and Running Ads.

   To end early, click Stop Scraping. The leads found so far are kept.

   

# Read the results

1. Scan the results table

   Each row is one business. The coloured stripe on the left shows its lead quality: High Potential, Good Potential, Average or Low Information.

   • Contact — icons for phone, email and website.
   • Website — the platform the site is built on, such as WordPress or Shopify.
   • Social — the social profiles linked from the site.
   • Google — Google rating, when a Google Places key is connected.
   • Ads — Google Ads and social ad tags found on the site.
   • SEO and Score — the SEO Score and the Business Score, out of 100.
   • Mkt Spend — an estimated marketing spend range.

   

2. Search, filter and sort the results

   Use the controls above the table:

   1. Search leads... — find a business by name.
   2. Lead quality tabs — All leads, High Potential, Good Potential, Average and Low Information. Each tab shows how many leads it holds; pick one to show only that level.
   3. Sort — for example Business score, Weakest SEO first or Highest marketing spend.
   4. Quick filters — Has email, Has phone, Runs ads, Has Google profile and Not saved. Reset filters clears everything at once.
   5. Columns — hide the columns you don't need. Your choice is remembered in this browser.

   

3. Open a lead for the full picture

   Click a row to open its details. You see the Business Score, SEO Score and Social Score, the contact details, SEO Issues, Advertising Signals and Why this lead? — the gaps you could help with.

   The Proposal brief sums the business up in a few lines. Click Copy brief to paste it into an email or a proposal.

   

# Save leads and add them to a list

1. Select the leads you want

   1. Tick the box at the start of each row you want to keep, or tick the box in the header to select every row.
   2. A bar appears at the bottom of the screen. Click Save Selected.

   The same bar has Re-analyze, to check the selected websites again, and Clear, to undo the selection.

   To keep a single lead, click Save at the end of its row: it goes straight to Saved Leads. The arrow beside Save opens the panel below for that one lead, so you can pick a list and tags.

   

2. Choose a list and tags, then save

   The Save leads to Mailkoo panel first shows how many leads are New, already saved, or possible duplicates.

   1. Add to list — pick an existing list, Create a new list (then type a New list name), or None to keep them in Saved Leads only.
   2. Tags — comma separated, for example dentist, austin. They are added to every contact, so you can build segments from them.
   3. Under When a lead already exists, choose Skip duplicates, Update existing or Create new anyway, then click Save Selected.

   

# Work with saved leads

1. Open Saved Leads

   Click Saved Leads in the sidebar. Every business you have kept is listed with its scores and contact icons. The Saved column shows the list a lead was added to.

   Use the filter bar to search by name, or filter by category, lead quality and whether the lead has an email.

   

2. Review a saved lead

   Click a business name to open the same detail panel you saw in the search results, including the Proposal brief and Advertising Signals.

   

3. Export your leads

   1. Set the filters so the list shows the leads you want, for example one category.
   2. Click Export and choose CSV, XLSX or JSON.

   The file contains the leads that match your current filters, not only the ones on screen.

   

# Save and repeat searches

1. Save a search you will run again

   Fill in the search form, then:

   1. Click Save this search.
   2. Type a name, or keep the one suggested, and click Save.

   The search appears under Saved Searches.

   

2. Look back at past searches

   Click Search History in the sidebar. Each search shows its source, date, status and how many leads you Saved from it.

   Open the ⋮ menu on a row:

   • View — the saved leads from that search.
   • Repeat Search — runs the same search again.
   • Delete — removes it from history. The leads you saved are kept.

   

3. Run a saved search

   Click Saved Searches in the sidebar, open the ⋮ menu on a row and click Run Search Again. The form is filled in and the search starts.

   If the saved search used a different data source from the one you use now, the form is filled in but not started, so you can decide first.

   

# Connect an API provider

1. Open API Settings

   Click API Settings in the sidebar. Each provider has its own card:

   • Google Places — returns ratings and review counts, but needs a billing account on your Google Cloud project.
   • HERE and TomTom — no billing account needed to start, but no ratings or reviews.

   

2. Add your key

   1. Click Get a key to open the provider's site and create a key.
   2. Paste it into API key.
   3. Click Save key.

   Saving a key does not switch you over. Click Use this provider on the card, or choose Choose a provider on the How do you want to find leads? page.

   

3. Follow the Google Places setup guide

   On the Google Places card, click Setup guide. It walks you through Google Cloud Console step by step: pick a project, enable billing, enable Places API (New), create and restrict the key, and set a spending cap.

   

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