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Find newly discovered local businesses and qualify them

Problem

You want new leads in a category and area — not a static one-time list, but businesses that are genuinely new since you last checked — and then a real contact to reach out to.

Actors used

1. Google Maps Business Scraper — optional, for the full current picture
2. Google Maps New Business Scraper — required, for ongoing new-listing detection
3. Business Email Finder & Verifier — required, to qualify a contact

Inputs

{
  "searches": ["coffee shops in Austin, TX"],
  "maxPlacesPerSearch": 10,
  "monitorEnabled": true,
  "maxTotalChargeUsd": 1
}

Steps

1. Run Google Maps New Business Scraper with monitorEnabled: true. The first run establishes a silent baseline (no alerts yet — see the family page for why). Every run after that reports only listings genuinely new since the last check.
2. For each new business, take its website field and pass it to Business Email Finder & Verifier.
3. (Optional) Run Google Maps Business Scraper without monitoring if you also want the full current picture, not just what’s new.

Sample result shape

Illustrative — derived from the Actor’s real dataset schema, not live data.

{
  "business_name": "Black Cat Coffee",
  "category": "Coffee shop",
  "address": "603 W Live Oak St, Austin, TX 78704",
  "rating": 5,
  "review_count": 124,
  "website": "https://blkcatcoffee.com/",
  "google_maps_url": "https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=Black%20Cat%20Coffee&query_place_id=..."
}

Try it live

Public Task example (coffee shops, Austin TX)

Code

curl

curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/actor-tasks/om_kh~vigia-maps-new-business-monitor-quickstart/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -X POST \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"searches": ["coffee shops in Austin, TX"], "maxPlacesPerSearch": 10, "monitorEnabled": true, "maxTotalChargeUsd": 1}'

Python

import os, requests

token = os.environ["APIFY_TOKEN"]
url = "https://api.apify.com/v2/actor-tasks/om_kh~vigia-maps-new-business-monitor-quickstart/run-sync-get-dataset-items"
resp = requests.post(url, params={"token": token}, json={
    "searches": ["coffee shops in Austin, TX"],
    "maxPlacesPerSearch": 10,
    "monitorEnabled": True,
    "maxTotalChargeUsd": 1,
})
new_businesses = resp.json()

Next step

See Leads & Verification for the qualification-step Actor used above.