The Lead Hunter

What you get

You sell to local businesses. Copying names and numbers from Google Maps by hand takes hours.

The Lead Hunter does it for you.

Tell it what you want, like "dentists in Denver CO".

It searches Google Maps. A few minutes later you have a spreadsheet:

• Name
• Phone
• Website
• Address
• Rating and review count

Free. No keys. No accounts. Nothing to pay. About 20 minutes.

One thing to know

It works by scraping Google Maps, which Google's terms don't allow. Keep your searches small.

Emails are a rare bonus. It only finds one when the business shows it on its own website. Rely on the phone and website columns.

Any emails you collect fall under email rules like CAN-SPAM and GDPR.

It runs on your own computer, inside Docker. Docker is a free app that runs it in the background.

Who this is for

You sell to local businesses. Agencies, freelancers, web designers, suppliers, service providers.

What you need

• Docker Desktop, installed and open, showing "running" (free download from docker.com)
• git and Python 3 (already on most Macs)
• Claude Code, if you want it to run the steps for you. Or paste the commands into a terminal yourself.

Set it up

Open Claude Code (or a terminal, the app where you type commands).

Step 1: Get the kit

It downloads the kit and moves into its folder.

git clone https://github.com/Mahanaicoach/google-maps-scraper-kit.git
cd google-maps-scraper-kit

Step 2: Apply the one-line fix

The kit ships with an old version that gets stuck. Open docker-compose.yml. Change v1.15.0 to v1.18.1. Save.

Or ask Claude Code: "change the image version in docker-compose.yml from v1.15.0 to v1.18.1".

Step 3: Start the scraper

The first start downloads about 2.4 GB. Give it a couple of minutes.

docker compose up -d

Use it

Swap in your own business type and city:

python3 scripts/scrape.py "dentists in Denver CO" --city "Denver, CO" --depth 1 --max-time 300 --out denver.csv

If it asks about social media links, answer no.

A few minutes later denver.csv is in the kit folder. It looks like this:

Name                       Phone             Rating / reviews
Wynkoop Dentistry          +1 303-572-4487   4.8 / 762
Midtown Dental             +1 720-780-9321   4.8 / 502
Metropolitan Dental Care   +1 303-534-2626   4.9 / 1117
...

When you're done, stop it with docker compose down -v.

If something goes wrong

It stays on "working" forever. You skipped Step 2. Make the fix. Then run docker compose down -v and docker compose up -d again.

"docker" not found. Docker Desktop isn't open yet. Open it. Wait for "running". Then open a new terminal window inside the kit folder.

Almost no emails. Expected. Use the phone and website columns.

Credit

Built by Mahanaicoach (https://github.com/Mahanaicoach/google-maps-scraper-kit), MIT license. Free and open source.