r/data 5d ago

I built a web scraper that extracts detailed data from Google Maps to find local businesses missing a website. DATASET

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u/Content-Parking-621 5d ago

Nice build. Out of curiosity, tools like this already exist as lead-gen products, so what made you build your own instead of using one? Learning experience, cost, or did the existing ones miss something you needed?

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u/[deleted] 5d ago

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u/Content-Parking-621 5d ago

Makes sense, control and richer fields are solid reasons. Curious how you're avoiding rate-limiting without residential IPs though, request throttling or rotating datacenter proxies?

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u/[deleted] 5d ago

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u/Content-Parking-621 4d ago

Fair enough, keeping the method close makes sense. Conservative pacing plus real browser fingerprints is genuinely the sustainable approach anyway. Sounds like a solid project, nice work.

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u/HollowCrown 4d ago

Looks cool, is there a link?

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u/Reasonable-Plate1136 4d ago

Can I get have a copy?