Octoparse can scrape almost any site once you build the workflow. If you only need local-business lists from Google Maps, Live Map Leads skips the template-building and hands you the list.
Start with 25 free credits, no card needed.
Octoparse is a flexible, point-and-click scraping tool: you build a task by clicking through a website, train it on the page structure, and run it in the cloud or on your desktop. That flexibility is great when you scrape many different sites, but it puts the setup work on you, and Google Maps, with its dynamic loading and changing layout, is one of the fiddlier targets to configure. Live Map Leads removes that step entirely. It's not a general scraper you configure; it's a finished tool for one target, so you pick a category and area and get the businesses back: name, phone, website, category, and rating, with no task to build.
| Dimension | Live Map Leads | Octoparse |
|---|---|---|
| Setup | None; pick a category and area, get the list | Build and maintain a scraping task per site |
| Best at | Google Maps local-business lists, purpose-built | Flexible point-and-click scraping of many sites |
| Who it's for | Non-technical sales & marketing teams | Hands-on users who build their own scrapers |
| Pricing model | Pay per business returned; credits never expire | Subscription tiers by feature and volume |
| Maintenance | We handle map changes for you | You fix tasks when a site's layout changes |
If you scrape many different websites, directories, marketplaces, listings of all kinds, and want one flexible tool to build custom tasks for each, Octoparse earns its place. Live Map Leads only does Google Maps local businesses, so a varied, multi-site scraping habit is better served by a general builder.
With Octoparse you build a task and re-fix it whenever the site changes. Here there's no task: the tool is dedicated to Google Maps, so we absorb the layout and loading quirks and you just choose what you want. A list that would take an afternoon to configure elsewhere takes minutes.
No feature-tier subscription to weigh up. You buy credits, one returns one business, empty searches cost nothing, and unused credits never expire. The pricing rewards pulling lists when you need them rather than paying every month regardless.
You're charged one credit per business we return, and nothing for a search that finds none. Credits never expire, so buy once and use them whenever you're prospecting.
Start with 25 free credits, no card needed.