ScrapingBee is built for developers scraping any website through an API. If what you actually need is a list of local businesses from Google Maps, Live Map Leads gets you there with no code at all.
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ScrapingBee is a general-purpose web-scraping API: it handles JavaScript rendering, rotating proxies, and arbitrary sites so engineers can extract data from almost anywhere in their own code. It's an excellent tool for that job. But it is a building block, not a finished list: you still write the scraper, parse the HTML, and handle the structure of each site. Live Map Leads isn't a general scraper at all. It's a finished product for one job: pulling local-business lists from Google Maps, in your browser, with name, phone, website, category, and rating returned ready to export.
| Dimension | Live Map Leads | ScrapingBee |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A finished local-business list builder (no code) | A web-scraping API building block (you write the code) |
| Best at | Google Maps local-business lists, instantly | Programmatically scraping arbitrary websites |
| Who it's for | Sales & marketing teams, non-technical | Developers and engineering teams |
| Pricing model | Pay per business returned; credits never expire | Subscription by API-credit volume |
| Output | A structured list ready to export | Raw page data you parse yourself |
If you need to scrape arbitrary websites, not just Google Maps, from your own code, render JavaScript-heavy pages, or build a custom data pipeline an engineer maintains, ScrapingBee is the right tool and Live Map Leads is not a substitute. We do one narrow job; ScrapingBee is a general engine for many.
There's nothing to build. You pick a business type and an area and get a clean list back: name, phone, website, category, and rating, without writing a scraper, handling page structure, or managing proxies. The work that ScrapingBee leaves to your engineers is already done.
Instead of a monthly API-credit subscription, you pay per business returned, and the credits never expire. A search that finds nothing costs nothing, and broken or unreachable results are refunded, so your spend maps to usable leads, not request volume.
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.