Automated local business lead generation with Google Maps & GPT-4

AI-Powered Local Lead Generation Workflow with n8n

This workflow solves one of the biggest pain points for freelancers, agencies, and SaaS founders—finding accurate local business leads at scale without manual copy-pasting or unreliable scraping tools.

Traditional lead generation is time-consuming and prone to errors. This template automates the entire process so you can focus on outreach, not data gathering.

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✅ What the Workflow Does - Accepts a business type (e.g., plumbers) and city (e.g., Los Angeles) as input - Uses AI to generate hyperlocal search terms for full neighborhood coverage - Scrapes Google Maps results to extract business details and websites - Filters out junk, Google-owned links, and duplicates - Scrapes homepage HTML for each business and extracts valid emails using Regex - Outputs a clean, deduplicated lead list with business names, websites, and emails

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🛠 Everything Runs Inside n8n With: - OpenAI for AI-driven query generation - Zyte API for reliable scraping - JavaScript functions for email extraction - Built-in filtering and batching for clean results

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