
Local Business & POI Scraper
hipersoft/overpass-poi-scraper
Extract local businesses and places of interest by category and area: restaurants, shops, hotels, cafes, clinics and more. Get name, category, full address, phone, website, email, opening hours and GPS. Search a city/region by name or a bounding box. One row per place as JSON, CSV or Excel.
Total users
1Monthly users
0Total runs
46Per place scraped
$0.001Last rebuilt
Oct 26, 2026Overview
Extract local businesses and points of interest anywhere in the world with the Local Business & POI Scraper. Pull restaurants, shops, hotels, cafes, clinics, gyms, offices and dozens of other place types by category and area, and export clean rows with name, full address, phone, website, email, opening hours and GPS coordinates as JSON, CSV or Excel.
Perfect for lead generation, local market research, store-location planning, competitor mapping, sales prospecting and building business directories, this scraper turns open map data into ready-to-use contact lists.
What it does
- π Find places by category β restaurants, cafes, bars, pharmacies, hospitals, dentists, banks, hotels, supermarkets, gyms, law offices, plumbers and many more.
- πΊοΈ Search any area β enter a city, town or region by name (e.g.
Palo Alto,Manhattan,Berlin), or give a precise bounding box. - βοΈ Contact details β capture phone, website and email where available, plus full street address and postcode.
- π Extra attributes β opening hours, brand, cuisine and GPS latitude/longitude.
- π§© Custom tags (advanced) β target any map category with your own
key=valuetags (e.g.shop=butcher,cuisine=pizza). - π€ Export anywhere β JSON, CSV or Excel, or straight into Google Sheets, a CRM or your database.
Example output
{
"osmId": "node/123456789",
"name": "Rara",
"category": "amenity=restaurant",
"cuisine": "nepalese",
"address": "201 South California Avenue, Palo Alto, 94306",
"phone": "+1 650 485 1055",
"website": "https://example-restaurant.com",
"email": null,
"openingHours": "Mo-Su 11:30-21:30",
"latitude": 37.4282105,
"longitude": -122.1442
}
How to use it
- Choose a category β e.g. Restaurants, Hotels or Dentists β or add a custom tag for anything else.
- Enter an area name (a city or region) or a bounding box for a precise area.
- Set Max places and run. Download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel.
Tip: use a recognised administrative area name (city, borough or region). For very large cities, a bounding box gives you tighter control over the area covered.
Input fields
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Category | A common place type (restaurants, shops, hotels, clinicsβ¦), or blank to use a custom tag. |
| Custom OSM tags | Advanced β your own key=value map tags, ANDed with the category. |
| Area name | City, town or region β e.g. Palo Alto, Berlin. |
| Bounding box | Optional precise area as south,west,north,east; overrides the area name. |
| Max places | Maximum number of places to collect. |
Output fields
osmId, osmType, name, category, cuisine, brand, address, street, houseNumber, city, postcode, country, phone, website, email, openingHours, latitude, longitude.
Popular use cases
- Lead generation β build targeted lists of businesses by type and city with phone and website.
- Sales prospecting β find every dentist, gym or law office in a territory.
- Local market research β map how many competitors of a type operate in an area.
- Store-location & expansion planning β analyse the density of a category across neighbourhoods.
- Directory building β assemble a categorised business directory for a city.
- Data enrichment β add addresses, phones and coordinates to an existing list.
FAQ
Do I need an account or key? No. Choose a category and area and run β everything needed is built in.
Which places and countries are covered? Places worldwide across dozens of categories β anywhere covered by open map data, which is very broad in cities and towns globally.
Why do some places have no phone or website? Contact details come from open map data and are not filled in for every place. Every result still includes its name, category and location, with phone, website and email included wherever they exist.
How do I target a category that isn't in the list?
Use the Custom OSM tags field with a key=value pair β for example shop=butcher or office=insurance.
Can I export to Excel or Google Sheets? Yes β results download as JSON, CSV or Excel and integrate with Sheets, CRMs and databases.
Structured local business and POI data β by category and area, with address, phone, website and GPS β exported clean and ready for outreach.
Input
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
categoryCategory | string · , amenity=restaurant, amenity=cafe, amenity=fast_food, amenity=bar, amenity=pub⦠| Type of place to find. Pick a common category, or leave blank and use a custom tag below. Default: "amenity=restaurant" |
customTagsCustom OSM tags (advanced) | array | Advanced: add your own map tags as key=value (e.g. 'shop=butcher', 'cuisine=pizza') or just a key ('healthcare'). Combined with the category as an AND filter. |
areaNameArea name | string | City, town or region to search β e.g. 'Palo Alto', 'Manhattan', 'Berlin'. Use an official administrative area name. Leave blank if using a bounding box. Default: "Palo Alto" |
boundingBoxBounding box (optional) | string | Optional precise area as south,west,north,east latitude/longitude β e.g. '37.40,-122.17,37.46,-122.10'. Overrides the area name when set. |
maxItemsMax places | integer | Maximum number of places to collect. Default: 1000 |
API
curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/hipersoft~overpass-poi-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"customTags": [],
"areaName": "Palo Alto"
}'from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("hipersoft/overpass-poi-scraper").call(run_input={
"customTags": [],
"areaName": "Palo Alto"
})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
print(item)import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN' });
const run = await client.actor('hipersoft/overpass-poi-scraper').call({
"customTags": [],
"areaName": "Palo Alto"
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);Pricing
| Event | Price | Paid plans from |
|---|---|---|
| Place scraped Charged for each place / business returned. | $0.001 | $0.0005 |
You pay only for what the run returns. Set a maximum cost per run and it stops cleanly at that limit.
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