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Free Google Maps Leads Into a Spreadsheet: I Had Claude Build the Scraper

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TL;DR: I wanted business leads without paying for a lead database. So I had Claude (running inside VS Code) build a small program on the Google Places API that searches one niche in one location and writes the results into a Google Sheet. I tested it live on plumbers in Italy. The first pass return…

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  1. 2026-10-23 07:51 · DEV Community — AI
    Free Google Maps Leads Into a Spreadsheet: I Had Claude Build the Scraper

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