Business and Sales · Tabnews · 🇧🇷 Brazil
Build prospecting lists from Google Maps
A developer built a local lead extractor with Python and Playwright, speeding up development with AI.
- Profession
- Developer, Salesperson
- Tools
- Python, Playwright, IA generativa
- Source
- tabnews.com.br ↗
- Country
- 🇧🇷 Brazil
- Report date
- May 22, 2026
- Verified on
- October 24, 2026
What they did
Created a system that collects local businesses from Google Maps and produces clean lists for B2B prospecting, with a React front end.
How it went
The account gives no numbers.
Good to know
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The prompt
I want to prospect [type of business] in [city]. List criteria for qualifying a lead, the fields my spreadsheet should have, and a first-contact message of up to 3 sentences.
Replace what is in [brackets]. Prompt written by us from the account, not a literal copy of the source. Do not paste other people’s personal data (privacy laws such as LGPD and GDPR apply).
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