How a search runs
What happens between your request and the response.
Search the city
You ask for "dentist" in "Lisbon, Portugal". We geocode the location and run the search as a logged-out visitor would see it. One request returns one page; ask for the next page until there is none left.
Fetch each record
Every place is fetched in full: address split into street, city, region, postcode and country, coordinates, phone, website, rating, opening hours for all seven days, description, photos and attributes.
Read the website
We open each business's own website and pull out the email address, the Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X, YouTube and TikTok profiles, the WhatsApp number, the contact page and the software the site runs on.
Fields
What each record contains.
One layout for every endpoint. IDs stay the same from run to run, so you can compare last month's file with this month's.
Identity and location
- place_id stable, same as official sources
- name, categories
- address.full / street / city / region / postal_code / country_code
- location.lat, location.lng
- plus_code, timezone
- service_area_business
Contact and reputation
- phone, website
- rating, review_count
- status open, temporarily closed, permanently closed
- hours all seven days
- description, photos, attributes
- reviews first page
From the website
- emails business mailboxes only
- socials.facebook / instagram / linkedin / x / youtube / tiktok
- contact_form_url
- tech_stack
- website_status ok, parked, unreachable
Free to try, and pay per result when you need volume
The hosted API has one plan and it is free. Volume is sold per result on the Apify Store, where Apify runs the job and bills you. This site takes no payments.
- 75 credits a month
- 60 requests a minute
- Every API, including the MCP server
- No card, and no trial that runs out
- Thirteen listings on the same engine, from business search to tech stack lookups
- You pay for the results a run returns, plus a small charge per run
- Apify bills you, and we never see your card
- Apify's free plan includes $5 of platform usage a month
How we work
Rules we follow so the service stays up.
A data supplier that gets blocked is no use to anyone. These are the lines we do not cross, and they are why you can plan on us being here.
Public pages only
Nothing from behind a login. No accounts, no session cookies, ever.
No bypassing protections
No CAPTCHA solving and no challenge evasion. When a source pushes back, we slow down. We never retry through another IP address.
Contacts the business published, clearly labelled
Company mailboxes like info@ and bookings@ come first. Addresses that name a member of staff come back too, in a field of their own, so you decide what to use. No owner names as a separate field.
Removal on request
Any business can ask to be taken out of our results through the removal form. We do it within seven days. A data processing agreement is available.
Slow enough to be invisible
Limited request rates, cached results, one connection at a time to any website.
Independent
Locomint is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any map, search or directory provider.
Questions
Things people ask before they sign up.
Where does the data come from?
From publicly visible business listings and from each business's own website, fetched when you ask for them and normalised into one layout. Nothing is taken from behind a login.
How is this different from other business data APIs?
Website contacts come with the full record instead of as an add-on, on the free key and on Apify alike. Filters are free. Credits are reserved for the page size you ask for and settled to the number of places actually returned, so a thin result costs less.
What does the free plan include?
75 credits a month, every API including the MCP server, and 60 requests a minute. No card. Sign up, open the link we email you to confirm the address is yours, and your key is on the page that link opens.
How do I pay for more volume?
On the Apify Store. Our listings there run on the same engine and charge per result, from $0.50 per 1,000 results, and Apify bills you, so we never see your card. This site takes no payments.
Can I get all the reviews for a place?
No. Only the first page the listing shows - usually five to eight of the reviews it ranks most relevant - and the rating summary. Going further would mean defeating a protection measure, which we do not do.
Which countries and languages?
Any. Pass a language code and names and categories come back in that language. Always include the country in the location: "Warsaw, Poland", not "Warsaw", which can resolve to Warsaw, Indiana.
How fresh is the data?
Searches run live. Website contacts are cached per site for 30 days and can be refreshed on request.
Is business data like this legal to use?
Business listings are not personal data in most countries. The addresses of named staff that a business publishes are, which is why we return them in their own field, named_emails, and leave out anyone who asks. Lead generation is allowed, and complying with anti-spam and data-protection law, such as CAN-SPAM, PECR, CASL and the GDPR, is your responsibility. See the terms.