1,000 Leads for $15: Outscraper to GoHighLevel without Zapier/Make/Pabbly

If you're looking for leads,

introduced me to Outscaper. It's a really good tool for getting local leads (or leads in a specified area) using Outscraper's Google Maps scraper.

However, it doesn't have a direct GHL integration (yet!), and using Zapier for it is dubious for a few reasons:

Outscraper doesn't send a complete JSON file (webhook) upon completion of each task; they send a URL. So, you need to extract the data before Zapier or any other software can do anything with it. This has caused me much grief. Technically Zapier can do this. But it ends up being expensive since Zapier charges by the task, not Zap. Which brings me to (2).
If I want to scape 1,000s of leads, you may, like me, run out of Zapier tasks. Once you run out of your allotted monthly tasks, they bill you 1.25X the current task rate for every task above your plan (which, for me, is 2,000).

So, I decided to program my own solution.

If you want to know how to cheaply scrape 1,000s of leads from Outrscraper and transfer them to your GHL sub-account, then watch the video. It costs me total $15 per 1,000 leads about, which is significatnly less than what I was paying for lead lists or Zapier tasks.

The integration goes like this:

Outscraper >> Download Excel >> Copy to Google Sheet >> Run Apps Script >> Auto Upload to GHL

The only steps that are manual are downloading the Excel and copying all the contents into a Google Sheet. But that takes all but 15 seconds. The rest is automated and about 10 times faster than going through Zapier (and about 4 times cheaper).

If you want to run the automation, follow the instructions in the video and open the Apps Script doc below.

Apps Script: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11wrfFBcrXFxWZ-xISsEDS6nIR6uukTDqPcnBDYtsj0E/edit?usp=sharing

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