How to Create a Maps Scraper Based Campaign in FirstSales

The Maps Scraper is a harvester tool, and harvesting only happens in Autopilot mode — so start there. Open Campaigns → Create Campaign, set Campaign Type to Outreach and Campaign Mode to Autopilot, pick a goal (Meeting or Get Reply), and continue.

This is the right approach when your prospects are local businesses — plumbers, clinics, restaurants, agencies — that live on Google Maps rather than in a job-title database. A Template campaign can't do this; it has no harvester.

In the campaign Workflow, click the Contact Harvester node to open Configure Contact Harvester. It lists the available sourcing tools — AI Leads, Maps Scraper, File Upload, and Signal. Click the Maps Scraper row, then toggle it ON to reveal its configuration fields.

Maps Scraper pulls businesses straight from Google Maps by what they do and where they are — the same way you'd search Maps yourself, but at list scale.

The two fields that drive everything, each taking one entry per line:

• Search terms — the business types, e.g. plumber then coffee shop on the next line.
• Locations — where to look, e.g. New York, NY then Los Angeles, CA.

FirstSales searches every term across every location, so 2 terms × 3 cities = 6 searches. Then tune the volume:

• Max results — cap how many places to pull per search.
• Language / Country — bias results (e.g. en, us).
• Frequency — run once per cycle, or daily / weekly / monthly to keep topping the list up.

Google Maps gives you a business name, phone, and website — but not always an email. The Find emails option turns on paid enrichment that hunts for a contact address per place.

• It costs credits — roughly 5 credits per place, plus more per email found — so switch it on deliberately.
• Businesses with no discoverable email stay in your list as phone-only records; email campaigns simply skip them.

For advanced control the tool also accepts specific Place IDs (ChIJ…) or Start URLs (a google.com/maps/place/… link) if you already know the exact places you want.

Point the harvest at a contact list to save results into — this is required, and it's what the rest of the campaign draws from. As the scraper runs, matching businesses flow into that list and then into the standard Autopilot pipeline: Segmentation → Email Scheduler → Email Drafter → Content Approval → Email Sender.

Everything downstream is the same as any Autopilot campaign — the only difference is where the contacts came from.

Set the campaign Active. Watch two things early:

• Contacts — confirm real businesses are landing in your list and that emails are being found at a rate you expected (if not, your search terms may be too niche or Find emails is off).
• Analytics — sent, opened, replied, once outreach begins.

If a location returns thin results, widen the search term or add nearby cities rather than raising Max results — relevance beats volume for local outreach.