Saw a lot of noise around scraping public listings and websites, and having scraped thousands of business listings over the past few months, I wanted to show the data quality across different sources, and show you the actual numbers you can expect.
For context: This data is extracted using my own tool which I built , Scrape Link , and actively use it to gather, enrich, and verify business contact information.
And all the Behavioral & Industry Insights are a section at the bottom.
Samples which are being used here are 25 listings each for a specific niche, taken from both platforms:
I have linked the source CSVs in the relevant sections, so you can see the data yourself.
Quick TL;DR: Verified 100 listings (2 niches, 2 platforms). Google Maps data was 90%+ live; Yellow Pages had ~40% broken sites. Email/social quality varied a lot by niche — restaurants = social-first, plumbers = phone-first.
The tests and insights are broken into dropdown list for easy access
Traditional one-off scrapers stop at HTML fetches; they don’t verify websites, enrich data, or check deliverability. A purpose built scraper specifically for lead generation performs much better, all the data you saw were results by my tool and verified manually by me, and you can check out the CSVs attached for yourself.
You can try Scrape Link for yourself and get clean, verified leads from public data without the usual hassle, Here - https://www.scape-link.com/
Note: Email verification is performed using established APIs, which I currently run manually. When the platform grows and users start paying, I plan to integrate these verification services directly to ensure fast, reliable validation at scale.