Build a Complete Lead Gen Pipeline with 3 Free APIs

What if you could go from "I need leads in the restaurant industry in Chicago" to a spreadsheet of 200+ contacts with emails — in under 5 minutes? Here's how to build a 3-API lead generation pipeline using free tiers: The Stack Step API What It Does 1. Find businesses Google Maps Scraper Extracts business listings from Maps 2. Get emails Email Extractor Scrapes email addresses from websites 3. Enrich contacts Apollo Lead Scraper Finds decision-maker names and titles The Pipeline Code const axios = require ( ' axios ' ); const fs = require ( ' fs ' ); const headers = ( host ) => ({ ' X-RapidAPI-Key ' : process . env . RAPIDAPI_KEY , ' X-RapidAPI-Host ' : host }); // Step 1: Find businesses on Google Maps async function findBusinesses ( query , limit = 20 ) { const { data } = await axios . get ( ' https://google-maps-scraper12.p.rapidapi.com/google-maps-scraper/search ' , { params : { query , limit }, headers : headers ( ' google-maps-scraper12.p.rapidapi.com ' ) } ); return data . resul