🎣 Automate Google Maps lead generation with Perplexity AI and email verification
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Description
Overview ✨
This template **finds businesses on Google Maps → writes to Google Sheets → enriches + verifies email contact so your outreach stays clean and deliverable. It includes Sticky Notes to explain the flow and setup.
What it does 🔎➡️📄➡️✅
- Search & save: Fetch places and append rows (Name, Address, Website, Rating, Phone) to your sheet.
- Enrich: Ask an LLM (Perplexity) for
Email+ a short companyBackground. - Verify emails: For Email Verification we use VerificarEmails to validate every email address before writing back (fewer bounces, less blocking).
> ℹ️ VerificarEmails node: install the community node @verificaremails/n8n-nodes-verificaremails (Settings → Community Nodes) and use it until it’s approved as a core node. ✨
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Requirements 🔐
- Use n8n Credentials for: Google Sheets, Perplexity (Bearer), and VerificarEmails.
- Keep prompts short and
temperature: 0to lower cost. - Create a Google Sheet with the following headers: UUID, Name, Address, Website, Rating Email, Valid, Email, Phone, Valid Phone, Summary
How to run ▶️
- Set your search params (query, locale, pages).
- Run the flow: it saves results → enriches → verifies emails → updates the sheet.
- If the read/update step doesn’t run, ensure the finalization (Done) path and the correct sheet/tab are selected.
Why verify? ✉️🧹
Bad emails cause bounces, throttling, and blocks. Verifying first protects sender reputation and improves deliverability. Beyond emails, VerificarEmails also offers **phone, names. Check Email Validation API documentation to better understand verification results.
🔗 Nodes Used
Google Sheets, HTTP Request, Google Sheets Trigger, Filter
📥 Import
Download workflow.json and import into n8n:
Workflow menu → Import from File