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Need giant list of specific category of companies with their address and phone

MatthewHughes
5 - Atom

I need a way to get a list of every eye doctor and prescription glasses related businesses (Ophthalmologist, Optometrist, Optician etc) with their address and phone.

We tend to be at the mercy of user created info full of errors and I would love to have a giant validation file for our processes.

I have searched for available data sets through membership organizations for these businesses and government sources but it seems my best hope is just to enter a couple of words in a google map search (which is literally what someone does to check thousands of names, addresses, and phone numbers each month).

I have downloaded data from websites years ago with the, download and json parse tool, but none of my old tricks are working. Does anyone have any ideas?

 

Here are some parameters that may help:

1. I don't care if it pulls in data I don't need (it can be scrubbed later)

2. If it takes a very long time to run and is a lot of data that is fine as well

3. I'm not married to the google maps search idea

4. End goal is just a list with Company name, full address, and phone number for entire US not restricted to just continental. Canada would be great as well.

 

Thanks all!

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derekbelyea
12 - Quasar

If you have a sufficient budget go to one of the data vendors like Experian.  http://www.experian.com/small-business/mailing-lists.jsp

 

If you have a small budget (sounds like it) then use Amazon's Mechanical Turk.    https://www.mturk.com

 

If you have no budget then look at Google Advanced Search https://www.google.com/advanced_search or web scrapers.

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