SocLeads now scrapes emails from Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Google Maps across entire countries 🌍📧
Geo-filters. More results. No code needed. 🚀
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hmmm, scraping emails from social platforms and maps sits in a legal gray area in many regions. How are you thinking about compliance with GDPR and platform ToS?
@yymmhh Great question. SocLeads only provides access to publicly available online data and doesn’t act as a compliance automation tool. How users export and use that data is their own responsibility, so we always recommend following GDPR, platform ToS, local regulations, and proper opt-out requirements.
Congrats on the launch, Evgenii! The geo-filtering for full country search sounds like a real time-saver -city-by-city grinding is exactly the kind of pain that kills outreach momentum.
how does SocLeads handle GDPR/compliance for EU-based leads, especially from LinkedIn and Instagram? Curious how teams use it for European markets.
@olia_nemirovski SocLeads provides access to publicly available online data, but we’re not a compliance automation tool. For EU leads, customers are responsible for how they export and use the data, including lawful basis, outreach rules, opt-out handling, and platform ToS. Most teams use SocLeads for discovery and segmentation, then handle compliance inside their CRM/outreach workflow.
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2,480 contacts per search with under 3% bounce rate is solid if the data is actually fresh. what's the average age of the emails you're pulling, like are these scraped in real time or cached from older crawls
@tina_chhabra Good question. SocLeads is not a static lead database. We pull data from publicly available online sources based on the user’s search, instead of selling old cached lists. Before export, emails also go through validation, which helps keep bounce rates low and filter out outdated or invalid contacts.
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Congrats on #1, Evgenii. The geo search caught my eye.
I built a few small scrapers for personal/hackathon projects years ago, one was around correlating Twitter activity with location and time during hurricane season. Even at that small scale, the messy part was not scraping itself, but getting useful enough results without drowning in noise.
For SocLeads, when someone runs a big geo search, is the bigger challenge usually finding enough contacts, or helping them avoid too much irrelevant data?
@danush_singla Thanks! You’re absolutely right. The main challenge is usually not finding enough contacts, but reducing noise and keeping the results relevant. With big geo searches, SocLeads focuses on helping users narrow results with keywords email validation, so they get a more usable list instead of just a huge messy export.
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@gorns Interesting. That sounds like the point where SocLeads becomes more of a search problem than a scraping problem.
I’m asking because when I built small scrapers before, the result quality depended a lot on whether I actually knew what I was looking for upfront.
With SocLeads, do users usually come in with a clear target already, or do they often change direction once they start seeing the results? And in that case, does the product help guide them toward a better search, or is the user fully in control of that process?
@danush_singla Some users come with a very clear ICP, while others start broader and refine once they see the results. SocLeads keeps the user in control, but the filters, geo options, and email validation help guide them toward a cleaner and more relevant lead list instead of just dumping raw data.
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Was literally trying to build something like this for my dating app outreach. This saves so much time. Great product.
How does the bounce rate stay that low at scale — is there a verification step built into the scrape itself, or does it run a separate validation pass after collection?
@hirogure It can be both. SocLeads can check data quality during collection with filtering and deduplication, and emails can also be validated after collection before export. That way users can remove invalid or risky contacts before outreach and keep bounce rates low.
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Curious if exports dedupe across platforms when the same shop shows up on maps and facebook
@novamaker01 Good question. Right now deduplication works within a single platform, not across different platforms like Maps and Facebook. Cross-platform dedupe is something we may improve later.
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Congratulations on your the launch! Was also going to ask about legal stuff 🙂, but see plenty of answers already
@trudov Thank you! 🙂 Yes, legal/compliance is definitely one of the most common questions for this type of product. In short, SocLeads works with publicly available online data, and users are responsible for how they use it in their own outreach workflows and markets.
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I have used soclead occasionally and havent seen yet other tools which do the same, finding leads from social media and other platforms. Definitely love the tool!
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hmmm, scraping emails from social platforms and maps sits in a legal gray area in many regions. How are you thinking about compliance with GDPR and platform ToS?
SocLeads
@yymmhh Great question. SocLeads only provides access to publicly available online data and doesn’t act as a compliance automation tool. How users export and use that data is their own responsibility, so we always recommend following GDPR, platform ToS, local regulations, and proper opt-out requirements.
HarnessRouter
Congratulations. And happy product launch. @gorns
SocLeads
@huisong_li Thanks for you support!
Tobira.ai
Congrats on the launch, Evgenii! The geo-filtering for full country search sounds like a real time-saver -city-by-city grinding is exactly the kind of pain that kills outreach momentum.
how does SocLeads handle GDPR/compliance for EU-based leads, especially from LinkedIn and Instagram? Curious how teams use it for European markets.
SocLeads
@olia_nemirovski SocLeads provides access to publicly available online data, but we’re not a compliance automation tool. For EU leads, customers are responsible for how they export and use the data, including lawful basis, outreach rules, opt-out handling, and platform ToS. Most teams use SocLeads for discovery and segmentation, then handle compliance inside their CRM/outreach workflow.
2,480 contacts per search with under 3% bounce rate is solid if the data is actually fresh. what's the average age of the emails you're pulling, like are these scraped in real time or cached from older crawls
SocLeads
@tina_chhabra Good question. SocLeads is not a static lead database. We pull data from publicly available online sources based on the user’s search, instead of selling old cached lists. Before export, emails also go through validation, which helps keep bounce rates low and filter out outdated or invalid contacts.
Congrats on #1, Evgenii. The geo search caught my eye.
I built a few small scrapers for personal/hackathon projects years ago, one was around correlating Twitter activity with location and time during hurricane season. Even at that small scale, the messy part was not scraping itself, but getting useful enough results without drowning in noise.
For SocLeads, when someone runs a big geo search, is the bigger challenge usually finding enough contacts, or helping them avoid too much irrelevant data?
SocLeads
@danush_singla Thanks! You’re absolutely right. The main challenge is usually not finding enough contacts, but reducing noise and keeping the results relevant. With big geo searches, SocLeads focuses on helping users narrow results with keywords email validation, so they get a more usable list instead of just a huge messy export.
@gorns Interesting. That sounds like the point where SocLeads becomes more of a search problem than a scraping problem.
I’m asking because when I built small scrapers before, the result quality depended a lot on whether I actually knew what I was looking for upfront.
With SocLeads, do users usually come in with a clear target already, or do they often change direction once they start seeing the results? And in that case, does the product help guide them toward a better search, or is the user fully in control of that process?
SocLeads
@danush_singla Some users come with a very clear ICP, while others start broader and refine once they see the results. SocLeads keeps the user in control, but the filters, geo options, and email validation help guide them toward a cleaner and more relevant lead list instead of just dumping raw data.
SocLeads
@tharun797 Thanks for your support!
How does the bounce rate stay that low at scale — is there a verification step built into the scrape itself, or does it run a separate validation pass after collection?
SocLeads
@hirogure It can be both. SocLeads can check data quality during collection with filtering and deduplication, and emails can also be validated after collection before export. That way users can remove invalid or risky contacts before outreach and keep bounce rates low.
Curious if exports dedupe across platforms when the same shop shows up on maps and facebook
SocLeads
@novamaker01 Good question. Right now deduplication works within a single platform, not across different platforms like Maps and Facebook. Cross-platform dedupe is something we may improve later.
Congratulations on your the launch! Was also going to ask about legal stuff 🙂, but see plenty of answers already
SocLeads
@trudov Thank you! 🙂 Yes, legal/compliance is definitely one of the most common questions for this type of product. In short, SocLeads works with publicly available online data, and users are responsible for how they use it in their own outreach workflows and markets.
I have used soclead occasionally and havent seen yet other tools which do the same, finding leads from social media and other platforms. Definitely love the tool!
SocLeads
@younas_awais Thank you! Really happy to hear that from someone who has already used SocLeads.