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# Search business leads

> SpyFu Business Leads by niche, location and contact type, with ad budget and SEO click estimates. Input schema, a tools/call example and an example result.

Source: https://cotlet.dev/docs/mcp/spyfu/search_business_leads

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SpyFu Business Leads by niche, location and contact type, with ad budget and SEO click estimates.

SpyFu MCP tools: https://cotlet.dev/docs/mcp/spyfu.md

MCP tool: `spyfu_read → search_business_leads`

Access: read.

Runs the Business Leads search from the List Builder. Each lead has its domain, SpyFu's estimated monthly ad budget, its predicted SEO clicks and the contact types SpyFu has: email, phone or social accounts. Contact details themselves come only with SpyFu's export, which has a monthly cap per plan; this tool does not export, so it does not use that cap.

## Parameters

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `keyword` | string | yes | Niche keyword, for example shoe store. |
| `exclude_keywords` | string | no | Comma-separated keywords to leave out. |
| `industry` | string | no | Industry as named in SpyFu's filter. |
| `location` | string | no | Place to narrow the leads to, for example Arizona. |
| `contact_type` | string | no | Comma-separated contact types a lead must have, for example email, phone. |
| `technology` | string | no | Technology the lead's site uses, for example a shopping cart. |

## tools/call

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "spyfu_read",
    "arguments": {
      "operation": "search_business_leads",
      "arguments": {
        "keyword": "shoe store",
        "location": "Arizona",
        "contact_type": "email, phone"
      }
    }
  }
}
```

## Example response

```json
{
  "content": [
    {
      "type": "text",
      "text": "{ ... same JSON as structuredContent ... }"
    }
  ],
  "structuredContent": {
    "keyword": "shoe store",
    "location": "Arizona",
    "total": 64,
    "leads": [
      {
        "domain": "desertsole.example",
        "estimated_monthly_ad_budget": 3200,
        "estimated_seo_clicks": 410,
        "contacts": [
          "email",
          "phone",
          "twitter"
        ]
      },
      {
        "domain": "cactus-kicks.example",
        "estimated_monthly_ad_budget": 1800,
        "estimated_seo_clicks": 150,
        "contacts": [
          "email",
          "phone"
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "isError": false
}
```

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