Scrape marketing agency leads into a Google Sheet
Poster had Comet extract founders' names, emails and company names for a niche and update a Google Sheet. ·
Done withPerplexity Comet
- What they did
- The poster used Comet by Perplexity, an AI browser they said is built on Playwright, instead of building a lead-scraping flow in n8n. They gave it a niche, asked it to find founders’ names, emails, and company names, told it to stay on the free plan, and had it scrape the web and write the results into Google Sheets; the shared video was the raw scraping run.
- How it went
- It completed the basic job of collecting lead data and updating the sheet. In comments, though, people said this kind of agentic browsing is token-heavy, slow, and quickly hits usage limits, and the poster agreed it is mainly good for one task at a time.
- Worth knowing
- The main catch from the thread is speed and limits: commenters said a run like this could take around an hour and that Comet’s free usage caps are reached fast.
Try it yourself with Perplexity Comet
Find [number, e.g. 25] founders of [niche, e.g. small marketing agencies in a given city] using public web pages. For each one, collect founder name, company name, company website, and a publicly listed business email, and add them as rows to my Google Sheet at [sheet link] with those columns. Skip anyone whose email you can't find rather than guessing, and stop when you've added the target number of rows or run out of good sources. Tell me how many rows you added.
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Source: Reddit · Feb 12, 2026
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