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Why scrape Google Maps?
If you’re building a prospect list, Google Maps is a key resource that groups relevant businesses together. For example, a food wholesaler targeting Japanese restaurants in Los Angeles could manually search ‘restaurants in Los Angeles’ and apply the cuisine filter - but this approach is slow, and Google Maps doesn’t offer an export option, so not the easiest way to gather the data.
A Google Maps scraping tool automates this process, collecting and exporting data like addresses, contact info, and opening hours into Excel or other formats. With such a tool, you can crawl and extract all the information that you can browse and click on manually on Google Maps. You simply let the scraper run while you focus on other tasks, achieving far more, faster.
Is scraping Google allowed?
It is legal to scrape publicly available information from Google, but that doesn’t mean you should scrape personal data without a legitimate reason. Make sure that you do not breach data protection laws, and consult the Google Maps Platform Terms of Service. If you want some solid guidance on the legality and ethics of web scraping, Is web scraping legal? is a comprehensive treatment of the subject.
Why not use Places API?
Google’s Places API is helpful but limited, with a cap of 120 places. Many users prefer scrapers for large-scale data needs. Some Google Maps scrapers can overcome this limitation, as you can see from the video below.
What data can you extract from Google Maps?
With a Google Maps scraper, it’s possible not only to scrape Google business listings but to extract all data on the platform. Below are just a few examples of the data you can scrape.
📍Titles, categories, and URLs
📍Addresses, locations, and coordinates
📍Phone numbers and websites
📍Open and closed statuses and popular times
📍Menus and prices
📍Ratings and reviews
The 5 best Google Maps scrapers
Now that you know how useful scraping Google Maps can be, let’s take a look at 5 Google Maps scrapers you can use.
5. Google Maps Reviews Scraper (Apify)
If you’re only looking to extract reviews, Google Maps Reviews Scraper is a very handy data extractor to add to your web scraping tool kit. It’s designed for quick and easy collection of a specific data type, so it’s relatively limited, but it’s an excellent choice if you want a tool that targets review data. All you need to do is enter the URL of the location you want to scrape, and you'll get a dataset of all reviews.
- Cost: $0.50 per 1,000 reviews
- Free trial: No time limit and no feature restrictions. Use up to $5 free credits per month.
- Features: Scheduling, integrations, unlimited data storage
4. Google Maps Search Export (PhantomBuster)
Google Maps Search Export automatically scrapes and exports the results of a Google Maps search into a spreadsheet in just a few easy steps. It does this in the cloud, so you don’t need to have your browser open or your computer on for it to work. The tool does not extract more than 120 results per search. Still, you can circumvent this limitation by making your location search criteria more granular and using multiple different searches within the same area.
As with Apify's scrapers, you create and name a task, input URLs or other details in the search field, and you can either run the task manually or create a schedule for it to run automatically.
- Cost: $69 with 5 slots and 20 hours per month
- Free trial: Limited to 14 days, 2 hours of execution time, and 10 rows of data in CSV
- Features: Scheduling, integrations
3. Google Maps Email Extractor (Apify)
If you want to scrape information from Google Maps business listings to generate leads, try Google Maps Email Extractor. As with all Apify scrapers, this email extractor tool automates data collection and exports it into structured formats such as CSV, JSON, or Excel. Just input a search term, location, and number of places per search term/URL. It extracts emails, addresses, phone numbers, and other social media details from places registered on Google Maps. This step-by-step guide shows you how to use it.
- Cost: $9 per 1,000 results
- Free trial: No time limit and no feature restrictions. Use up to $5 free credits per month
- Features: Scheduling, integrations, unlimited data storage
2. Google Maps Scraper (Outscraper)
Outscraper’s Google Maps Scraper extracts key business data such as names, addresses, phone numbers, website links, coordinates, hours, and ratings. It supports lead generation and market analysis by automating data collection based on location or search queries.
- Related: The best alternative to Outscraper
Input queries by selecting from a dropdown menu and choose the maximum number of results. When you click the "Get data" button, confirm your task. You'll see an estimated run time and cost of usage.
- Cost: $3 per 1,000 results
- Free trial: Up to 25 searches
- Features: Scheduling, integrations
1. Google Maps Scraper (Apify)
Apify’s Google Maps Scraper lets you scrape all available data on the Google platform without limits or quotas. Extract various details like names, contact info, reviews, popular times, ratings, geolocation, and more. You can scrape by search query, location, coordinates, or URL, targeting a few places, a city, or an entire area.
And there are many other filters to choose from to customize your scraping tasks.
- Cost: $49 gets you 15,000 - 20,000 results
- Free trial: No time limit and no feature restrictions. Use up to $5 free credits per month
- Features: Scheduling, integrations, unlimited data storage
You can start using Google Maps Scraper by clicking the try for free button. You’ll be prompted to sign up for an Apify account (you don’t need a credit card). When you’ve signed up, you’ll get $5 in platform credits, which renew automatically every month. If your free monthly platform credits aren’t enough for your data extraction projects, you can check out Apify’s other pricing plans and choose the option that’s best for you.
Start scraping Google Maps for free straight away with this step-by-step guide or by watching the video tutorial below.
