What does Google Maps Scraper do?
Most teams do not need another Google Places billing account. They need a reliable way to collect public business listings for sales, local SEO, or market research. ScrapeHub’s Google Maps Scraper reads what already appears on Maps, runs the job in the cloud, and returns rows you can open in a spreadsheet or push into a CRM.
With one dashboard run you can:
- Cover a market by keyword and city — Enter searches like “HVAC contractors in Denver” or “cafes near Brooklyn” and collect the organic listing set Google shows for that query.
- Capture the contact fields sales teams actually use — Business name, full address, phone, website, category, rating, and review count come back as structured columns — ready to import.
- Pull reviews when you need qualitative signal — Enable reviews to download reviewer names, star ratings, review text, and dates for reputation research or competitive analysis.
- Scale across neighborhoods without babysitting a browser — Run separate jobs per zip code or district, keep place limits tight, and let ScrapeHub handle proxies and retries in the background.
- Export the way your stack expects — Download JSON or CSV from the run page, or send finished results to a webhook / API workflow when you are ready to automate.
- Skip Google Cloud setup entirely — You do not create a GCP project, enable Places APIs, or manage quotas. Public listing data is extracted for you on managed infrastructure.
What data can I extract from Google Maps?
| Business listing |
|---|
| Business name |
| Full address |
| Phone number |
| Website URL |
| Category / type |
| Rating and review count |
| Place ID / Maps URL |
| Opening hours |
| Latitude / longitude |
| Reviews |
|---|
| Reviewer name |
| Star rating |
| Review text |
| Review date |
| Owner response |
| Contact & leads |
|---|
| Email (when public) |
| Phone |
| Website |
| Social links (when listed) |
| Search metadata |
|---|
| Search query |
| Location / geo |
| Rank in results |
| Sponsored vs organic |
How much will it cost?
A typical Maps lead pull costs about $1.20 per 1,000 listings on pay-as-you-go — so a 500-place city niche is usually well under a dollar in usage.
You only pay for rows that are successfully delivered. Failed or blocked requests are not billed, and credits stay on your account until you use them.
How to scrape Google Maps
If you can search Maps in a browser, you can run this scraper. The whole flow lives in the dashboard.
- Create a free ScrapeHub account with your work email.
- Open Google Maps Scraper from the scrapers list in your dashboard.
- Type a search people actually use — for example “dentists in Austin” — or paste a Maps search URL you already opened.
- Set how many places you need, decide whether reviews are worth the extra credits, then click Start.
- When the job finishes, download CSV for your CRM or JSON for your own scripts. Optional: forward results via webhook.
How teams use Google Maps data
- Outbound sales builds territory lists by niche and city, then enriches outreach with phone and website columns.
- Agencies audit local competitors — who ranks, how many reviews they have, and where ratings are weak.
- Franchise operators compare listing density across zip codes before opening a new location.
- Local SEO teams spot thin or poorly rated profiles that may be open to optimization or partnership.
- Researchers assemble clean place datasets for mapping, clustering, or AI enrichment pipelines.
- Ops teams refresh stale CRM records with current phones, addresses, and Google ratings.
What you configure in the dashboard
Every run is a form, not a script. Fill the fields below, start the job, and watch progress on the run page. Nothing here requires writing JSON.
The same kind of phrase you would type into Google Maps — niche plus place. Examples: “emergency plumber Miami”, “coworking space Berlin Mitte”, “vegan bakery Portland”.
Already have a Maps search or place page open? Paste the URL here instead of (or in addition to) typing a query. Useful when you refined filters in the Maps UI first.
Optional city, region, or country hint when the query itself is ambiguous. Helps keep results anchored to the market you care about.
Choose the language you want listing text and categories returned in — helpful for non-English markets.
Hard stop on how many businesses this job should return. Start small while testing, then raise the limit once the sample looks right.
Turn on when you need review text and star history. Leave off for cheaper, faster lead lists that only need listing-level fields.
Per-place review cap when reviews are enabled. Ten recent reviews is often enough for sentiment; raise it only if you need depth.
Attempts to pick up publicly listed emails when Maps (or linked profile fields) expose them. Many businesses never publish an email — treat this as a bonus, not a guarantee.
Example setups from real workflows
Sales list: every dentist in Austin
A BDR team wants phones and websites, not full review dumps. Keep reviews off, set a clear place cap, and export CSV into HubSpot the same afternoon.
- Search query
- dentists in Austin TX
- Max places
- 100
- Include reviews
- Off
Agency audit: plumbers in Chicago with review text
Paste the Maps search you already refined, pull fifty businesses, and grab twenty reviews each to see how competitors talk about price, speed, and trust.
- Maps URLs
- google.com/maps/search/plumbers+near+Chicago
- Max places
- 50
- Include reviews
- On
- Max reviews
- 20
Supported URL types
| Type | Example |
|---|---|
| Search results | google.com/maps/search/pizza+near+NYC |
| Place page | google.com/maps/place/... |
| Category search | google.com/maps/search/Category/ |
What the results look like
When the run completes, each business is one row. If you enabled reviews, each review is its own row linked back to the place. Open the preview below, then download the full file from your dashboard.
{
"title": "Blue Bottle Coffee",
"address": "66 Mint St, San Francisco, CA 94103",
"phone": "+1 415-495-3394",
"website": "https://bluebottlecoffee.com",
"category": "Coffee shop",
"rating": 4.5,
"reviewCount": 1284,
"placeId": "ChIJ...",
"url": "https://www.google.com/maps/place/...",
"lat": 37.7823,
"lng": -122.4078
}Tips for better coverage
One search rarely covers a whole city
Google Maps only shows a limited slice for each query. If you need dense coverage, split the market: run downtown, north side, and suburbs as separate jobs, or rotate close synonyms (“dentist”, “dental clinic”, “orthodontist”).
- Geo first — zip codes and neighborhoods beat one mega-query for local lead gen.
- Synonyms second — adjacent categories often surface businesses the first query never showed.
- Limits always — set Max places before you click Start so a broad query cannot burn credits unexpectedly.
Pricing
| Plan | Price | Included |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | Trial credits to validate output quality |
| Pay-as-you-go | from ~$1.20 / 1,000 results | No monthly minimum; API and webhooks included |
| Business | Custom | Volume pricing, SLA, and priority support |
Google Maps API vs ScrapeHub
| Official Maps / Places API | ScrapeHub | |
|---|---|---|
| Setup | GCP project, billing account, API keys, quota alerts | Sign up with email and open the scraper |
| Pricing | Per-request API billing that is easy to mis-estimate | Pay for delivered listing/review rows |
| What you get | Whatever the productized API endpoints expose | Public fields as shown on Maps listings and reviews |
| Day-to-day workflow | Engineers wire clients and pagination | Dashboard form for operators; API when you automate |
FAQ
- Is scraping Google Maps legal?
- Collecting publicly visible business listings is common for lead generation and research. You still need to follow Google’s terms and any laws that apply to how you store or contact people — especially for cold outreach.
- Do I need a Google Maps API key?
- No. ScrapeHub does not ask you to create a Google Cloud project or paste an API key.
- Can I extract emails from Google Maps?
- Sometimes. If an email is publicly listed on the profile fields we can read, it may appear in the export. Many businesses simply do not publish one — phone and website are far more consistent.
- Is there a free way to try it?
- Yes. Free accounts include trial credits so you can run a small city/niche sample and inspect the CSV before buying a pack.
- How is this different from a Chrome extension?
- Extensions die when Google changes the page, and they tie the work to your laptop. ScrapeHub runs in the cloud, keeps a run history, and can export or webhook results without leaving a tab open overnight.
- Can I plug this into n8n or Make?
- Yes. Start jobs and fetch results through the API, then map columns into your CRM or sheet nodes like any other HTTP step.