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How to scrape Google Maps in 2026: 4 methods
Four ways to scrape Google Maps listings: by hand, the Places API, your own code or a hosted scraper. Plus the 120-result cap and a Python API example.
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Short, honest guides to getting local-business data out of Google Maps and into outreach — including where the limits are and when not to use tools like ours.
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Emails2 min read
How to extract emails from Google Maps (2026)
Google Maps listings have no email field. Five ways to get business emails from them, compared on how they bill, with hit rates measured by country and industry.
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Is scraping Google Maps legal? Law, ToS & GDPR (2026)
Collecting public business data is generally lawful, but Google's ToS restrict automated collection, and GDPR, CAN-SPAM, PECR and UWG govern its use.
Scraping Google Maps
5 guidesThe ways to get listings out of Maps, what each costs, and the limits every one of them hits.
How to scrape Google Maps in 2026: 4 methods
Four ways to scrape Google Maps listings: by hand, the Places API, your own code or a hosted scraper. Plus the 120-result cap and a Python API example.Google Maps scraping without coding: what actually works
You don't need Python to pull business listings off Google Maps. Here's what no-code scraping can and can't do, and how to get a clean spreadsheet today.Google Places API vs scraping: costs, limits and legality
A straight comparison of the official Google Places API and scraping Google Maps — result caps, missing fields, per-request costs and what each is actually for.Zip-code scraping: why one city search misses most listings
A single Google Maps search stops at roughly 100–120 results. Here's why searching city-wide undercounts badly, and how splitting by zip code fixes it.Free Google Maps scrapers: what $0 gets you
An honest rundown of the free ways to scrape Google Maps in 2026 — by hand, Google's free API quota, open-source tools, free tiers — and their limits.Emails and cold-email lists
3 guidesWhere business emails actually come from, how to add them to a list, and how to clean it before sending.
How to extract emails from Google Maps (2026)
Google Maps listings have no email field. Five ways to get business emails from them, compared on how they bill, with hit rates measured by country and industry.How to verify and clean a scraped email list before sending
A scraped email list is raw material, not a campaign. Dedupe, filter, verify and warm properly — the cleaning steps that keep your domain out of spam folders.How to enrich a business list with emails and socials
Names and phone numbers aren't enough. How business-list enrichment works, what hit rates are realistic, and how to avoid paying twice for the same data.Finding who to pitch
5 guidesFilters and signals in the listing data that turn a category search into a shortlist.
How to build a cold-email list of local businesses
A practical pipeline for local-business cold email: define the niche, pull complete listings per zip code, enrich with emails, clean the list, and personalize at scale.How to find businesses without websites on Google Maps
How to find local businesses with no website on Google Maps: measured shares by industry, a formula that filters a scrape for them, and how to pitch.How to find business phone numbers for cold calling
Phone numbers are the one contact detail every Google Maps listing has. How to build a call list with the context that makes the call worth answering.Marketing Agency Leads: Find Local Clients on Maps
Which local businesses need an agency? In 70,643 Google Maps listings, 41% of accountants had under 20 reviews and 9% of gyms were rated under 4 stars.Building a territory list for field sales reps
Field sales lives or dies on drive time. How to build balanced, mappable territory lists from Google Maps data, with the columns route planning actually needs.Rather skip to the list?
Type a category, pick the cities or ZIP codes, and download every business with its phone, website and rating, plus the email from its own site where one is published.
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Industry playbooks
8 guidesBuilding and working a list for one trade: the categories to search, the signals to read, when to call.
HVAC lead generation: building a contractor list
Selling to HVAC contractors means working around their season. How to build the list, read the signals in it, and time outreach so you're not calling mid-heatwave.Dental practice lead generation: getting past the front desk
Dentists are hard to reach and easy to segment. How to build a dental practice list, read specialty and ownership signals, and write for whoever reads the inbox.Restaurant lead generation for hospitality suppliers
Restaurants are the fastest-changing local market there is. How to build a hospitality list, keep it from rotting, and reach a kitchen that never stops moving.Roofing lead generation: contractor lists by territory
Roofing is storm-driven, territorial and crowded with transient operators. How to build a roofing contractor list and tell the established firms from the chasers.Plumber lead generation: building the list
Selling to plumbers? Build the list from Google Maps, tell a one-van operator from a multi-truck firm, and reach owners who spend the day under a sink.Law firm lead generation: building the list
Selling to law firms? Build the list from Google Maps, segment by practice area and firm size, and reach attorneys whose time is billed in six-minute blocks.Selling to real estate agents: building the list
Selling to real estate agents? Build the list from Google Maps, separate brokerages from individual agents, and time outreach around the busy season.Selling to med spas: building the list
Selling to med spas? Build the list from Google Maps, tell medical spas from day spas, and pitch businesses that live on bookings and repeat treatments.Google reviews
3 guidesExporting reviews to a spreadsheet and reading them for research or a pitch.
Scraping Google Maps reviews for competitor research
Competitor reviews are the cheapest customer research available. How to pull them at scale, what to look for, and the traps of reading review data too literally.How to Export Google Reviews to Excel or CSV
Export Google reviews to Excel or CSV: the 15 columns you get, what 100 free credits cover, review counts by industry for sizing, and the date fix.Find Local Businesses With Bad Reviews to Pitch
Only 2.6% of top-ranked Google Maps listings are rated under 4 stars. Which industries have the most, why zip-code runs find them, and how to pitch.Data and market sizing
4 guidesCounting a market, the IDs worth keeping, and how quickly listing data changes.
How many businesses are in my area? Sizing a local market
Counting the real number of businesses in a category and area is harder than it looks. Here's a repeatable method for a defensible local TAM number.Google Maps data for franchise site selection
Competitor density, co-tenancy and market saturation, measured from listing data. What Google Maps can tell you about a location — and what it definitely can't.What is a Google place ID (and CID), and why keep it?
Place IDs and CIDs are the only stable keys in a business list. What they are, how they differ, and why deduping on names and addresses always fails.How fast local business data goes stale: a refresh routine
Every lead list starts decaying the moment it's exported. What changes, how fast by industry, and a practical refresh routine built on diffing scrapes.Exports and files
2 guidesGetting results into Excel or CSV, and what breaks on the way.
Export Google Maps search results to Excel or CSV
Google Maps has no export button. How to get search results into Excel or CSV, what Takeout and My Maps export instead, and a free column template.CSV vs XLSX for lead lists: which to use and what breaks
Leading zeros vanishing, phone numbers turning into maths, accents becoming gibberish. Which export format to pick for a lead list, and how to fix imports.Law and compliance
1 guideWhat the law and Google's terms say about scraping and emailing businesses.
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