How to scrape Google Maps in 2026 (no code required)
Updated July 15, 2026 · 6 min read
Google Maps is the most complete directory of local businesses that exists — every dentist, roofer, café and gym, with phone numbers, websites, ratings and opening hours. If you sell to local businesses, the map is your market, and getting it into a spreadsheet is the first step of every campaign.
There are four realistic ways to do that. Here's the honest rundown, including when each one is the right choice.
Option 1: copy it by hand
For a handful of businesses this is genuinely fine: search, click each listing, copy the name and phone into a sheet. Budget roughly a minute per business — 50 listings is an hour of tedium, and you'll still be missing emails, which Maps doesn't show.
Worth it below ~20 businesses. Beyond that, your hourly rate says no.
Option 2: the official Google Places API
Google offers a Places API, and for showing places inside your own app it's the right tool. For lead lists it's a poor fit: results per search are capped (traditionally 60), fields like email don't exist at all, and Google's terms restrict storing or exporting the data beyond limited caching — which is exactly what a lead list is.
Use it when you're building a product feature, not a prospect list.
Option 3: write your own scraper
With Playwright or Puppeteer you can drive a real browser: search, scroll the results feed until it ends, open each place, extract the fields. It works — this is roughly what professional tools do under the hood — but you'll spend your first week on scrolling quirks, consent screens, selector changes and IP blocks, and then maintain it forever. Emails still require visiting every business's website and parsing them out.
A reasonable hobby project; an expensive way to get a contact list.
Option 4: a purpose-built tool (the 3-minute version)
The first 100 credits are free with no card, which is enough to test it on a real niche and judge the data quality yourself.
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Describe the hunt
In Hubertino, type the business category — “dentist”, “HVAC contractor”, anything Google understands — and pick locations from the built-in picker: whole countries, states, cities or individual zip codes.
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Watch results stream in
Every category × location pair becomes a Google Maps search. Listings appear in a live table as they're found, then each row fills in with details: phone, website, address, rating, hours — and the email and social profiles dug from the business's own site.
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Export
Download XLSX or CSV (one business per row, 38 lead-focused columns) or pull the same data over the REST API. You're charged one credit per business actually delivered — a search that finds nothing costs nothing.
Is scraping Google Maps legal?
Business listings on Google Maps are public information that the businesses themselves want found — names, phone numbers, websites, addresses. Collecting public business data is broadly lawful in most jurisdictions; what matters is how you use it: follow your market's B2B outreach rules (CAN-SPAM in the US, PECR/GDPR legitimate-interest rules in Europe), honor opt-outs, and don't misrepresent yourself. If you're building lists in the EU, our privacy policy explains how business-listing data is handled, including how businesses can request removal.
Common questions
How many results can one search return?
Google Maps itself caps a single search's feed at roughly 100–120 places, which is why searching a whole city as one query undercounts. Splitting by zip code (which Hubertino's location picker does for you) recovers near-complete coverage.
Can I get emails from Google Maps?
Not from Maps directly — listings don't include emails. They come from visiting each business's website. Hubertino does that automatically for every place with a site, at no extra credit cost.