Google Maps Business Lead & Email Finder

Build a local prospecting list without a Google account, browser cookie or developer key. The actor searches Google Maps for the businesses you describe, then visits each business's own public website to collect the email addresses, extra phone numbers and social profiles that the business publishes.

Three ways to use it

• Search Maps by category or phrase. One row per business with its listing details and Google Maps link.
• Look up places you already have. Paste Google Maps place links or Place IDs.
• Enrich a website list. Bring your own domains and skip the Maps search entirely.

What you get

Each lead carries the business name, Google Maps categories, a split address, phone, website, rating, review count, Place ID, coordinates and a clean Google Maps URL. With contact extraction on, the row also carries emails found on the business's website, an MX-checked subset, the source page for each email, additional website phone numbers and up to ten social profiles.

Maps itself has no email field. An address is only reported when the business publishes it on its own site, and every missing field is left out rather than guessed.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	select	searchPlaces	Search Maps, look up specific places, or enrich websites
searchQueries	string[]	–	Phrases for Maps, such as roofers in Dallas TX
locationQuery	string	–	Shared location appended to each phrase
category	string	bakery	Category used when keyword and phrases are empty
keyword	string	–	Custom term that takes priority over category
state	select	All	US state, or All for nationwide
country	select	US	Country for the search
websites	string[]	–	Domains for website mode; bare domains are accepted
placeUrls	string[]	–	Google Maps place links for specific-place mode
placeIds	string[]	–	Place IDs starting with ChIJ
max_results	integer	100	Total lead cap (1–100,000)
minRating	number	–	Keep places rated at least this value (1.0–5.0)
extractEmails	boolean	true	Read business websites for contact details
maxEmailsPerWebsite	integer	5	Email cap per business website
maxContactPagesPerWebsite	integer	3	Homepage plus contact/about/legal/privacy pages
onlySaveResults	select	allPlaces	All places, only with an email, or only with contacts
categoryFilter	string[]	–	Keep categories containing all words of any entry
websiteFilter	select	allPlaces	All places, with a website, or without one
skipClosedPlaces	boolean	false	Leave out permanently or temporarily closed places
language	select	en	Maps interface language (74 options plus two legacy codes)

Examples

{"mode":"searchPlaces","searchQueries":["bakeries in London"],"max_results":50,"extractEmails":true}

{"mode":"specificPlaces","placeIds":["ChIJ…"],"extractEmails":true}

{"mode":"enrichWebsites","websites":["example-bakery.com","example-dentist.de"]}

Output

• Listing: name, googleBusinessCategories, street, city, state, zip, country, countryCode, phoneNumber, url, reviewScore, reviewsNumber, placeId, featureId, googleMapsUrl, priceLevel, plusCode, location, websiteType.
• Contacts: email, emails, emailsMxValid, emailProvenance, websitePhones, contactPageUrl, websitePagesCrawled, facebook, instagram, linkedin, twitter, youtube, tiktok, pinterest, threads, whatsapp, telegram.
• Context: recordType, sourceUrl, scrapedAt.

emailProvenance names the signal and the page that supplied each address. websiteType marks social-profile and directory links so a platform page is never treated as the business's own site.

How many emails should I expect?

In a 128-business sample across Austin, London, Berlin and Paris, 74% published an email within the homepage plus two contact pages; reading deeper pages lifted the measured rate to 77% of businesses with a website. About 76% of the businesses with a website had at least one MX-valid address (98% of the email-bearing sites in the sample). European businesses often publish a legally required Impressum page, which helps those markets; sites that only offer a contact form, hide their address in JavaScript, or block automated visits cannot yield one. Treat 66–77% as a realistic range, not a promise for every market.

Limitations

• A single Maps phrase exposes a ranked window of roughly 150–220 businesses. Run several related phrases, or split by area, to widen coverage; duplicates are removed by Place ID.
• Some websites publish no email, use a contact form only, or block automated access. Those rows keep their Maps details and simply omit website contacts.
• priceLevel is rarely exposed by Google's public listing data and is omitted rather than invented.
• plusCode is the code computed from the coordinates; Google's optional locality label is not appended.
• emailsMxValid confirms that the address domain publishes an MX record. It cannot prove that a person reads the inbox or detect a catch-all mailbox.
• Closed-place checks use Google's public status. A place whose status cannot be read is kept.

FAQ

Do I need an API key, cookies or a proxy? No. Searches and business websites are read from public pages. You do not configure a connection.

Why is a row missing an email? Not every business has a website, and not every website publishes an address. Some use a contact form or a booking widget. The row is still a valid lead unless you choose onlySaveResults: "onlyWithEmails"; that filter keeps the matching rows among the places fetched up to your lead cap.

What does emailsMxValid mean? It is the part of emails whose domain had an MX record when the run executed. An address is kept in emails even when DNS has no answer; it is simply not listed as MX-valid.

What is emailProvenance? A small list that pairs each email with its signal (mailto, jsonLd, cloudflare, text, obfuscated or raw) and the page where it was found.

Can I use the actor without Google Maps? Yes. Choose enrichWebsites and paste the domains. Each row is keyed to the website you supplied.

Does it find owner or decision-maker emails? No. It reports public business contact details; personal or executive addresses are not inferred.

Use public data lawfully and in line with Google's terms. This actor is not affiliated with Google.