📍 Google Maps Email & Contact Finder

Search Google Maps for any business type, anywhere in the world. Automatically extract email addresses, phone numbers, websites and social media links.

No proxy needed. Uses official Google Places API. Bring your own free API key ($200/month free credit).

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🔍 What it does

1. Searches Google Maps for businesses matching your query and location
2. Visits each business website
3. Extracts: email addresses, phone numbers, social media links
4. Returns a clean, exportable dataset

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✅ Key features

• Global — works for any city, country or region worldwide
• Email extraction — finds emails from homepage + /contact page
• Phone extraction — extracts from tel: links
• Social links — Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter/X
• Smart filtering — only_with_email, only_with_website, min_rating
• No proxy needed — Google Places API + standard HTTP fetch
• Export ready — CSV, JSON, Excel via Apify dataset

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📦 Output fields

{
  "name": "Blue Bottle Coffee",
  "address": "450 W 15th St, New York, NY 10011",
  "phone": "+1 510-653-3394",
  "website": "https://bluebottlecoffee.com",
  "email": "hello@bluebottlecoffee.com",
  "emails_found": ["hello@bluebottlecoffee.com"],
  "phones_found": ["+1 510-653-3394"],
  "social_links": {
    "instagram": "https://instagram.com/bluebottlecoffee",
    "facebook": "https://facebook.com/bluebottlecoffee"
  },
  "rating": 4.5,
  "review_count": 892,
  "category": "Coffee shop",
  "google_maps_url": "https://maps.google.com/?cid=...",
  "latitude": 40.7431,
  "longitude": -74.0041,
  "query": "coffee shops",
  "location": "New York, NY",
  "scraped_at": "2025-04-15T10:00:00.000Z"
}

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🔑 Google API key setup (5 minutes, free)

1. Go to console.cloud.google.com
2. Create a new project
3. Enable Places API (New)
4. Create an API key under Credentials
5. Add it to Apify Secrets as GOOGLE_API_KEY
6. Use @GOOGLE_API_KEY in the actor input

Free tier: $200/month credit = ~10,000 searches/month for free.

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🚀 Example configurations

Coffee shops in New York

{
  "google_api_key": "@GOOGLE_API_KEY",
  "query": "coffee shops",
  "location": "New York, NY",
  "max_results": 60,
  "extract_emails": true,
  "only_with_email": true
}

Lawyers in London

{
  "google_api_key": "@GOOGLE_API_KEY",
  "query": "lawyers",
  "location": "London, UK",
  "max_results": 60,
  "min_rating": 4.0,
  "extract_social": true
}

Dentists in Toronto

{
  "google_api_key": "@GOOGLE_API_KEY",
  "query": "dentists",
  "location": "Toronto, Canada",
  "max_results": 60,
  "only_with_website": true
}

Hair salons in Budapest

{
  "google_api_key": "@GOOGLE_API_KEY",
  "query": "hair salons",
  "location": "Budapest, Hungary",
  "language": "hu"
}

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⚡ Pricing

Pay-per-result. Typical run: 20–60 businesses.

Volume	Est. cost
20 businesses	~$0.02
60 businesses	~$0.06
500 businesses	~$0.50

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📅 Use cases

• Lead generation — find local businesses with contact info
• Market research — map competitor landscape
• Sales prospecting — build targeted outreach lists
• Directory building — create local business directories