Google Maps Email Extractor

What does Google Maps Email Extractor do?

Google Maps Email Extractor finds businesses on Google Maps and gets the email address from each business's own website. Type what you would search for — dentist, plumber, Steuerberater — and a location, and you get one record per place: the name, address, phone and website Google Maps shows, plus the emails, phone numbers and social profiles published on that website, each email checked for a working mail server.

Google Maps does not show email addresses; the website does. This Actor reads every place's website the way a person would — the contact page, the imprint, the privacy policy — and returns the address the business actually answers.

You pay only for places where an email is found. A place without a website, a website that has no email, or an email that belongs to someone else (the web agency, a booking platform) costs nothing.

It runs on the Apify platform: API access, scheduling, integrations (Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets) and run monitoring included.

Why use it?

• More places get an email. On 130 real businesses with a website — dentists, plumbers, lawyers, estate agents and accountants in Chicago, Manchester, Cologne and Kraków — it found a usable email for 80%, against 71% for the contact add-on built into Google Maps Scraper, on the same places (September 2026, details below).
• The email is the business's own. An address counts only when it is on the business's own domain, on a second domain carrying the business's name (koeln@dahler.com for DAHLER at dahlercompany.com), or a personal mailbox the business uses (Gmail, Outlook, T-Online, WP.pl…). The web agency that built the site — even one sharing the owner's surname — the booking platform named in the privacy policy, and the regulator or professional chamber a German Impressum must name are returned for reference but never billed and never picked as best_email.
• Emails are checked for a working mail server. A domain that accepts no mail (a typo, an expired domain) is flagged valid_mx: false and never billed.
• Phones are normalized. Numbers found on the website come back in E.164 (+17735550123), parsed for the place's country; they matched the Google Maps phone for 85% of the places above, against 61% for the add-on.
• Obfuscated addresses are decoded: Cloudflare email protection, HTML entities, name [at] domain [dot] com.
• Chains are not billed twice. Branches of one business that share an inbox are charged once per run; a website shared by several branches is read once.

Use cases

• Local lead generation — every dentist, plumber or law firm in a city, with an inbox to write to.
• Agency prospecting — find businesses in a niche and region, with their website and socials.
• Sales territory mapping — a CSV of reachable businesses per category and city.
• Enriching a list you already have — give it an earlier Google Maps dataset and only the websites are read.

How to use it

1. Enter one or more Search terms (one per line) and a Location, e.g. dentist in Chicago, USA.
2. Set Places per search term — it also caps what the Google Maps search costs.
3. Click Start. Places are read as soon as Google Maps returns them; download the results as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML.

Already scraped Google Maps? Pick that dataset under Or: places you already have instead of entering search terms: its places are enriched and nothing is paid for finding them again. A Google Maps link pasted into the search terms works too.

Input

Field	What it does
Search terms	What you would type into Google Maps. Each term is searched in the location.
Location	A city, region or country, as free text. One per run.
Places per search term	How many places to take per term (default 20).
Language	Language of place names and addresses returned by Google Maps.
Where the places come from	scraperlink (default, $0.50 per 1,000 places on the Free and Starter plans, compass takes over when it finds nothing) or compass (closest to Google Maps' own ranking).
Places you already have	An existing Google Maps dataset to enrich instead of searching.
Max contact subpages	How many contact-like pages to read per website (default 5).
Validate emails	Check each email's domain for a mail server (on by default).
JavaScript rendering	auto re-reads a website in a browser when no usable email was found without one; needs 2048 MB of memory.

Output

One record per place:

{
  "name": "Northside Dental Care",
  "category": "Dentist",
  "address": "1200 N Example Ave, Chicago, IL 60622",
  "city": "Chicago",
  "country_code": "US",
  "maps_phone": "+17735550123",
  "website": "https://www.northsidedental.example/",
  "status": "ok",
  "best_email": "info@northsidedental.example",
  "emails": [
    { "email": "info@northsidedental.example", "valid_mx": true, "role": true, "confidence": 0.85, "kind": "own" },
    { "email": "hello@webagency.example", "valid_mx": true, "role": true, "confidence": 0.85, "kind": "other" }
  ],
  "phones": ["+17735550123"],
  "faxes": [],
  "socials": { "facebook": ["https://facebook.com/northsidedental"], "instagram": ["https://instagram.com/northsidedental"] },
  "billed": true,
  "rating": 4.8,
  "reviews_count": 311,
  "google_maps_url": "https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=...",
  "place_id": "ChIJ...",
  "search_string": "dentist",
  "rank": 4
}

Field	Description
name, category, address, city, country_code	The place as Google Maps lists it.
maps_phone	The phone number Google Maps shows.
website	The website Google Maps lists, without click-tracking parameters.
status	ok (contacts found), no_contacts (website read, nothing published), unreachable (the website refused or did not answer, or forwards to a platform's front page — an expired domain sent to Facebook or to its registrar), no_website (none listed, or only a Facebook, Instagram or booking-platform page — kept in socials or website; a Google Site is read as the business's own), closed (permanently closed, not read).
best_email	The address to write to: the business's own domain first, then a domain with its name, then a personal mailbox it uses. Empty when there is none.
emails	Every address found on the website, each with valid_mx, role, confidence and kind: own, related (a domain carrying the business's name), free_mail or other (someone else's — never billed).
phones, faxes	Numbers found on the website, in E.164. Faxes are kept apart.
socials	Profile links from the website, grouped by platform, de-duplicated.
billed	Whether this place was charged.
rating, reviews_count, google_maps_url, place_id, search_string, rank	From Google Maps.

Accuracy

On September 24, 2026 we took the first 8 Google Maps results for five lead-generation categories in four cities — dentists, plumbers, lawyers, estate agents and accountants in Chicago, Manchester, Cologne and Kraków, searched in the local language — 136 places, 130 with a website. The same places went through this Actor and through Google Maps Scraper's own Company contacts enrichment add-on:

Of 130 places with a website	This Actor	Contact add-on
Usable email (own domain or personal mailbox)	104 (80%)	92 (71%)
Email on the business's own domain	94 (72%)	82 (63%)
Only someone else's address found	12 (9%)	11 (8%)
Phone matching the one on Google Maps	110 (85%)	79 (61%)

Only this Actor found a usable email for 17 of the places, only the add-on for 5. The top of Google Maps is not a random draw of businesses — firms that invest in their listing are over-represented — so read these as a fair comparison on the same places, not as a yield estimate for every list.

Where the places come from (September 25, 2026). The same 20 searches through scraperlink's Google Maps Scraper, the default source, returned 63 of those places among their first 10 results, with the same website and phone for all 63 and the same share of usable emails, 81%. Its other places — more trades that serve an area without a street address, and more lead-generation sites — gave fewer: 74% of all 199 places with a website. The search costs an eighth as much, so a usable email costs about half. Pick compass as the place source for the ranking Google Maps shows.

How much does it cost?

Two things are paid, both only for what is actually delivered:

• Place with email — $0.003 (~$3 per 1,000), charged by this Actor for each place whose website gave a usable email: on its own domain, on a domain carrying its name, or a personal mailbox it uses. Places without a website or without an email, closed, unreachable, or with only someone else's address: $0. Phones and social profiles are included. A place is written to the dataset before it is charged, so you never pay for a row you cannot see.
• Finding the places. The Google Maps search runs in a separate run on your account, which bills its own places. By default that is scraperlink's Google Maps Scraper — $0.50 per 1,000 places on the Free and Starter plans, $0.40 on higher ones, at least 10 per search term — and when it finds nothing, compass's Google Maps Scraper takes over — $4 per 1,000 places on the Free plan, less on paid plans. Paid add-ons are never switched on. Enriching a dataset you already have skips this part entirely.

100 dentists in Chicago cost about $0.05 for the search plus about $0.22 for the emails (about 75 places with an email). The Apify Free plan's $5 in monthly credits covers roughly 1,800 places; with compass as the source, about 700.

The maximum cost per run you set applies to this Actor's charges. The Google Maps search run gets its own limit: the places you asked for at its price plus a quarter — for compass never less than the $0.50 it requires.

Tips

• Keep "Places per search term" as low as you need — the Google Maps search bills every place it returns, with or without an email. The default source returns at least 10 per term; only the number you asked for is read here.
• Some trades rarely list a website. Searching hair salons in Kraków, 12 of 15 places had none, or only a Facebook or booking page; dentists, lawyers and accountants usually do. Places without a website cost nothing here, but the search still bills them.
• Re-use a dataset rather than searching again for places you already have.
• Use renderJs: auto (with 2048 MB of memory) for websites built entirely in JavaScript; it only starts a browser for sites where no usable email was found without one.
• Stopping the run stops the search too — whether you abort it (any way) or it reaches its maximum cost — so nothing keeps billing in the background. Measured: a run aborted half a minute into a 300-place search stopped the search six seconds later, before a single place was billed. Small searches are often over before you could stop them: 100 places came back in 27 seconds.
• Reading websites takes longer than finding places. About 3 seconds per place at the default 1024 MB of memory (136 places in 6.5 minutes); results appear in the dataset as each place is done. The default run timeout of 4 hours covers roughly 5,000 places: a run that gets close to its timeout stops taking new places a few minutes early, finishes the ones in progress and says in its status how many were left — raise the timeout in the run options for bigger lists.
• A run the platform moves to another server picks up where it was. The search is not started again, and no place is read or charged twice.

FAQ

Why do some places have no email?

Check status. no_website: Google Maps lists no website, or only a Facebook or booking page. no_contacts: the website publishes no email (only a contact form) — or it is built entirely in JavaScript; renderJs: auto re-reads such a site in a browser when no usable email was found without one. unreachable: the website refused the request — the Actor then retries through Apify's datacenter proxy by itself — or the domain forwards to a platform's front page. None of these are billed.

Why is an address in emails but not best_email?

It is on someone else's domain (kind: other): the agency that built the site, a booking or review platform, a supplier. It is returned so you can see it, but it is never billed and never chosen as the address to write to. A second domain of the business's own — one carrying its name — is kind: related and is treated like its own.

Can I use it for a list of websites instead of Google Maps?

Use the Website Contact & Email Scraper — same engine, one record per website, priced per contact.

Is scraping this data legal?

Google Maps listings and business websites are public, and this Actor respects robots.txt and rate-limits its requests. What you do with the data is your responsibility: under GDPR you are the data controller, you need a lawful basis for outreach, some countries restrict unsolicited commercial email (for example § 7 UWG in Germany), and you must honour opt-outs.

Disclaimer

This Actor is a tool. You are the data controller for any personal data you collect and are responsible for complying with GDPR and local marketing law, the target sites' Terms of Service and robots.txt. It does not build or sell contact databases.

Support

Found a place where an email was missed or the wrong one was picked? Open an issue on the Issues tab — accuracy reports shape the roadmap directly.