WhatsApp Number Extractor: from Google Maps & Websites

What does WhatsApp Number Extractor do?

WhatsApp Number Extractor finds the WhatsApp numbers of businesses: search Google Maps by trade and city ("dentista" in São Paulo, "real estate agency" in Dubai), or give a list of websites, and get each business's WhatsApp number in international E.164 format - read from the chat links on its own website (wa.me/..., api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=...). One row per business, with its name, address, phone and website.

A WhatsApp share button carries no number, a group invite is not a business's chat, and a short link hides the number: none of them is returned as a number. You pay only per business with a WhatsApp number.

Run it from the Apify Console, through the API, on a schedule, or from an AI agent through Apify's MCP server.

Why use it?

• WhatsApp outreach to local businesses in the countries where WhatsApp is how businesses talk: Brazil, Mexico, Spain, India, the UAE and many more.
• A number Google Maps does not show: in our test 171 of 293 businesses with a WhatsApp number had one other than the phone on their Google Maps listing.
• From the business itself: the number its own website asks customers to write to.

How to use it

1. Open the Input tab and type what you would search on Google Maps ("dentista", "inmobiliaria") and the location ("São Paulo, Brasil").
2. Or leave the search empty and give a list of websites further down.
3. Click Start, then download the results as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML from the Output tab.

Input

Field	What it does
Search terms (Google Maps)	What you would type into Google Maps. Every term is searched in the location; each business's website is read.
Location	A city and country, as free text. One per run.
Places per search term	How many Google Maps places to take for each term. Only the ones with a WhatsApp number are returned and billed.
Also return businesses without a WhatsApp number	Every place found - never charged.
Or: websites	A list of websites, used when no search terms are given.
Max contact subpages	Pages read on each website on top of the homepage (default 3).

Output

Odentz, from the prefill's search "dentista" in São Paulo, as read on October 10, 2026 (some fields left out):

{
  "name": "Odentz 24h Clínica Odontológica - Unidade Pamplona",
  "best_whatsapp": "+5511966382272",
  "whatsapp": ["+5511966382272", "+5511970592208"],
  "phone": "+551123067787",
  "website": "https://odentz.com.br/",
  "category": "Dentist",
  "address": "R. Pamplona, 1348 - Jardim Paulista, São Paulo - SP, 01405-002",
  "city": "São Paulo",
  "country_code": "BR",
  "rating": 4.8,
  "reviews_count": 155,
  "google_maps_url": "https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJleiA8ClZzpQRZ962SiRfG9Q",
  "search_string": "dentista in São Paulo, Brasil",
  "website_status": "ok",
  "billed": true
}

In the prefill's run, 15 of the 20 dentists had a WhatsApp number on their website, 8 of them one other than the phone on Google Maps.

Field	Meaning
best_whatsapp	The first WhatsApp number on the business's website, in E.164.
whatsapp	Every WhatsApp number its chat links open - a portal of agents lists many.
phone	The phone on Google Maps, for comparison.
website_status	ok, no_contacts, unreachable, no_website or closed.
billed	Whether this row was charged.

Given a list of websites, a row is domain, website, best_whatsapp, whatsapp, whatsapp_count, status (found, not_found, unreachable) and billed.

How often does a business have one?

Measured on October 10, 2026: 600 businesses from Google Maps searches for dentists and estate agents in five countries, 533 with a website, 484 of those read.

Country	Websites read	With a WhatsApp number
UAE	111	81 (73%)
Brazil	88	61 (69%)
India	85	52 (61%)
Spain	117	61 (52%)
Mexico	82	38 (46%)
All	484	293 (61%)

No number was found on two different businesses' websites, and 7 of the 465 numbers belong to another country than the business - an international branch or a foreign agent. In the US, the UK and Germany far fewer websites carry one: about 5% of local businesses in our samples.

How much does it cost?

$0.003 per business with a WhatsApp number on the Free and Starter plans, $0.0027 on Scale, $0.0024 from Business up, plus Apify's start fee of $0.00005 a run. A business without one costs nothing, and branches sharing a number are billed once. The Google Maps search itself is included.

FAQ

Is it legal to message these numbers? They are numbers businesses publish for customers to write to. WhatsApp's Business and Commerce policies and anti-spam law apply to what you send; you are responsible for complying with them and with the GDPR.

Does it read WhatsApp itself? No. It reads the business's own website and never logs in to WhatsApp, so it cannot tell whether a number is active on WhatsApp today.

Why no number for a site that shows a WhatsApp button? Some buttons are drawn by a script after the page loads, or open a short link without the number in it.

Related Actors

• Google Maps Email Extractor - the same businesses, each with the email from its own website.
• Google Maps Phone Number Scraper - the phone numbers Google Maps lists, $1 per 1,000.
• Website Contact & Email Scraper - emails, phones and social profiles from any list of websites.

Support

A number that is not the business's, or one that was missed? Open an issue on the Issues tab with the website.