Google Maps Scraper

Go beyond Google Places API limits. Get data from Google Maps reviews, images, contact details, opening hours, popular times, ratings, addresses, and much more. You don’t need to know Python or JavaScript to export data from Google Maps. Simply type what to scrape, where, and how much, and let our powerful Google Maps data extractor handle the rest!

How does Google Maps Scraper work?

Google Maps Scraper is an unofficial Google Places API without limits. You don’t need a Google account or a Google Maps API key to use it. Use this Google Maps web scraper to get access to data on millions of local business listings.

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Why scrape Google Maps?

Lead generation

Forging a customer base shouldn’t be difficult. Collect business contact details from all over Google Maps to generate a prospects list you can rely on. Connect your customers with your business, revise your suppliers, and find vendors and service providers.

Sentiment analysis

Use Google Maps reviews data to understand customer needs and steer your product development. Scrape reviews in bulk and analyze textual data to track brand perception, customer experience and customer loyalty - yours and competitors’.

Research and data science

Carry out breakthrough research with the help of relevant data from Google Maps. Perform data visualization, geospatial data analysis, NLP and more. Compile Google Maps datasets for your AI and machine learning models.

Competition tracking

Keep one jump ahead of your competition game. Monitor competitors’ popularity levels and quality of service, identify gaps in their market strategy and get a competitive edge in your industry. Boost your competitive intelligence with insights backed by data.

Frequently asked questions

You can scrape (or "copy-paste at scale") any web data that's publicly available - which holds true for most websites, including Google Maps. Scraping Google Maps data is therefore legal, as long as you respect intellectual property rights and personal data regulations. To learn more about laws that regulate web scraping industry, head over to our blog post from Apify's legal expert on the subject.

How do I scrape Google Places API?

Since Google Places API has become quite expensive for an average user, many alternatives have emerged. Google Maps Scraper is one of them. This scraper gets the same data as Google Places API would, but for a better price. This tool will easily export Google Maps data into Excel, HTML table or JSON.

How do I scrape Google Maps for free?

For this, you can try out a no-code tool that's been around for 5 years, Google Maps Scraper. Using a simplified version of this tool, Easy Google Maps Scraper, you can get up to 2,000 basic google maps results for free (contact details, ranking, number of reviews and URLs). If you also want to include scraping images, reviews, and additional info, getting 1,000 full google maps results can range from $2.50 to $35.

How do you scrape data on Google Maps?

You can either build a scraper tool of your own in any programming language or use an existing solution. Some existing solutions offer a free trial, such as our Google Maps Scraper and they are quite easy to get the hang of. A good scraper should be able to copy the data you see on the website and save it in a document of a universal format, usually a JSON, Excel spreadsheet, or HTML.

How do you scrape Google Maps without coding?

You don't need coding skills to scrape Google Maps if you're using ready-made no-code Google Maps scrapers from Apify Store. To scrape Google Maps without coding, just follow these simple steps:

  1. Go to Apify Store, select your Google Maps scraper, and click 'Try for free'.
  2. Type the city and place you want to scrape in the input field.
  3. Begin data collection by clicking 'Start'.
  4. Download your Google Maps data in your preferred format.

Can I integrate data from Google Maps with my app?

Yes, though the data has to be in machine-readable format. Apify platform stores data in universal formats such as JSON, XML or CSV which makes it easy to plug in extracted Google Maps data into other apps. The platform also allows seamless data integration across various integration tools such as Zapier, Make, Airbyte, Keboola and others. To make this happen, all you need to know is the dataset's ID.

How do I import Google reviews into Excel?

The easiest way would be to find a tool created specifically to extract Google Maps Reviews. A good google reviews scraper such as the one in Apify Store should be able to export both high and low ranking reviews of every place as well as their translations into various formats, including Excel. However, scraping personal data of reviewers is not advised as it does not comply with the guidelines of ethical web scraping.

Yes, but with caveats. Public reviews posted on Google Maps often contain personal information such as a name, profile image, review ID. All that information combined could be potentially used to identify the reviewer - which is protected by GDPR in the EU and by other laws around the world, and for a good reason. \n\nYou should only scrape personal data if you have a legitimate reason to do so, and you should also factor in Google's Terms of Use. We are aware of that and built our Google Reviews Scraper in a way to be able to avoid extracting personal data. You can read the basics of ethical web scraping in our expert piece on the legality of web scraping.

How do I get Google Maps data in Python?

Since many data scientists prefer to work in Python, we've decided to make their work easier with the Apify API Client for Python. Just run the Google Maps Scraper on the Apify platform and use our Python Client to access the scraped data from your Python applications.

How do I extract email from Google Maps?

You can use a web scraper tool created specifically to extract contact details from Google Business Profile (formerly Google My Business). Google Maps Scraper will get you G Maps business details such as place name, location, website, phone number. Besides, you can get info on rating, number of reviews, popular times, category, ads if available, opening hours and URLs. It can also include detailed reviews of every place as well as their translations.

How do I scrape my location on Google Maps?

You can get G Maps data from the exact location by indicating coordinates or postal address, including your current location. Here's how to do it in 5 steps with Apify Google Maps Scraper:

  1. Go to Google Maps in Apify Store and click on 'Try for free'.
  2. Head over to the Where do you want to search? section and indicate your postal details (country, state, city, zip code).
  3. Alternatively, indicate your exact coordinates (longitude and latitude).
  4. Begin data collection by clicking 'Start'.
  5. Download your Google Maps data in CSV format.

How do I import data from Google Maps to Excel?

You can download scraped Google Maps data using G Maps Scraper:

  1. Go to Google Maps in Apify Store and click on 'Try for free'.
  2. Type the city and place you want to scrape in the input field.
  3. Begin data collection by clicking 'Start'.
  4. Download your Google Maps data in CSV format.