Google Maps Business Scraper: Extract Leads Automatically

Google Maps has data on 200M+ businesses worldwide. Here's how to extract it for lead generation, market research, and local SEO.

Why Scrape Google Maps?

• Build lead lists for sales
• Analyze local competition
• Find businesses by category/location
• Extract contact info at scale

Using Apify (No-Code)

The Google Maps Business Scraper handles all the complexity:

• Anti-blocking measures
• Pagination
• Data structuring
• Export to CSV/JSON

Python Implementation

import httpx

def search_places(query, location):
    url = "https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/textsearch/json"
    params = {
        "query": f"{query} in {location}",
        "key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
    }
    resp = httpx.get(url, params=params)
    return resp.json().get("results", [])

Data Fields Available

• Business name and category
• Full address and phone
• Website URL
• Rating and review count
• Opening hours
• Photos and Google profile

Lead Generation Strategy

1. Search for businesses in your target niche
2. Extract contact data
3. Enrich with additional research
4. Build targeted outreach campaigns

Pricing

• Google Places API: $0.00 for first $200/month
• Apify actors: $0.003 per result
• Manual data entry: priceless (and slow)

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