How to Scrape Google Maps Business Listings (Names, Addresses, Phones, Reviews)

TL;DR

To scrape business listings from Google Maps: search for your target businesses (e.g., "restaurants in Austin, TX"), scroll through the results to load them all, click ScrapeMaster, and export the data as CSV, XLSX, or JSON. You get business names, addresses, phone numbers, ratings, review counts, and website URLs — for free, with no coding.

Why scrape Google Maps?

Google Maps is the largest business directory in the world. Scraping it provides:

• Lead generation — Build prospecting lists of businesses in your target market
• Competitive analysis — Map out competitors in a geographic area
• Market research — Understand business density, ratings, and categories in a region
• Sales prospecting — Find potential clients with their contact information
• Local SEO research — Analyze competitors' ratings, review counts, and categories
• Real estate analysis — Map nearby amenities for property valuations
• Franchise planning — Identify areas with or without specific business types

What data you can extract

From Google Maps search results, you can typically extract:

• Business name
• Address (street, city, state, zip)
• Phone number
• Website URL
• Star rating (1 to 5)
• Number of reviews
• Business category (restaurant, dentist, plumber, etc.)
• Hours of operation (from detail pages)
• Price level ($ to $$$$)

Step-by-step guide

Step 1: Search Google Maps

Open Google Maps (maps.google.com) and search for what you need. Be specific:

• "Italian restaurants in San Francisco"
• "Dentists in Chicago, IL"
• "Plumbers near Phoenix, AZ"
• "Coworking spaces in New York City"

Step 2: Load all results

Google Maps shows results in a scrollable panel on the left side. Scroll down through the results panel to load more businesses. Google Maps uses infinite scroll — keep scrolling until you have loaded all the businesses you want (or all that are available).

Tip: Google Maps typically returns up to 60 to 120 results for a search. For broader coverage, try multiple searches with different neighborhoods or sub-categories.

Step 3: Click ScrapeMaster

Click the ScrapeMaster icon in your toolbar. The AI analyzes the Google Maps results panel and auto-detects the business listing data.

You should see a table in the side panel with columns for business name, rating, review count, address, and other available data.

Step 4: Review and customize columns

Check the extracted data:

• Rename columns if needed (e.g., "Rating" to "Google Rating")
• Remove columns you do not need
• Verify that a sample of businesses matches what you see on the map

Step 5: Enable pagination if needed

If you have more results than what is initially visible, enable the infinite scroll option so ScrapeMaster scrolls through and captures all loaded results.

Step 6: Follow detail pages (optional)

For deeper data (phone numbers, website URLs, hours), enable detail page following. ScrapeMaster clicks into each business listing and extracts the additional information from the detail panel.

Step 7: Export

Choose your format:

• CSV — Import into Excel, Google Sheets, or your CRM
• XLSX — Open directly in Excel
• JSON — Feed into databases or custom tools
• Clipboard — Paste directly into a spreadsheet

Practical scenarios

Building a sales prospect list

Goal: Find 200 businesses in your target market for outreach

• Search for your target industry in your target city
• Scroll to load all results
• Scrape names, phone numbers, and website URLs
• Export as CSV
• Import into your CRM (HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive)
• Use the data for email outreach, cold calling, or direct mail

Competitive landscape mapping

Goal: Understand your competitive density in a region

• Search for your business category in your area
• Scrape all results with ratings and review counts
• Export to a spreadsheet
• Analyze: How many competitors exist? What are their average ratings? Who has the most reviews?

Local SEO benchmarking

Goal: Compare your Google profile against competitors

• Search for your category in your area
• Scrape names, ratings, and review counts
• Find your listing and see where you rank
• Identify competitors with higher ratings or more reviews
• Focus improvement efforts on the gaps

Finding service providers

Goal: Build a shortlist of service providers (lawyers, accountants, contractors)

• Search for the service type in your city
• Scrape results with ratings, review counts, and websites
• Filter for businesses with ratings above 4.0 and more than 50 reviews
• Visit the top candidates' websites for more information

Tips for Google Maps scraping

Be specific with search terms

"Restaurants in Texas" returns too many results in too broad an area. "Mexican restaurants in downtown Austin, TX" gives a focused, relevant dataset.

Zoom the map to your target area

Google Maps prioritizes results within the visible map area. Zoom to the specific neighborhood or district you want data for.

Combine multiple searches

For comprehensive coverage, run several related searches:

• "Italian restaurants in Austin"
• "Mexican restaurants in Austin"
• "Japanese restaurants in Austin"

Combine the exported CSVs into one master spreadsheet and deduplicate.

Scrape during off-peak hours

Google Maps loads faster and returns results more smoothly during off-peak hours (early morning, late evening). This makes scrolling and scraping more reliable.

Ethical and legal considerations

• Public data — Business names, addresses, phone numbers, and ratings on Google Maps are publicly available information
• Personal data — Do not scrape reviewer names, profile information, or individual reviews for commercial use without considering GDPR and privacy regulations
• Rate limiting — Google may rate-limit or show CAPTCHAs if you scrape too aggressively. Work at a reasonable pace.
• Terms of Service — Google's ToS restricts automated access. Use scraping for legitimate research and prospecting, not mass data harvesting
• Use responsibly — The data should be used for legitimate business purposes like market research, lead generation, and competitive analysis

Frequently asked questions

How many businesses can I scrape from Google Maps?

Google Maps typically returns 60 to 120 results per search. For larger datasets, run multiple searches with different locations or categories and combine the results.

Can I scrape Google Maps reviews?

You can scrape review counts and overall ratings from the search results. Scraping individual review text requires clicking into each business — possible with detail page following, but slower and in larger volume may trigger rate limiting.

Will Google block me for scraping?

Google may show CAPTCHAs or temporarily rate-limit your session if you scrape very aggressively. ScrapeMaster operates within your browser, making requests that look like normal browsing, but rapid pagination through many results may trigger detection. Work at a reasonable pace.

Is there a limit on how much data I can export?

ScrapeMaster has no export limits. Whatever data you scrape, you can export in full — CSV, XLSX, JSON, or clipboard.

Bottom line

Google Maps is the most comprehensive business directory available. ScrapeMaster lets you extract business names, addresses, phone numbers, ratings, and more — with AI detection, no coding, and no limits. Install it and build your next prospect list in minutes.