Google Maps Scraper

Example: what you type and what you get

Made-up businesses, real shape. This is what a small run looks like.

The website check

Switch on Check each website and every place gets a websiteStatus, a list of websiteIssues and a needsWebsiteWork flag.

needsWebsiteWork is true only for the strong reasons: no website, down, no mobile version, no HTTPS, or a copyright notice five or more years old. Weak findings, such as a missing meta description, are listed but don't set it.

What a real run found

In a 400-place test run (roofing and HVAC contractors in Dallas and Phoenix, November 2026), 57 places (14%) needed website work: 34 had no website, 5 had a site that was down, and 18 had a working site with a strong problem, mostly an old copyright year or no HTTPS. We checked every "down" result by hand afterwards, and all 5 were real: four dead domains and one "Database Error" page.

We don't guess

• A site counts as down only after two failed tries, and only when its homepage fails too. A broken deep link on a working site is unknown, not down.
• Bot walls and Cloudflare's 520 error are unknown. Cloudflare sends 520 to cloud servers for sites that load fine at home.
• Copyright years come from the visible page, never from code comments in a theme's CSS or JavaScript.
• Emails are kept only when they belong to the business. The web designer's address, font credits and template placeholders are removed.

How to scrape Google Maps leads

1. Add search terms and locations. For example plumber and roofing contractor in Dallas, TX. Every term is searched in every location.
2. Pick what to add. Switch on emails, the website check, or both. Set Website filter to "Only places that need website work" for the niche list.
3. Run and export. Download CSV, Excel or JSON, or read the dataset from the API. The Website check view shows the issues next to each business.

Input for web-design leads (paste into the JSON tab)

{
  "searchTerms": ["plumber", "roofing contractor"],
  "locations": ["75201", "75204", "75206"],
  "websiteFilter": "needsWork",
  "scrapeContacts": true,
  "minReviews": 10
}

Call it from Python

# pip install apify-client
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("your-apify-token")
run = client.actor("scrape-lads/google-maps-scraper").call(run_input={
    "searchTerms": ["dentist"],
    "locations": ["Chicago, IL"],
    "scrapeContacts": True,
    "checkWebsite": True,
})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item["name"], item.get("phone"), item.get("emails"), item.get("websiteIssues"))

Getting more places

• Split big cities. Google Maps returns about 120 to 200 places per search. Use ZIP codes or neighborhoods as locations for more, and duplicates across searches are removed for you.
• Expect fewer places with the needs-work filter. Usually 5% to 15% of a search qualifies, so add more locations and related search terms.
• Set a minimum review count to skip brand-new listings and favor busy businesses that can pay for a site.

Pricing

Pay per result. Places your filters remove, duplicates and websites we couldn't check are free.

In practice: 1,000 places cost $1. The same 1,000 with emails cost about $1.40 when 40% have an email on their site. 1,000 businesses that need website work, with the reason, cost about $2. Prices are the Apify free-plan rates as of November 2026; paid Apify plans get up to 20% off. Check the listing for current pricing.

How it compares

The most used Google Maps actor on the Apify Store is Apify's own Google Maps Scraper (compass/crawler-google-places). There are also several small actors that list businesses without a website. Everything below about them comes from their public Store listings as of November 2026, at the Starter plan's prices. We did not run them.

Where compass is the better pick

• Depth. Reviews, images, popular times, menus, Q&A and many detail add-ons.
• Track record. Hundreds of thousands of users, a 4.7 rating and years of maintenance.
• Big areas. It can scan a whole city on its own. Here you split a city into ZIP codes yourself.

Where this actor is the better pick

• Price for lead lists. About a third of the per-place price, and emails cost less.
• Selling websites or SEO. The website check finds the businesses with a broken, outdated or missing site, with the reason you can open a conversation with.
• Clean emails. Addresses that belong to the web designer or a template are removed before you see them.

Limits

• About 120 to 200 places per search. That is where Google Maps stops. Use more locations for more places.
• Some websites can't be checked. Sites behind bot protection, or that only render with JavaScript, come back unknown and are not charged for the check.
• No reviews or photos. You get the rating, the review count and a link to the reviews.
• Emails only from the business's own site. A business with no website usually has no email here, but it still has a phone.

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