How to Scrape Leads from Google Maps (Free, No Code)

Google Maps is the largest directory of local businesses on the planet. Every café, dentist, plumber and law firm with a storefront is on it, usually with a phone number, a website link and a rating. For anyone doing local outreach, that is a goldmine of leads sitting in plain sight.

The problem is getting that data out. Copying business details by hand is slow and error-prone, and most “lead databases” charge per record for information that is already public. This guide shows you how to scrape leads from Google Maps for free, no code required.

What data can you actually get?

When you search Google Maps for a niche and location, say “roofers in Denver”, each result carries a predictable set of fields:

• Business name
• Phone number
• Website URL
• Physical address
• Category (e.g. “Roofing contractor”)
• Star rating and review count
• Sometimes a public email, depending on the listing

All of this is publicly visible, the same information any visitor sees. A scraper just collects it into a structured list instead of you copy-pasting one row at a time.

The manual method (and why it doesn’t scale)

You can do this by hand:

1. Search your niche + city on Google Maps.
2. Click each listing.
3. Copy the name, phone and website into a spreadsheet.
4. Repeat for every result.

For five leads, fine. For five hundred, you’ll lose a day, and you’ll still have duplicates and typos. This is exactly the kind of repetitive work a tool should handle.

The free, no-code method

A browser extension is the simplest approach because it reads the results directly in the page you’re already looking at, no proxies, servers or API keys. Here’s the workflow with a tool like Google Leads Scraper:

1. Run your search

Open Google Maps and search the way you normally would: a niche plus a location. The more specific, the better your list ("emergency plumbers in Austin TX" beats "plumbers").

2. Let the extension read the results

Instead of clicking each pin, the extension parses the visible result list and pulls every field at once, name, phone, website, rating, review count and category.

3. Filter to the leads that fit

This is where a scraper earns its keep. Filter to businesses that:

• Don’t have a website (perfect if you build websites)
• Have a rating below 4.0 (reputation-management prospects)
• Have 50+ reviews (established, has budget)
• Match a specific category

4. Export or email the list

Download a clean CSV/Excel file, or send the list straight to your inbox. From there it drops into your CRM or cold-email tool. For more on the export step, see Export Google Maps Data to CSV or Excel.

Do it responsibly

Scraping publicly displayed data is common, but you’re responsible for how you use it. Keep it clean:

• Only collect publicly visible business information.
• Respect local outreach laws (CAN-SPAM, GDPR, CASL) when you email or call.
• Don’t hammer the site, scrape at a human pace.
• Use the data for legitimate B2B outreach, not spam.

The bottom line

You don’t need a paid database or a developer to build a local-lead list. A free browser extension turns a Google Maps search into an export-ready spreadsheet in minutes. Add it to Chrome for free, it’s live now on the Chrome Web Store.