How to Scrape Google Maps Data for Free (Without Wrecking Your Pipeline)

CazaLead is the tool we build, so call this a biased ranking — but the bias is earned. It's the only free Google Maps scraper that ships verified email enrichment on the free plan and refreshes 500 contacts every single month instead of handing you a one-time trial credit. For sales reps, agencies, and solo founders running ongoing cold outreach in the US and Canada, it's the cleanest tool in this list.

Under the hood, every extraction pulls the full Google Maps listing plus a crawl of the linked business website to surface email addresses. The output is a CSV / Excel / JSON file that drops straight into HubSpot, Pipedrive, Instantly, Smartlead, or any sequencer that accepts a flat file.

Switching from a pay-per-row tool to CazaLead's flat $59 plan cut our lead acquisition cost by 78% on the same volume — and I stopped having to budget for outreach research.

— Agency owner — see CazaLead for agency prospecting

Outscraper is the workhorse of the category — extensive data coverage, a free tier with signup credits, and integrations with Zapier and HubSpot. It's the right pick if you need a one-off extraction once or twice a year, or if you need multi-source coverage that extends beyond Google Maps into Yelp, Yellow Pages, and TripAdvisor.

The pricing model is the central trade-off. Outscraper bills per row, with email enrichment as a separate paid step. A 5,000-lead extraction with emails routinely lands between $50 and $150 depending on enrichment toggles. For teams running monthly extractions, the economic shape is usually wrong.

Outscraper is the right answer when you have a specific question — like 'every restaurant with a Yelp page and a Google listing in three boroughs' — and a budget for the one-time data pull.

— Head-to-head: CazaLead vs Outscraper

Apify is a platform for scraping anything — Google Maps, Instagram, Amazon, LinkedIn, custom sites — packaged as "Actors" you run on their cloud. The Google Maps Actor (compass/crawler-google-places) is mature and well-documented. If you're a developer who thinks in inputs, outputs, datasets, and webhooks, Apify is genuinely powerful.

If you're a sales rep who just wants a CSV of dentists in Phoenix, Apify is overkill. The learning curve is real — getting your first run configured correctly is usually a one-to-three-hour exercise. Pricing combines platform credits with per-result Actor fees, which makes monthly cost difficult to forecast.

Apify is what you reach for when 'a CSV' isn't enough — when you need webhooks, schedules, retries, and a programmable scraping pipeline you can hand to ops.

— Head-to-head: CazaLead vs Apify

G Maps Extractor is a focused Chrome and Edge extension that turns the Maps UI itself into your extraction interface. You search inside Google Maps as you normally would, then export the visible results to CSV. It's the lightest-weight option in the list and a fine starting point for one-off jobs of a few dozen leads.

The trade-offs are exactly what you'd expect from a browser-extension tool: the free account caps you at 10 leads per search, email extraction is limited or upsold, bulk extractions over a few hundred leads hit Maps' pagination ceiling, and the extension surface is at the mercy of browser permission changes.

The Chrome extension is the right entry point for someone who's still deciding whether scraping fits their workflow at all — minimal commitment, minimal lock-in.

— Head-to-head: CazaLead vs GMapsExtractor

Scrap.io's edge is its filter UI. You can target by country, region, city, and business category in combinations that other tools either don't expose or hide behind credits. For sales teams that prospect by territory — "every dental practice in three specific counties" — that filtering surface saves hours of post-processing.

It's not the cheapest, and the free trial is exactly that — a trial — not an ongoing free tier. Email enrichment is included on paid plans but with caveats around volume. For agencies running territorial campaigns across multiple clients, Scrap.io is a stronger fit than a general-purpose scraper.

If your sales motion is built around territories, Scrap.io's monitoring layer is the difference between 'we ran a list once' and 'we have a steady inbound of new listings every week.'

— Sales ops perspective

D7 Lead Finder has been around longer than most of this list. It aggregates from multiple sources — including Google Maps but not exclusively — and bills by searches, not by individual leads returned. For users whose workflow is "run a defined search, get a defined export," the credit model is straightforward and predictable.

D7 doesn't have a free tier — only a paid trial. Data freshness varies by source because of the aggregation model, which is the principal trade-off versus tools that pull directly and live from Maps. The product also includes some social-profile enrichment fields that pure Maps scrapers don't capture.

D7's per-search model is the right fit if your prospecting is rhythm-based rather than volume-based — you know exactly what you'll spend each month.

— Head-to-head: CazaLead vs D7 Lead Finder

PhantomBuster is the Swiss Army knife — a platform of "Phantoms" that automate LinkedIn, Sales Navigator, Twitter/X, Instagram, and yes, Google Maps. For growth teams already running LinkedIn scraping or social automation, adding the Google Maps Phantom is a low-friction choice.

Standalone, it's not the most efficient Maps scraper. There's no ongoing free tier (only a 14-day trial), the runtime-hour pricing model rewards short fast jobs and penalizes long ones, and configuring the Maps Phantom requires more setup than most no-code SaaS tools.

PhantomBuster's strength is workflow, not the individual scraper. Teams that win with it are running three or four Phantoms in sequence, not one in isolation.

— Head-to-head: CazaLead vs PhantomBuster

Octoparse is a general visual-scraping tool with a pre-built Google Maps template. The differentiator is the visual point-and-click workflow — if Google Maps changes its layout or you want to scrape a specific edge case, you can adjust the recipe in a visual editor rather than waiting for a vendor to update.

The free desktop version is genuinely useful for small extractions, but the cloud features that make Octoparse scale (scheduling, anti-blocking, IP rotation) live in the paid tiers. For users who want flexibility over speed, it's a strong pick. For users who want a finished CSV in 60 seconds, it's not the right tool.

Octoparse is what you reach for when you outgrow point-solutions and start needing a small in-house scraping capability without hiring an engineer.

— Data ops perspective

Quick Lead Finder is a lean, focused tool for solo sales reps and freelancers — the use case is "I need 200 contractors in this ZIP code, today, and I don't want to learn anything." The interface is minimal, the export is fast, and the pricing is accessible.

The trade-off is depth. Quick Lead Finder doesn't try to be a full lead platform — there's no rich filtering, limited enrichment, and no team accounts. For its target user (solo, low-volume, price-sensitive), that minimalism is the feature.

If you're a one-person operation prospecting one vertical in one city, you don't need a platform — you need the cheapest tool that exports a clean CSV.

— Solo SDR perspective

This is the open-source path — a Go-based command-line scraper hosted on GitHub that extracts names, addresses, phone numbers, websites, ratings, review counts, and emails. It's the most "truly free" option because there's no SaaS layer to pay for. You bring your own machine, your own time, and your own willingness to fix things when Google changes the Maps UI.

For engineers and technical operators, it's a serious tool — the codebase is active, the issues are responsive, and the output quality is high when it's working. For non-technical users, it's a non-starter. There's no UI, no email support, no SLA.

Open-source Google Maps scrapers are excellent — until Google rolls out a UI change on a Tuesday afternoon and your scheduled job silently breaks until you notice.

— Engineering manager, B2B SaaS