A Google Map extractor pulls business listings from Google Maps — names, phone numbers, addresses, websites, ratings — and saves them to a file you can work with. Sales teams use them to build prospect lists. Marketers use them to find local businesses to pitch. Researchers use them to map industries across cities.
The problem: most Google Map extractors are either expensive, require coding knowledge, or violate Google's Terms of Service by scraping the Maps website. This guide covers the right way to do it — using the official Google Places API — completely free.
Using the Google Places API (the official, legal method), you can extract:
| Data Field | Example | Available? |
|---|---|---|
| Business Name | Sharma Electronics | ✅ Yes |
| Phone Number | +91 98765 43210 | ✅ Yes |
| Full Address | 12 MG Road, Bengaluru | ✅ Yes |
| Website URL | sharmaelectronics.in | ✅ Yes |
| Google Rating | 4.3 stars | ✅ Yes |
| Review Count | 127 reviews | ✅ Yes |
| Business Category | Electronics Store | ✅ Yes |
| Opening Hours | Mon–Sat 10am–8pm | ✅ Yes |
| Email Address | info@sharma.in | ✅ Via Deep Search |
Some tools scrape the Google Maps website directly — they pretend to be a browser and extract the HTML. This violates Google's Terms of Service, gets blocked frequently, produces incomplete data, and can result in your IP being banned. Avoid these tools.
The Google Places API is Google's official data feed — the same database that powers Google Maps itself. Using it is fully legal, always up to date, and returns structured, clean data. GrabNear is built on the Places API. You bring your own API key, Google gives you $200/month free credit (~40,000 API calls), and you extract data without any ToS risk.
✅ GrabNear uses the official Google Places API. No scraping, no ToS violations. Every business record is pulled directly from Google's own database.
Go to console.cloud.google.com and sign in with any Gmail account. This is free.
In Google Cloud Console → APIs & Services → Enable "Places API (New)". Then create an API key. You get $200 free credit monthly — automatically applied.
Create a free account at grabnear.com. No credit card, no subscription.
Go to Integrations → paste your Google API key → Save. Takes 30 seconds.
Type the business category (e.g., "CA firms") and city (e.g., "Mumbai"). Set your search radius. Hit Search.
Results appear instantly. Click "Export to Excel" — download a clean spreadsheet with all business data.
| Tool | Method | Cost | Excel Export | Lead Management |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GrabNear | Google Places API | Free | ✅ One-click | ✅ Built-in |
| Outscraper | Google scraping | $19–$99/month | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
| PhantomBuster | Browser automation | $56–$280/month | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
| Apify Maps Scraper | Google scraping | Pay per run | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
| Manual copy-paste | Manual | Free (time cost) | ❌ No | ❌ No |
Google Places API returns up to 20 results per search query. For a specific area and category (e.g., "gyms in Koramangala"), 20 results is often the full list. For broader searches across a city, run multiple searches for different neighbourhoods or use the radius slider to cover more ground.
💡 Tip: Search "gyms in Koramangala", then "gyms in Indiranagar", then "gyms in Whitefield" to build a complete Bengaluru gym list. Each search returns 20 fresh results.
Using the Google Places API is 100% legal. Google built it specifically so developers and businesses can access this data programmatically. Scraping the Google Maps website directly (without the API) violates Google's Terms of Service — those tools risk getting blocked or banned.
GrabNear uses only the official API — so every extraction you do is fully compliant.
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