Google Maps scraping solutions

Scraping Google Maps using =IMPORTFROMWEB() is based on publicly available information. The function accesses data that is openly accessible on the internet. And generally, accessing and scraping publicly available data from websites is considered legal.

Moreover, with IMPORTFROMWEB, the scraping is made using multiple premium proxies and external rotating IP addresses, so you do not have to worry about the possibility to be banned from scraping data Google My Business profiles.

Nonetheless, it remains important to stay informed about the terms and conditions set by Google and exercise scraping responsibly and ethically.

No, Google My Business pages or profiles on Google Maps do not typically contain email addresses. Consequently, IMPORTFROMWEB does not directly facilitate email extraction from Google Maps.

However, there are two alternative methods available:

1. Using IMPORTFROMWEB: once you have extracted the domain name from Google Maps (with the “website” selctor), you can build another ImportFromWeb formula with the “emails” generic selector: =IMPORTFROMWEB("https://www.example.com", "emails")
2. Using IMPORTFROMGOOGLE with a Boolean Search: input a boolean search to potentially find email addresses. For example: =IMPORTFROMGOOGLE("your query @gmail.com", "emails")

We’ve also made a ready-to-use template to collect emails from the website associated to the Google My Business account.

The maximum number of results that IMPORTFROMWEB can retrieve from Google Maps is determined by Google, typically around ±200 results. Unfortunately, this limit is set by Google and cannot be altered.

However, there are some best practices that can be employed to retrieve more data for a particular area: by zooming in on the map and generating a new URL for a smaller region, you can potentially retrieve more data for that specific area.