When it comes to gathering data on local businesses, Google Maps is the undisputed champion. With millions of businesses listed and a wealth of valuable details available, it’s a goldmine waiting to be tapped.
Our solution enables you to scrape business data directly from Maps into Google Sheets. This will save you time and effort, and provide comprehensive business insights, improve lead generation, market research, competitor analysis, and business listing management.
Using the ImportFromWeb add-on and the function it adds to Google Sheets, you can extract Google Maps business data in bulk without technical knowledge!
ImportFromWeb requires 2 parameters: a URL and one or more data selectors*.
Copy the URL from your Google Maps Search to your spreadsheet (please note that URL must me formatted that way: https://www.google.com/maps/place/xxxx or https://www.google.com/maps/search/xxxx)
Data selectors describe the specific content you want to import from your search.
Pick the selectors you are interested in from our Google Maps selectors glossary and add them to your spreadsheet. For example, you may be interested in the name, address_1, address_2, and phone_number.
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:
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")
Using IMPORTFROMGOOGLE with a Boolean Search: input a boolean search to potentially find email addresses. For example: =IMPORTFROMGOOGLE("your query @gmail.com", "emails")
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.
