Google Maps Scraper

Google Maps Scraper works by creating a grid system that breaks down large geographical areas into smaller, manageable sections to overcome Google's 120-place display limit.
The process begins when you specify what you want to scrape (like "restaurants") and where (like "New York City"). The scraper then automatically divides that large area into numerous smaller map grids, similar to cutting a large pizza into many small slices.
For each small map section, the scraper automatically adjusts the zoom level to around 16, which is optimal for displaying the maximum number of business pins. Even though these mini-maps might look empty from a distance, they contain detailed location data when properly zoomed. The scraper then visits each mini-map individually, extracts all available business information from that section, and moves to the next grid.
Finally, it combines all the results from every mini-map to create one comprehensive dataset containing potentially thousands of businesses from the entire original search area.

Maps splitting is a technique that overcomes Google Maps' built-in limitation of showing only 120 places at a time. When you search for businesses on Google Maps, you'll notice that no matter how large the city or area, Google will only display a maximum of 120 results with the message "You've reached the end of the list."
To collect more comprehensive data, Octoparse Google Maps Scraper uses maps splitting to divide large geographical areas into smaller map sections. Each section is then scraped individually at an optimal zoom level where more places become visible. Since each smaller map can yield up to 120 places, the scraper processes multiple sections and combines all the results together.
For example, if you search for the term "salon" in Tokyo, you will end up getting only 120 results at most. But if you use Octoparse Google Maps Scraper, you will get {X smaller maps} * 120 results, which exceeds the Google Maps UX and API limit.
This approach allows data extraction from hundreds of thousands of locations across entire cities, states, or even countries, rather than being limited to just the first 120 results that Google Maps typically shows users.

Google Maps only shows up to 120 results per map, even if there are more. This is done to keep the map from getting cluttered with overlapping pins. While it makes the map easier to use, it also means you can't see all the places at once unless you zoom in, which can make scraping more difficult.
In contrast, Octoparse's Google Maps Scraper doesn't impose such restrictions. As an unofficial Google Places API, Octoparse uses an automatic zooming algorithm to reach the maximum density of pins on Google Maps, which leads to more results with every search term.
Additionally, we offer more comprehensive results, including the ability to scrape data like popular times histograms, email, and social profile links which the official API doesn't provide. This makes Octoparse a more cost-effective and robust solution for gathering detailed location data.

You can always start a 14-day free trial with $2 free credits to experience all the features and test them out before you subscribe.

You can use Octoparse Google Maps Email Finder to scrape contact information, including phone numbers, emails, and social media profiles URLs, from Google Maps search results.

Sure! Octoparse offers two review scrapers in this matter. One is Google Maps Reviews Scraper Lite. This one scrapes basic store review information from Google Maps by URLs. If you need more review data such as image URLs, review links, and reviewer's level, total review count, and rating, you can try its advanced version, Google Maps Reviews Scraper.
Those interested in exploring some local guide reviews can also use Google Maps Reviews Scraper (by Reviewers).

Octoparse Google Maps Reviews Scraper allows you to scrape reviews, ratings, and reviewers' names, URLs, times, etc. Just enter the Google Maps place detailed page URLs, and the scraper will do the job for you.

It depends on how far you want to scrape data from Google Maps. Octoparse Google Maps Listing Scrapers allow you to extract listing pages of specific URLs or search terms. If you want to extract detailed pages/subpages of each place, you can use Google Maps Leads Scrapers.

Yes. Octoparse Google Maps Reviews Scraper and Google Maps Listing Scraper can both scrape rating info.

First, you need to create an Octoparse account and start a 14-day free trial, which allows you to experience all the paid features and over 600 templates in the library. $2 free credits will also be assigned to your account automatically. You can use the credits on paid templates, proxies, and CAPTCHA solving. More free credits can be gained by completing the beginner tasks in the downloaded software.

Yes. You can. Many Google Maps Scrapers support input of multiple search terms and URLs. For example, by using Octoparse Google Maps Listing Scraper (by keywords), you are allowed to enter up to 100,000 keywords and location combinations, such as salon near 95136, gym in London, UK, etc. If you use Google Maps Listing Scraper (by URLs), you can enter up to 5,000 URLs containing businesses in different places.

After the scraping process completes, you can click the "Export data" button. Then you will see several export formats, including Excel, JSON, CSV, HTML, Google Sheets, Databases, and cloud storage.

All scraping activities occur on our servers if you choose to run it in the web browser/cloud, ensuring that your IP address is not utilized for data scraping. If you decide to run in the local mode, you can use proxies in the templates. That being said, users hardly encounter blocking issues when they run tasks locally without any proxies.

Yes. Octoparse supports Mac OS. You can download the Mac version from https://www.octoparse.com/download.

Absolutely! Google Maps Listings Scraper (by Keywords) allows you to choose from various languages, including English, French, Spanish, Italian, Korean, Japanese, and Traditional Chinese.

Scraping publicly available data from Google Maps is generally legal. However, it's important to respect certain boundaries, such as personal data and intellectual property regulations. Only scrape personal data if you have a legitimate reason, and always consider Google's Terms of Use before proceeding.

Sure! Octoparse offers scraper customization services if you can't find one that meets your specific needs and prefer not to create a custom task yourself. Just contact us by clicking the widget on the bottom right.

You can scrape Bing Maps by using Bing Maps Store Scraper. Or you can scrape the OpenStreetMap by using its Listing Scraper and OpenStreetMap Scraper.

Yes, some Google Maps Scrapers support cloud extraction. You can spot this feature by looking for the "cloud" icon on the scraper card.