Get emails from Google Maps businesses, one row per place

Google Maps is the easiest place to find local businesses, but it shows a phone number and a website, not the e-mail address you need for outreach. The address usually sits on the business's own website, on a contact or imprint page. This guide shows how to run both steps in one job: search Google Maps for a business type in a city, then read each website for e-mail addresses — and export the result as CSV, Excel or JSON. It needs no Google account, no API key and no browser extension. Pricing is $2 per 1,000 Places, and the cost section below explains how places without an e-mail are handled.

How it works

The Actor runs a Google Maps search for each search term and location you give it. For every place that has a website, it opens the homepage and then the pages most likely to list an address, in this order: contact, imprint or legal notice, about, team and appointments. It reads mailto: links, protected addresses and simple obfuscations such as jane [at] clinic [dot] com, then drops placeholders, image file names and noreply boxes. Most sites take two or three page requests.

What you get

One row per place. The Google Maps fields come from the search itself; the e-mail fields come from the website.

The tool returns addresses as the website publishes them. It does not verify that a mailbox exists. Run the list through an email validator before a campaign.

Step-by-step

1. Enter the business types in Search terms: one term (dentist), several separated by semicolons (dentist; orthodontist), or a JSON array.
2. Set Location to a city, district or country (Austin, TX). Leave it empty if the term already contains the place, such as plumber in Chicago.
3. Set Max places per search term (1 to 120). Google returns about 120 places per search, so 120 is the ceiling for one search.
4. Turn on Only places with an e-mail if you want only contactable rows. Places without an e-mail are still searched and their websites read, but they are not returned and not charged.
5. Narrow the list before it is charged: Category filter keeps only exact Google category names (Dentist matches "Dentist", not "Pediatric dentist"), Minimum reviews and Minimum rating drop weak listings, and Skip closed places removes places Google marks as closed.
6. Click Start and export as CSV, Excel or JSON.

Already have a list of Google Maps links? Put them in Google Maps links. A search link runs its text, and a place link returns that one place. Clear the search term and location to run only your links.

Going past 120 places

A single search stops at about 120 places. You have three ways to cover more ground:

• Several locations. Fill Locations with postal codes or districts (["78701", "78704", "78745"]). Every search term runs in every location, and each place is returned once.
• Split the map area. Turn on Split the map area and set Max places per query (up to 1,000). The area of each search is divided into smaller cells, up to three levels deep, and duplicates are removed. Searches take longer, but you pay only for places returned.
• One run per city. For a national list, one run per city is easier to check and to schedule.

{
    "searchQueries": ["dentist"],
    "locations": ["78701", "78704", "78745"],
    "maxPlacesPerSearch": 120,
    "categoryFilter": ["Dentist"],
    "minReviews": 20,
    "onlyWithEmail": true
}

Run Google Maps Email Extractor: Only Places With E-mail on Apify →

Call it from code

import json
import os
from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient(os.environ["APIFY_TOKEN"])
run = client.actor("webdatatools/google-maps-email-extractor").call(run_input=json.loads("{\n    "searchQueries": "dentist",\n    "location": "Austin, TX",\n    "maxPlacesPerSearch": 10,\n    "maxPagesPerSite": 5,\n    "language": "en",\n    "country": "us",\n    "minRating": 0\n}"))
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('webdatatools/google-maps-email-extractor').call({
    "searchQueries": "dentist",
    "location": "Austin, TX",
    "maxPlacesPerSearch": 10,
    "maxPagesPerSite": 5,
    "language": "en",
    "country": "us",
    "minRating": 0
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/webdatatools~google-maps-email-extractor/run-sync-get-dataset-items" 
-H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" 
-H "Content-Type: application/json" 
-d '{"searchQueries":"dentist","location":"Austin, TX","maxPlacesPerSearch":10,"maxPagesPerSite":5,"language":"en","country":"us","minRating":0}'

Use it in n8n or Make

The Actor can be started over the Apify API from any workflow tool. In n8n, add an HTTP Request node: method POST, URL https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/webdatatools~google-maps-email-extractor/run-sync-get-dataset-items, a header Authorization with the value Bearer YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN, and a JSON body. The response is an array with one item per place, ready for the next node. In Make, use the HTTP > Make a request module with the same method, URL and header, body type Raw with JSON content, and Parse response switched on; then iterate over the returned array.

Synchronous calls wait for the run to finish, so keep the body small for quick tests. For large lists, start the run asynchronously and read its dataset when it completes.

Body example for this guide:

{
    "searchQueries": ["dentist"],
    "location": "Austin, TX",
    "maxPlacesPerSearch": 50,
    "onlyWithEmail": true
}

Download the n8n workflow (JSON) — a manual trigger, the HTTP Request node above and a placeholder for your token.

Recipes

Outreach list for one city and one trade

Run one search term in one city with Only places with an e-mail on and Minimum reviews at 10 or more. Sort by reviewsCount and send the top rows to your validator, then to your CRM.

Weekly refresh of a lead list

Schedule the run weekly with the same input. Compare googleMapsUrl or website between runs to find new businesses, and keep the previous rows for businesses that have since closed.

Cover a region in postal codes

Use Locations with postal codes, one search term and maxPlacesPerSearch set to 120. Each place appears once in the output even when two postal-code searches overlap, so the total is easier to read than separate runs.

How much does it cost?

Primary event rates from a catalog snapshot; this is not the total price of a run. Additional charge events and Actor Start fees may apply; start fees can scale with memory. Check the Actor's Pricing tab on Apify for all events, conditions and current plan-specific rates, and set a maximum run budget before starting.

Two events are charged, as the Actor's listing describes: one for each place returned (table above), and one for each returned place where an e-mail was found: $0.003 on the free plan ($0.0024 Starter, $0.0021 Scale, $0.0018 Business and above). On the free plan a place with an e-mail therefore costs $0.005 and a place without one $0.002. With Only places with an e-mail on, a place without an e-mail is not returned and not charged. Places removed by the category, review or rating filters are not charged either. Set Maximum cost per run to cap a run; the Actor stops once the next place would exceed the cap.

In the Actor's own test on 2026-10-09 ("dentist" in "Austin, TX"), an e-mail was found on 12 of 19 unique websites (63 %). A site that offers only a contact form will usually have no address to read.

Limits to plan for

• Websites behind strong bot protection, such as challenge pages or CAPTCHAs, are reported in enrichmentError and not retried through a proxy.
• E-mail addresses that only appear after JavaScript runs, or that a browser plugin decodes, are not found.
• Google Maps results carry today's opening hours only, with no review text or photos.
• Place IDs are not accepted as input. Paste the place's full Google Maps link instead.
• Short maps.app.goo.gl links are not followed. Copy the full google.com/maps/… link from the address bar.

FAQ

Is it legal to extract e-mails from Google Maps businesses?

The tool reads publicly visible business listings and each business's public website, without logging in. You are responsible for how you use the data, especially under privacy and anti-spam rules such as GDPR and CAN-SPAM when you contact people.

Why do some places have no e-mail?

Many small businesses publish only a contact form, or load the address with JavaScript after the page opens. contactPagesChecked shows which pages were read, and enrichmentError says when a site could not be read at all.

Does it verify the e-mails?

No. It returns addresses as published on the website. Check them with an email validator for syntax, mail-server and disposable-address checks.

Why do two places share the same e-mail?

They share one website, such as a chain or a shared office. The site is read once, so the same address can appear on both rows.

Why are there at most about 120 places per search?

Google stops returning results after about 120 per search. For bigger areas, turn on Split the map area with Max places per query, list several postal codes or districts in Locations, or run one job per city.

Can I use it from n8n, Make or Zapier?

Yes. Start a run through the Apify integrations or the HTTP API, then read the dataset. The section above shows the exact request.