Runs on your machine, not a shared proxy pool
Extraction happens locally through your own connection at a human request cadence. There is no shared cloud IP to get rate-limited behind, and no API key to provision.
Desktop Google Maps scraper · Windows & macOS
Google Map Data Extractor & Google Maps scraper for B2B lead generation
Lead Finder is a desktop Google Maps scraper and data extractor for Windows and Mac. A single Google Maps search stops at roughly 120 results. Lead Finder subdivides the map into a search grid, sweeps every cell, and merges what comes back, so you export the whole city, not the first page of it.
Free demo. No credit card required.
- Licence
- $20/year
- Row limit
- None
- Platforms
- Win 10/11 · macOS 11+
What is a Google Map data extractor?
A Google Map data extractor is software that collects publicly listed business information from Google Maps and exports it as a structured spreadsheet. A typical export contains the business name, phone number, website, full address, star rating, review count and category, written out as CSV or Excel for import into a CRM. The same category of tool is also sold as a Google Maps scraper, a Google Maps data extractor or a Google Map lead extractor; the names differ, the job does not.
Extractors differ mainly in how they handle Google's per-query result ceiling. A single Google Maps search returns roughly 120 listings regardless of how many businesses exist in the area, because the limit applies to the query rather than to the city. Tools that exceed it divide the target area into a grid of smaller areas, search each one separately, then merge and de-duplicate the results. Lead Finder is a desktop extractor that uses this grid method, running locally on Windows or macOS rather than through a cloud API.
§ 01 / Demo
See a full extraction, start to finish
A real run: category and city in, grid sweep, CSV out. Three minutes, no narration shortcuts.
§ 02 / Method
How do you extract more than 120 results?
The 120-result ceiling is a property of a single query, not of Google Maps itself. Run many smaller queries and the ceiling stops mattering.
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Define the search
Enter a business category and a target area, for example "dentist, Manchester" or "HVAC contractor, Phoenix metro". Set the grid resolution based on how dense the area is.
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Run the grid scan
Lead Finder divides the area into cells and searches each one in sequence, merging results and dropping duplicates by place ID as it goes. Progress auto-saves, so a dropped connection costs you nothing.
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Export to CSV
Write out every column to CSV or Excel. Columns map cleanly onto HubSpot, Pipedrive, Instantly and Lemlist imports without reshaping.
§ 03 / Interface
One window, one job
Search on the left, live grid progress in the middle, results table below. Everything writes to disk as it goes, so closing the laptop does not cost you the run.
Every row exports these fields
- Business name
- Phone number
- Website URL
- Full address
- Latitude / longitude
- Star rating
- Review count
- Category
- Opening hours
- Social links
§ 04 / Capabilities
What makes it suitable for city-scale jobs?
Flat licence, unlimited rows
One price per year regardless of volume. Cloud extractors bill per thousand rows, so a single 50,000-row metro sweep can cost more than a year of Lead Finder.
Resumable campaigns
Every campaign keeps its own state on disk. Stop a 40,000-row job overnight, reopen it tomorrow, and it continues from the last completed grid cell.
De-duplication built in
Grid cells overlap at their boundaries by design, so the same business appears in several cells. Results are keyed on place ID and collapsed before they ever reach your CSV.
§ 05 / Cost
When is a flat licence cheaper than per-row billing?
Per-row cloud pricing is cheaper at small volumes. The crossover comes fast. These are list prices at the time of writing; check current rates before deciding.
| Rows extracted per year | Typical cloud extractor | Lead Finder |
|---|---|---|
| 5,000 | ~$10 | $20 |
| 25,000 | ~$50 | $20 |
| 100,000 | ~$200 | $20 |
| 500,000 | ~$1,000 | $20 |
Cloud figures assume a $2 per 1,000 rows list rate, which is mid-range for the category. See the full tool-by-tool comparison.
§ 06 / Niches
Guides for the niches people extract most
Search terms, realistic city list sizes and the outreach channel that fits, per industry.
§ 07 / Vocabulary
Thirty names for the same job
Google Maps scraper, data extractor, lead finder, CSV exporter: mostly the same category under different names, but each phrasing carries a different question. What each one usually means, and where the full answer lives.
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google maps scraper
The umbrella term, and the one that tells you least about what you are buying. Three unrelated delivery models share it: a desktop application, a hosted API billed per row, and a browser extension limited to what one tab can hold. The word is identical in all three cases; the cost and the ceiling are not.
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google maps data extractor
Named for the output rather than the method. The question worth asking of any product using this phrase is which columns it actually returns, because the gap between tools is not whether they get the business name but whether they get coordinates, opening hours and the place identifier that makes de-duplication possible.
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google map data extractor
Singular "map", and worth separating from the plural because it attracts a different question. People searching this sometimes want business listings and sometimes want their own My Maps layers or Timeline history exported, which is a different product entirely and not what any business extractor does.
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google maps extractor
The shortest form of the phrase, usually typed by someone who already knows the category exists and wants to see the operational detail: what a run looks like from opening the tool to holding a cleaned file, and how much of that is automatic.
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google maps scraper software
The word "software" signals a purchase decision rather than a curiosity. It usually means installed rather than hosted, which changes what you are buying: a licence for something that runs on your hardware, with system requirements and no ongoing metered cost, instead of access to somebody else's infrastructure.
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google maps data scraper
Where the mechanics matter. Any tool in this category lives or dies on two things: how it divides an area so that no single query hits the result ceiling, and what it matches on when the same business turns up in several overlapping searches.
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google maps business scraper
The interesting question here is what counts as a business. Claimed profiles, unclaimed profiles, service-area businesses with no storefront and individual branches of a chain all appear as separate listings, and which of them you want depends entirely on what you are selling.
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google maps lead generator
Describes the whole pipeline rather than the extraction step. Extraction is the first of four stages, and the one that takes the least time: defining a territory, extracting it, qualifying the rows and making contact. Tools sold under this name vary in how many of the four they actually touch.
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google maps lead finder
Partly a product name, which is why the results for it are a mix of categories and brands. Lead Finder is ours. The generic sense is a tool that locates prospects by category and area rather than by company attributes such as size or revenue.
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google maps leads
Worth being precise about: a Maps row is a contact route, not a qualified lead. Nobody on that list has expressed interest in anything. What you have is a verified way to reach a business that matches a category and a location, which is the beginning of qualification rather than the end of it.
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google maps business leads
The business-to-business framing narrows which propositions work. Selling to the owner of a local firm through their public phone number suits services priced at a level an owner decides alone. It suits long enterprise sales cycles with buying committees very poorly, because the committee is not on the listing.
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google maps lead scraper
Sweeping for quality rather than volume. The highest row count is rarely the best outcome; a smaller file where every row has a working phone number and a missing website is worth more to most sellers than a larger one padded with unreachable entries.
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google maps prospecting tool
The day-to-day usage question. A list is a one-off, but prospecting is a rhythm: carving territory so callers do not overlap, deciding how often a territory is re-swept, and knowing when a list has been worked out and needs replacing rather than revisiting.
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google maps lead generation tool
A buying-criteria query. The capabilities that matter for lead generation specifically are coverage past the result ceiling, export fields that import into a CRM without reformatting, and a cost model that does not punish you for re-running a territory.
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google maps business data extractor
Accuracy is the axis here. Every field decays at its own rate, and knowing which ones go stale fastest tells you how long an export stays useful: hours drift within weeks, phone numbers and websites within months, addresses and categories much more slowly.
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google maps contact extractor
Concerned with what happens after you have the numbers. Formats arrive inconsistent and need normalising before any dialler will accept them, the same number appearing on several listings is a finding rather than a fault, and a published number often reaches a reception rather than the person who decides.
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google maps business data
Treats the output as an asset rather than a process. Its value relative to a purchased database is currency and territory control; its limitation is that it carries no firmographics at all, so headcount, revenue and technology stack have to come from somewhere else.
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google maps prospecting software
Where a team rather than an individual is doing the work. The problems that appear at team scale are different: splitting a city between representatives without two people calling the same business, and keeping one shared definition of which territories have been worked.
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google maps to csv
About the file itself. Encoding, delimiter choice and quoting decide whether a business name containing a comma stays in one column or silently splits into two, which is the most common way an otherwise clean export arrives corrupted.
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google maps to excel
Excel-specific damage. Opening a CSV rather than importing it hands every column to Excel's type guesser, which removes leading zeros from phone numbers and converts long digit strings to scientific notation. The file is fine; the way it was opened is not.
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google maps csv exporter
Managing exports across time rather than producing one. Naming so that a file six months old is identifiable, splitting a large sweep into files a spreadsheet can open, and comparing this month's export against last month's to find what changed.
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google maps email extractor
The field Maps does not have. Listings carry no email, so any tool reporting one has visited the linked website and looked for a published address. Coverage of twenty to forty percent is realistic; anything claiming much more is pattern-guessing addresses that bounce.
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google maps phone number extractor
The opposite case, and the most reliable field on a listing, because a phone number is what a business most wants a customer to have. The work is in normalising it to a single format and deciding what to do about numbers shared across several outlets.
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local business data extractor
Explains a gap rather than a tool. Independent local businesses are thinly covered by commercial B2B databases because nobody has had commercial reason to catalogue them, which is precisely why a Maps sweep reaches firms a purchased list will not.
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local business leads
A local lead behaves differently from a national one. Proximity is itself a qualifier, the relationship tends to be with an owner rather than a procurement function, and the decision is usually made by one person in one conversation.
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local lead generation software
A category map for an operation serving local clients, and an order of adoption. Most teams need the list-building piece long before they need automation on top of it, and buying those in the wrong order is the usual reason a stack goes unused.
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b2b lead generation tool
Where an honest comparison against contact databases belongs. They hold named individuals, job titles and company attributes that Maps cannot supply; Maps holds small local firms that they largely do not. Neither is a substitute for the other and the choice follows from who your buyer is.
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b2b lead finder
Also partly branded, and useful mainly for stating what is not covered. A Maps-derived list gets you to the business; it does not get you to a named decision-maker, an org chart or a buying signal, and pretending otherwise wastes a sales team's time.
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business lead generation software
The widest framing of all, which makes it a category map: what the market actually contains, roughly what each type costs, and which segment each is built for. Useful when you do not yet know which kind of tool your problem needs.
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business data extraction software
Extraction as a general technique rather than a Maps-specific one. The division that matters is source-specific tools, which understand one site deeply, against general-purpose scrapers configured per target, which are more flexible and considerably more work.
§ 08 / Reviews
What lead generation teams say after a month
5 out of 5 from 110 reviews
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We use Lead Finder mainly for finding local business prospects for our digital marketing services. The ability to search by city and business category saves us a lot of manual research. Exporting the results to Excel also makes it easy for our sales team to work with the leads.
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Lead Finder has made our Google Maps prospecting much easier. We can search for specific businesses in different cities and quickly build a targeted list. It is simple to use and works well for our regular lead-generation campaigns.
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We were looking for a simple Google Maps data extractor for our agency. Lead Finder gives us a convenient way to find businesses by category and location. The CSV export is particularly useful when we need to share lists with our sales team.
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We use Lead Finder to discover potential clients for our website and SEO services. Instead of manually checking hundreds of Google Maps listings, we can create a business list much faster. It has become a useful tool in our prospecting process.
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I tested several Google Maps scraper tools before choosing Lead Finder. I liked the straightforward desktop experience and the simple export process. For local B2B lead generation, it has been very useful for our team.
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Lead Finder is useful for building targeted local business lists. We regularly search different industries and cities depending on our campaigns. Having the business information organized in a spreadsheet saves our team considerable time.
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We primarily use Lead Finder for B2B lead generation and sales prospecting. The category and location searches help us focus on the businesses we actually want to approach. The overall workflow is simple and does not require much technical knowledge.
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Lead Finder has been helpful for our local lead-generation campaigns. We can research a particular niche in a city and create a prospect list without manually copying every business. The export functionality fits nicely into our existing sales workflow.
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I wanted a Google Maps lead finder that was easy for my team to use. Lead Finder makes it simple to search businesses and export the information for further research. It has saved us a lot of time when building new prospect lists.
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We use Lead Finder for finding potential clients across different cities. The ability to search by business type makes our prospecting much more focused. For an agency doing regular local business outreach, it is a very useful addition to the sales toolkit.
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We use Lead Finder to build real estate leads from Google Maps in different locations. Searching by category and city makes it easy to identify agencies and property businesses. It has made our market research much faster.
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Lead Finder has been useful for finding construction and contractor leads in specific cities. We can create a targeted list instead of manually checking businesses one by one. The export feature is very convenient.
Quotes come from licence holders who agreed to be credited in this form, given on WhatsApp or by email, and trimmed only for length. The rating is the average of all 110 on file, not of the 12 shown here, and it is computed from them rather than entered by hand, so it cannot be set independently of the reviews behind it.
§ 09 / Questions
Frequently asked
What is a Google Map data extractor?
A Google Map data extractor is software that collects publicly listed business information from Google Maps (business name, phone number, website, address, star rating, review count and category) and exports it as a structured CSV or Excel file for CRM import and B2B outreach. Lead Finder is a desktop extractor, so it runs on your own machine and your own IP rather than through a cloud API.
Is a Google Maps scraper the same as a Google Map data extractor?
Yes. Google Maps scraper, Google Maps data extractor, Google Map lead extractor and Google Maps business data tool all describe software that reads publicly listed Google Maps business information and exports it to a spreadsheet. Vendors pick different names for marketing reasons. What actually differs between products is the delivery model (desktop application, cloud API or browser extension), the pricing model (flat licence or per row), and whether the tool can recover listings past the 120-result per-query ceiling.
Can a Google Maps extractor get email addresses?
Only sometimes, and no tool can do it reliably. Google Maps listings do not have an email field. Any extractor that reports emails is visiting the website linked on the listing and looking for a published address. Realistic coverage is 20 to 40 percent of rows, lower in trades where many businesses have no website at all. Treat a tool advertising near-complete email coverage with suspicion: it is either guessing patterns such as info@domain, which bounce and damage your sending reputation, or reselling a third-party database.
Why does Google Maps stop at 120 results, and how does Lead Finder get past it?
A single Google Maps search returns at most about 120 listings regardless of how many businesses actually exist in that area. Lead Finder splits the target area into a grid of smaller geographic cells and searches each cell separately, then merges and de-duplicates the results. Because each cell returns its own set of listings, total coverage scales with the number of cells rather than being capped at 120.
What fields does the CSV export contain?
Business name, phone number, website URL, full address, latitude and longitude, star rating, review count, business category, opening hours where published, and social profile links where the business lists them. Email is captured when the business publishes one on its linked website.
How much does Lead Finder cost?
A retail licence is $20 or ₹1,499 per year for one PC, with unlimited extraction and no per-row charges. A free demo runs the full interface so you can test extraction before paying.
Is it a desktop app or a Chrome extension?
A desktop application for Windows 10, Windows 11 and macOS 11 or newer. Chrome extensions are limited by the browser tab they run in and typically cap out in the low hundreds of rows per session. Running as a desktop app means extraction continues across long jobs, auto-saves locally, and resumes after a disconnection.
Is extracting business data from Google Maps legal?
Lead Finder collects business information that Google Maps publishes publicly, which is generally treated differently from personal data. You remain responsible for how you use it: B2B outreach is regulated by GDPR in the EU, CAN-SPAM in the US, and equivalent local rules elsewhere, and Google Maps has its own terms of service. Review the rules that apply to your jurisdiction and campaign before you start outreach.
How many listings can a Google Maps scraper return for one city?
It depends far more on the category than the city. A dense category in a large metro (restaurants in Mumbai, dentists in London) can run to several thousand listings, while a narrow one (locksmiths in a mid-sized town) may total under a hundred. The honest answer is that nobody can quote a number in advance: the count is whatever Google holds for that category and area. What matters is whether the tool can reach all of it, which is the difference between a single search capped near 120 and a grid sweep that is not.
Where does Google Maps business data actually come from?
Three sources, which is why quality varies so much row to row. Business owners who have claimed their profile enter their own details. Google infers others from websites, directories and Street View imagery. Members of the public suggest edits. A claimed profile is usually accurate because someone is maintaining it commercially; an unclaimed one may carry a phone number that has not been checked in years. The claimed-or-not distinction is the single most useful quality signal in an export.
How current is Google Maps business data?
Fresher than any static B2B database, and decaying at different rates by field. Addresses and categories are relatively stable. Opening hours drift constantly. Phone numbers and websites are the fields that go stale fastest, particularly for businesses that have changed hands. Star ratings and review counts move continuously. A list you extracted six months ago is worth re-sweeping rather than re-using, and the cost of doing so is why a flat licence matters more than it first appears.
Does a Google Maps business scraper include unclaimed listings?
Yes, and you usually want them. An unclaimed listing often means an owner who has never engaged with Google Business Profile, which for anyone selling marketing, websites or local SEO is the strongest buying signal in the file. The tradeoff is data quality: unclaimed rows are likelier to carry an outdated phone number or no website at all. Sort on it rather than filtering it out.
What is Google Maps scraper software, and how does it differ from a cloud API?
Google Maps scraper software is installed on your machine and runs the search itself, from your own connection. A cloud API runs on the vendor's infrastructure and returns rows over the network, billed per thousand. The practical differences are cost shape and control: installed software has a fixed cost regardless of volume and keeps the output on your disk, while a hosted API needs no setup but meters every row and holds your results until you download them.
How do I turn Google Maps leads into a call list?
Sort by the field that predicts reachability rather than working top to bottom. Rows with a phone number and no website are usually the fastest to connect with and the easiest to sell to if you sell web services. Strip the rows with no phone at all into a separate file for email or door-to-door. Then split by area so one caller is not crossing a city between calls, and work each area to exhaustion before opening the next.
What makes a Google Maps lead different from a purchased B2B list?
Provenance and freshness. A purchased list is a snapshot of somebody else's database, sold to everyone who buys it, with no way to tell when a row was last verified. A Maps extraction is generated the day you run it, from what Google is publishing right now, and reflects a territory you chose. What you give up is firmographics: Maps will not tell you headcount, revenue or technology stack, so it is a territory tool rather than a targeting database.
How many Google Maps business leads should I expect from one metro?
For a single mid-density category in a metro of a few million people, a complete grid sweep typically lands somewhere in the high hundreds to low thousands of unique businesses after de-duplication. Broad categories go higher, niche trades much lower. Treat any vendor quoting a precise figure before knowing your category and area with caution, because the only way to know is to run it.
Can a Google Maps lead generation tool replace a contact database?
No, and the two answer different questions. A contact database tells you who works at a company and how to reach that named person, which Maps cannot do at all. A Google Maps lead generation tool tells you which businesses of a given type exist in a given area, which a contact database covers poorly for small local firms because they are absent from it. Sales teams selling to local businesses generally need the first; those selling to enterprises need the second.
What does a Google Maps prospecting tool do that a spreadsheet does not?
A spreadsheet is where the work ends, not where it starts. The extraction step is what a prospecting tool handles: issuing hundreds of geographically offset searches, collecting every result, matching rows that appear in several overlapping cells so the same business is not counted twice, and writing the merged set out in a format that imports cleanly. Copying listings by hand produces the same columns at roughly a hundred times the effort, with transcription errors.
How do I export Google Maps to CSV without corrupting phone numbers?
Do not open the file in Excel by double-clicking it. That runs Excel's type guesser over every column, which is what strips leading zeros from phone numbers and turns long numbers into scientific notation. Import it instead, setting the phone column to Text, or open it in Google Sheets which is less aggressive. If you are loading it straight into a CRM, skip the spreadsheet entirely: most CRM importers treat the field as text by default.
Why do phone numbers lose their leading zero when I open the export in Excel?
Because Excel reads a column of digits as a number, and a number has no leading zero. The data in the CSV is intact; the display is not. The fix is to import rather than open, and mark that column as Text during the import step. This is a spreadsheet behaviour rather than an extraction fault, which is why the same file can look correct in one program and wrong in another.
Can I send Google Maps data straight to Google Sheets?
Yes, by importing the exported CSV into Sheets, which is the route we recommend over opening it in Excel because Sheets does less silent type coercion. There is no live sync: the export is a file, produced at the moment you run the job, and refreshing it means running the extraction again. For a workflow where several people need the same list, putting the CSV into Sheets and sharing that is usually simpler than circulating copies.
How complete are the phone numbers a Google Maps contact extractor returns?
Much more complete than email, and the most reliable contact field Maps carries. The great majority of listings in most commercial categories publish a phone number, because it is the field a business most wants a customer to have. What you will find is inconsistent formatting, the same number appearing on several listings where one owner runs multiple outlets, and a share of numbers that reach a reception rather than a decision-maker.
What is local business data, and which fields matter most for outreach?
Local business data is the publicly listed operating detail of a physical or service-area business: name, category, address, phone, website, hours, rating and review count. For outreach, three fields carry most of the value. Phone determines whether you can reach them at all. Website presence, or its absence, tells you what to sell. Review count is a rough proxy for size and for how actively the owner manages their online presence.
What is a Google Maps CSV exporter, and why not just copy and paste?
A Google Maps CSV exporter writes extracted listings to a comma-separated file that spreadsheets and CRMs read directly. Copying and pasting fails at two points: Maps does not expose all fields on the visible card, so you lose columns, and the volume that makes a list useful (hundreds or thousands of rows) is far beyond what anyone will transcribe accurately. The exporter also handles the encoding and quoting that stop a business name containing a comma from splitting into two columns.
Is a B2B lead finder the same thing as a Google Maps extractor?
Overlapping, not identical. B2B lead finder is the broader category and includes contact databases, intent-data platforms and enrichment services. A Google Maps extractor is one kind of B2B lead finder, distinguished by its source: it builds lists from what Google publishes about physical businesses rather than from a licensed corporate database. If your buyers are local, independent businesses, the Maps route reaches them; if they are large companies with named buying committees, it does not.
Does Lead Finder need proxies, an API key or a Google Cloud account?
None of the three. It runs the searches from your own machine and your own connection, so there is no API key to provision, no Google Cloud project to bill, and no proxy pool to rent or configure. That is the main practical reason people choose a desktop extractor over a hosted one: setup is installing an application, not standing up infrastructure.
How long does a Google Maps extraction take?
Roughly proportional to the number of grid cells, since each one is its own search. A single neighbourhood finishes in minutes. A full metro sweep of a dense category is better started and left running, in the region of an hour or several depending on the area and your connection. Because progress is saved as it goes, a long job is not an all-or-nothing commitment.
Can I pause an extraction and resume it later?
Yes. Campaigns auto-save locally as they run, so a job can be stopped and picked up rather than restarted, and an interrupted run (a dropped connection, a closed laptop) resumes from where it stopped instead of discarding the rows already collected. This matters most on the large sweeps, which are exactly the ones you would least want to repeat.
How are duplicate rows avoided when sweeping a large area?
Grid cells overlap deliberately, so that businesses near a cell boundary are not missed, which means the same business is genuinely returned more than once. De-duplication is done on Google's own place identifier rather than on the business name, because names are inconsistent across listings while the identifier is not. Matching on name alone would both merge distinct branches of a chain and fail to merge one business spelled two ways.
Does my extracted data get uploaded anywhere?
No. Extraction runs locally and the results are written to files on your own disk. There is no account holding your lists, nothing to download later from a dashboard, and no copy retained by us. Licensing is the only thing that communicates with our servers, and it verifies the licence rather than transmitting results.
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