Google Maps email extractor alternatives: eight ways to get the emails, compared

You can see them on the map: every glass shop in the north of Buenos Aires, every plumber in Leeds, every dental clinic in Lyon. What you cannot see is an email address, because a Google Maps listing almost never carries one. That gap is why people search for a "Google Maps email extractor".

There is no single right tool. Chrome extensions read the map while you watch, scraping platforms run in the cloud, data services charge per 1,000 records, Google has an official API, lead finders turn the list into a campaign, and there is always the manual way. The job itself is always three steps: the list of businesses in the area, the email (found on the business's website, guessed, or looked up in a database) and the verification before you write. Most price differences come down to which steps are included and which are sold separately.

This article compares the options fairly. Leadralia is one of them, and we say where it loses as plainly as where it wins.

At a glance

Prices and features checked in October 2026; check the vendor's site for current details: Apify, Outscraper, Scrap.io, G Maps Extractor. PhantomBuster, the Google Places API and the manual way follow in the text.

In short. Raw records at the lowest price per row, email step handled yourself: Outscraper or Apify. A large filterable database on a subscription: Scrap.io. A few hundred listings pulled while you browse: a Chrome extension. Writing to the businesses, with the address found, verified and the message ready to approve: Leadralia.

The details side by side

Leadralia

Leadralia starts where the search for an extractor starts: a type of business and an area. It searches that area live, so there is no stored list behind it, and returns every matching business with name, address, phone, website, rating and review count, down to a single street, in 195 countries.

Then it does the steps the extractors leave to you. It finds the email on the business's own website, for free, and verifies it before it can be used; nothing is guessed, and if no working address exists the field stays empty. The built-in AI writes a personal first message from a one-sentence description of your offer, you approve every word, and it goes out from your own mailbox (Gmail, Outlook, any SMTP mailbox, your own domain) or from a sending address Leadralia sets up for you. Replies land in an inbox inside Leadralia. Every message ends with a source sentence and a "send no" line, processed automatically for every sender.

Prices: €0.02 per business found, €0.00 for the verified email, €0.05 per email sent (refunded if the send fails), €0.02 to reveal an address for use elsewhere. A business you already have is free in any later search, and every search has a spending limit you set. Top up from €5; the free tier is 25 searches and 25 email sends a month, no card. There is a REST API with keys (docs). If you would rather not run it yourself, the "We do it for you" packages cover 100 businesses for €15, 500 for €49 or 1,200 for €100, first email included.

Where it loses: per raw row it is far more expensive than Outscraper or Apify, it returns a rating and a review count rather than full reviews, photos and opening hours, and there is no Chrome extension, no CRM integration and no offline database.

Apify

Apify is a marketplace and a runtime. You pick an Actor, give it input, and it runs on Apify's servers. The most used Google Maps Scraper publishes pay-per-event prices: $1.50 per 1,000 places scraped, $0.20 per 100 places for "company contacts enrichment" (it visits the business website for emails and social profiles), and email verification charged only for decisive results. The event price includes platform usage. The Free plan carries $5 of credit a month with no card; Starter is $19 a month.

So step two is covered without a second vendor, and verification exists as an event too. What you get is a dataset: joining, cleaning and deduplicating it, and sending anything, is yours. One detail matters for completeness: a search without geolocation returns at most 120 results per map view, so covering a whole city means splitting it into locations in the input. Best for developers and technical marketers who want control over every field.

Outscraper

Outscraper is data as a service. Enter a query and a location in the web app or call the API, and download the records. The Google Maps scraper is free for the first 500 businesses, then $3 per 1,000 up to 100,000 and $1 per 1,000 above that. Emails are a separate product, the Emails & Contacts Scraper: first 500 contacts free, then $3 per 1,000 domains. The Email Verifier is separate again: first 25 free, then $3 per 1,000. The API is available on the paid tiers.

The arithmetic is simple and honest: a scraped business with an email and a verification costs about $9 per 1,000 at the medium tiers. What you buy is three files to join and a sending tool to find. There is no monthly fee, so it is the easiest scraper to try. Best for analysts who want cheap records at volume and already have somewhere to put them.

Scrap.io

Scrap.io is a pre-built database of Google Maps places in 195 countries and more than 4,000 categories, which it says it continuously updates. You filter by activity and area and export names, addresses, phones, emails, websites, social links and reviews. Emails are included on every plan; its pages do not say how the addresses are checked.

Plans: Basic €49 a month (€35 yearly) for 10,000 export credits, Professional €99 (€69) for 20,000, Agency €199 (€139) for 40,000, Company €499 (€350) for 100,000. The scope grows with the plan: Basic searches by city only, Professional adds county-level divisions and a 50 km radius, Agency adds regions, and only Company searches a whole country or a drawn polygon. API access comes with every plan. The trial lasts 7 days and covers up to 100 leads.

A database is fast and filterable; the trade is freshness, since it is updated on the vendor's schedule rather than at the moment you search. Best for agencies that export large filtered lists every month.

Chrome extensions, with G Maps Extractor as the example

Extensions sit in your browser and read the results as you scroll the map. G Maps Extractor is a well-known one for Chrome and Edge. The free extension plan allows 1,000 records a month but does not include email extraction; Professional is $39 a month for 100,000 records with emails and social profiles, Business $99 for 500,000. The same vendor sells a cloud scraper (free 1,000 records a month, Lite $19 for 20,000) and an API, each as a separate subscription. Emails are "scraped from the internet" when publicly available; verification is not published.

Extensions are cheap and immediate, and they carry the risks of running in your own browser: your Google account is signed in while the extension pulls data, heavy use can trigger CAPTCHAs or temporary blocks, and the job stops when you close the tab. Best for individuals who want a few hundred listings now and will handle the email step themselves.

PhantomBuster

PhantomBuster is an automation platform priced by execution time. Its "Google Maps Search to Contact Data" flow takes a Google Maps search URL, collects the businesses, visits their websites for the contact details you selected, and delivers a CSV. The vendor's own guide notes that a search URL shows at most 120 results, so a whole city means several URLs, and that email coverage varies by business type.

Plans: Start $69 a month ($56 billed annually) with 20 execution hours, 5 slots and 500 email credits; Grow $159 ($128); Scale $439 ($352). The 14-day trial needs no card but caps downloads at 10 rows. Verification is not part of the published plans. Best for teams that already automate other platforms with PhantomBuster.

The official route: the Google Places API

For developers, the Places API (New) is the sanctioned way to query the map. Text Search costs $32 per 1,000 requests at the Pro SKU and Place Details $17 per 1,000, with free monthly allowances of 10,000 Essentials, 5,000 Pro and 1,000 Enterprise events. Two facts rule it out for this job: a Text Search returns at most 60 results across its pages, and the place object has website and phone fields but no email field. Google's policies also say you must not pre-fetch, cache or store Places content beyond the place ID. Excellent for showing places inside your own app; not a list builder.

The manual way

Search the map, open each listing, open the website, find the contact page, copy the address into a spreadsheet, repeat. It costs nothing in money or risk, and for ten businesses it is the right answer. For a hundred it is an afternoon; for a thousand it is why the campaign keeps sliding to next month. Verification is still missing, so the first campaign teaches you which addresses were dead.

Note. Whatever tool you choose, check the email marketing rules of the country you write to before the first send. They differ: some countries treat a company's general address more leniently, others require consent even for business recipients, and nearly all expect you to say who you are and to offer a working way to say no. This article is not legal advice; the regulator of the destination country publishes the rules.

Frequently asked questions

Is it legal to extract emails from Google Maps?

Business listings and company websites are public, and most of the tools above only read what a business publishes about itself. What you do with the addresses afterwards is governed by the rules of the country you write to, and those differ. Read the regulator's guidance for that country, or ask a lawyer, first.

Why do these tools find emails for only part of the list?

Because the email is never on the listing. It has to come from the business's website, and many small businesses have no website, or a contact form instead of an address. Expect gaps with every tool, and be suspicious of one that returns an address for every single business: it is probably guessing.

Which option is the cheapest?

Per raw record, Outscraper and Apify, by a wide margin. Per contactable lead, add the record, the email lookup, the verification and the sending tool, then compare with Leadralia's €0.02 plus €0.00 plus €0.05 per email sent. If you will never send from the list, the scrapers win; if the list exists for the conversation, the gap closes.

Bottom line

Choose Outscraper for the cheapest clean records if you will buy the email and verification steps separately. Choose Apify if you want control over every event and someone can configure and clean. Choose Scrap.io if you export large filtered lists every month and prefer a database to a live search. Choose a Chrome extension such as G Maps Extractor for a few hundred listings today, accepting that it runs in your own browser. Choose PhantomBuster if you already automate other platforms there. Use the Google Places API only for an app that shows places. Do it by hand for ten businesses.

Choose Leadralia if the goal was never the spreadsheet but the inbox: every business of a type in an exact area, found live, the email found on its website and verified for free, a message you approve, sent from your own mailbox, opt-out and replies handled. Run one search for free; the first 25 searches need no card, and the REST API is in the docs.

Also read: Leadralia vs Google Maps scrapers and Found and verified vs guessed: the address decides the campaign.