Blog about web scraping, automation and robots.
Find the right businesses, collect useful contact data, build targeted prospect lists, and turn Google Business Profiles into a repeatable B2B lead-generation workflow.
If you need business data from Google Maps, you have two very different options: use a Google Maps scraper or use the Google Maps API. Both can help you find businesses and place information, but they are designed for different jobs.
In this guide, we compare Botsol Google Maps Crawler with popular alternatives including Outscraper, Apify, PhantomBuster, and Octoparse.
Google recently introduced a major change to Google Maps that is quietly breaking many scraping tools and APIs. If your system suddenly stopped returning review counts, pricing information, menu links, review breakdown charts, or popular times data — you are likely hitting Google’s new “Limited View” mode.
A practical, non-technical but comprehensive guide for marketers, agencies, and local businesses — how to extract reliable business leads from Google Maps using a modern extractor, validate them, and turn them into outreach-ready lists.
A practical, non-technical guide to extract business listings, contacts, and emails from Google Maps and export them to CSV or JSON. Ideal for marketers, researchers, and local businesses.
A complete, non-technical workflow to search Google Maps, extract business listings, and export clean CSV or JSON files ready for CRM import or automation.
A practical, non-technical guide for marketers and sales teams: target the right businesses on Google Maps, extract clean contact data, validate and import to your CRM — fast.
When someone finds your business on Google Maps, your reviews are the first thing they judge you by — before your website, before your prices, often before they even read what you do. Star ratings and review content also feed directly into where you rank in local search results. T
Need the latitude and longitude of a place on Google Maps? There are several ways to get them, and all of them take under a minute — whether you're grabbing coordinates for a single address on your phone, pulling them from a URL for a web project, or extracting them for hundreds of businesses at once with a Google Maps scraping tool. This guide covers every method, starting with the quickest.