Google Maps scraper alternative: export businesses with emails, no scraping

Three ways to get businesses out of Google Maps

You can query Google’s Places API, run a scraper that reads Google Maps for you, or search a database built from it in advance. The three differ in how long the first list takes, what it costs at volume, and whether emails come with it.

Sources: Google’s pricing ($35 per 1,000 Text Search requests that ask for a phone number or website, 1,000 free a month), its Text Search documentation and the Google Maps Platform terms; Outscraper’s pricing ($3 per 1,000 places and per 1,000 websites read; the first 500 of each are free every 30 days); gosom/google-maps-scraper. All read November 3, 2026. Primavera’s pricing, in US dollars, with its euro prices excluding VAT in brackets.

When each way is the right one

• Google’s Places API, when you show places live inside your own app or map, without keeping them.
• A scraper, for a country Primavera hasn’t built in advance, for review texts and photos, or for a one-off list of a few hundred places: Outscraper’s first 500 places are free every 30 days.
• A database built in advance, when you want the emails found on websites, a whole state or country, the exact count before paying, or the same search again later with nothing to run.

What a search shows before you pay

A scraper tells you how many places it found once the run is over. Primavera counts first: on November 9, 2026, a search for roofing contractors in Houston, Texas, returned 734 businesses, 406 of them with an email address, before anything was paid or exported.

Roofing contractors in Houston are much more likely than the average US business to list a website (77.9% against 58.1%), a phone number (98.1% against 78.5%) and an email address (55.3% against 30.1%).

Source: Primavera’s database, snapshot 2026-11 of November 9, 2026. Houston: the Google Maps category “Roofing contractor” in the city of Houston. US average: the 27,976,084 US businesses.

What a row contains

Each row is one business, with the fields below when Google Maps or its website gives them. You choose the columns of your CSV or Excel file. The shares are those of the 27,976,084 US businesses.

Emails come from websites: among US businesses whose listing links to their own website, about 48.1% have an email address, against 30.1% of US businesses overall.

Source: Primavera’s database, snapshot 2026-11 of November 9, 2026. Shares written “about” come from a random sample of 838,781 US listings (3% of the table); the others are exact counts.

Added on request, once your list is created

Owner names, a Website summary, an answer to your own question from each website, and an AI filter that keeps only the businesses that fit, each paid in credits. You can also have each main email of your list checked, at 1 credit per address.

What is left out

Primavera holds what businesses publish about themselves: their Google Maps listing, their own website, and open data such as Overture Maps or, in France, the national business register. Role addresses such as postmaster@ or noreply@ are never delivered, and neither is an address that many unrelated businesses share, such as a directory’s. How each figure is counted: Primavera’s methodology.

Countries built in advance

Primavera has 8 countries built in advance, so their counts and exports are immediate. Elsewhere, the data is updated when you create a list, which takes from under an hour to a few hours.

The share of businesses with an email address ranges from 20.9% in Andorra to 39.5% in Switzerland; it is 30.1% in the United States.

Source: Primavera’s database, snapshot 2026-11 of November 9, 2026. France includes its overseas departments. Shares are of each country’s businesses.

Use it in the app, through the API, or from Claude

In the app

Describe who you sell to in plain English, or pick the category and the place yourself. The count updates as you go; the list exports as CSV or Excel, with the columns you choose.

Through the API

On Pro and Agency, the same searches run through a REST API: count, estimate the cost, create the list, download it. Each action costs the same credits as in the app. API documentation.

From Claude

Primavera’s MCP server lets Claude, Cursor or Codex do those steps from a sentence such as “find roofing contractors in Houston with an email and export them”: it counts the search, gives the cost, then creates the list. On Agency, those exports don’t use credits either. Server address: https://primaverapp.com/api/mcp, set up with your API key (MCP setup, and what you can ask Claude).

What it costs

Two plans, billed monthly. A business already delivered to your account is never charged again, whatever list it appears in.

Source: Primavera’s pricing.

Primavera compared with Scrap.io and Outscraper

Scrap.io also sells access to a database built from Google Maps, with monthly plans by volume. At 100,000 businesses a month, its Company plan costs $499, against $119 (€99 excl. VAT) for Primavera’s Agency plan. Primavera vs Scrap.io, price at your volume.

Outscraper runs the scrape for you and bills each result, with no subscription: $3 per 1,000 places up to 100,000, and the same again per 1,000 websites read for emails. It also extracts review texts and photos, which Primavera doesn’t. Primavera vs Outscraper, cost with emails.

Apify’s Google Maps Scraper lists prices from $1.50 per 1,000 places depending on the Apify plan, with contact details as an option, and notes that Google Maps shows at most 120 places per area searched. Apify Google Maps Scraper alternative, cost on each plan.

Other tools, priced at your volume with emails: Outscraper alternatives and D7 Lead Finder alternative, which searches one city at a time.

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