How to scrape Google Maps for freeNames, phones, emails and a clean CSV in minutes
A free Chrome extension that reads Google Maps results for you. Run a search, click capture, export. No coding, no API key, no credit card.
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Key takeaways
The Vonsel Chrome extension scrapes Google Maps for free: names, addresses, phones, websites and emails, straight from your browser
No API, no Python, no spreadsheets copied by hand. You search, capture, and export a CSV in a few clicks
The extension is the means. The end is the Vonsel dashboard, where captured businesses become a mapped CRM with review and email intelligence
The short answer
Yes, you can scrape Google Maps for free
Most people who search for a free Google Maps scraper expect a catch: a trial that expires, a paywall after ten rows, or a credit card form before the first export. The Vonsel Chrome extension works differently. You install it, open Google Maps, run a normal search, and capture the businesses that appear. That is the whole loop.
Because it runs inside your own browser, it reads the same listings you already see on the page. There is no separate server, no API key, and nothing to configure. If you can search for "dentists in Austin" on Google Maps, you can build a lead list from it.
The data you pull out is genuinely yours to use: business name, category, address, phone, rating, review count, website, and, where the business publishes it, an email. From there you decide whether to export a plain CSV or push everything into your workspace to work it properly.
Start capturing in a couple of clicks
Add the extension to Chrome and turn any Google Maps search into a clean list of leads.
Getting started takes a minute and does not touch your wallet. The flow is deliberately simple so you can be capturing your first list right away.
1. Download the extension
Grab the free Vonsel extension from the button above. There is no trial timer and no card, so nothing to cancel later.
2. Load it in Chrome
Open the extensions page, turn on developer mode, and load the unpacked folder. Chrome documents this exact flow in its extension getting-started guide.
3. Open Google Maps
Go to Google Maps and the Vonsel pop-up appears. Click it and you are ready to capture whatever your search returns.
That is it
No account wall before your first list, no coding, no separate scraper app running in the background. Prefer a no-code route? See our no-code walkthrough.
The workflow
Search, capture, export
Once the extension is live, scraping is just three habits repeated. First, search. Type a category and a place into Google Maps, for example "plumbers in Denver" or "coffee shops in Lisbon". Scroll the results panel so Maps loads the listings you want.
Second, capture. Open the Vonsel pop-up and start the capture. The extension walks the results and pulls each business into a tidy table: name, category, full address, phone, website, rating and review count. Where a business exposes contact details, it also picks up the email so you can extract emails from Google Maps in the same pass.
Third, export. When the list looks right, download it. The extension gives you a clean CSV that opens in Excel, Google Sheets or any tool you like. If a spreadsheet is your final destination, our guide to exporting Google Maps data to CSV covers the field-by-field detail.
Paid scraping APIs bill per result and run on their own servers, which is great for developers building pipelines but overkill for someone who just wants a local lead list. A browser extension reads the page you are already on, so the cost model is simple: nothing to meter, nothing per row.
A free scraper answers one question: who is out there? The real work starts after that, when you have to decide who to contact, what to say, and in what order. Data on its own does not sell anything. What you build on top of it does.
Get your first list free
Install the extension and pull a real lead list from any city or category on Google Maps.
A CSV is a fine place to stop if you only need a one-off list. But a spreadsheet does not tell you which restaurant is drowning in one-star complaints, which clinic never replies to reviews, or which shop has no website at all. That context is where a lead becomes a conversation.
This is the point of the Vonsel dashboard. Instead of stopping at raw rows, you send captured businesses into a mapped CRM. Each one sits on a map by area, with its reviews analyzed for pain points and its details enriched from its own website. The extension does the collecting. The dashboard does the selling.
You can reopen a previous capture and add more businesses to it, attach fresh reviews to companies you already saved, and let the platform draft an AI email tailored to each business based on what its customers actually complain about. That is the difference between a static file and a value-added, contextualized database you can act on.
The businesses you pull from Maps are public listings, but how you contact them still matters. Before you start outreach, it is worth reading our note on whether scraping Google Maps is legal, and Google's own Business Profile guidelines for how listing data is meant to be used. For a sense of the structured data underneath Maps, Google's Places API documentation is a good reference.
A free scrape gets you the names. A mapped CRM gets you the meetings
Yes. The Vonsel Chrome extension lets you extract business names, addresses, phone numbers, websites and emails from Google Maps search results without paying for a trial or entering a credit card. You run a normal search, click capture, and export the data to CSV.
Do I need coding or an API to scrape Google Maps?
No. The extension works inside your own browser, so there is no API key, no Python and no scripts to maintain. You point Google Maps at a category and a location, and the extension reads what is already on the page.
What happens to the data after I scrape it?
You can export a plain CSV to work with anywhere, or send the businesses into the Vonsel dashboard, where they land in a mapped CRM with review and email intelligence so the list becomes a working pipeline instead of a static spreadsheet.
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