Scrape roofers from Google Maps Build a targeted roofing list, then actually close it

A crowded map full of buying signals

Type "roofing contractor" into Google Maps for almost any metro area and the pins pile up fast. Roofing is a high-ticket, high-frequency trade, so whether you sell websites, SEO, lead generation, insurance supplement services, materials, or software, the roofers on that map are a dense, cash-rich audience worth targeting.

What makes roofers especially good prospects is how much they broadcast. Almost every roofing business runs on a Google Business Profile, and that public listing tells you exactly where the gaps are. Demand swings hard with weather and storm season, so most roofing owners are hungry for a predictable pipeline, and the map shows you which ones are set up to catch it and which are not.

The scrape is not the goal. It is step one. The goal is a clean, contextualized list of roofers you can prioritize, contact, and win. That is why we pair the free capture tool with a dashboard built to act on the data.

Scrape roofers from Google Maps step by step

You do not need Python, an API key, or a paid scraper. The browser-based approach keeps everything inside a page you are already allowed to view, and the extension installs in a couple of clicks (Chrome's own extension basics explain developer mode if you have never loaded one). The flow is short:

1. Search smart. On Google Maps, run tight queries such as "roofing contractor," "roof repair," "metal roofing," or "storm damage roofing" plus a city or ZIP. Narrow terms return cleaner lists than a single broad search, and you can stack several searches to cover a whole market.

2. Capture. Open the Vonsel pop-up and let it read the visible results. It collects each roofer's name, category, address, phone, website, rating, and review count into a structured table instead of a wall of pins.

3. Enrich and export. Vonsel can visit each roofer's website in the background to pull emails, phone numbers, and social profiles, then send everything to your dashboard or export to CSV, XLSX, or JSON. If you need more than the phone number, our guide on extracting emails from Google Maps walks through it.

Because Google caps a single search at roughly 120 results, covering a large city means running searches by neighborhood or term. You can reopen and extend a previous capture in Vonsel, adding more roofers to the same list instead of starting over.

What each roofer listing gives you

A roofing pin looks simple, but the fields behind it are a mini qualification sheet. Here is what a single capture returns and why it matters for outreach.

That mix is what separates a value-added database from a raw CSV. Numbers in a spreadsheet are inert. The same numbers plotted on a map and scored by pain point are a sales plan.

The real problems roofers will pay to solve

Generic outreach dies in a roofer's inbox. What lands is a message that names a problem they feel every week. The map data points to four of them.

From roofer list to signed contract

A CSV of 300 roofers is where most people stop, and it is where the deals die. The Vonsel dashboard is built to carry the list the rest of the way.

See your territory on a map. Every captured roofer becomes a pin in a mapped CRM. You can carve a metro into zones, prioritize the roofers with weak sites or slipping ratings, and track who you have contacted without a spreadsheet.

Write one email per business, not one email for all. Vonsel's Email Intelligence drafts a message tailored to each roofer using its category, rating, and review signals. A roofer with a missing website gets a different first line than a 4.9-star shop that just needs more volume. This AI email per business is what makes a cold list feel handpicked.

Keep the list alive. Reopen an old roofer capture, add newly listed contractors, refresh reviews, and re-engage. The database compounds instead of going stale in a downloads folder.

Ways to use a roofer list

Web and SEO agencies: filter for roofers with no website or a thin one and pitch a build. Our guide to finding businesses without a website pairs perfectly with this niche.

Lead-gen and marketing services: sell the pipeline that fixes their feast-or-famine cycle. Suppliers and software: reach every roofing establishment in a region in one afternoon. And if you also work adjacent trades, the same method covers electricians and dozens of other categories across the Find Business library.

Wondering where the line sits on collecting this data? Our overview of whether it is legal to scrape Google Maps covers public business data in plain language, and Google documents its own structured data in the Places API overview if you want to see how the fields are defined.