Google Maps Scraper Extensions: 5 Chrome Add-Ons That Export to CSV (2026)

The two most-installed “Maps scraper” extensions on the Chrome Web Store don’t scrape Google Maps. Their own store descriptions say Bing Maps. 160,000 people installed them anyway.

I found this while testing every Google Maps scraper Chrome extension with real traction for this comparison. It explains a complaint I kept hearing from users: you install a highly rated add-on, export your CSV, and half the listings don’t match what Google shows for the same search.

At FlyByAPIs we build the Google Maps scraper API that 700+ integrations run on, so we live in this ecosystem daily. For this post I checked install counts, store ratings, free tiers, export formats, and what a lead actually costs on each tool.

By the end you’ll know which add-ons genuinely export Google Maps data to CSV, what they charge per 1,000 leads, and the exact point where clicking through a browser stops making sense.

Short answer: G Maps Extractor has the best free tier (1,000 records/month, CSV and Excel export). Map Lead Scraper is the cheapest paid pick at ~$9.90/month. And for anything you run more than once a week, the FlyByAPIs API beats all five: it paginates past the 120-result ceiling, runs on a schedule, and costs from $0.03 per 1,000 results, with a free plan covering up to 2,000 results per month.

The quick comparison: 5 extensions plus the API benchmark

All numbers below come from each tool’s own pricing page or Chrome Web Store listing, checked in August 2026. They change, so verify before paying.

Notice that last column. Every extension needs you sitting there with the tab open. That detail decides more than any pricing table, and I’ll show you why with real numbers later.

Two of the top “Maps scraper” results don’t scrape Google Maps

Search the Chrome Web Store for a Maps scraper and the top results look perfect: 4.7 and 4.8 stars, tens of thousands of users, “one click to extract data”. Then you read the fine print.

Why would they do this? Because extracting Google Maps data at scale takes serious infrastructure, and Bing does not.

Building on Bing is the path of least resistance, and the extension still works. It’s just pulling from a different map than the one your clients check.

For lead generation that matters a lot. Bing’s local coverage is thinner outside the US, categories differ, and review counts rarely match. If your client checks your list against Google, you’ll be explaining gaps you can’t see yourself.

We hit the same wall from the other direction while building our Google Maps data extraction API : extracting from Google is genuinely hard, which is exactly why so many tools quietly don’t.

So which add-ons actually pull from Google Maps? These five. Let’s go through them.

1. G Maps Extractor: the strongest free tier

G Maps Extractor is the most complete option in the category. It pulls 30+ fields per listing (name, address, phone, email, website, socials, ratings, hours, coordinates) and exports to CSV, Excel, or JSON. The same account also unlocks a cloud scraper and an API, so there’s a growth path built in.

The free plan gives you 1,000 records a month with no credit card, which is the most generous verified free tier of any extension here. Paid extension plans run $39/month for 100,000 records and $99/month for 500,000.

The catches: you must sign in with Google to export, big jobs crawl because everything runs inside your browser tab, and the extension periodically forces you to update before it will run again.

Verdict: if you’re installing exactly one extension today, install this one.

2. Map Lead Scraper: cheapest paid option, murkiest limits

Map Lead Scraper does less than G Maps Extractor but charges less too: around $9.90/month, the lowest paid price in the category. It pulls the basics (name, address, phone, website) from Google Maps listings and exports CSV or XLS.

Here’s the annoying part. I found three different versions of its free tier: Bright Data’s roundup says 1,000 leads/month, LeadsAgent’s comparison claims 20 to 50 per session before the paywall, and the tool’s own site doesn’t publish a number at all.

Verdict: fine as the budget pick if the basics are all you need, but confirm the limits yourself before you rely on it.

3. Instant Data Scraper: free and unlimited, but you do the cleanup

Instant Data Scraper is the crowd favorite: 1,000,000 users and a 4.9 rating from 7.6K reviews on the Chrome Web Store . It’s completely free, forever, with no signup.

The trade-off is that it isn’t a Maps tool at all. It’s a generic table detector that guesses which data on any page looks tabular and exports it.

Point it at Google Maps results and it works, sort of: you get misaligned columns, ratings mixed into name fields, and no emails, coordinates, or hours.

It handles pagination and infinite scroll nicely, and everything processes locally in your browser, which is good for privacy. But budget 20 to 30 minutes of spreadsheet cleanup per export.

Verdict: unbeatable price for occasional, small, messy pulls. Painful as a repeatable lead-gen workflow.

4. MapsScraper.com: simple, with an email catch

MapsScraper (the .com one, not the Bing-based .net one, and yes, that naming collision is real) simulates a Google Maps search and extracts the results. It covers name, address, phone, ratings, and website, exporting to CSV, Excel, or JSON. Pricing is $19/month after a 7-day trial.

The email catch: it only finds an email when the listing links a website, because it crawls that site to hunt for one. Listings without websites, which are common among exactly the small local businesses lead-gen people target, come back email-less.

Verdict: a clean middle option at a middle price, as long as you understand where its emails come from.

5. LeadsAgent: big claims, thin proof

LeadsAgent is the newest entrant, an “AI agent” style extension for Chrome and Edge claiming 1,000 free leads per month and autonomous extraction runs. If those claims hold, that free tier equals G Maps Extractor’s.

The problem is that every number comes from LeadsAgent itself. Their comparison article marks down every competitor and lists no limitations of their own, and I couldn’t find meaningful third-party validation. Their claimed email coverage of “35 to 45%” ships with no methodology.

Verdict: worth a free test drive precisely because it costs nothing to verify. Just don’t promise a client 1,000 leads before you’ve seen it deliver them.

What these tools really cost per 1,000 results

Nobody in the ranking articles does this math, so let’s do it. Extension pricing sounds cheap monthly, but leads-per-dollar is what your budget actually feels.

Two tools won’t publish volumes, so their per-lead cost is literally unknowable before you pay. And the “free” option bills you in cleanup time instead of dollars: at 25 minutes per export, twenty exports a month is a full working day.

There’s a second cost column no table shows: your hands. Every extension result requires a human sitting there, running searches and clicking export. The math on an extension-free Google Maps scraping API includes zero of those hours.

The 120-result ceiling nobody warns you about

Run any search on Google Maps and scroll. The list stops loading at roughly 120 results. That’s not your extension failing, it’s Google Maps itself, and every browser-based tool inherits the cap.

“Dentists in Chicago” has thousands of matches. An extension will hand you 120 of them and stop. The standard workaround is slicing the city into neighborhoods and running “dentists in Lincoln Park”, “dentists in Hyde Park”, and so on, twenty-plus searches, by hand, each capped again.

Server-side extraction sidesteps the viewport entirely. Our locate_and_search endpoint returns up to 200 structured results per request and accepts an offset parameter, so a loop walks through a whole city while you do something else (the endpoint docs show the pagination pattern).

The best overall option: skip the extension entirely

Here’s the pattern I see over and over. Someone installs an extension, loves it for two weeks, then the cracks show: the 120 cap, the babysitting, the plan limits, the client asking for a refreshed list every Monday. Extension workflows don’t scale, they multiply.

This is where I’ll be upfront about our own product, because it exists precisely for this moment. The Google Maps Extractor API does the same job server-side: you send a search query, you get structured JSON back in under 3 seconds, with no browser open anywhere.

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import requests

url = "https://google-maps-extractor2.p.rapidapi.com/locate_and_search"
headers = {
    "x-rapidapi-key": "YOUR_RAPIDAPI_KEY",
    "x-rapidapi-host": "google-maps-extractor2.p.rapidapi.com",
}
params = {"query": "dentists in Austin", "country": "us", "limit": 20, "offset": 0}

businesses = requests.get(url, headers=headers, params=params).json()["data"]
for b in businesses:
    print(b["name"], b.get("phone"), b.get("rating"), b.get("website_url"))

Each result carries name, full_address, phone, rating, reviews_count, main_category, latitude, longitude, website_url, even owner_name when available. Bump offset by your page size and repeat: that’s the whole pagination story. There’s a full Python walkthrough for scraping Google Maps if you want the complete script.

Not a coder? You don’t need to be: we wrote a step-by-step guide to export a Google Maps list straight to CSV, and if you live in spreadsheets, there’s a free Google Sheets script that pulls local business leads into a sheet with zero code. Copy, paste, run.

The free plan covers 100 requests a month, up to 2,000 results, which is double the best extension free tier. Paid plans start at $19.99/month for 15,000 requests, and every plan includes full review histories (Google’s official Places API stops you at 5 reviews per business; ours has no cap).

One more thing agencies tell us they like: the account isn’t Maps-only.

The same key and billing style covers Google search results data for researching those same leads, Crunchbase company data for enriching them, job listings data for spotting which prospects are hiring (a lovely buying signal), Amazon product data for e-commerce clients, and a translation API for international outreach.

Is scraping Google Maps legal?

The short version: extracting publicly visible business data is generally treated as legal in the US. The hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn litigation established that scraping public pages doesn’t violate the CFAA, though Google’s terms of service still prohibit automated collection, which is a contract matter rather than a criminal one.

Practical notes, not legal advice. Business names, addresses, and phone numbers are public commercial information. In the EU, once you store an owner’s personal name or direct mobile number, GDPR applies, so have a lawful basis and honor deletion requests.

Method changes your exposure too. An extension does the extraction from your browser, on your IP, often while signed into your Google account. Server-side lead extraction from Google Maps keeps all of that off your personal accounts entirely.

Which Google Maps scraper Chrome extension should you pick?

Depends on your volume and how often the job repeats. Here’s the honest decision tree.

Where this leaves you

Remember those 160,000 people running Bing scrapers they thought were Google scrapers? The lesson of this whole category is: verify, don’t trust the star rating. Check the data source, then do the per-1,000 math before you pay anyone.

Extensions have a real place. For a one-time list of 80 plumbers in one town, G Maps Extractor is genuinely the right call, and I’d rather you use it than overbuild. But the moment the job repeats, the browser becomes the bottleneck, and that’s exactly what a server-side Google Maps extraction API removes.

P.S. If you test LeadsAgent’s 1,000-lead claim, or catch another “Google Maps” extension quietly running on Bing, tell us. I’ll update this post with credit.

Oriol.