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Google Maps Scraper Alternative: Get the Data the Official Way
If you searched for a Google Maps scraper, what you actually want is the data: business names, phones, websites, ratings, in a spreadsheet. You do not need a scraper for that, and there are real reasons to avoid one.
What is wrong with scraping Maps
Scrapers load Google Maps like a browser and harvest what renders. Three problems follow. It breaks Google's terms of service, which matters if your business runs on Google tools: accounts and projects involved in scraping can be restricted. It is brittle: every Maps redesign silently breaks the scraper or, worse, corrupts the fields it extracts. And it is slow at scale, because it must render pages a crawler was never meant to render.
The official route gets the same data
Google publishes the same business data through the Places API, the supported channel software is meant to use. Maps2Sheets is built entirely on it: every scan queries the official API live and returns name, address, phone, website, rating, review count, category and the Maps link. Clean fields, no parsing, nothing to break, and data that is exactly as current as Google Maps itself.
No code required
The usual objection to the official API is setup: a Cloud project, billing, keys and quotas. Maps2Sheets removes that layer: install the Google Sheets add-on or use the web dashboard, and search like you would on Maps. You get up to 100 free leads a day, and complete market exports from $1.49: see real market counts like 1,136 real estate agencies in Dubai or 1,492 cafes in London on our lists index.
Scraper vs official API, side by side
Setup: hours of configuration or proxies vs install and search. Reliability: breaks on redesigns vs a versioned API. Compliance: against Google's terms vs the supported channel. Data: parsed from pixels vs structured fields. Cost: proxy subscriptions and maintenance vs free daily searches and $1.49 to $4.49 per full market.
Run a free scan and compare the output with whatever a scraper gave you.