Free Google Maps email extraction

A listing carries a name, an address, a phone, a website link, hours and reviews. Email is not among the fields, at any price, on any tool.

So every route — free or paid — does the same two jobs. Read the listing. Then follow the website link and hunt the site for an address.

That second job is the real work, and it is where free routes spend your time instead of your money.

It also sets a hard ceiling no tool can move: a firm with no website can never yield an email. In our own Nordic crawl, plenty of local firms have that gap.

1. Search one trade in one town on Maps. Keep the search narrow. A single query stops feeding results after a couple of hundred rows anyway.
2. Open each listing and copy the basics. Name, phone, website into a spreadsheet. Add a column for the date — you will thank yourself in a month.
3. Click through to each website. Check the contact page, the footer, and any mailto link. That is where the email lives, when it exists.
4. Record misses as misses. No website, or a form instead of an address: mark the row, keep the phone. A flagged gap is information; a guessed address is a bounce.
5. Stop at fifty rows and review. Count how many rows produced an email. That rate tells you whether this niche supports an email campaign at all.

Expect a slow first hour and a faster second one. The method scales to perhaps a hundred rows before your patience gives out, and that is fine.

Do not skip this even if you plan to pay later. An hour of hand-copying teaches you what the trade’s websites look like, which no export ever will.

The free tiers worth knowing, with their caps as published.

• G Maps Extractor gives 1,000 credits a month with no card. Covered in the Chrome extension comparison.
• Map Lead Scraper runs in the browser sidebar with a free monthly export allowance. Same comparison page.
• Outscraper makes the first 500 places in a 30-day window free. Weighed in the Outscraper page.
• Apify starts free with $5 of platform credit a month. Weighed in the Apify page.
• D7 Lead Finder allows five free searches a day — but you cannot export the free rows. Details in the D7 page.
• PhantomBuster offers a cardless trial with two hours of run time, and exports capped at ten rows. Details in the PhantomBuster page.

Free tiers move often, so treat each figure as a snapshot and check the vendor’s page before you plan around it.

How to read a free tier

A free tier is a sales funnel, and that is fair — ours is one too. The design tells you where the vendor expects you to hit the wall.

Caps on exports mean you can look but not leave with the data. Caps on searches or credits mean small jobs cost nothing at all.

Watch what the free rows lack, not just how many you get. Dedup across searches, the source page per email, and a check that the domain takes mail are the parts free rows tend to miss.

The trial runs 14 days and includes 100 leads, with no card and nothing that auto-converts. When it ends, it just ends.

Inside those 100 leads, you get the whole product. Every country we hold, every filter, all 64 export columns, and exports switched on.

Two parts cost nothing beyond that. The count on screen is free to read at any size, so you can size a market without spending a lead. And every published list page shows live counts and sample rows with no signup at all.

The cap that matters: our index covers Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. If your market is Texas, the free tiers above serve you better, and we would rather say so than waste your fortnight.

Browse every list we publish or the industry hub before starting — the counts there may answer your question for free.

Free is enough when

• You need one town, one trade, once.
• You are testing whether a niche is worth any money at all.
• The whole job fits under a few hundred rows.
• You are learning the craft before spending on it.

Free stops working when

• You need a whole country, not a search radius. Single Maps searches cap out at a couple of hundred rows.
• You pull lists on a schedule, and dedup across pulls becomes your unpaid job.
• You need to trust the email column: source pages and mail-server checks are paid-tier features almost everywhere.
• The price of your own hour makes the maths silly. An afternoon of copying is not free if your time bills.

The pattern across every route is the same. Free buys you the sample; money buys you the scale, the freshness and the checking.

Whatever route you take, the law does not care that the rows were free. EU cold email to businesses carries the same duties either way — the GDPR guide lists them.