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8 Browser Extensions for Scraping Google Maps like a Proby@thesupersagor
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8 Browser Extensions for Scraping Google Maps like a Pro

by Sagor Al MamunFebruary 17th, 2022
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For extracting information from websites, Web Scraping tools are designed precisely. They are also known as web harvesting tools or web data extraction tools. These extensions for scraping Google maps are useful enough for people who want to collect some of the data from the Internet. Web Scraping is the new data entry technique that does not require repetitive typing or copy-pasting. These extensions for scraping Google maps can be used for a number of purposes in various situations that can be either data collection or market research.
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For extracting information from websites, Web Scraping tools are designed precisely. They are also known as web harvesting tools or web data extraction tools. These extensions for scraping Google maps are useful enough for people who want to collect some of the data from the Internet.


Web Scraping is the new data entry technique that does not require repetitive typing or copy-pasting.


These extensions for scraping Google maps can be used for a number of purposes in various situations that can be either data collection or market research.


GMap Leads Generator

GMap Leads Generator is one of the most prominent yet popular browser extensions for scraping data. In addition, it is a lead generation platform. The technology like the web scraping technique that has come with the beginning of the internet and digital marketing made it easier for everyone to find and gather data of the customer to be contacted. As far as B2B leads are concerned, Google maps are one of the prominent business directories that have linked 1 billion users globally.


Nearly more than half of the B2B users use Google Maps when working in a market campaign or business for B2B leads. It helps you find the aimed prospects by locations, zip codes, and keywords easily. As far as other lead generators are concerned, Google Map Leads Generator is much more suitable for lead generation purposes. It is a 4 step lead extraction process i.e. search, select, extract and export which makes the lead generation timeless as compared to other software available on the internet for the same purpose.


The process is really easy, you just need to:


  • By clicking the “Add to Chrome” button, install the extension.
  • On Google Maps search for a business.
  • Then click on the "Generate Leads" option which will be shown beside the search results.
  • It is done! Now by waiting some time, the tool will scrape data from google maps and show you the result on the LeadStal result page.
  • You can easily filter the whole business from the result page and extract the desired Google Maps data as a CSV file.


Scraping Bot

It is an amazing web-scraping tool for web developers who scrapes the data through a URL. It simply works better on the product pages where it collects data i.e. image, product title, product price, product description, stock, delivery costs, etc.


It is a great tool for those who need to collect commercial data or simply aggregate product data and keep it accurate. ScrapingBot also offers various specialized APIs such as real estate, Google search results, or data collection on social networks like LinkedIn, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter.


Scraper API

This one is another scraping tool that is designed to simplify web scraping. This proxy API tool has the capability of managing proxies, web-browsers as well as CAPTCHAs.


It merely supports popular programming languages that include Bash, Node, Python, Ruby, Java, and PHP. Moreover, it has many features some of the main ones are:


  • IP rotation.
  • Over 40 million IPs.
  • Capable of JavaScript Rendering.
  • Unlimited bandwidth with speeds up to 100Mb/s.
  • More than 12 geo-locations are Easy to integrate.


Octoparse

It is a free web-scraping tool for non-programmers, where you can build crawlers to scrape data. Within a number of clicks, the webpage elements can be converted into structured data. Also, it can customize the crawlers in Octoparse to deal with advanced websites and scrape any data that is required.


Moreover, Octoparse has a few web scraping templates dedicated to dealing with Google Maps, making it easier and more accessible for anyone. Simply enter keywords or URLs in the templates and Octoparse will start to scrape data automatically.


Web Scraper

Web Scraper is the most popular web scraping browser extension. By simply downloading the Google Chrome browser and installing the extension Web Scraper, It is used where you do not have to write codes or download software to scrape data, a Chrome extension will be enough for most scenarios.


Zyte

Zyte a scraping hub, is a cloud-based data extraction tool that supports thousands of developers to draw valuable data from the internet. Zyte uses Crawlera, a smart proxy rotator that supports bypassing bot counter-measures to crawl huge or bot-protected sites easily. It converts the entire web page into organized content. Its team of experts is available for help in case its crawl builder can’t meet your requirements.


Import.io

Import.io gives a chance to build your own datasets by simply importing the data from a specific web page and exporting the data to a CSV file. You can easily scrape thousands of browsers in a short time i.e. minutes without writing a single line of code and build 1000+ APIs based on our needs.


It uses cutting-edge technology to scrap millions of data every single day. Along with the web tool, it also offers free apps for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux to build data extractors and crawlers, download data, and sync with the online account.


Dexi.io

Dexi.io also known as CloudScrape supports the collection of data from any website and requires no downloading just like Web host. It also gives you a browser-based editor for the crawler’s setup and extracting data in real-time.


Also by using this browser scraping tool, you can save the collected data on cloud platforms like Google Drive. It also supports anonymous data access by offering a set of proxy servers to hide your identity.


Ending Thoughts

All these browser extensions for scraping Google maps can be used to carry out the data i.e. emails and phone numbers from several websites that make it easy to have a list of suppliers, manufacturers, retailers, and other important people of your interests to the businesses or companies along with their contact addresses.


The extensions for scraping Google maps discussed above can be utilized to scrape data out of several websites along with different resources. Some of them do not even require coding.