Scrape Google Maps
This article originally posted on booleanstrings.com
If you are sourcing for professionals who provide services such as Accounting, or looking for office locations for a specific company, searching on Google Maps will provide valuable information. Scraping a Maps search results page allows you to filter and enrich the data, and you can do it quite simply, with no coding involved.
PhantomBuster is a wonderful collection of automation scripts; they recently released a Google Maps Search Export. However, my preference for scraping Maps is a favorite tool Instant Data Scraper because it goes over all the results vs. partial. (There are also many specialized map scraping tools but I don’t think anything more complex is more beneficial).
Let’s look at an example. I have searched for accountant near manhattan and ran the Instant Scraper:
Within seconds, I got this table with 309 rows, type of business, whether it is a Certified Public Accountant, office addresses, websites, ratings, and numbers of ratings submitted:
Where else would you find a list of CPAs in Manhattan this fast? 😉
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Irina Shamaeva is a recognized leader in Sourcing, Social Recruiting, and Internet Research.
She is Partner and Chief Sourcer at Brain Gain Recruiting, an executive search firm.
In addition to sourcing for her agency, Irina takes on Sourcing /Name Generation/Internet Research projects across numerous industries and geographies – which she loves doing!
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