TL;DR: Google Maps has no built-in “export to CSV” button for business listings. You have three real options: copy listings into a spreadsheet by hand, query Google’s Places API with code, or use a no-code tool that searches a category in a location and hands you a structured CSV. For more than a handful of businesses, the no-code route is fastest and gives you consistent columns every time.

What does “export Google Maps to CSV” mean?

Google Maps is one of the largest directories of local businesses anywhere — a listing for nearly every shop, clinic, contractor, and restaurant in a given area, each with a name, address, phone, website, rating, and more. Exporting to CSV means turning those on-screen listings into a structured spreadsheet file: one row per business, one column per field. Once the data is a CSV, you can sort it, filter it, import it into a CRM or outreach tool, and actually work with it — instead of reading listings one at a time in the browser.

The catch: Google Maps itself does not offer a “download these results as a CSV” button for business search results. (Google Takeout exports your own saved places and lists, not the businesses returned by a category search.) So getting a usable CSV means choosing one of the methods below.

The three ways to do it

1. Manual copy-paste

Open Google Maps, search a category in an area, and copy each business into a spreadsheet by hand — name in one column, phone in the next, and so on.

Cost: nothing.
Good for: a dozen businesses, once.
Where it breaks: it stops scaling almost immediately. Copying a few hundred listings by hand is slow and error-prone, and two people collecting the same market end up with different columns and different coverage. The list is also stale the moment a business moves or changes its number.

For a quick one-off, manual is perfectly reasonable. For anything you need to repeat or keep consistent, it’s a poor fit.

2. Google’s Places API

Google publishes an official Places API that lets developers query place data programmatically and write the results to a file.

Cost: priced per request — it grows quickly at volume.
Good for: engineering teams building a first-party integration inside a product.
Where it breaks: it’s built for developers. You write and maintain code, manage API keys and billing, and stitch the raw JSON responses into the column layout your team actually wants. If you just need a list to work from, the setup cost is usually more than the job requires.

3. A no-code data tool

A purpose-built tool sits between you and Google Maps. You describe what you want — a business category and a location — and it returns the matching businesses as a structured CSV. No code, no API keys, no manual copying.

Cost: a subscription (most have a free tier to test).
Good for: anyone who wants results without building anything, especially across many categories or cities.
Where it shines: every search comes back in the same shape, so you can stack searches into one file without reconciling formats.

gtme.business is one tool that works this way. The rest of this guide uses it to show the no-code flow concretely — the principles apply whichever tool you pick.

How the no-code export works, step by step

The whole point of a no-code tool is that the export is the easy part. Here’s the actual flow:

Pick a business category. Choose from a large list of standardized Google Maps categories — gtme.business covers 3,900+ — or type your own custom search term.
Pick a location. Drill down Country → State/Region → City. City-level is the recommended granularity; you can also select an entire state or country, or upload a list of locations in bulk via CSV.
See the cost before you run. The tool estimates the search up front. Pricing is per search, where one search = one location × one search term. So “dentists in Austin” is one search; “dentists in Austin and Dallas” is two.
Run the search and watch it work. Progress streams live as the job runs.
Export the CSV. When the search finishes, download the results as a CSV. That’s it — a clean file, ready for a spreadsheet, a CRM import, or an outreach tool.

No browser scrolling, no copy-paste, no code. You describe the search and collect the file.

What’s actually in the CSV

A CSV export is only as useful as the fields it carries. The gtme.business CSV ships 15 columns per business:

Name and Address — to identify and locate the business.
Phone and Website — the channels you’ll use to reach them.
Rating and Review Count — the columns teams lean on most, because they let you qualify a business before reaching out. Sort by review volume and you can separate the established players from the long tail.
Categories — for segmenting your list.
Latitude and Longitude — GPS coordinates for mapping.
Timezone and Working Hours — useful for timing outreach.
Price Level — the $–$$$$ indicator.
Location Searched and Business ID — for tracking and deduplication.
Google Maps Link — so anyone can jump back to the original listing to verify it.

A useful honesty note: the export does not include email addresses or owner names — Google Maps doesn’t publish those, so no tool can pull them from it. What you get are the real, public contact channels: the phone number, the website, and (via the website) the business’s own contact form. That’s the realistic surface for local-business outreach.

How many listings come back per search?

Set expectations correctly here, because it’s where a lot of tools oversell. A single search returns up to a few hundred unique business listings — in practice often around 50–250, and up to ~500 only in the densest cases. It’s a focused, deduplicated list of the most relevant businesses near your search point, not an exhaustive census of every business in a city.

For most outreach and research work, a focused few hundred is exactly what you want — and if you need broader coverage, you run the same category across more cities and stack the CSVs.

CSV vs. syncing to your own database

A CSV is the universal deliverable: it drops straight into a spreadsheet, a CRM import, or an outreach tool, and it’s the right format for a one-off list or a campaign kickoff. Every gtme.business plan exports to CSV.

If you re-run the same markets on a cadence, there’s a second option on the Pro and Business plans: sync the results into your own Supabase database, where records are deduplicated and upserted. When you re-run a market next month, existing businesses are updated in place and only genuinely new ones are added — so the table stays current instead of accumulating duplicates. See the comparison of delivery methods for which fits your workflow.

Which method should you choose?

If you need…	Use
A dozen businesses, once	Manual copy-paste
A developer integration inside your own product	Google Places API
Clean CSVs across many categories or cities, no code	A no-code tool

The dividing line is volume and repetition. Manual wins for tiny one-off jobs. The API wins when you’re building software and have engineers. For everyone in between — agencies, sales teams, local-service and SEO freelancers, growth and data teams — a no-code export usually wins on both time and consistency.

Is exporting Google Maps data allowed?

This is a fair question and it doesn’t have a one-line answer. Obligations vary by jurisdiction — including under data-protection regimes like the GDPR — and by the terms of the platforms involved. We don’t offer a legal verdict either way. Before collecting, storing, or using business data, review the laws that apply to you and the relevant platform terms, and consult counsel where the answer isn’t clear. Treat that review as part of the project, not an afterthought.

Try it on a real search

If you want to see the CSV for yourself, gtme.business gives new accounts 20 free searches with no card, so you can run a real category-in-a-city search and download the file before committing. After that, plans run $35, $75, and $150 per month for 30,000 / 100,000 / 250,000 searches. For who uses it and how, see the use cases.

Frequently asked questions

Can I export Google Maps to CSV for free?

For a small list, yes — copy listings into a spreadsheet by hand and save it as a CSV. There’s no cost and no setup. It stops being practical past a few dozen businesses. If you want a tool to do it, gtme.business includes 20 free searches with no card, which is enough to export a real CSV before deciding.

Does Google Maps have a built-in export button?

Not for business search results. Google Takeout exports your own saved places and custom lists, but there’s no native “download these search results as CSV” option. To export the businesses returned by a category search, you use manual collection, the Places API, or a no-code tool.

Will the CSV include email addresses?

No. Google Maps doesn’t publish business email addresses or owner names, so no tool can extract them from it. The gtme.business CSV gives you the public contact channels instead: phone number, website, and the business’s own contact form via that website.

What fields are in the export?

The gtme.business CSV carries 15 columns: name, address, phone, website, rating, review count, categories, latitude, longitude, timezone, location searched, business ID, working hours, price level, and the Google Maps link. Rating and review count are the fields most teams use to qualify a business before reaching out.

How many businesses will one search return?

Up to a few hundred unique listings — often around 50–250, and up to ~500 only in the densest categories. It’s a focused, deduplicated list of the most relevant businesses near your search point, not every business in the city. For broader coverage, run the same category across more cities.

Do I need to know how to code?

No. A no-code tool removes the code entirely: you pick a category and a location, run the search, and download the CSV. Syncing to a database like Supabase (on Pro and Business plans) is a one-time connection step, not a development project.

Export Google Maps to CSV: the simple, no-code way