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What data can you get from a Google Maps business listing?

TL;DR: A Google Maps business listing gives you the business name, full address, phone number, website, star rating, review count, categories, GPS coordinates, timezone, opening hours, price level, a Google business ID, and a link to the listing. It does not include email addresses, owner names, revenue, or employee counts — those simply aren’t in the data.

What data is in a Google Maps business listing?

Every business on Google Maps has a public profile (a “listing” or Google Business Profile) made up of structured fields. When you look one up — a dentist, a plumber, a coffee shop — Google shows you a consistent set of attributes. Those same attributes are what any export or data tool can return, because they’re the data Google actually stores against the place.

Here’s the complete picture of what’s available per listing, what each field is good for, and — just as important — what isn’t there.

The fields you can get

These are the attributes attached to a typical Google Maps business listing:

FieldWhat it isWhy it’s useful
Business nameThe trading name as shown on MapsThe primary identifier for any list
AddressFull street address stringMailing, mapping, territory sorting
Phone numberThe number on the listingDirect outbound calling
WebsiteThe site linked from the profileResearch and contact-form outreach
RatingAverage star rating (roughly 0–5)Quality/segment filtering
Review countNumber of Google reviewsA proxy for size and activity
CategoriesGoogle’s business-type tagsFiltering by exactly what they do
Latitude / longitudeGPS coordinates of the placeMapping, distance/route planning
TimezoneThe location’s timezoneKnowing when to call
Opening hoursWeekly business hoursCall-timing, “open now” logic
Price levelThe $ to $$$$ indicatorRough budget segmentation
Business IDGoogle’s stable place identifierDe-duplicating across lists
Google Maps linkA direct URL to the listingQuick manual verification

That’s a genuinely rich profile. For most local-business outreach, research, and market-mapping, the name + phone + website + address + rating combination is the core working set, and the coordinates, hours, and categories let you slice and prioritize.

A note on the “Description” field

Google Maps listings can also carry a free-text business description. It’s part of the listing data, but it’s long and inconsistent, so where it’s included depends on how you’re pulling the data (more on that below).

The data that is NOT in a Google Maps listing

This is where a lot of people get tripped up, so it’s worth being blunt. A Google Maps business listing does not contain:

  • Email addresses. Google Maps doesn’t publish business emails. No tool can “get an email from a Google Maps listing” because the field doesn’t exist — anything claiming to is enriching from another source or guessing. What you do get is the website (which usually has a contact form or a published email) and a phone number.
  • Owner or contact names. Listings are about the business, not a named person. There’s no “decision-maker” field.
  • Revenue, employee count, or firmographics. None of that lives on a Maps listing. That’s the domain of business-data providers like D&B or ZoomInfo, not Google Maps.
  • Social-media profiles. Instagram, Facebook, or LinkedIn handles aren’t part of the listing data.
  • Verified or validated contact data. The phone number is whatever the business put on its profile. It isn’t independently verified.

If you need emails or named contacts, the honest path is to take the website and phone you can get from Maps, then do that enrichment yourself or with a separate tool built for it. Maps is a strong source for which businesses exist and how to reach them by phone or site — not a contact database.

How you actually pull this data

Knowing what’s in a listing is one thing; getting hundreds of them into a spreadsheet is another. There are three common routes.

1. Manual copy-paste

Open a listing, copy the fields you want, paste into a sheet, repeat. Free and accurate, but it doesn’t scale past a handful of businesses, and it’s easy to make transcription errors.

2. Google’s Places API

Google’s official Places API returns this data programmatically. It’s authoritative and first-party, but it’s built for developers — you write and maintain code, manage API keys and per-request billing, and reshape the raw responses into usable columns yourself. Great if you have engineering resources; overkill if you just want a list.

3. A no-code data tool

A purpose-built tool sits between you and Maps: you describe a search — a business category plus a location — and it returns the matching listings as a structured file. No code, no API keys.

gtme.business works this way. You pick a category from 3,900+ standardized Google Maps categories (or type your own search term), choose a location by drilling Country → State/Region → City, and run the search. It returns up to a few hundred matching listings (often around 50–250, occasionally up to ~500 in the densest areas) — a focused, usable list rather than a city-wide census. You then export to CSV on any plan, or sync to your own Supabase database on Pro and Business plans. See how it works for the full flow.

Which fields you get, by export method

The exact set of fields depends on how you collect the data. With gtme.business specifically:

  • CSV export (all plans) ships 15 columns: Name, Address, Phone, Website, Rating, Review Count, Categories, Latitude, Longitude, Timezone, Location Searched, Business ID, Working Hours, Price Level, and Google Maps Link.
  • Supabase sync (Pro and Business) carries a richer 21-field set — the same fields plus separate City/State, the free-text Description, and sync metadata — and it de-duplicates records by Business ID via upsert.

The Description field is sync-only because it’s the long, messy field that bloats a CSV. Everything else you’d want for outreach or analysis is in both.

Putting the data to work

Once you’ve got a clean list, the fields map naturally to real tasks:

  • Outbound calling uses phone + timezone + hours so you’re dialing at sensible times.
  • Website-based outreach uses the website field to find a contact form or published email, and to research the business before reaching out.
  • Segmentation uses rating, review count, categories, and price level to prioritize — e.g. “well-reviewed dentists” or “newer salons with few reviews.”
  • Territory and routing uses the address and coordinates to group by area.
  • De-duplication uses the Business ID so the same place never appears twice across multiple searches.

For concrete workflows by team type — agencies, sales teams, local-service businesses — see the use cases. If you’re weighing a tool against the Places API or other scrapers, the comparison page lays out the trade-offs.

The bottom line

A Google Maps business listing is a structured, public profile: name, address, phone, website, rating, review count, categories, coordinates, timezone, hours, price level, a stable business ID, and a link — with an optional description. It’s an excellent source for finding local businesses and reaching them by phone or website. It is not a source of emails, owner names, or firmographics — and any tool promising those from Maps alone is filling gaps from somewhere else.

If you want that listing data as a clean export without writing code, you can try gtme.business free — 20 searches, no card required — and see exactly what comes back.

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