scrape data from Google Maps. Extracts data such as the name, address, phone number, website URL, rating, reviews number, latitude and longitude, reviews,email and more for each place
google-maps-scraper
google-maps-scraper is an open-source backend skill for Claude Code and compatible agents, published by gosom. Its author describes it as: “Find businesses, leads, emails, reviews, ratings, and contact details from Google Maps. Use for requests such as "find dentists in Berlin", "scrape Google Maps", "get local business leads", or "collect Google Maps rev…”. The project has 5.5k stars on GitHub and is available under the MIT license. Add it to your setup with `git clone https://github.com/gosom/google-maps-scraper ~/.claude/skills/google-maps-scraper`.
What google-maps-scraper does
Turn a natural-language lead request into a validated local Google Maps crawl, monitor it, and help the user work with the results.
Installation
Add google-maps-scraper to your agent with:
git clone https://github.com/gosom/google-maps-scraper ~/.claude/skills/google-maps-scraperAlways review a skill's source before installing it. This command comes from the skill's public repository; the linked repo is the source of truth for exact setup steps.
What's inside
The SKILL.md for google-maps-scraper is organised into these sections:
- Guardrails
- Workflow
- 0. Refresh the workflow
- 1. Understand the request
- 2. Offer the proxy choice
- 3. Configure credentials safely
- 4. Prepare queries and validate locally
- 5. Run and monitor the full crawl
- 6. Present and continue working with results
- Reference routing
When to use it
Reach for google-maps-scraper when you want backend help from your agent without writing the same instructions every session. Load the skill and the agent picks it up automatically for relevant tasks.
Strengths
- Clear MIT license — safe to read and adapt
- Ships in gosom/google-maps-scraper, an established project with 5,547 GitHub stars
- Actively maintained (recent commits)
Topics
Frequently asked questions
- What does google-maps-scraper do?
- Find businesses, leads, emails, reviews, ratings, and contact details from Google Maps. Use for requests such as "find dentists in Berlin", "scrape Google Maps", "get local business leads", or "collect Google Maps reviews". Runs the open-source scraper locally with Docker and guides nontechnical users through setup, monitoring, and results.
- How do I install google-maps-scraper?
- Run git clone https://github.com/gosom/google-maps-scraper ~/.claude/skills/google-maps-scraper in your agent, then reload your skills. Review the source at https://github.com/gosom/google-maps-scraper before installing.
- Is google-maps-scraper free to use?
- Yes. google-maps-scraper is free and open source under the MIT license, so you can read, run, and adapt it within that license's terms.
- Where does google-maps-scraper come from?
- google-maps-scraper ships inside gosom/google-maps-scraper, a repository that contains 2 catalogued skills in total. The repository's 5,547 GitHub stars apply to that whole collection, not to this skill on its own.
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