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How to Export Google Maps Data to Excel (2026): Every Method, Honestly Compared

Ilyas Yıldırım
Ilyas Yıldırım
2026-06-01

"Export Google Maps to Excel" sounds like it should be a single button. It isn't — and which method works depends entirely on what data you mean. Your own saved list? A custom map you built? Or the results of a category search like "every dentist in Austin"? Each needs a different method, and most guides skip the distinction. Here's every working method in 2026, honestly compared, so you don't waste an afternoon on the wrong one.

First, Decide What You're Actually Exporting

There are three very different things people mean by "Google Maps data":

  1. Your saved places — lists you starred or saved in your own account.
  2. A custom map — a map you built yourself in Google My Maps.
  3. Search results — every business matching a category and location (e.g. all plumbers in a city). This is what most sales, marketing, and research use cases actually need.

The first two have built-in export options. The third — the one most people are really after — does not, and that's where the confusion comes from.

Method 1 — Google Takeout (Your Saved Lists Only)

If you just want the places you personally saved, Google Takeout exports them:

  1. Go to takeout.google.com signed in with the right account.
  2. Click Deselect all, then scroll to Maps (your places) and tick it.
  3. Choose .zip as the file type and create the export.
  4. In the Maps folder, open the Saved.csv file in Excel.

Limitation: This only covers lists you created. It will not export search results, a category of businesses, or places saved by anyone else. For lead generation or market research, it's the wrong tool.

Method 2 — Google My Maps CSV Export (Custom Maps Only)

If you've manually built a map in Google My Maps, you can export each layer:

  1. Open your map in My Maps.
  2. Click the layer's three-dot menu (⋮) → Export data.
  3. Choose CSV and open it in Excel.

Limitation: This only works for maps you built by hand, point by point. It doesn't help if your goal is to pull hundreds of businesses you haven't already added one at a time.

Method 3 — Export Search Results With a Data Tool

Here's the gap: there is no native Google button to export "all coffee shops in Seattle" to a spreadsheet. The manual workaround — opening each listing and copying name, address, phone, and website into Excel row by row — works for five places and becomes unbearable past a few dozen.

A business data extraction tool closes that gap. With BasedOnBusiness, you:

  1. Enter a category and location — for example "coffee shops" + "Seattle".
  2. Set how many records you want — from a handful to thousands.
  3. Run the search — it pulls every matching Google Maps listing.
  4. Download CSV or Excel — a clean, structured file that opens directly in Excel and imports cleanly into a CRM.

Each row includes the fields you'd otherwise copy by hand:

  • Business name
  • Phone number
  • Full address
  • Website URL
  • Google rating and review count
  • Business category

If you're building an automated pipeline rather than clicking a UI, the REST API at /api/v1/scrapes returns the same data as JSON, and a scrape.done webhook fires the moment your export is ready.

Which Method Should You Use?

| Your goal | Best method | |---|---| | Export places you personally saved | Google Takeout | | Export a map you built by hand | My Maps CSV export | | Export all businesses in a category + city | Data tool (CSV/Excel) | | Build a lead list or do market research | Data tool (CSV/Excel) | | Pull data into a CRM or pipeline automatically | Data tool (API/JSON) |

For anything beyond your own saved pins, the third method is the only one that scales — and it's far faster than the manual copy-paste route.

One Honest Caveat About Emails

Whatever method you use, the export will not contain email addresses. Google Maps does not publish emails at the listing level, so no export — native or third-party — can include them. You'll get phone numbers and website URLs; if you need emails, that's a separate step starting from the website. Any tool advertising "emails exported from Google Maps" is misrepresenting what the data contains.

Get Started Free

If the data you want is "every business in a category and city, in a clean Excel file," BasedOnBusiness is built for exactly that. Sign up for 50 free credits (no credit card required), run a real search, and download your first spreadsheet in minutes. Visit basedonb.com to get started.