If you've ever needed a list of local businesses - every dentist in Manchester, every plumber in Leeds - with their contact details, you've probably hit the same wall I did:
Google's Places API is rate-limited, costs money once you scale, and annoyingly doesn't return email addresses at all.
Copy-pasting from Maps by hand is soul-destroying past the first ten rows.
Most "scrapers" give you the name and a phone number, then stop right where the value starts: the email.
This guide shows a practical way to pull structured business data straight from Google Maps and auto-enrich each result with emails, extra phones, and social links - no Google API key, exportable to JSON/CSV/Excel, and callable from code.
