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Map Scraper vs Presto Maps Scraper
Presto is the biggest name in this category — 400,000 installs. It also does not touch Google Maps at all in the version you get from the store.
| Presto Maps Scraper | Map Scraper | |
|---|---|---|
| Installs / rating | 400,000 · 3.8★ (50 ratings) | New |
| Where the store version gets data | Bing Maps and OpenStreetMap | Google Maps and Bing Maps |
| Google Maps in the store version | No — the full version is a manual sideload | Yes |
| Emails from company websites | No | Yes |
| Whole-area sweep | Yes — by moving the Google Maps page itself | Yes — by splitting the area and querying |
| Claimed / verified flag | Yes | Yes |
| Export formats | Excel, CSV | Excel, CSV, JSON |
Checked on 1 September 2026 from public store listings, the products' own pages and their published extension packages. Where we did not verify something, it says so.
The part that surprised us
We downloaded the CRX of the store version and read its manifest. It declares
bing.com and overpass-api.de — and no Google host at all. The store
description says so too: “Extract Business Listings from Bing Maps and OpenStreetMap”. The
Google version lives on GitHub as a manual install with <all_urls> access.
That is a reasonable answer to a real problem — Google removes extensions that scrape Google Maps. Our answer is different: we buy the Google data from a licensed provider, so the extension never touches Google's pages and still ships from the store.
What Presto does better
It reads Google's internal data structure, so its full version returns fields we do not: a structured address split into parts, the listing in the local language, an international phone format, opening hours. If you need those and are comfortable installing an extension by hand in developer mode, Presto is a fair choice.
What we do that it does not
Emails. We checked their bundle: every mention of “email” in Presto's code is the user's own address for licensing and checkout. No company email lookup exists. That is the one field maps never publish and the one every cold email needs.
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