If the only phantoms you run are Google Maps Search Export and the email extractor chained behind it, you're paying automation-platform complexity for a two-step job. Here is what that workflow looks like as a purpose-built tool.
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| Name | Address | Phone | Rating | Website | Emails | Socials | Action |
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| Le Comptoir du Relais | 9 Carrefour de l'Odéon, 75006 Paris | +33 1 44 27 07 97 | ★4.6(2,341) | comptoirdurelais.fr | contact@comptoirdurelais.fr - | fbig - | |
| Brasserie Lipp | 151 Bd Saint-Germain, 75006 Paris | +33 1 45 48 53 91 | ★4.3(4,892) | brasserielipp.fr | reservation@brasserielipp.fr - | fbigtw - | |
| Café de Flore | 172 Bd Saint-Germain, 75006 Paris | +33 1 45 48 55 26 | ★4.4(11,203) | cafedeflore.fr | info@cafedeflore.fr - | igfb - | |
| Au Pied de Cochon | 6 Rue Coquillière, 75001 Paris | +33 1 40 13 77 00 | ★4.1(6,784) | pieddecochon.com | contact@pieddecochon.com - | fbig - |
PhantomBuster is a general-purpose automation platform: "phantoms" are cloud browser scripts that consume execution timefrom your plan's monthly allowance. The Google Maps workflow takes two of them chained together: a search-export phantom scrolls Maps results in an automated browser, then a second phantom visits each website to extract emails.
That architecture has real costs: execution minutes burn while browsers scroll, rate limits force slow launches to avoid detection (it is browser automation against Google's ToS, after all), and chained phantoms mean two configurations to babysit - when the first one's output format hiccups, the second one starves.
| PhantomBuster (2 phantoms) | Maps to Lead | |
|---|---|---|
| Setup | Configure & chain two phantoms | Type a niche and a city |
| Data source | Automated browser on Google Maps | Official Google Places API |
| Google ToS | Violates it | Compliant |
| Pricing basis | Execution hours + AI credits | Flat plan with search credits, from $19/mo |
| Email extraction | Second chained phantom | Built in, unlimited, one click |
| Reliability | Browser automation - breaks on changes | Stable API, no babysitting |
Keep PhantomBuster if Google Maps is just one workflow among many. Its real strength is LinkedIn and Sales Navigator automation- profile scraping, auto-connects, outreach sequences - plus phantoms for Instagram, X, and other networks, and multi-step chains across them. Maps to Lead doesn't do any of that. But if the Maps-to-email pipeline is the workflow you actually run, a dedicated tool does it faster, cheaper, and without the fragility.
The two-phantom chain becomes: search "dentists" in your target city (up to 320 results, about a minute), click "Enrich all" (emails, extra phones, and social profiles from every website, a few minutes), export the CSV. A 300-lead run that used to mean configuring launches and watching execution minutes tick down finishes inside ten minutes, on a $19/month plan, with nothing left running unattended overnight.
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No - and honestly, that's the deciding question. Maps to Lead does one thing: Google Maps businesses with enriched contact data. Enrichment does surface LinkedIn profile URLs published on business websites, but there is no LinkedIn automation. If you need that, PhantomBuster remains the right tool.
PhantomBuster plans start around $69/month (as of 2026) and meter execution time across all your phantoms. Maps to Lead starts at $19/month with 100 search credits - roughly 2,000 leads - and unlimited email enrichment, with no execution clock.
No. There are no phantoms, sessions, cookies, or chains - it's a web app. Type a niche, a city, and a country; results, enrichment, and CSV export are each one click.
Yes - automated access to Google Maps violates Google's ToS, which is why automation-based tools throttle launches and still hit blocks. Maps to Lead uses the official, paid Places API instead, so there is nothing to throttle or hide.
One search, one click to enrich, one CSV. From $19/month.
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