Compare Crawlora's developer-first API catalog and Contact API with Map Lead Scraper's Chrome/Edge extension, used by 10,000+ customers to export Google Maps business leads to CSV.
Benchmark
Before comparing Crawlora to Map Lead Scraper on the table below, here’s how Crawlora performs on its own: we ran Crawlora’s /web/scrape endpoint once against a stratified sample of 30 public URLs (docs, e-commerce, and anti-bot-protected sites), with the cache bypassed. 21/30 requests returned usable content.
This is Crawlora's own measured reliability on a single disclosed run — not a head-to-head benchmark against Firecrawl, Scrapfly, or any other named competitor. We don't hold API keys for competitor products and won't publish a number for a tool we haven't actually run.
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Short verdict
Crawlora is stronger as a programmatic, multi-platform API you can automate and integrate. Map Lead Scraper is stronger as a zero-integration browser extension for a single person doing occasional manual Maps lead exports.
Quick comparison
Use this table as a starting point for evaluating Crawlora against Map Lead Scraper, then verify current details on both providers' official pages before making a production decision.
| Category | Crawlora | Map Lead Scraper |
|---|---|---|
| Primary product type | Developer-first structured web data API (301+ platforms) | Browser extension for manual Google Maps lead export, 10,000+ customers |
| Delivery model | API, hosted MCP tools, and Playground | Chrome/Edge extension only, no API |
| Best for | Teams that need Maps data alongside other platforms in automated pipelines | Solo users manually exporting Maps leads to a spreadsheet |
| Maps sources | Google Maps | Google Maps only; the vendor says custom scrapers for other map sources are available on request |
| Data fields exported | Normalized fields per endpoint schema | 26 fields including name, phone, email, socials, website, domain, full address, categories, price range, review count/text, ratings, hours, photos, Place ID, CID, and Kgmid |
| Email sourcing | Contact API + free Email & Contact Finder resolve emails/phones/socials by domain | Visits each business's own website found on Maps to look for a contact page or listed email — emails are not on Google Maps itself |
| Automation | Fully programmatic — API calls, no browser required | Manual, one Chrome tab at a time; no scheduling |
| Output format | Normalized JSON by endpoint | CSV/XLS export only |
| Pricing model | One credit pool shared across all endpoints (Growth: $29/mo for 100,000 credits) | $9.90/mo billed yearly or $19.90/mo billed monthly, both for 100,000 leads/month, extension-gated |
| Agent-native workflows | Hosted MCP tools across the full catalog | None — no API or MCP surface |
Details
Choosing between Crawlora and Map Lead Scraper depends on output format, target coverage, developer workflow, and how much infrastructure your team wants to operate.
Map Lead Scraper requires a person to open Google Maps in Chrome or Edge, run a search, and click the extension to export results. It reports 10,000+ customers and claims 41M+ phone numbers, 13M+ email leads, 6M+ social profiles, and 2M+ reviews extracted through the tool. Crawlora is callable from a script, cron job, or agent — no browser, no human in the loop.
Map Lead Scraper has no documented API or MCP server. You can't schedule pulls, pipe results into a CRM programmatically, or trigger a webhook — every export is a manual action inside the extension, then a manual CSV import wherever the leads need to go. Its own FAQ notes that searching a large region (a whole state) can under-return results; the vendor recommends searching smaller areas like cities or ZIP codes instead, a limitation that doesn't apply to a paginated API call.
Both tools focus on Google Maps for this comparison, but Crawlora's catalog extends to search, marketplaces, social, jobs, finance, and app stores in the same credit pool. Map Lead Scraper is Maps-only and extension-only; it tells users it can build a custom scraper for other map sources only on request.
Map Lead Scraper's extractor visits each business's own website (found via its Google Maps listing) and looks for a contact page or listed email, since email addresses are not published on Google Maps itself. Crawlora separates Maps search from contact enrichment via the Contact API and the free Email & Contact Finder tool, which resolve public emails, phones, and social profiles from a domain — more flexible for custom pipelines but a separate call rather than a bundled export.
Map Lead Scraper's Free plan covers 1,000 leads/month at 15 records per export; its Pro plan is $9.90/mo billed yearly or $19.90/mo billed monthly, both covering 100,000 leads/month with unlimited records per export and added email/social/Kgmid/Plus-code extraction. Crawlora's Growth plan is $29/mo for 100,000 credits shared across every endpoint — a Google Maps search call costs 5 credits, so raw search volume is cheaper per unit, but Map Lead Scraper's flat price includes bundled contact enrichment that Crawlora prices separately through the Contact API.
Crawlora is designed for responsible public web data workflows. It should not be used for private or protected data, and no comparison page should be read as a guarantee that every target will succeed. Review provider terms, target-site rules, and your own compliance requirements before production use.
Evaluation checklist
Compare Crawlora and Map Lead Scraper against your real workflow and maintenance burden, not just top-line feature labels.
FAQ
These Map Lead Scraper comparison answers use conservative language and should be verified against both providers' official pages for current product and pricing details.
Yes, if you want Maps data alongside other platforms through a programmatic API. Map Lead Scraper remains the simpler choice for occasional manual exports with no integration work, and reports 10,000+ customers using it that way.
Map Lead Scraper is a Chrome and Edge browser extension that extracts local business data — 26 fields including names, phones, emails, social profiles, websites, reviews, ratings, and Google identifiers like Place ID and CID — from Google Maps search results and exports them to CSV or XLS.
No. Map Lead Scraper is extension-only, with no documented API or MCP server. Crawlora is API-first with hosted MCP tools across its catalog.
Crawlora. Map Lead Scraper requires a person to manually run each search and export inside the browser extension; there's no scheduling or automation layer, and it works only against Google Maps.
It visits each business's own website (linked from its Google Maps listing) and looks for a contact page or published email — emails aren't shown on Google Maps itself, only sourced from the site the listing points to.
Yes — Crawlora has a Contact API and a free Email & Contact Finder that extract public business emails, phone numbers, and social profiles from a website or domain. Map Lead Scraper bundles similar enrichment into its paid extension exports.
Crawlora is API-first with documented endpoints, Playground testing, API keys, official SDKs, and hosted MCP tools. Map Lead Scraper has no developer surface at all — it's a consumer browser extension.
Crawlora uses one credit pool shared across all endpoints (Growth: $29/mo for 100,000 credits; a Maps search call costs 5 credits). Map Lead Scraper charges $9.90/mo billed yearly or $19.90/mo billed monthly for up to 100,000 leads/month with bundled contact enrichment.
Yes, though there's little reason to — Map Lead Scraper is a manual, browser-only workflow, while Crawlora is built for automation. Most teams that need both manual and programmatic access would standardize on Crawlora's API alone.
Free covers 1,000 leads/month at 15 records per export. Pro is $9.90/mo billed yearly or $19.90/mo billed monthly, both covering 100,000 leads/month with unlimited records per export, added email/social extraction, and Kgmid/Plus-code fields. Check Map Lead Scraper's official pricing for current rates.
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Browse endpoint docs, run a Playground request against a platform Map Lead Scraper doesn't cover, and compare credit-based pricing before deciding whether Crawlora fits your workflow.