How to scrape Google Maps without code: a REST API tutorial

Disclosure: I run basedonb , the API I'm using in this tutorial. The technique works with any Google Maps scraping API — the trade-offs section is honest. If you'd rather build the scraper yourself, the "Why DIY scraping fails" section explains what you're signing up for. Last week a friend asked me for 500 dentist leads in Manhattan for a cold email campaign. I sent him a CSV in 90 seconds. This post is how to do that yourself in ~12 lines of code, and the failure modes you avoid by not writing