Selling to photographers across Switzerland? This guide shows how to build a complete national list straight from Google Maps — every business name, phone number, website and, where it is published, an email address. Switzerland concentrates its photographers in cities like Zurich, Geneva and Basel, so a nationwide list is built city by city rather than from one broad query. Because profiles are written in German, search for the German term Fotograf rather than the English one — it consistently returns a fuller list. Kavex runs the cities in a single job, deduplicates them on place ID and returns one clean CSV — then enriches each row with a website-extracted email and deliverability scoring.
What you'll find scraping photographers across Switzerland
Switzerland is multilingual — German across most of the country, French in the west, Italian in the south — and its business base spreads across Zurich, Geneva, Basel, Bern and Lausanne. Zurich is the largest market. Search German for most of the country and add a French pass for Geneva, Lausanne and the western cantons.
For photographers specifically, the size of the national list depends on how many cities and sub-categories you search: a single query returns a slice, while a city-by-city sweep can surface thousands of businesses across Switzerland. Expect a little over half to list a website — the rest you can still reach by phone. The major markets to search are:
- Zurich
- Geneva
- Basel
- Bern
- Lausanne
The best way to scrape Switzerland nationwide
Open the Google Maps scraper and set the country to Switzerland. The setting that matters most is the search term: search for the German word Fotograf rather than "photographer", since businesses across Switzerland write their profiles in German. Google caps each query at roughly 120 results, so Switzerland is best covered by running its major cities as separate regions in one job — Kavex deduplicates on place ID across them, so no business is ever returned twice.
- Search in German for most of Switzerland; add a French pass for Geneva, Lausanne and the west.
- Zurich, Geneva and Basel hold most of the national market — start there.
- Kavex deduplicates on place ID across regions, so overlapping searches never double-count.
- Add Bern, Lausanne and Winterthur to extend coverage across the cantons.
Who buys Switzerland photographer lists
A nationwide photographer list for Switzerland is valuable to a specific set of vendors. Typical buyers: studio-management SaaS, online galleries, payment software, print fulfilment, marketing.
What the nationwide photographer export looks like
Every job downloads as one CSV with a single photographer per row, no matter how many cities it spans. Each row carries the business name, full address, phone number, website, primary category, star rating and review count, with a website-extracted email added wherever one is published. A national export looks like this:
- One deduplicated row per business across every city searched.
- A Zurich photographer: phone, website and a website-extracted email.
- A Geneva listing: phone and website present, no public email — still reachable by phone.
- A smaller-city photographer: phone only, ready for a Phone Validator pass before any call.
Enrich and personalise before you reach out
Toggle "Include emails" so the scraper visits each photographer website and extracts a contact address, then run those through the Email Verifier to drop anything undeliverable. The Phone Validator sorts the remaining numbers into mobile and landline, and the AI Personalizer turns each row into a short cold email referencing the business and its city — far stronger than a single national mail-merge blast.
Every number on this page comes from that run, not from a price list.
Questions people ask
Should I search in German or English?
Search in German. Businesses across Switzerland write their Google Maps profiles in German, so the term Fotograf matches far more listings than the English equivalent.
Will one job cover the whole of Switzerland?
Yes. Add the major cities as separate regions in a single job and Kavex runs them together, returning one CSV. Results are deduplicated on place ID, so a business near a regional boundary is never counted twice.
How long does a nationwide scrape of Switzerland take?
Most queries return within 60 to 90 seconds and the cities run together, so even a broad national sweep of photographers completes in minutes rather than the weeks a manual city-by-city effort would take.
What contact details come with each photographer?
Every row includes phone and website wherever the business publishes them, plus a website-extracted email wherever one is found — typically for a little over half of photographers. The rest you can still reach by phone.