🍎 Apple Maps Scraper - Business Leads & Local SEO

Apple Maps Scraper lets you extract structured local business data from Apple Maps using business keywords and a location.

Generate local business leads, research markets, discover competitors, identify incomplete business listings, and collect public contact information without manually searching Apple Maps.

• 🎯 Generate business leads: collect business names, phone numbers, websites, addresses, and coordinates
• 🌐 Find businesses without official websites: distinguish official websites from social-media and directory URLs
• 📊 Analyze local markets: discover businesses operating around a city, state, region, or postal area
• 🧩 Measure listing completeness: get an explainable completeness score for every business
• 💡 Spot opportunities: automatically flag missing websites, missing phone numbers, and businesses without an official website
• 🧹 Get cleaner data: Apple Place ID-based deduplication prevents repeated grid results from polluting your Dataset
• 📍 Expand geographic coverage: automatically search multiple nearby Apple Maps search points when more results are requested
• ⚡ Automate workflows: export structured results to Apify Dataset, API, integrations, CRMs, or downstream applications

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📦 What data does Apple Maps Scraper extract?

🏢 Business name	🆔 Apple Place ID
🔢 Apple MUID	🏷 Category
📍 Full address	🛣 Street address
🏙 City	🗺 State / region
📮 Postal code	🌎 Country
📌 Latitude & longitude	☎️ Phone number
🌐 Website / public URL	🧭 Website type
✅ Has website	🏠 Has official website
☎️ Has phone	⚠️ Missing fields
📊 Listing completeness score	💡 Opportunity tags
🍎 Apple Maps URL	🔍 Source query
🌍 Source location	🔗 Matched queries
🕒 Scrape timestamp

Missing data is returned as null, false, or an empty array where appropriate.

The Actor does not invent business information that Apple Maps does not expose.

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🚀 Features

Apple Maps Scraper is designed for lead generation, local SEO research, and local-business intelligence.

• Multiple search queries: run up to 20 keywords or business categories in one Actor run
• One location per run: apply the same location to all queries
• Up to 500 unique businesses per run
• Automatic geographic grid search: expand around the selected location when more results are requested
• Apple ID-based deduplication: repeated businesses discovered from multiple search points are merged
• Cross-query provenance: preserve queries that matched the same business in matchedQueries
• Branch-safe identity: businesses with different Apple Place IDs remain separate
• Official website detection: distinguish likely official domains from social profiles and directory pages
• Opportunity detection: identify businesses with missing contact information or no official website
• Explainable completeness score: score listings using important lead-generation fields
• Structured business data: predictable normalized output
• API-friendly results: every result follows a consistent Dataset schema
• HTTP-first architecture: normal searches do not require browser automation
• Apple Maps links: preserve the original Apple Maps place URL for verification and follow-up

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⬇️ Input

You can configure Apple Maps Scraper directly from the Apify Console or send input programmatically through the Apify API.

🔎 Search queries

Add one or more business keywords, categories, or search terms.

Example:

plumber
electrician
HVAC contractor
roofing contractor

You can provide:

Minimum: 1 search query
Maximum: 20 search queries

Search queries are processed in order.

Because maxResults is a global limit for the entire Actor run, the Actor stops once that number of unique businesses has been collected.

For stronger coverage, use business categories that are meaningfully different from each other.

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📍 Location

Enter the location that should be used as the center of the Apple Maps search.

Example:

Los Angeles, California

Other examples:

Phoenix, Arizona
Miami, Florida
Austin, Texas
London, United Kingdom
Sydney, Australia
San Francisco, CA

The Actor resolves the location to geographic coordinates and searches Apple Maps around that area.

The current version supports one location per Actor run.

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🔢 Maximum results

Set the maximum total number of unique businesses to collect.

Minimum: 1
Default: 50
Maximum: 500

Example:

Search queries:
plumber
electrician
HVAC contractor

Maximum results:
100

The Actor will collect up to:

100 unique businesses total

across the run.

maxResults is a maximum, not a guarantee.

Apple Maps may expose fewer unique businesses for a particular query and area.

The Actor stops naturally when available search coverage is exhausted instead of generating fake or duplicate records.

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🌐 Language

Choose the Apple Maps locale used for the search.

Default:

en-US

Examples:

en-US
en-GB
fr-FR
de-DE

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🌎 Country code

Limit the Apple Maps search context using a two-letter country code.

Default:

US

Examples:

US
GB
CA
AU
DE
FR

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🧪 Example input

{
  "searchQueries": [
    "plumber",
    "electrician"
  ],
  "location": "Los Angeles, California",
  "maxResults": 100,
  "language": "en-US",
  "countryCode": "US"
}

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⬆️ Output

Results are stored in the Actor's default Apify Dataset.

You can access results from:

Output
Storage
Apify API
Integrations
Dataset exports

Each Dataset row represents one unique Apple Maps business.

If the same Apple Maps business is discovered through multiple search queries, those queries can be preserved in:

matchedQueries

instead of creating duplicate rows.

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📊 Example result

{
  "name": "SPRO CoffeeLab",
  "category": "Cafe",
  "appleMapsUrl": "https://maps.apple.com/place?q=SPRO%20CoffeeLab&auid=15583125537627173874",
  "placeId": "ID842621D1095F3F2",
  "muid": "15583125537627173874",
  "address": "525 Golden Gate Ave, San Francisco, CA 94102, United States",
  "streetAddress": "525 Golden Gate Ave",
  "city": "San Francisco",
  "region": "CA",
  "postalCode": "94102",
  "country": "United States",
  "latitude": 37.7809295,
  "longitude": -122.4191742,
  "phone": "+14158440650",
  "website": "https://www.sprocoffeelab.com",
  "websiteType": "official",
  "sourceQuery": "coffee shops",
  "sourceLocation": "San Francisco, CA",
  "hasWebsite": true,
  "hasOfficialWebsite": true,
  "hasPhone": true,
  "missingFields": [],
  "listingCompletenessScore": 100,
  "opportunityTags": [],
  "matchedQueries": [
    "coffee shops"
  ],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-07T06:25:10.383Z"
}

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🌐 Website intelligence

Apple Maps may expose a business URL, but that URL is not always the business's own official website.

For lead generation, this distinction matters.

Apple Maps Scraper classifies returned URLs into:

official
social
directory
none

official

A URL that does not match a recognized social-network or business-directory domain.

Example:

https://exampleplumbing.com

Result:

{
  "websiteType": "official",
  "hasOfficialWebsite": true
}

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social

A URL pointing to a recognized social platform such as:

Instagram
Facebook
TikTok
X / Twitter
LinkedIn
YouTube

Example:

https://www.instagram.com/examplebusiness/

Result:

{
  "websiteType": "social",
  "hasWebsite": true,
  "hasOfficialWebsite": false,
  "opportunityTags": [
    "NO_OFFICIAL_WEBSITE"
  ]
}

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directory

A URL pointing to a recognized business-directory or listing platform such as:

Yelp
Tripadvisor
Foursquare
Yellow Pages
MapQuest
OpenTable

Example:

https://www.yelp.com/biz/example

Result:

{
  "websiteType": "directory",
  "hasWebsite": true,
  "hasOfficialWebsite": false,
  "opportunityTags": [
    "NO_OFFICIAL_WEBSITE"
  ]
}

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none

Apple Maps did not expose a usable business URL.

Example:

{
  "website": null,
  "websiteType": "none",
  "hasWebsite": false,
  "hasOfficialWebsite": false,
  "opportunityTags": [
    "MISSING_WEBSITE"
  ]
}

Website classification is a domain-based heuristic.

official means the URL was not recognized as a known social or directory domain. It is not a guarantee that the business owns the website.

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📊 Listing completeness score

Every result receives:

listingCompletenessScore

The current score uses five important business-listing signals:

Business name
Category
Address
Phone number
Official website

Each available signal contributes:

20 points

Maximum:

100

Example:

Name             ✓
Category         ✓
Address          ✓
Phone            ✓
Official website ✗

Score: 80

This makes it easier to sort businesses by listing completeness and identify potential outreach opportunities.

The score is a simple, explainable rule-based metric.

It is not an AI-generated score and does not claim to measure overall business quality.

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💡 Opportunity tags

The Actor automatically identifies useful lead-generation signals.

Current tags include:

MISSING_PHONE
MISSING_WEBSITE
NO_OFFICIAL_WEBSITE

MISSING_PHONE

Apple Maps did not expose a phone number.

MISSING_WEBSITE

Apple Maps did not expose a usable website or public URL.

NO_OFFICIAL_WEBSITE

Apple Maps exposed only a recognized social-media or directory URL rather than a likely official business website.

Example:

{
  "name": "Example Cafe",
  "website": "https://www.instagram.com/example/",
  "websiteType": "social",
  "hasOfficialWebsite": false,
  "listingCompletenessScore": 80,
  "opportunityTags": [
    "NO_OFFICIAL_WEBSITE"
  ]
}

These fields are especially useful for:

Web-design agencies
SEO agencies
Lead-generation companies
Local marketing teams
Sales prospecting
Business-directory research

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🧹 Branch-safe deduplication

Apple Maps searches from nearby geographic points often return overlapping businesses.

The Actor removes repeated appearances using the strongest available identity signal:

1. Apple Place ID
2. Apple MUID
3. Apple Maps URL
4. Business name + coordinates

🏪 Different branches remain separate

Different physical branches may share:

Business name
Website
Phone number
Category

but still represent different Apple Maps places.

If Apple provides different Place IDs, the Actor keeps them as separate businesses.

Example:

CoffeeShop — Address A — Apple ID A
CoffeeShop — Address B — Apple ID B

remain two separate Dataset rows.

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🔍 Multiple search queries

You can provide several business categories in the same run.

Example:

plumber
electrician
HVAC contractor
roofing contractor

If the same Apple Maps business appears for multiple processed queries, the Actor merges the duplicate business and keeps query provenance.

Example:

{
  "name": "ABC Home Services",
  "sourceQuery": "plumber",
  "matchedQueries": [
    "plumber",
    "electrician"
  ]
}

sourceQuery is the query that first produced the saved business.

matchedQueries contains the search queries under which that business was observed before the run reached its result limit.

Because maxResults applies to the entire run, later queries may not be processed if earlier searches already fill the requested maximum.

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📍 Geographic grid search

A single Apple Maps search response may expose only a limited number of nearby results.

Apple Maps Scraper automatically expands the search across multiple nearby geographic search points when additional results are requested.

For example:

Search center
↓
Nearby search cells
↓
Apple Maps results from each cell
↓
Deduplication
↓
Unique businesses

The center point is searched first.

For larger maxResults values, additional nearby search cells are generated automatically.

The Actor then:

Searches each geographic point
Collects Apple Maps businesses
Deduplicates repeated places
Preserves unique branches
Stops when maxResults is reached

This allows the Actor to collect significantly more businesses than a single Apple Maps search response may return.

Grid search improves coverage, but it does not guarantee that every business inside a geographic area will be discovered.

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⚡ Performance

The scraper uses an HTTP-first architecture.

It communicates with Apple Maps search services directly instead of launching a full browser for normal searches.

This provides:

Fast startup
Lower browser overhead
Lower memory requirements
Efficient grid searching
Structured API-friendly responses

The Actor stops processing when the requested number of unique businesses is reached.

Actual runtime depends on:

Maximum results
Number of search queries
Available businesses
Geographic coverage required
Network conditions

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🛡 Reliability

Apple Maps Scraper prioritizes clean, predictable output.

The Actor:

Validates required search input
Uses Apple Place IDs for strong deduplication
Does not fabricate unavailable fields
Stops at the configured maximum
Returns null or false for unavailable information
Preserves source query and location
Records the scrape timestamp
Fails the run when a required network operation cannot be completed

The current version intentionally avoids silently manufacturing missing business data.

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🔌 API & integrations

Apple Maps Scraper can be used programmatically through the Apify API.

You can connect results to workflows such as:

• Google Sheets
• Make
• Zapier
• CRMs
• Internal APIs
• Data warehouses
• Lead-generation systems
• Local SEO dashboards
• AI agents
• MCP workflows

Every Actor run stores structured results in the default Apify Dataset, making them easy to consume from another application.

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💡 Example use cases

🎯 Local lead generation

Search:

roofing contractor
HVAC contractor
plumber
electrician

Location:

Phoenix, Arizona

Build a prospect list containing:

Business name
Phone
Website
Website type
Official website status
Address
Category
Completeness score
Opportunity tags
Apple Maps URL

Businesses marked with:

MISSING_WEBSITE
NO_OFFICIAL_WEBSITE
MISSING_PHONE

can be especially useful for outreach campaigns.

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🌐 Web-design and SEO prospecting

Find local businesses that:

Have no website
Only use Instagram
Only use Facebook
Only have a directory listing
Have incomplete Apple Maps contact information

Use:

websiteType
hasOfficialWebsite
listingCompletenessScore
opportunityTags

to prioritize potential leads.

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📊 Competitor research

Search your business category and analyze:

Which businesses appear in the market
Business categories
Geographic distribution
Website coverage
Phone coverage
Official website adoption
Listing completeness

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📍 Market research

Compare local business coverage for different categories.

Use results to identify:

Market saturation
Local business concentration
Potential service gaps
Areas with weak website adoption
Categories with incomplete listings

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🗂 Directory building

Collect structured business information for:

Local directories
Industry databases
Marketplaces
Internal research tools
Business discovery applications

Use Apple Place IDs as strong business identifiers in your downstream processing.

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⚠️ Current limitations

The current version focuses on Apple Maps keyword + location business discovery.

It does not currently provide:

Multiple locations in one run
User-defined radius or bounding box
Apple Maps ratings
Review counts
Detailed review extraction
Full weekly opening hours
Business photos
Website email crawling
Employee/contact enrichment
Social-profile enrichment
Historical change tracking
Guaranteed discovery of every business in an area
Verified website ownership

Apple Maps does not expose every field for every business through the search data currently used by this Actor.

The Actor deliberately avoids claiming fields that cannot be determined reliably.

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❓ FAQ

How does Apple Maps Scraper work?

The Actor resolves your selected location and searches Apple Maps for your business queries.

It then:

Gets Apple Maps search access
Resolves location coordinates
Creates geographic search points
Searches Apple Maps
Collects public business data
Normalizes business fields
Classifies website URLs
Scores listing completeness
Detects lead opportunities
Deduplicates Apple places
Stores results in an Apify Dataset

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How many businesses can I scrape?

The current configured maximum is:

500 unique businesses per Actor run

Apple Maps may expose fewer results.

Requesting:

500

does not guarantee that 500 unique businesses exist or will be discoverable around the selected location.

The Actor returns the businesses it can discover within its search coverage.

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Is the maximum applied per query?

No.

maxResults currently applies to the entire Actor run.

Example:

Queries:
plumber
electrician

maxResults:
100

means:

Up to 100 unique businesses total

not 100 businesses for each query.

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Can I search multiple business categories?

Yes.

You can provide up to:

20 search queries

in one run.

Examples:

plumber
electrician
restaurant
coffee shop
dentist
lawyer

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Can I search multiple locations in one run?

Not in the current version.

One location is applied to the Actor run.

For multiple cities, start separate Actor runs.

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Why are some fields null?

Apple Maps does not expose every field for every business.

The Actor deliberately returns:

null

when a value cannot be determined from the available Apple Maps data.

It does not fabricate missing information.

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What does websiteType mean?

websiteType classifies the URL Apple Maps returned.

Possible values:

official
social
directory
none

The classification uses known domain patterns.

It should be treated as a lead-generation heuristic, not a guarantee of website ownership.

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What is hasOfficialWebsite?

This field is:

true

when the selected URL is classified as:

official

and:

false

when Apple Maps exposes:

No URL
Social profile only
Directory page only

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How is the completeness score calculated?

The current score checks five signals:

Name
Category
Address
Phone
Official website

Each contributes:

20 points

Maximum:

100

This gives users a simple way to identify weaker business listings.

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Why can two businesses have the same name?

Different physical branches can share a business name.

The Actor prioritizes Apple Place IDs when deduplicating.

For example:

CoffeeShop — Location A — Place ID A
CoffeeShop — Location B — Place ID B

remain separate results.

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What is matchedQueries?

matchedQueries records search queries that discovered the same Apple Maps place before the result limit was reached.

Example:

{
  "sourceQuery": "coffee",
  "matchedQueries": [
    "coffee",
    "cafe"
  ]
}

This provides useful search provenance while avoiding duplicate Dataset rows.

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Can I use Apple Maps Scraper through an API?

Yes.

The Actor can be started through the Apify API, and the resulting Dataset can be downloaded or consumed programmatically.

This makes it suitable for automated:

Lead-generation systems
Local SEO workflows
Research pipelines
CRM imports
Business intelligence
AI applications

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Can I export the results?

Yes.

Apify Dataset results can be exported in supported formats such as:

JSON
CSV
Excel
XML
HTML

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Is a browser required?

No, not for the normal workflow.

Apple Maps Scraper uses an HTTP-first search architecture.

It does not need to launch browser automation for standard business searches.

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Does the Actor scrape ratings and reviews?

Not currently.

The Apple Maps responses used by the current Actor do not reliably expose those fields in the verified workflow.

Rather than returning misleading information, those fields are intentionally excluded.

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Does the Actor scrape opening hours?

Not currently.

The verified Apple Maps responses used by the current version do not provide reliable full opening-hours data.

This may be explored in a future business-detail mode if a reliable source becomes available.

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🧭 Recommended workflow

For strong lead-generation coverage, use distinct business categories instead of many nearly identical queries.

Good:

plumber
electrician
HVAC contractor
roofing contractor

Less useful:

plumber
plumbers
plumbing
plumbing company
plumbing companies

Semantically similar searches can produce heavily overlapping Apple Maps results.

Since the Actor deduplicates the same Apple place and maxResults applies globally, distinct categories usually produce more useful datasets.

For website or SEO prospecting, filter results using:

hasOfficialWebsite = false

or:

opportunityTags contains:
MISSING_WEBSITE
NO_OFFICIAL_WEBSITE

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💬 Feedback & support

Found a bug or have a feature request?

Use the Actor's Issues tab on Apify.

Useful future additions may include:

Multiple locations
Custom geographic radius
Bounding-box search
Business detail mode
Opening hours
Ratings and review counts
Website/contact enrichment
Historical listing tracking
Advanced opportunity filters
More local-search intelligence

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🚀 Apple Maps business data without the manual searching

Enter your business keywords, choose a location, set your maximum results, and run the Actor.

Receive structured Apple Maps business data ready for:

Lead generation
Local SEO
Prospecting
Market research
Business directories
APIs
Automation
AI workflows

Plus lead-focused signals that help identify:

Businesses without websites
Businesses using only social profiles
Businesses using directory pages instead of official websites
Listings missing phone numbers
Incomplete local-business profiles