Google Maps Scraper - Leads, Phones, Websites

Turn a Google Maps search into structured business records: business name, category, address, phone (local and E.164), website, rating, review count, available opening hours, coordinates, place ID and Maps URL. Type what you would search in Google Maps ("dentists in Chicago"), set a limit and export to CSV, Excel, JSON or your CRM. No Google API key or browser is required by this Actor. Source fields may be missing and exhaustive coverage is not guaranteed.

Source rights: Public access does not establish permission to resell data. Google Maps additional terms (last modified January 27, 2026), section 2, restrict redistribution/sale and mass downloading/bulk feeds, with specified exceptions for some copying. Google's general terms and Geo permissions also apply as relevant. We have not established a permission or applicable exception authorizing this commercial extraction. Resolve the applicable terms and rights before scaling. This is a contractual uncertainty, not a general claim that scraping is unlawful. This Actor reads Maps search responses; it is not an authenticated Places API license or a Google-affiliated service.

Price: $2.50 per 1,000 places ($0.0025 per place). Places removed by your filters (min rating, website, phone) are not charged.

Why use it

Capability	This Actor
Pricing	$2.50 per 1,000 returned places, plus start fee
Contacts	Phone, website and available hours in the same row
Collection limit	Configurable 1-400; availability depends on Google

Output example

{
  "name": "Beyond Wow Plumbing & Drains",
  "category": "Plumber",
  "categories": ["Plumber", "Drainage service", "Gas installation service"],
  "address": "3432 Greystone Dr, Austin, TX 78731, United States",
  "street": "3432 Greystone Dr",
  "neighborhood": "Northwest Hills",
  "city": "Austin, TX, United States",
  "phone": "+1 512-601-6173",
  "phoneE164": "+15126016173",
  "website": "https://beyondwow.com/",
  "rating": 4.9,
  "reviewsCount": 2592,
  "latitude": 30.3578911,
  "longitude": -97.7482485,
  "timezone": "America/Chicago",
  "openingHours": {"Monday": "7 am–6 pm", "Saturday": "Closed"},
  "placeId": "ChIJpxUGhC_LRIYR2g941oH50ow",
  "cid": "10147447246463438810",
  "googleMapsUrl": "https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJpxUGhC_LRIYR2g941oH50ow",
  "searchQuery": "plumbers in Austin TX",
  "rank": 1
}

How to use

1. Review source rights and your applicable permissions.
2. Enter queries, an optional location and a result limit.
3. Set a maximum charged amount, run, and inspect OUTPUT.queryStatus.
4. Export CSV, JSON or Excel, or consume the dataset through the Apify API.

Omitting searchQueries, including {}, uses dentists in Chicago, up to 100 places. The published form prefill also includes plumbers in Austin TX; it is a different test from {}. Explicit invalid targets never become demo queries.

{"searchQueries": ["dentists in Chicago"], "maxPlacesPerQuery": 20, "skipPlacesWithoutWebsite": true}

{"searchQueries": ["dentists", "orthodontists"], "location": "Madrid, Spain", "maxPlacesPerQuery": 40, "minRating": 4, "skipPlacesWithoutPhone": true, "language": "es"}

Input

Field	Description
searchQueries	Search terms like "dentists in Chicago". Omitting searchQueries (e.g. {}) runs a demo. Explicit empty, blank or invalid targets fail with an OUTPUT diagnostic; they never become demo data.
location	Optional; appended as "in
maxPlacesPerQuery	1-400, default 100.
minRating	Skip lower-rated places (not charged).
skipPlacesWithoutWebsite / skipPlacesWithoutPhone	Keep only contactable leads (not charged).
language	en, es, de...

Dataset fields

The build includes a JSON Schema for row validation. Optional source values may be null; null is unknown, not false or zero.

Fields	Type	Meaning
name, category, categories	string / nullable string / array	Source listing name and categories
address, street, neighborhood, city	nullable string	Source address fields
phone, phoneE164, website	nullable string	Listed phone, international normalization and website
rating, reviewsCount, reviewsCountAvailable	nullable number / integer / boolean	Rating/count with valid zeros preserved and count availability
openingHours, openingHoursDays, openingHoursCoverage	nullable object / integer / string	Available days and full_week, partial or unavailable coverage
latitude, longitude, timezone	nullable number / string	Source location and timezone
priceLevel, permanentlyClosed	nullable string / boolean	Optional source indications
placeId, cid, featureId, googleMapsUrl	nullable string / string	Stable identifiers and source link; featureId required
searchQuery, rank, searchMatchType, scrapedAt	string / integer / string / string	First delivered query, sequence position, google_interpreted and UTC extraction time

Use cases

• Lead generation for agencies and B2B sales: local businesses with phone and website by niche and city.
• Market research: count and rate competitors in an area.
• Local SEO: see who ranks for "plumber in Austin" and their ratings. rank is the position in this returned source sequence, not a universal personalized Maps/SEO rank.
• Data enrichment: place IDs and coordinates for mapping and CRM matching.

Tips for more results

This Actor inspects at most 400 source positions per query as an operational safety limit, not a guaranteed Google source limit or result count. For a whole city, split it: "dentists in Chicago 60601", "dentists in Lincoln Park Chicago", etc. Duplicates across searches in one run are removed automatically and not charged.

Pricing

Pay per event, unchanged:

Event	Price
place	$0.0025 per delivered place
apify-actor-start	$0.00005 per GB of run memory, minimum one event

Set maxTotalChargeUsd in run options. Charged delivery is atomic and can return only a prefix of the requested rows. The start event may apply with zero results. QA events are not evidence of seller revenue.

Read the dataset API from n8n, Make, Zapier, Google Sheets or your own CRM pipeline. These are standard dataset integrations, not additional deployed workflows. Scheduling does not add cross-run deduplication or change detection.

FAQ

Do I need a Google API key? No. Do you extract emails? Not in this version; the website field lets you enrich emails with any contact-scraper. Do you extract reviews text? No, only rating and review count. Why is reviewsCount sometimes empty? Google omits the count in some regional result formats. reviewsCountAvailable reports whether the count was provided, including a valid zero.

Are opening hours a complete week? Not always. openingHoursCoverage is full_week, partial or unavailable; openingHoursDays counts non-null days. Missing days are unknown, not closed.

Are queries matched exactly? Google may correct or approximate your query. Each row includes searchMatchType: google_interpreted; no exact-name or keyword-match guarantee is made. The original query is retained in searchQuery.

How are partial runs reported? OUTPUT contains queryStatus per query with status and stopReason: source_exhausted, result_limit, scan_limit, charge_limit, upstream_failure or billing_failure. complete means this returned sequence ended, not that every business was found. A scan limit or upstream failure is partial; all queries failing upstream with zero delivered places causes FAILED. Earlier records survive a later upstream failure.

Does HTTP 200 with no parsed records prove no matches? No. Only a recognized explicit empty-result layout is accepted as source exhaustion. Unknown JSON is retried and then reported as upstream_failure, never a proven empty search. A changed valid empty layout can therefore require maintenance rather than silently reporting absence.

What if billing fails? Missing, malformed or inconsistent SDK charge results fail the run with an OUTPUT diagnostic. OUTPUT.scraped and chargedCount only count confirmed delivery. Previously confirmed records remain; a failed run does not imply their charges were refunded. Billing failures are not swallowed or converted to source exhaustion.

How does deduplication work? Place IDs (or feature IDs) are deduplicated before billing within one run, not across runs. Only delivered identities are globally excluded from later queries; unreturned page tails remain eligible. First delivered query owns the row. Repeated source pages can consume the scan cap without proving exhaustive coverage.

Does public access authorize resale? No. See the source-rights notice. Competitor listings and working HTTP responses do not establish authorization.

Troubleshooting

Problem	Solution
Search in failed	HTTP rejection or unrecognized layout. Inspect queryStatus.error; do not interpret as no businesses.
billing_failure / billingError	Inspect the Apify log and pricing; the run failed closed, not as a successful paid delivery.
Fewer places than requested	Inspect OUTPUT.queryStatus: source exhausted, filters, scan limit or upstream failure; broaden or split the search as appropriate.
Run stopped early	Max cost per run reached.

Only publicly listed business data is collected. Applicable source terms, privacy and outreach rules still require review; this Actor does not certify reuse rights, contact consent, GDPR or CAN-SPAM compliance.