# Google Maps Places Scraper - Fast & Cheap (`aolmo/google-maps-places`) Actor

Businesses and places from Google Maps for any search such as "restaurants in Madrid": name, category, full address, phone, website, rating, reviews count, opening hours and coordinates. Any language and country. No browser, no API key. $0.001 per place; new places flagged on scheduled runs.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/aolmo/google-maps-places.md
- **Developed by:** [Antonio del Olmo Tena](https://apify.com/aolmo) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Business
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.00 / 1,000 place scrapeds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

Get businesses and places from Google Maps for any search, as clean structured rows. Type the searches you would run in the Google Maps app, such as `restaurants in Madrid` or `plumbers in Austin, TX`, and the Actor returns one row per place with name, category, full address broken into parts, phone, website, rating, number of reviews, opening hours and coordinates. Any language and country. Schedule it and every run flags the places that are new since the previous one.

No browser, no proxies on your side, no Google API key and no quota: the Actor reads the same endpoint the Google Maps web app uses, so it is fast and cheap. You pay $0.001 per place returned.

### What you get

One Dataset row per place:

- `name`, `category`, `categories`, `placeId`, `cid`, `url` (the place on Google Maps).
- `address`, `street`, `neighborhood`, `city`, `postalCode`, `countryCode`, `latitude`, `longitude`, `timezone`.
- `phone` and `phoneInternational` (E.164), `website`, `domain`.
- `rating`, `reviewsCount`, `openingHours` (day to hours text, `Closed` on closed days).
- `search`, `query`: where the row comes from.
- `isNew`: `true` when the place was not in the previous run of that query.

A query with no results returns no rows and is not charged. A query that cannot be read gives a single row with an `error` field, also free.

### How to use it

1. Open the **Input** tab.
2. In **Search queries** type one per line, exactly as in Google Maps: `restaurants in Madrid`, `dentist Berlin Mitte`, `coworking near Lisbon`.
3. Optionally set **Location** to add it to every query that does not mention one (`plumbers` plus `Austin, TX` becomes `plumbers in Austin, TX`), and **Language** and **Country** for Google's edition.
4. Set **Max places per query** (default 20, up to about 120, which is what Google Maps serves per search).
5. Click **Start**. Read the rows in **Output** or export them as JSON, CSV or Excel.
6. To monitor a market, schedule the Actor (daily or weekly). New places come with `isNew: true`; connect a webhook or an email integration to be notified.

To get emails, social profiles, legal name or technologies for each place, pass the resulting Dataset to the companion Actor `aolmo/google-maps-enrich`.

### Input

```json
{
  "queries": ["restaurants in Madrid", "coffee shops in Madrid"],
  "language": "en",
  "country": "es",
  "maxPlaces": 60
}
```

| Field       | Description |
|-------------|-------------|
| `queries`   | Google Maps searches, one per line. Up to 50 per run. |
| `location`  | Optional. Appended to queries that do not mention it. |
| `language`  | Language code for names, categories and hours. Default `en`. |
| `country`   | Two-letter lowercase country code for Google's edition. Default `us`. |
| `maxPlaces` | Per query, 1 to 120. Default 20. |

### Output example

```json
{
  "search": "https://www.google.com/maps/search/restaurants%20in%20Madrid/?hl=en&gl=es",
  "query": "restaurants in Madrid",
  "placeId": "ChIJH-mF4MkpQg0RkJ5ij2lfI04",
  "cid": "0xd4229c9e085e91f:0x4e235f698f629e90",
  "name": "D-Sunset Madrid",
  "category": "Restaurant",
  "categories": ["Restaurant", "Bar", "Brunch restaurant"],
  "address": "C. de Espoz y Mina, 14, Centro, 28012 Madrid, Spain",
  "street": "C. de Espoz y Mina, 14",
  "neighborhood": "Centro",
  "city": "Madrid",
  "postalCode": "28012",
  "countryCode": "ES",
  "latitude": 40.4156335,
  "longitude": -3.7023858,
  "rating": 4.9,
  "reviewsCount": 2160,
  "phone": "+34 636 35 58 08",
  "phoneInternational": "+34636355808",
  "website": "https://d-sunset.com/",
  "domain": "d-sunset.com",
  "openingHours": { "Monday": "8 AM–1 AM", "Tuesday": "8 AM–1 AM", "Sunday": "Closed" },
  "timezone": "Europe/Madrid",
  "url": "https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJH-mF4MkpQg0RkJ5ij2lfI04",
  "isNew": false,
  "timestamp": "2026-10-04T19:00:00.000Z"
}
```

### Pricing

Pay per event, no subscription:

- **Place scraped**: $0.001 per place row. 1,000 places with phone, website, rating and hours cost $1.
- **New place**: $0.002 per place flagged as new in a scheduled run. Runs with nothing new only pay for the rows.

Queries that cannot be read or return nothing are free. Compare with typical Google Maps scrapers at $1.50 to $4 per 1,000 places.

### Use it as an API

Run it from your code with the Apify API or client libraries:

```bash
curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/aolmo~google-maps-places/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"queries": ["plumbers in Austin, TX"], "maxPlaces": 40}'
```

The response is the list of place rows. You can also call it from AI agents through the Apify MCP server.

### FAQ

**How many places can one query return?** Google Maps serves up to about 120 per search. To cover a whole city, run several specific queries (by neighbourhood or category).

**Does it include reviews text or photos?** No: only the rating, the number of reviews and the business data above. Reviews and photos are planned as a separate Actor.

**Why do some rows lack phone or website?** Because the business has not published them on Google Maps; the row is still charged as a place.

**Which languages and countries work?** Any Google Maps edition: set `language` (`en`, `es`, `fr`, `de`, `pt`...) and `country` (`us`, `gb`, `es`, `mx`, `br`...).

**Where is the data stored between runs?** In a Key-Value Store of your account named `micro-saas-state-google-maps-places`, one key per query. Delete it to start fresh.

# Actor input Schema

## `queries` (type: `array`):

One per line, as you would type it in Google Maps: restaurants in Madrid, plumbers near Austin TX, dentist Berlin Mitte.

## `location` (type: `string`):

Optional. Added to every query that does not mention it, e.g. Austin, TX turns plumbers into plumbers in Austin, TX.

## `language` (type: `string`):

Language of names, categories and hours: en, es, fr, de...

## `country` (type: `string`):

Two-letter country code in lowercase for Google's edition: us, es, gb, de...

## `maxPlaces` (type: `integer`):

Google Maps serves up to about 120 places per search, in pages of 20. Also caps what you pay per query.

## `product` (type: `string`):

Internal. Leave as is.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "queries": [
    "restaurants in Madrid"
  ],
  "language": "en",
  "country": "us",
  "maxPlaces": 20,
  "product": "google-maps-places"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Dataset items: url, changed, events, data, timestamp and error (when the target failed).

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "queries": [
        "restaurants in Madrid"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("aolmo/google-maps-places").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "queries": ["restaurants in Madrid"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("aolmo/google-maps-places").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "queries": [
    "restaurants in Madrid"
  ]
}' |
apify call aolmo/google-maps-places --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,aolmo/google-maps-places"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/b30Be1zZVLc42pdsF/builds/0pYkWY9I1bvnL7gCS/openapi.json