Google Maps Scraper Actor 🗺️

A production-grade, high-performance Apify Actor designed to extract detailed business leads, contact information, ratings, reviews, opening hours, and location coordinates directly from Google Maps.

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✨ Features

• Lead Generation & Business Contacts:
  • Business name, categories, and primary category tag.
  • Verified phone number (clean format).
  • Cleaned direct external website URL (unwrapped from Google redirection trackers).
  • Full street address with broken-down components: street, city, state, postal code, and country.
  • Precise GPS coordinates (latitude, longitude, zoom level) and Google Plus Code.
• Reviews & Reputation Data:
  • Total star rating (e.g. 4.8).
  • Total review count.
  • Price level indicator ($, $$, $$$, etc.).
  • Optional full customer reviews: reviewer name, avatar photo, star rating, published date, and full review text.
• Operational Status & Hours:
  • Full weekly opening hours table (Monday – Sunday schedule).
  • Status flags: permanentlyClosed, temporarilyClosed.
  • Claim status: claimThisBusiness flag (identifies unclaimed businesses ideal for agency outreach).
• Photos & Visuals:
  • Primary cover/hero photo URL.
  • Optional gallery image URLs up to configured limit.
• Advanced Scraping Mechanics:
  • EU / GDPR Consent Handler: Automatically bypasses Google cookie consent popups across all EU/UK regions.
  • Single Place Redirect Detection: Seamlessly handles direct place queries without breaking feed logic.
  • Infinite Scroll Feed Engine: Smooth container scrolling with smart retry jiggling to trigger lazy loading.
  • Apify Proxy & Residential Support: Full integration with Apify datacenter and residential proxies.

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💰 Pricing (Pay Per Event - PPE)

This Actor uses Apify's transparent Pay Per Event (PPE) pricing model. You only pay for the exact place records and data successfully extracted and delivered to your dataset—never for compute run time, idle proxies, or retries.

Event Pricing Breakdown

Event Name	Price (USD)	What's Included
place	$0.004 / place ($4.00 per 1,000 places)	Complete business profile: Name, primary category, all category tags, verified phone, cleaned direct website, broken-down address (street, city, state, postal code, country), exact GPS coordinates, Google Plus Code, total star score, review count, price tier, full weekly opening hours, closed indicators (permanentlyClosed, temporarilyClosed), unclaimed business status (claimThisBusiness), and cover photo.
reviews	$0.002 / place ($2.00 per 1,000 places)	Full customer reviews extracted when includeReviews: true: Reviewer name, star rating, full text, published date, and reviewer avatar URL.

💡 Tip: If you only need business contacts, addresses, and phone numbers for B2B lead generation (includeReviews: false), your total cost is just $0.004 per lead ($4 per 1k leads)!

📊 Cost Estimation Table

Number of Places	Standard Place Data (place)	Places with Customer Reviews (place + reviews)
100 places	$0.40	$0.60
500 places	$2.00	$3.00
1,000 places	$4.00	$6.00
5,000 places	$20.00	$30.00
10,000 places	$40.00	$60.00
50,000 places	$200.00	$300.00

Why Pay Per Event is Better Than Traditional Compute (CU) Billing

• 🎯 100% Predictable Budget: You know the exact cost before starting your run.
• 🚫 No Charge for Failures or Timeouts: If a page fails to load or Google blocks an IP, you pay $0.
• ⚡ No Idle Time Fees: You don't pay for browser launch, consent dialog navigation, or network latency.
• 🎁 Free Monthly Allowance: Apify provides all users with $5 free monthly usage credit, meaning you can scrape up to 1,250 full business listings completely free every month!

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📄 License

Licensed under the Apache License 2.0.