Google Maps Places Scraper

Turn any Google Maps search into a clean list of places. Type what you are looking for and where (for example "coffee shop" in "Austin, TX"), or paste a Google Maps search link, and every place in the results becomes one row: name, star rating and review count, full address with city, postal code and country, categories, coordinates, website, phone number, weekly opening hours and a link that opens the place on Google Maps.

Built for sales teams, local-SEO agencies, analysts and anyone who needs Google Maps business data (leads, competitors, locations) in a spreadsheet.

What sets it apart

• $1 per 1,000 places, plus $0.005 per run. Contact details, opening hours, coordinates and identifiers are included in that price; there are no add-on charges.
• Up to 500 places per search. Results are read well past the first 20, up to the cap you set, so one search can return a whole neighborhood's dentists or a city's coffee shops.
• No duplicates. A place that appears in several of your searches is returned, and charged, once.
• Radius mode. Give a centre and a radius in metres to keep only places inside the circle, each with its distance from the centre.
• Failed searches are reported, not charged. Each search's outcome is listed in the run summary.

Use cases

• Lead lists: local businesses by category and city, with website and phone.
• Market mapping: how many competitors sit in an area, and how they are rated.
• Location data: coordinates, addresses and opening hours for a set of places.
• Store locators and field sales: every branch of a chain or category inside a radius around a point, each with its distance from the centre.
• Monitoring: re-run the same searches to track ratings and review counts over time.

Quick start

Open the Actor in Console and press Start: the prefilled form searches "coffee shop" in "Austin, TX" and returns up to 40 places (about $0.045). An empty input ({}) returns a small sample of 10 places for that same search (about $0.015), marked usedExample: true in the run summary; an explicitly empty list still stops with an input error asking for a search term or Maps link.

{
  "searchQueries": ["coffee shop"],
  "location": "Austin, TX",
  "maxPlacesPerSearch": 40,
  "maxPlaces": 100
}

Several search terms run as separate searches in the same location. To search around an exact point instead, give latitude, longitude and a zoom level, or paste a Maps link such as https://www.google.com/maps/search/pizza/@40.7128,-74.0060,14z.

Radius search

Give lat, lng and a positive radiusMeters to bias the map viewport and keep only places inside the circle. latitude/longitude also work. Zoom is selected from the radius unless you explicitly set it. This applies to search links too. Rows include distanceMeters (straight-line distance from the centre); places without coordinates are dropped before caps and billing. Text-only searches are unchanged. Google ranks and limits results, so this is not an exhaustive census.

{
  "searchQueries": ["supermercado"],
  "lat": -12.1211,
  "lng": -77.0297,
  "radiusMeters": 1500,
  "language": "es",
  "countryCode": "pe"
}

Input

Input	Type	Default	Meaning
searchQueries	array	none	What to look for, as you would type it into Google Maps. Each term is one search.
location	string	""	Where to search (city, neighborhood or postal code). Added to every search term.
searchUrls	array	none	Google Maps search links (google.com/maps/search/...), including ones with a map point. Each link is one search.
maxPlacesPerSearch	integer	40	Stop each search after this many places. Google Maps lists up to a few hundred places per search.
maxPlaces	integer	100	Total cap on place rows across all searches, after removing repeats.
latitude, longitude	string	empty	Optional map point to center the searches on. Give both.
lat, lng	number	empty	Numeric aliases for latitude/longitude; aliases must agree if both forms are provided.
radiusMeters	number	empty	Positive radius in metres. Requires a centre; filters results and adds distanceMeters.
zoom	integer	14	Zoom level for the map point, from 3 (continent) to 21 (building).
language	string	en	Language for names, categories and opening hours (en, de, es, pt-BR, ...).
countryCode	string	us	The region Google Maps should favor (us, gb, de, ...).
proxyConfiguration	object	empty	Optional. Route requests through Apify Proxy or your own proxies; leave empty for the default connection.

Example queries

• {"searchQueries": ["dentist", "orthodontist"], "location": "Chicago, IL", "maxPlacesPerSearch": 100}
• {"searchQueries": ["Restaurant"], "location": "Berlin", "language": "de", "countryCode": "de"}
• {"searchQueries": ["hotel"], "latitude": "51.5072", "longitude": "-0.1276", "zoom": 13, "countryCode": "gb"}
• {"searchUrls": ["https://www.google.com/maps/search/pizza/@40.7128,-74.0060,14z"]}

What it returns

The dataset contains one row per place:

Field	Meaning
kind	place for every dataset row.
placeId, cid, featureId	Google's identifiers for the place (place ID, customer ID and Maps feature ID).
name	Place name.
rating, reviewCount	Average star rating and number of reviews.
priceLevel	Price level or range as Google shows it, when it shows one.
categories, primaryCategory	Every category Google lists, and the first one.
address	Full formatted address.
street, neighborhood, city, postalCode, state, countryCode	Address parts.
latitude, longitude, timezone	Location and local time zone.
distanceMeters	Distance from the requested centre in metres (radius mode only).
website	The place's website.
phone, phoneInternational	Phone number in local and international format.
openingHours	One entry per weekday with that day's hours, as shown for the current week.
description	Short summary of the place, when Google has one.
imageUrl	Main photo thumbnail.
mapsUrl	Link that opens the place on Google Maps.
searchQuery, searchUrl, rank	The search the row came from and the place's position in its results.
scrapedAt	Collection time (UTC, ISO 8601).
error	Always null in the dataset. Failed searches are reported in the run summary instead.

The run summary (OUTPUT) reports places (rows delivered), one entry per search in searches with its place count, and any failed searches in searchErrors with a short code and message (for example RATE_LIMITED or NO_RESULTS).

Output example

{
  "kind": "place",
  "placeId": "ChIJG-gJw2vKRIYROWi2uwOp8QE",
  "cid": "140078896924485689",
  "featureId": "0x8644ca6bc309e81b:0x1f1a903bbb66839",
  "name": "Epoch Coffee",
  "rating": 4.5,
  "reviewCount": 2538,
  "priceLevel": null,
  "categories": [
    "Coffee shop"
  ],
  "primaryCategory": "Coffee shop",
  "address": "221 W N Loop Blvd, Austin, TX 78751",
  "street": "221 W N Loop Blvd",
  "neighborhood": "North Loop",
  "city": "Austin",
  "postalCode": "78751",
  "state": "Texas",
  "countryCode": "US",
  "latitude": 30.3186037,
  "longitude": -97.7245402,
  "timezone": "America/Chicago",
  "website": "http://www.epochcoffee.com/",
  "phone": "(512) 454-3762",
  "phoneInternational": "+15124543762",
  "openingHours": [
    {
      "day": "Monday",
      "hours": "12 AM–11:30 PM"
    },
    {
      "day": "Tuesday",
      "hours": "Open 24 hours"
    },
    {
      "day": "Wednesday",
      "hours": "Open 24 hours"
    },
    {
      "day": "Thursday",
      "hours": "Open 24 hours"
    },
    {
      "day": "Friday",
      "hours": "Open 24 hours"
    },
    {
      "day": "Saturday",
      "hours": "Open 24 hours"
    },
    {
      "day": "Sunday",
      "hours": "Open 24 hours"
    }
  ],
  "description": "Cool, vibrant small-chain cafe featuring nibbles, tea & carefully brewed espresso drinks.",
  "imageUrl": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/grass-cs/AABkmLemmlApZqzw26-EYyEdrzH6YCtaCFcmgVA98rWVxjWxMZoqyvLjtYX0ouSvthwfZmrQX3hsGHHJrXPZcqDTNe-lmYbWofdrJGYiCUCjCKa79NjqGTD402iy2R6abf2BAOPGyB9z=w114-h86-k-no",
  "mapsUrl": "https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=Epoch+Coffee&query_place_id=ChIJG-gJw2vKRIYROWi2uwOp8QE",
  "searchQuery": "coffee shop",
  "searchUrl": "https://www.google.com/maps/search/coffee%20shop%20in%20Austin%2C%20TX?hl=en&gl=us",
  "rank": 2,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-19T22:34:00Z",
  "error": null
}

Price

$0.001 per place delivered, plus $0.005 per run start. The run-start event is charged per GB of memory; the default 512 MB run is one start event. The start is charged even if the run saves no results. Failed searches are not charged, and a place found by two of your searches is charged once. Platform usage is included in these prices.

Worked costs: the 40-place prefill run is about $0.045; the default 100-place cap about $0.105; 1,000 places about $1.005; 10,000 places (the per-run maximum) about $10.005.

Scheduling and monitoring

Schedule the same searches daily or weekly to follow ratings, review counts, opening hours and new places in an area. Each run is a full snapshot; match rows across runs by placeId (or cid). There is no built-in "new places only" mode.

FAQ

How fresh is the data? Every run reads Google Maps at run time; nothing is cached between runs. scrapedAt records when each row was collected.

How many places can I get? Up to 500 per search (maxPlacesPerSearch) and 10,000 per run (maxPlaces). Google decides how many places a search lists, often a few hundred at most, so split large areas into several locations or map points.

Does it work outside the US? Yes. Set location (or a map point), and language and countryCode for local names, categories and hours.

Are emails or social profiles included? No. Rows carry the website and phone Google shows; emails are not on Google Maps.

Which export formats are available? JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or RSS from the dataset, or read the rows with the Apify API.

Good to know

• Reviews themselves (review text and authors) are not included; rating and reviewCount are.
• Google Maps shows a limited set of details to visitors who are not signed in. Popular times, the full "About" tab and photo galleries are not part of the output.
• Opening hours are the hours Google shows for the current week, so holiday hours appear when Google lists them.
• A search that names one specific place (for example a business name and street address) returns just that place.
• If Google Maps is temporarily unavailable, the run reports any search it could not finish in OUTPUT.searchErrors; places already collected are kept.