Google Maps Scraper Pro – Reviews, Photos & Place Details
Pricing
from $1.20 / 1,000 scraped places
Google Maps places with rating, review count, hours, categories, phone, website, GPS and cid/kgmid IDs. Add-ons billed only when used: detail page (star distribution, review topics, plus code), reviews (about 5 per place), photos, website e-mails. Standard input field names. $3.20 per 1,000 places.
FAILED_INPUTS entries get a stable errorCode (INVALID_INPUT, INVALID_URL, SHORT_LINK_EXPIRED,
NO_SEARCH_TERM, INVALID_PLACE_ID, INVALID_AREA, NO_AREA, AREA_NOT_FOUND, GEOCODING_FAILED,
PLACE_NOT_FOUND, BLOCKED, PARTIAL_BLOCKED, UNEXPECTED_ERROR); the visual report groups failed inputs by code.imageUrl: Google's main photo of each place (lh3.googleusercontent.com, Google's own 408 px card
size; a smaller thumbnail is asked at =w408-h306-k-no by editing only its size suffix). The search request now asks
for the photo block the Google Maps web page asks for (!20m… of the pb parameter; before, !20m0 = no photo).
Null when Google has no photo for the place; Street View thumbnails, owner avatars and partner logos are never used.
Local run 2026-11-08: 10 of 10 restaurants in Chicago (search only) with a photo, 3 URLs checked (HTTP 200, image/jpeg); with details + 3 images: 5 of 5.imageUrl declared, shown first ("format": "image") in every view (Overview, Contacts, Reviews).referrerpolicy="no-referrer", category tile when null or broken).REPORT record, Output tab → Visual report): business cards (place photo + photo gallery when the row has them, else a category tile; name, rating, review distribution, reviews, price level, category, address, phone, website, e-mail, socials, opening hours, Google Maps link), key figures, rating
distribution / top categories / top cities charts, search, filters (category, city, minimum rating, has website /
phone / e-mail, open at scrape time, price level), sorting, table view and CSV/JSON export of the filtered rows.
Built by the shared src/visual_kit.py (v1.0.1) with this Actor's src/report.py. At most 2,000 rows are kept in
memory for it; it is never billed and a report error is only logged as a warning.REPORT (text/html).imageUrl and images[].imageUrl / imageUrls go through the kit's normalize_image_url: //host/… becomes
https://host/…, anything that is not an http(s) link becomes null. Valid links are unchanged.tests/test_photos.py (9 tests): real Google answers saved 2026-11-08 with the photo block
(search_photos_nyc_2026-11-08.json.gz: 20/20 photos; search_photos_paris_2026-11-08.json.gz: 18/20, one Street
View-only place and one without anything stay null), old answers without the block give null, size handling, schema
views, report cards.tests/test_report.py: 14 tests on real rows (tests/fixtures/report_run_items.json: 10 rows of production run F0NksmCsBvXh59jd5 + 1 row parsed from the saved Google place-detail answer details_nyc.json.gz, with 4 photos):
image ownership / placeholder tile, invalid image links dropped, escaping, 5,000 synthetic rows (time, size, cap
banner), JSON export = embedded data, report errors never raise, bounded buffer, and a whole offline run whose
REPORT holds exactly the rows pushed.imageUrl was empty on every search-only row (last demo run: 0 of 20): the search request asked Google for no photo
(!20m0), so the photo block the code read (72) was never in the search answer, only in place detail answers.
Search rows now have it; detail answers also read their gallery blocks (51 / 37), skipping unusable addresses
instead of returning null.city kept the postal code in countries that write it first (75020 Paris) or after the city (London SW1A 1AA):
the city now comes alone, read from Google's structured address when it matches the line.countryCode was only the "Country" input (empty by default): it is now the place's own country code from Google,
the input being the fallback.postalCode and state fall back to Google's structured address when the address line gives none.imageUrl also falls back to the gallery.name, latitude, longitude, rating,
openState, timezone, phoneInternational, domain, reviewsUrl, googleMapsUrl, cityLine, category,
searchQuery, searchLocation, whatsappUrl, imagesCount). Now declared with their real types.src/validate.py).price, detail-only fields…)..actor/actor.json: default memory 512 MB (local peak 89 MB with details, reviews, images and contacts; the
platform run sampled used 56 MB of 4096 MB).python -m pytest -q (offline, real saved Google Maps answers in tests/fixtures); tests/ excluded from
the Docker image.