# Google Maps Scraper (`badruddeen/google-maps-2026`) Actor

Finds newly opened and fast-growing businesses on Google Maps with review velocity tracking. Captures real customer reviews, enriches data via Places API, and extracts live hotel/resort rates (min/avg/max) from Booking, Agoda & Expedia etc.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/badruddeen/google-maps-2026.md
- **Developed by:** [Badruddeen Naseem](https://apify.com/badruddeen) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Automation, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 2 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 1 bookmarks
- **User rating**: 5.00 out of 5 stars

## Pricing

from $150.00 / 1,000 results

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/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases.
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.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md):

```bash
npm install apify-client
```

In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md):

```bash
pip install apify-client
```

In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md):

````bash
# MacOS / Linux
curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash
# Windows
irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex
```bash

In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md).

If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).


# README

## 🛰 Google Maps Scraper
Detect emerging restaurants, cafés, hotels, salons, gyms and local businesses on Google Maps with smart review velocity tracking. l
**Live hotel rates from Booking, Agoda & Expedia** and many more.
This Actor is a persistent monitoring engine designed for competitive intelligence, lead generation, and market research. It focuses on new and growing businesses rather than one-time bulk scraping.

### 🎯 Key Features
- Smart Incremental Mode — Only processes places with new reviews after initial crawl
- Persistent KV Store — Remembers every business across runs (Single Source of Truth)
- Business Age & Freshness Detection — Uses actual review timestamps
- Hotel Intelligence — Real-time rate tracking (Booking, Expedia, Agoda, etc.)
- Dynamic Scoring — Velocity, momentum spikes, emerging flags
- Monthly Full Refresh — Forces re-enrichment every 30 days
- Clean Dual Output — User-friendly dataset + Intelligence dataset

### 📊 Output
- Main Dataset ({category}-{location})
- Business details, contact info, short Maps URL
- Up to 100 recent reviews
- Intelligence fields (score, velocity, emerging, isSpike)
- Intelligence Dataset ({category}-{location}-intel)
- Scoring metrics, freshness category, rate statistics (for hotels)

#### 📊 Output Examples

**Business Dataset**
```json
{
  "name": "Sea Flower Cafe and Espresso Bar",
  "placeId": "ChIJP3mABP0nhIAR-ypVLCjrifw",
  "rating": 4.8,
  "reviewCount": 133,
  "address": "2001 CA-1, Bodega Bay, CA 94923, USA",
  "phone": "(707) 377-4253",
  "website": "http://seaflowercafe.com/",
  "mapsUrl": "https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJP3mABP0nhIAR-ypVLCjrifw",
  "reviews": [ ... ], 
  "score": 0.82,
  "velocity": 4.2,
  "emerging": true,
  "isSpike": false,
  "businessFreshness": "fresh"
}
````

\*\* Hotel / Accommodation Dataset (extra fields) \*\*

```json
{
  "name": "Oceanview Boutique Hotel",
  "category": "hotel",
  "rating": 4.7,
  "reviewCount": 245,
  "minRate": 180,
  "maxRate": 220,
  "averageRate": 195,
  "score": 0.85,
  "velocity": 3.5,
  "emerging": true,
  "isSpike": true,
  "isAccommodation": true
}
```

***

\*\* Intelligence Dataset \*\* (light version for analysis)
Contains score, velocity, emerging, businessAgeCategory, businessFreshness, rate stats, etc.

#### ⚙ Input Configuration

\*\* Basic Example – New Cafés in San Francisco \*\*

```json
{
  "searchQuery": "cafes",
  "location": "San Francisco, CA",
  "maxResults": 200,
  "minRating": 3.5,
  "newReviewThreshold": 30,
  "safeMode": false
}
```

\*\* Multi-category + Hotels \*\*

```json
{
  "searchQuery": ["hostels", "hotels", "resorts"],
  "location": "Austin, TX",
  "maxResults": 300,
  "minRating": 4.0,
  "newReviewThreshold": 20
}
```

\*\* Safe Mode (for testing) \*\*

```json
{
  "safeMode": true,
  "searchQuery": "cafes",
  "location": "New York, NY"
}
```

***

#### 🧠 Intelligence Layer (Dynamic Scoring)

\***For every listing we calculate:**

- Velocity — new reviews per day

- Dynamic Score (0–1):

- Growth velocity: 40%

- Rating: 30%

- Recency (≤30 days full value): 20%

- Low review volume bonus: 10%

- Momentum spike bonus: +0.2

- Emerging flag — true if velocity ≥ 5 or score ≥ 0.75

- Business Freshness — fresh / recent / stale based on oldest review age

- Finds newly opened & fast-growing businesses on Google Maps. Tracks review velocity, captures real customer reviews, enriches via Places API, and extracts live hotel rates from **Booking, Agoda & Expedia** and many more.

***

#### 💼 Ideal Use Cases

POS & suppliers — reach new restaurants/hotels early
Marketing & delivery apps — target fresh locations
Hotel & accommodation scouts — monitor new openings and rate trends
Franchise & real estate — track expansion
Competitive intelligence — weekly emerging competitor reports
Lead generation — feed enriched data directly into CRM/outreach

***

#### 📁 Output Structure

Default Dataset → Immediate view in Output tab (clean business data)
Named Dataset → {category}-{location} (persistent history)
Intelligence Dataset → {category}-{location}-intel (scoring + freshness)
KV Store → google-maps-{category}-{location} (Single Source of Truth + snapshots)

***

#### 💰 Pricing (Pay per Event)

Actor start: $0.00005
Per enriched result: $0.15 (only when address/phone/website successfully retrieved)

Typical monthly monitoring run (500–1000 new/enriched listings) ≈ $75–$150.

***

#### ⚠️ Best Practices

The Actor has capability to use RESIDENTIAL proxies (Highly Recommended to use)
Schedule daily or weekly runs for best velocity tracking
Start with safeMode: true when testing new locations
Respect Google’s Terms of Service

***

#### Future Enhancements (Roadmap)

- Business closure detection
- Rating/review change alerts
- Webhook notifications
- Advanced filters (price level, opening hours, amenities)

***

#### Ready to spot new opportunities first?

- Run the Actor now or schedule it for continuous intelligence.
- Questions? Open an issue or message the developer.
- Happy monitoring! 🚀

# Actor input Schema

## `safeMode` (type: `boolean`):

When enabled (recommended for automated Apify checks and first runs), feeds dummy data instead of scraping. Turn OFF manually when ready for real monitoring.

## `searchQuery` (type: `string`):

Main Google Maps search term. Examples: 'restaurant', 'cafe', 'new restaurant', 'bistro', 'fast food'. For multiple categories, separate with commas (e.g., 'restaurant,cafe,bar').

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

City, region, or coordinates (e.g. 'New York, NY', 'London', '40.7128,-74.0060'). This is required. For best coverage, use city-level or metro area names.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum listings to extract and check per execution. Higher values = longer run time + higher proxy/data usage. 100–300 is a good balance for daily monitoring.

## `newReviewThreshold` (type: `integer`):

Flag a listing as 'potentially new' if it has ≤ this many reviews (new places often have 0–10 reviews). Helps improve detection accuracy since Google doesn't provide creation dates.

## `minRating` (type: `number`):

Only consider listings with rating ≥ this value (e.g. 3.5). Leave empty to include all (recommended for catching brand-new places with few/no ratings).

## `proxy` (type: `object`):

Optional but strongly recommended. Google Maps blocks aggressively. Default uses Apify RESIDENTIAL proxies from US — best for reliability and avoiding bans in 2026.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "safeMode": true,
  "searchQuery": "hotel",
  "maxResults": 10,
  "newReviewThreshold": 10,
  "proxy": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `runSummary` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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 = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("badruddeen/google-maps-2026").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 = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("badruddeen/google-maps-2026").call(run_input=run_input)

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

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

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call badruddeen/google-maps-2026 --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=badruddeen/google-maps-2026",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
{
    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "Google Maps Scraper",
        "description": "Finds newly opened and fast-growing businesses on Google Maps with review velocity tracking. Captures real customer reviews, enriches data via Places API, and extracts live hotel/resort rates (min/avg/max) from Booking, Agoda & Expedia etc.",
        "version": "0.1",
        "x-build-id": "SxCykfjJL6EfsirVI"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
        "/acts/badruddeen~google-maps-2026/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-badruddeen-google-maps-2026",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/badruddeen~google-maps-2026/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-badruddeen-google-maps-2026",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK",
                        "content": {
                            "application/json": {
                                "schema": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/badruddeen~google-maps-2026/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-badruddeen-google-maps-2026",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "components": {
        "schemas": {
            "inputSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "required": [
                    "location"
                ],
                "properties": {
                    "safeMode": {
                        "title": "Safe Mode (for Apify validation)",
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "description": "When enabled (recommended for automated Apify checks and first runs), feeds dummy data instead of scraping. Turn OFF manually when ready for real monitoring.",
                        "default": true
                    },
                    "searchQuery": {
                        "title": "Search Query / Category",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Main Google Maps search term. Examples: 'restaurant', 'cafe', 'new restaurant', 'bistro', 'fast food'. For multiple categories, separate with commas (e.g., 'restaurant,cafe,bar').",
                        "default": "hotel"
                    },
                    "location": {
                        "title": "Location / Area",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "City, region, or coordinates (e.g. 'New York, NY', 'London', '40.7128,-74.0060'). This is required. For best coverage, use city-level or metro area names."
                    },
                    "maxResults": {
                        "title": "Max Results per Run",
                        "minimum": 2,
                        "maximum": 500,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Maximum listings to extract and check per execution. Higher values = longer run time + higher proxy/data usage. 100–300 is a good balance for daily monitoring.",
                        "default": 10
                    },
                    "newReviewThreshold": {
                        "title": "Newness: Max Reviews Threshold",
                        "minimum": 0,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Flag a listing as 'potentially new' if it has ≤ this many reviews (new places often have 0–10 reviews). Helps improve detection accuracy since Google doesn't provide creation dates.",
                        "default": 10
                    },
                    "minRating": {
                        "title": "Minimum Rating Filter (optional)",
                        "type": "number",
                        "description": "Only consider listings with rating ≥ this value (e.g. 3.5). Leave empty to include all (recommended for catching brand-new places with few/no ratings)."
                    },
                    "proxy": {
                        "title": "Proxy Configuration",
                        "type": "object",
                        "description": "Optional but strongly recommended. Google Maps blocks aggressively. Default uses Apify RESIDENTIAL proxies from US — best for reliability and avoiding bans in 2026.",
                        "default": {
                            "useApifyProxy": true,
                            "apifyProxyGroups": [
                                "RESIDENTIAL"
                            ],
                            "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
                        }
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "object",
                        "properties": {
                            "id": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "actId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "userId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "startedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "inputBodyLen": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2000
                                    },
                                    "rebootCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "restartCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "resurrectCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "computeUnits": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "options": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "build": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "latest"
                                    },
                                    "timeoutSecs": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 300
                                    },
                                    "memoryMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1024
                                    },
                                    "diskMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2048
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "buildId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultDatasetId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultRequestQueueId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "buildNumber": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "1.0.0"
                            },
                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "usage": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "usageTotalUsd": {
                                "type": "number",
                                "example": 0.00005
                            },
                            "usageUsd": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "number",
                                        "example": 0.00005
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```