OpenStreetMap Places Scraper: shops, restaurants, offices

📍 What is OpenStreetMap Places?

The points of interest volunteers have added to OpenStreetMap in a district or town come back as flat places: label, kind, postal location, email, latitude and longitude, the OSM link and all raw tags such as amenity=cafe. The data is open and may be used commercially under the ODbL; the required credit is included.

• Lead lists: local businesses by type and district
• Market research: count competitors and see where they cluster
• Maps and apps: seed a points-of-interest layer
• Site selection: check what is around a location

✨ Why use this Actor?

• ✅ Open data: OpenStreetMap, no scraping of closed maps
• ✅ Complete rows: address, phone, website, email and opening hours where mapped
• ✅ Licence handled: the ODbL credit is in every row and the run summary
• ✅ Polite: one geocode per run, tags one after another, within Overpass and Nominatim usage policies
• ✅ Pay for places: failed tags are not charged

📦 What data can you get with OpenStreetMap Places?

🏷️ Name and category	📍 Latitude and longitude	🏠 Street, postcode, city, country
📞 Phone and email	🌐 Website	🕒 Opening hours
🔗 OpenStreetMap id and link	⚖️ Licence note

Contact fields are filled only where mappers entered them; the raw tags object holds everything else.

🚀 How to use OpenStreetMap Places

OpenStreetMap Places works in a few clicks, no coding needed:

1. Create a free Apify account (the free plan includes 5 USD of monthly credit).
2. Open OpenStreetMap Places and click Try for free.
3. Enter an area such as Kreuzberg, Berlin, add place types as OpenStreetMap tags, and set the maximum number of places.
4. Click Start and wait for the run to finish (most runs take seconds).
5. Download your data as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML, or send it straight to Google Sheets, Make, Zapier or your AI agent.

⬇️ Input

Enter an area and one or more tags; maxResults and namedOnly have defaults.

Area

A place name that Nominatim finds, up to about one square degree.

Tags

key=value pairs, for example amenity=cafe, shop=bakery, office=lawyer. Tags run one after another.

Named only

Skip unnamed features such as benches and parking spots.

Field	Type	What it does	Default
Area (area)	string	A place name (city, district, town) or a bounding box south,west,north,east.	"Kreuzberg, Berlin"
Place types (OpenStreetMap tags) (tags)	array	key=value tags such as amenity=restaurant, shop=bakery, office=lawyer, or a bare key (shop) for all values.	["amenity=cafe"]
Max places (maxResults)	integer	Stop after this many places (1 to 10,000).	1000
Only places with a name (namedOnly)	boolean	Skip unnamed features (benches, unnamed parking).	true

Input example

{
    "area": "Kreuzberg, Berlin",
    "tags": [
        "amenity=cafe"
    ],
    "maxResults": 50
}

⬆️ Output

Every place becomes one row with address, contact data, opening hours and coordinates.

Output example

One row of the dataset (a café in Kreuzberg, a real local run of 2026-10-16, tags shortened):

{
    "name": "Brammibal's Donuts",
    "category": "amenity=cafe",
    "lat": 52.507931,
    "lon": 13.3737316,
    "street": "Alte Potsdamer Straße 7",
    "postcode": "10785",
    "city": "Berlin",
    "country": "DE",
    "phone": "",
    "website": "https://www.brammibalsdonuts.com/",
    "email": "",
    "openingHours": "Mo-Fr 09:00-21:00; Sa 10:00-21:00; Su,PH 10:00-20:00",
    "osmId": "node/69226202",
    "osmUrl": "https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/69226202",
    "licence": "© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0"
}

View the results as a table or JSON in the Output tab and download them as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, HTML or RSS, all fields or only those you pick.

💰 How much does OpenStreetMap Places cost?

OpenStreetMap Places is priced per event: 0.5 USD per 1,000 places (0.0005 USD each), with no monthly rental. Failed tags are not charged.

You get	You pay
100 places	0.05 USD
1,000 places	0.5 USD
10,000 places	5 USD
100,000 places	50 USD

💡 Apify's free plan gives you 5 USD of credit every month, enough for about 10,000 places at no cost. Set a spending limit per run and the Actor stops there.

⚖️ OpenStreetMap Places vs. the alternatives

	OpenStreetMap Places	Google Maps scrapers	Manual Overpass queries
Open data, commercial use with credit	✅	❌ closed terms	✅
No query language needed	✅	✅	❌
Opening hours and contacts	✅ where mapped	✅	✅
Export, schedule, API and MCP	✅	varies	❌

🔌 Integrations, API and MCP

Connect OpenStreetMap Places to your AI agent (MCP)

Give Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client direct access to OpenStreetMap Places through the Apify MCP server. Add this URL to its settings:

https://mcp.apify.com/?actors=bepolabs/osm-pois

For Claude Desktop, add it under mcpServers in claude_desktop_config.json:

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "osm-pois": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "-y",
                "@apify/actors-mcp-server",
                "--actors",
                "bepolabs/osm-pois"
            ],
            "env": {
                "APIFY_TOKEN": "<your Apify API token>"
            }
        }
    }
}

Then just ask: "List all bakeries in Neukölln, Berlin with their opening hours and websites."

Run it from your code

Python (pip install apify-client):

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("bepolabs/osm-pois").call(run_input={"area":"Kreuzberg, Berlin","tags":["amenity=cafe"],"maxResults":50})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

JavaScript (npm install apify-client):

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>' });
const run = await client.actor('bepolabs/osm-pois').call({"area":"Kreuzberg, Berlin","tags":["amenity=cafe"],"maxResults":50});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

No-code integrations

Send results to Google Sheets, Slack, Airtable, HubSpot, Make, Zapier, n8n and more from the Integrations tab, start runs on a schedule, or trigger your own endpoint with a webhook when a run finishes. The Apify API gives you full control over runs and datasets.

❓ FAQ

Why are some phones empty?

Mappers fill them in voluntarily. Coverage is strongest in cities and for shops and restaurants.

Must I credit OpenStreetMap?

Yes: credit © OpenStreetMap contributors, and share a database you build from the data under the same licence (ODbL 1.0). Every row carries the note.

How large can the area be?

About one square degree per run; split larger regions into districts.

Is it legal to use OpenStreetMap Places?

Data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence (ODbL 1.0, openstreetmap.org/copyright). The Actor follows the Overpass and Nominatim usage policies.

What if something is missing or does not work?

Open an issue on the Issues tab; we read each one and reply. Feature requests are welcome too.

💬 Your feedback

Tell us what OpenStreetMap Places should add on the Issues tab or leave a review; your notes decide what we work on next.

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