# Google Maps Ratings Scraper: Google, Yelp, Tripadvisor (`brightgro/google-reviews`) Actor

Give Google Maps links, place ids or business names and get what customers post about each place: Google posts plus the Yelp, Tripadvisor and other-site posts Google shows beside them. Stars, text, date, source and the owner's reply. No start fee. Data from the DataForSEO Business Data API.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/brightgro/google-reviews.md
- **Developed by:** [Brightgro LLC](https://apify.com/brightgro) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Marketing
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$0.60 / 1,000 posts

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/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
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.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## 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.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Google Maps Ratings Scraper: Google, Yelp, Tripadvisor

Give Google Maps places and get what customers post about each one. Beside Google's own posts, you also get the posts from other sites that Google shows for the place, such as Yelp, Tripadvisor and Trustpilot, each marked with its source. Use it to track your own locations, compare competitors, find complaints to fix, or feed customer feedback to an AI agent. The data comes from the DataForSEO Business Data API.

### Input

- Places: up to 20. Each can be a Google Maps link, a cid, a place id (`ChIJ...`), or a business name with its city, for example `Hedonism Wines London`. A link or id finds the exact place; a name finds the best match.
- Posts per place: 20 to 1000. The default is 20.
- Search location and language: where Google searches from. Use the place's own country or city, for example `London,England,United Kingdom`.

### Output

One row per post:

| Field | What it holds |
|---|---|
| place, place_name, cid, place_id | What you gave, and the place as Google names it, with its ids |
| place_rating, place_rating_count | The place's overall Google score and how many ratings it has |
| position, source, source_domain | The post's place in the list, and the site it comes from (Google, Yelp, Tripadvisor and others) |
| stars, stars_max | The star rating and the scale it uses |
| text, original_text | What the customer wrote, and the original when Google translated it |
| date, time_ago | When it was posted |
| owner_reply, owner_reply_date | The owner's reply, when there is one |
| url | The post itself, when the source gives a link |

A place with nothing found gets one `no_results` row, which is not charged. A place that cannot be read gets one `invalid_input` or `provider_error` row, also not charged. Short `maps.app.goo.gl` links are not read: open them and copy the full link.

### Price

One `post` event for each post row, at the price shown on this page, whether you give a link, an id or a name. There is no start fee. The run asks for no more posts than its spending limit can pay for.

### Limits

- Google answers in batches of 20, so a run may take a minute or more for each place.
- Posts are as Google shows them at the time of the run.
- Author names are left out.

### Related actors

Local Businesses Without Website and Trustpilot Scraper, by the same developer, cover the same local businesses and companies.

# Actor input Schema

## `places` (type: `array`):

Up to 20 places: a Google Maps link, a cid, a place id (ChIJ...), or a business name with its city, for example Hedonism Wines London. A link or id finds the exact place.

## `maxPostsPerPlace` (type: `integer`):

The most posts to return for each place (20 to 1000).

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

Where the search runs from, as country or as city,region,country, for example United Kingdom or London,England,United Kingdom. Use the place's own country or city.

## `language` (type: `string`):

The language of the search, for example English, German or Spanish.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "places": [
    "https://maps.google.com/?cid=17626775537598922320"
  ],
  "maxPostsPerPlace": 20,
  "location": "United Kingdom",
  "language": "English"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Give Google Maps links, place ids or business names and get what customers post about each place: Google posts plus the Yelp, Tripadvisor and other-site posts Google shows beside them. Stars, text, date, source and the owner's reply. No start fee. Data from the DataForSEO Business Data API.

# 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 = {
    "places": [
        "https://maps.google.com/?cid=17626775537598922320"
    ],
    "maxPostsPerPlace": 20,
    "location": "United Kingdom"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("brightgro/google-reviews").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 = {
    "places": ["https://maps.google.com/?cid=17626775537598922320"],
    "maxPostsPerPlace": 20,
    "location": "United Kingdom",
}

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

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

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

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "places": [
    "https://maps.google.com/?cid=17626775537598922320"
  ],
  "maxPostsPerPlace": 20,
  "location": "United Kingdom"
}' |
apify call brightgro/google-reviews --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,brightgro/google-reviews"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/Li9qAKA4bYDogfvHc/builds/UN5DUPjQR9hMt6G3y/openapi.json