Google Reviews Scraper

Scrape Google Maps reviews for any place — by Maps URL, place ID, CID, or business name. No login, no API key.

What it does

Give it one or more places and it returns, for each:

• Reviews the Maps reviews panel exposes (Google currently shows ~8–20 reviews per place in the unauthenticated panel, sorted by newest / most-relevant / highest / lowest): reviewer name, profile URL, local-guide flag and review-count, star rating (1–5), full review text, relative date ("2 months ago"), owner response (text + date), attached review photos, like/helpful count.
• The place profile (optional): overall rating, total review count, address, phone, website, category — one extra item per place.

Behind the scenes the actor drives a real browser to the Maps page with the "all reviews" panel open, scrolls the panel with mouse-wheel events to load every review the panel will surface, and extracts each review from stable DOM anchors ([data-review-id], the aria-label star span). Images / media / fonts / stylesheets are blocked so each page is lean.

Note on volume. In February 2026 Google rolled out a "limited view" for unauthenticated review pages: many places now surface only a handful of recent / most-relevant reviews via the public panel. The actor returns every review the public panel exposes for each place. For chains/lead-gen use cases this is usually all you need; for an audit of 1,000+ reviews on a single landmark you'll see fewer than the place's total.

Use cases

• Reputation monitoring — bulk-pull recent reviews for your own locations.
• Competitor sentiment — feed it competitor place IDs and analyze tone.
• Multi-location chains — pass 100s of place IDs from the Google Maps Scraper → every visible review for every store in one run.
• Owner-response audits — see which reviews lack a reply.
• AI training data — clean, structured review corpus.
• Lead qualification / CRM enrichment — score a prospect's customer experience before outreach.

Input

Field	Type	Description
places	array	Maps URLs, 0xHEX:0xHEX feature IDs, ChIJ… place IDs, numeric CIDs, or business names. Required.
maxReviewsPerPlace	integer	Maximum reviews per place. The actor returns up to this many or however many the public panel exposes — whichever is fewer. Default 100.
reviewsSort	string	newest, most_relevant, highest_rating, lowest_rating. Default newest.
language	string	Two-letter language code (hl). Default en.
country	string	Two-letter country code (gl). Default us.
includePlaceProfile	boolean	Push one extra item per place with rating, total reviews, address, phone, website, category. Default true.
proxyConfiguration	object	Proxy. Defaults to Apify RESIDENTIAL (Google rate-limits datacenter IPs).
maxConcurrency	integer	Places processed in parallel. Default 2.

Identifiers accepted:

• Full Maps URL: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Sydney+Opera+House/@-33.85,151.21,17z/data=...
• Feature ID: 0x6b12ae665e892fdd:0x3133f8d75a1ac251 (what the Google Maps Scraper outputs)
• ChIJ place ID: ChIJ3S-JXmauEmsRUcIaWtf4MzE
• Numeric CID: 1656234906611026312
• Free-text business name: Sydney Opera House

Output

Each review item:

{
  "_kind": "review",
  "review_id": "Ci9DQUlRQUNvZENodHljRjlvT210d2N6aDNaemxwZGtOWFMweDBjbm8wWDJsUFNsRRAB",
  "place_name": "Sydney Opera House",
  "author_name": "Christopher lowe",
  "author_url": "/maps/contrib/110000…",
  "author_review_count": 236,
  "is_local_guide": true,
  "rating": 5,
  "text": "The Sydney Opera House is one of those places that genuinely lives up to the hype...",
  "relative_date": "2 months ago",
  "owner_response": null,
  "owner_response_date": null,
  "photos": ["https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/..."],
  "likes": 0,
  "place_url": "https://www.google.com/maps/place/Sydney+Opera+House/...",
  "review_url": "https://www.google.com/maps/reviews/@?placeid=&review=Ci9DQUlRQU…",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-15T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Each place item (_kind: "place"): place_name, rating, total_reviews, address, phone, website, category.

Fields are null only when the data genuinely isn't present on the review (e.g. no owner response, no photos, place has no listed phone).

Pricing

Pay per result:

• $0.003 per review scraped
• $0.01 per place profile (only when "Include place profile" is enabled)

Platform cost on residential proxy is a small fraction of revenue per result.

Notes

• A residential proxy is strongly recommended (it's the default) — Google rate-limits datacenter IPs on Maps review pages.
• The actor handles Apify host migrations transparently (state is persisted to the key-value store) and rotates the proxy session if blocked.