# Google Reviews Scraper — Maps Reviews + Place Profiles (`buff_pineapple/google-reviews-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Google Maps reviews for any place by Maps URL, feature ID (0x:0x), ChIJ ID, CID or business name. Returns every review the public panel exposes — reviewer, star rating, text, date, owner reply, photos, like count — plus the place profile (rating, total, address, phone, website, category).

- **URL**: https://apify.com/buff\_pineapple/google-reviews-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [yossef Nagy](https://apify.com/buff_pineapple) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Business, Automation
- **Stats:** 5 total users, 2 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, NaN bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per usage

This Actor is paid per platform usage. The Actor is free to use, and you only pay for the Apify platform usage, which gets cheaper the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-usage

## 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 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](https://apify.com/) → 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:

```json
{
  "_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.

# Actor input Schema

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

Places to scrape reviews for. Each entry can be a Google Maps place URL (e.g. "https://www.google.com/maps/place/..."), a feature-id place ID in 0xHEX:0xHEX format (the format the Google Maps Scraper outputs), a ChIJ… place ID from Google Places API, or a numeric CID. One run can cover many places.

## `maxReviewsPerPlace` (type: `integer`):

How many reviews to return per place. The actor scrolls the reviews panel automatically. Set 0 to scrape every available review.

## `reviewsSort` (type: `string`):

Order in which reviews are returned.

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

Two-letter language code (hl) for review metadata and owner replies, e.g. en, es, de, fr.

## `country` (type: `string`):

Two-letter country code (gl) used for biasing Google Maps results, e.g. us, gb, de.

## `includePlaceProfile` (type: `boolean`):

If enabled, push one extra item per place with its name, rating, total review count, address, phone, website and category.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Required. Defaults to Apify RESIDENTIAL — Google's review pages aggressively rate-limit datacenter IPs.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

Number of places processed in parallel.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "places": [
    "https://www.google.com/maps/place/Sydney+Opera+House/@-33.8567844,151.2127218,17z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x6b12ae665e892fdd:0x3133f8d75a1ac251!8m2!3d-33.8567844!4d151.2152967!16zL20vMDZfbm0"
  ],
  "maxReviewsPerPlace": 100,
  "reviewsSort": "newest",
  "language": "en",
  "country": "us",
  "includePlaceProfile": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  },
  "maxConcurrency": 2
}
```

# 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://www.google.com/maps/place/Sydney+Opera+House/@-33.8567844,151.2127218,17z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x6b12ae665e892fdd:0x3133f8d75a1ac251!8m2!3d-33.8567844!4d151.2152967!16zL20vMDZfbm0"
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ]
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("buff_pineapple/google-reviews-scraper").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://www.google.com/maps/place/Sydney+Opera+House/@-33.8567844,151.2127218,17z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x6b12ae665e892fdd:0x3133f8d75a1ac251!8m2!3d-33.8567844!4d151.2152967!16zL20vMDZfbm0"],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("buff_pineapple/google-reviews-scraper").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 '{
  "places": [
    "https://www.google.com/maps/place/Sydney+Opera+House/@-33.8567844,151.2127218,17z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x6b12ae665e892fdd:0x3133f8d75a1ac251!8m2!3d-33.8567844!4d151.2152967!16zL20vMDZfbm0"
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}' |
apify call buff_pineapple/google-reviews-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
{
    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "Google Reviews Scraper — Maps Reviews + Place Profiles",
        "description": "Scrape Google Maps reviews for any place by Maps URL, feature ID (0x:0x), ChIJ ID, CID or business name. Returns every review the public panel exposes — reviewer, star rating, text, date, owner reply, photos, like count — plus the place profile (rating, total, address, phone, website, category).",
        "version": "0.1",
        "x-build-id": "8eup1YIInDvxlkXI2"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
        "/acts/buff_pineapple~google-reviews-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-buff_pineapple-google-reviews-scraper",
                "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": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/buff_pineapple~google-reviews-scraper/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-buff_pineapple-google-reviews-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$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": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/buff_pineapple~google-reviews-scraper/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-buff_pineapple-google-reviews-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$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": [
                    "places"
                ],
                "properties": {
                    "places": {
                        "title": "Places",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "Places to scrape reviews for. Each entry can be a Google Maps place URL (e.g. \"https://www.google.com/maps/place/...\"), a feature-id place ID in 0xHEX:0xHEX format (the format the Google Maps Scraper outputs), a ChIJ… place ID from Google Places API, or a numeric CID. One run can cover many places.",
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string"
                        }
                    },
                    "maxReviewsPerPlace": {
                        "title": "Max reviews per place",
                        "minimum": 0,
                        "maximum": 100000,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "How many reviews to return per place. The actor scrolls the reviews panel automatically. Set 0 to scrape every available review.",
                        "default": 100
                    },
                    "reviewsSort": {
                        "title": "Review sort order",
                        "enum": [
                            "newest",
                            "most_relevant",
                            "highest_rating",
                            "lowest_rating"
                        ],
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Order in which reviews are returned.",
                        "default": "newest"
                    },
                    "language": {
                        "title": "Language",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Two-letter language code (hl) for review metadata and owner replies, e.g. en, es, de, fr.",
                        "default": "en"
                    },
                    "country": {
                        "title": "Country",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Two-letter country code (gl) used for biasing Google Maps results, e.g. us, gb, de.",
                        "default": "us"
                    },
                    "includePlaceProfile": {
                        "title": "Include place profile",
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "description": "If enabled, push one extra item per place with its name, rating, total review count, address, phone, website and category.",
                        "default": true
                    },
                    "proxyConfiguration": {
                        "title": "Proxy configuration",
                        "type": "object",
                        "description": "Required. Defaults to Apify RESIDENTIAL — Google's review pages aggressively rate-limit datacenter IPs."
                    },
                    "maxConcurrency": {
                        "title": "Max concurrency",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 8,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Number of places processed in parallel.",
                        "default": 2
                    }
                }
            },
            "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
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```