Google Maps Places Scraper: Business Data by Area

Search Google Maps for a kind of business across a whole city, district, postcode, region or radius, and get one row per place. One price per place: no add-on fees for details, filters or languages.

What you can do with it

• List every business of one kind in a city, district or postcode: all dentists in Austin, all restaurants in a Barcelona district.
• Count and map competitors per area with latitude, longitude, rating and reviewCount.
• Find every branch of a chain in a city or region by searching for the brand name.
• Find businesses that list no website with the website filter (filtered places are not charged).

What you get

One record per place:

• Identity: name, placeId (Google's stable ID), category and categories, description when Google has one, url (opens the place on Google Maps)
• Address: address (full, as Google prints it), street, neighborhood, city, postalCode, state, countryCode
• Position: latitude, longitude, plusCode, timezone
• Contact: phone (local format), phoneInternational, website, domain, bookingUrl when listed
• Reputation: rating, reviewCount
• Opening hours: openingHours, seven days as Google prints them
• Status: claimed (false when Google shows "claim this business"), closed (permanently or temporarily closed)
• Features: attributes Google lists as present, for example Wheelchair accessible entrance
• Other IDs: cid, featureId, kgmid
• Run details: searchTerm, location (the area as it was understood), language, scrapedAt

{
    "placeId": "ChIJb5gBC-u0RIYRHkntaUcdJGs",
    "name": "ATX Family Dental",
    "category": "Dentist",
    "categories": ["Dentist", "Cosmetic dentist", "Dental clinic", "Emergency dental service", "Pediatric dentist", "Teeth whitening service"],
    "address": "1700 S 1st St, Austin, TX 78704",
    "street": "1700 S 1st St",
    "neighborhood": "Bouldin Creek",
    "city": "Austin",
    "postalCode": "78704",
    "state": "Texas",
    "countryCode": "US",
    "latitude": 30.2482229,
    "longitude": -97.7559705,
    "plusCode": "862466XV+7J",
    "phone": "(512) 717-3147",
    "phoneInternational": "+15127173147",
    "website": "https://www.atxfamilydental.com/",
    "domain": "atxfamilydental.com",
    "rating": 4.9,
    "reviewCount": 915,
    "priceLevel": null,
    "openingHours": [
        { "day": "Thursday", "hours": "8 AM–5 PM" },
        { "day": "Friday", "hours": "8 AM–4 PM" },
        { "day": "Saturday", "hours": "Closed" },
        { "day": "Sunday", "hours": "Closed" },
        { "day": "Monday", "hours": "8 AM–5 PM" },
        { "day": "Tuesday", "hours": "8 AM–5 PM" },
        { "day": "Wednesday", "hours": "8 AM–5 PM" }
    ],
    "timezone": "America/Chicago",
    "description": null,
    "claimed": true,
    "closed": false,
    "attributes": ["Wheelchair accessible entrance", "Wheelchair accessible parking lot", "Wheelchair accessible restroom", "Wheelchair accessible seating"],
    "bookingUrl": "https://www.atxfamilydental.com/book-online/",
    "featureId": "0x8644b4eb0b01986f:0x6b241d4769ed491e",
    "cid": "7720327853776914718",
    "kgmid": "/g/11cn2mvqwc",
    "url": "https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJb5gBC-u0RIYRHkntaUcdJGs",
    "searchTerm": "dentist",
    "location": "Austin, Texas, United States",
    "language": "en",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-08T16:50:12.000Z"
}

Input

• Search terms — what to look for, one per line: dentist, pizza, coworking space, or a brand name.
• Locations — where, one per line: a city, district, region, country or postcode. Every search term is run in every location, so several cities fit in one run.
• Maximum places per search — default 200. A search never saves (or charges) more than this.
• Language — language of categories, addresses and opening hours.
• Website filter and Skip closed places — optional, free of charge. Filtered places are not saved.
• Latitude, longitude, radius — optional: search a circle around a point instead of a named location.
• Country — optional two-letter code; give it with a postcode, since the same digits exist in several countries (78704 with US, LS1 with GB).

If the input names no search term, no location and no coordinates (for example an API call with an empty input), the example search runs: coffee shop in Boulder, Colorado, USA.

{
    "searchTerms": ["dentist", "orthodontist"],
    "locations": ["Austin, Texas, USA", "Round Rock, Texas, USA"],
    "maxPlacesPerSearch": 2000
}

{
    "searchTerms": ["restaurant"],
    "latitude": 52.5225,
    "longitude": 13.4025,
    "radiusKm": 1.2,
    "language": "de",
    "website": "without"
}

FAQ

How do I get all businesses of one type in a city from Google Maps?

Put the kind of business in Search terms and the city in Locations, and raise Maximum places per search. The scraper cuts the area into map tiles and searches each one, so it is not held to what a single map view shows. Expect about 96 to 99% of what Google Maps itself will show for the search, not 100%; the measurements are under "Coverage, measured".

How do I get more than 200 results from a Google Maps search?

Google Maps shows at most about 200 places for one map view. This scraper divides the area into tiles, down to about 100 metres wide in the densest streets, and saves each place once. A search for dentists in the whole of Austin, Texas saved 1,332 places.

Does it scrape Google Maps reviews or find emails?

No. It returns what Google Maps shows about a business: name, address, phone, website, categories, rating, review count, opening hours and coordinates. It does not collect review texts or reviewer names and does not visit business websites for emails or social profiles.

How fast is it?

Measured on 8 October 2026 with the default settings: 50 places in one city took 3 to 17 seconds, 1,332 dentists across Austin 5 minutes 19 seconds, and 5,000 restaurants in Manhattan 2 minutes 4 seconds.

How much does it cost?

$1.00 per 1,000 places on Apify's Free plan, plus a start fee of $0.00005 per run, with no add-on fees. Paid Apify plans pay less: Bronze 10%, Silver 20% and Gold 30% less. Runs that fail or return nothing cost nothing.

How an area is covered

Google Maps shows at most about 200 places for one map view, and on a zoomed-out map it leaves places out. The scraper therefore cuts your area into map tiles, searches each tile, and keeps cutting tiles into four wherever places keep turning up, down to tiles about 100 metres wide in the densest streets. Each place is saved once, however many tiles return it.

Only places inside your area are saved. For a named location the outline comes from OpenStreetMap: the administrative boundary of a city, district, region or country, and the real outline of a postcode where OpenStreetMap has one (Germany, France and much of continental Europe). The run log says what each location was understood as, with the size of the area. If OpenStreetMap does not know the place, Google Maps is asked instead and the area is a square around the spot.

Postcodes without an outline are approximated, and the log says so:

• US ZIP codes use the Census Bureau's ZIP Code Tabulation Area (2020 census). It follows the ZIP code closely, not exactly: in our run for 10001, 40 of 43 places had 10001 in their address and 3 had a neighbouring ZIP code. Give the country (US) with a bare ZIP code.
• The first part of a British or Canadian postcode (LS1, SW1A, M5V) and other postcodes with no outline anywhere: the square that Google Maps shows for the postcode is searched, and only places whose address carries that postcode are saved (a place with no postcode in its address is kept). Parts of the postcode that reach beyond that square are missed.
• A full British postcode (LS1 4AP) is a single street: a square of 2 km around it is searched.

Coverage, measured

Runs on 8 October 2026. "Reference" is a much slower run of the same search that cuts every tile holding anything down to 30 to 125 metres.

Search	Places saved	Compared with
Dentists in Austin, Texas	1,332	96.7% of the 1,377 places that this run and the reference run found between them (the reference alone: 98.0%)
Dentists, 4 km circle in north Austin	—	default rules reach 96 to 97% of the reference (212 dental places)
Restaurants, 1.2 km circle in Berlin Mitte	—	default rules reach 99.0% of the reference (764 places)
Restaurants, 0.5 km circle in Manhattan	—	default rules reach 96.7% of the reference (394 places)
Coffee shops in Boulder, Colorado	157	default rules reach 97.2% of the reference (142 coffee places)
Whataburger in Austin, Texas	19	published counts are 20 to 21 for addresses in "Austin", which reaches beyond the city boundary
Whataburger in San Antonio, Texas	56	published count 57
Whataburger in Houston, Texas	47	published count 57 for addresses in "Houston", much of which lies outside the city boundary searched
Starbucks in Boulder, Colorado	9	a store directory lists 9

Expect about 96 to 99% of what Google Maps itself will show for the search, not 100%. Google also answers the same search slightly differently from one minute to the next: two runs of the Austin search saved 1,332 and 1,297 places.

Speed, measured

Runs on 8 October 2026 with the default settings (1 GB of memory).

Search	Places	Time
Restaurants in Manhattan, stopped at 5,000	5,000	2 min 4 s
Restaurants in Ciutat Vella, Barcelona (whole district)	1,664	3 min 22 s
Dentists in Austin, Texas (whole city)	1,332	5 min 19 s
"Meadery" in the whole of Colorado	66	44 s
Coffee shops in Boulder, Colorado (the example input)	157	1 min 19 s
50 places in one city (seven countries tried)	50	3 to 17 s

Dense areas give 500 to 2,400 places a minute. Spread-out searches (a whole city of dentists, a rare business in a large region) give 100 to 250 a minute, because most map tiles hold only a few places. With the run's memory set to 4 GB the same Austin search took 2 min 23 s and the Barcelona search 2 min 6 s.

Limits to know about

• No reviews, no emails, no contact enrichment. This tool returns what Google Maps shows about a business. It does not collect review texts or reviewer names, does not visit business websites for emails or social profiles, and does not look up people.
• No price level. Google no longer sends a price level or price range with search results (checked 15 October 2026 on restaurants in Madrid and Manhattan: none of 400 places carried one), so priceLevel is always empty. It is kept in the output so existing integrations do not break. Price ranges now appear only on each place's own page, which this scraper does not open.
• description is Google's short editorial summary. Google writes these mostly for restaurants, bars, hotels and attractions (about 60% of restaurants in our runs); most other businesses, dentists or plumbers for example, have none.
• Service-area businesses (plumbers, cleaners, mobile services) that hide their address on Google come without address and its parts; their coordinates are still saved.
• No photos and no popular times.
• Review count and weekly hours are missing on a few places (0 to 5% in our runs). Google answers each request in a fuller or a shorter form at random; the scraper asks again when it gets the shorter one, and a place that never came in the fuller form is saved with reviewCount and openingHours empty. Places such as hotels have no opening hours on Google at all.
• plusCode is worked out from the coordinates, in the full form (862466XV+7J), not the short form with a town name.
• category follows your search. Google lists a place's categories in an order that suits the search term, so the same café can come back as "Coffee shop" in one search and "Cafe" in another. categories holds all of them.
• Google decides what matches. A search for "dentist" also returns some medical clinics; a rare term returns loosely related places. Check categories if you need a strict list.
• Names are in the local language; categories, addresses and hours follow the language you choose where Google has a translation.
• City outlines can be smaller than you expect. "Houston" is the city boundary, not every address with Houston in it. Add the neighbouring towns or use a radius for a wider net.
• City outlines can also be larger than the built-up city. "Leeds, UK" is the City of Leeds district, about 33 by 27 km, which takes in towns such as Wetherby and Pudsey. Use a postcode or a radius for the centre only.
• Postcode areas are exact only where OpenStreetMap has their outline. Elsewhere they are approximated as described under "How an area is covered".
• Not supported: areas that cross the 180th meridian, and circles wider than 500 km.
• claimed and closed are read from marks in Google's data (the "claim this business" link and the closed flag).

Pricing

You pay per place saved. Places removed by your filters, repeats and places outside your area are not charged. Runs that return nothing cost nothing.

Reliability

Requests go out from datacenter addresses and are repeated on a new address when one fails; a request refused three times is repeated on residential addresses. Google's cookie-consent and "unusual traffic" pages are recognised and never saved as data. Places are saved as they arrive, so a run that is stopped keeps what it has. If some map tiles could not be read, the run says so and names the search; if more than a tenth could not, the run fails instead of passing off partial data as complete. Every run stores a SUMMARY record (key-value store) with, per search: places saved, map tiles read, repeats and out-of-area places dropped, requests and refusals.

Notes

This scraper collects business listings only. Phone numbers and websites are those the business publishes on Google Maps. It does not collect reviews, reviewer names or any other personal data, and it does not log in.

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