Google Maps Business Scraper

Pull every business place from Google Maps for any keyword and location. Fast, cheap, and built for scale.

This Google Maps Business Scraper hits Google's own local search API directly with no browser, no headless Chrome, and returns full business data: name, address, phone, website, hours, lat/lng, category, rating, place_id, and more. It is the lowest-overhead way to extract Google Maps data on Apify.

What you get per place

Field	Description
name	Business name
category	Primary Google Maps category
categories	All Google Maps categories
address	Street address
fullAddress	Business name plus full postal address
neighborhood	Local sub-locality, when present
latitude, longitude	Decimal coordinates
phone, phoneE164	Formatted and E.164 phone numbers
website	Business website URL
rating	Google rating, 0 to 5
claimed	Google Business Profile claimed flag
timezone	IANA timezone string
description	Editorial business description when Google provides one
hours	Per-day open and close hours
photoUrl, photoCount	Main photo URL and how many photos exist
placeId	Canonical Google Places API ID, stable across runs
featureId	Google internal hex feature ID
googleMapsUrl	Direct link to the place on Google Maps

How it works

The actor calls Google Maps' internal search?tbm=map RPC endpoint that powers maps.google.com itself. Each request returns up to 20 places. The actor paginates up to the per-geo cap of 200 places and de-duplicates by Place ID across all searches in a run.

For larger areas than 200 places, send several searches with smaller radii or different center points. Each search runs independently.

The HTTP client uses Chrome 124 TLS impersonation, so the scraper looks identical to a real browser on the wire and survives Google's rate limits at production speed.

Input

{
    "searches": [
        { "query": "coffee shop", "location": "Austin, TX", "radiusM": 10000 },
        { "query": "yoga studio", "location": "30.27,-97.74", "radiusM": 5000 }
    ],
    "maxResults": 200,
    "language": "en",
    "country": "us",
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]
    }
}

location accepts a place name string (auto-geocoded), a "lat,lng" pair, or a { "latitude": ..., "longitude": ... } object.

radiusM is in meters. Defaults to 10000.

Pricing

Flat fee per business place returned to your dataset. No surprise per-request charges, no separate fees for hours or photos. Cheaper than any browser-based Google Maps scraper on Apify because the API path is direct and the compute footprint is tiny.

Use cases

• Local SEO and reputation management
• B2B sales and lead generation, especially when you need phone and website
• Real estate site selection
• Market and competitor analysis
• Restaurant and hospitality data
• Building local business directories

Notes

The actor uses Apify Residential proxy by default. Datacenter proxy works for very small jobs but Google will rate limit fast at scale.

The placeId (e.g. ChIJP8p2kJC1RIYR2qrGoXZtZCk) is stable across runs and is the right key to join Google Maps Business Scraper output with the Google Places API or other Google Maps data.

Google Maps caps each query plus geo window at roughly 200 results. To extract every coffee shop in a metro area, run several searches with overlapping radii and let the Place ID de-duplication handle the merge.

Changelog

• 0.1 Initial release.