Google Maps Scraper

  • compass/crawler-google-places
  • Modified
  • Users 43.3k
  • Runs 4.5M
  • Created by Author's avatarCompass

Extract data from hundreds of Google Maps businesses and locations in seconds. Get Google Maps data including reviews, images, opening hours, location, popular times & more. Go beyond the limits of the official Google Places API. Download data with Google Maps extractor in JSON, CSV, Excel and more.

To run the code examples, you need to have an Apify account. Replace <YOUR_API_TOKEN> in the code with your API token. For a more detailed explanation, please read about running Actors via the API in Apify Docs.

# Set API token
API_TOKEN=<YOUR_API_TOKEN>

# Prepare Actor input
cat > input.json <<'EOF'
{
  "searchStringsArray": [
    "restaurant"
  ],
  "locationQuery": "New York, USA",
  "maxCrawledPlacesPerSearch": 50,
  "language": "en",
  "maxImages": 0,
  "maxReviews": 0,
  "countryCode": "",
  "allPlacesNoSearchAction": ""
}
EOF

# Run the Actor
curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/compass~crawler-google-places/runs?token=$API_TOKEN" \
  -X POST \
  -d @input.json \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json'