Question 1

What is Google Maps Scraper?

Accepted Answer

This Google Maps scraper lets you get more and faster data from Google Places than the official Google Places API. Our unofficial Google Maps API enables you to extract all of the following data from Google Maps:
🔗 Title, subtitle, category, place ID, and URL
📍 Address, location, plus code and exact coordinates
☎️ Phone and website, if available
🏷 Menu and price, if available
🔒 Temporarily or permanently closed status
⌚️ Popular times - histogram & live occupancy
⭐️ Average rating (totalScore), review count, and review distribution
🍔 List of images

Question 2

How does Google Maps Scraper work?

Accepted Answer

It works exactly as if you were searching through Google Maps and copying information from each page you find. It opens Google Maps website, goes to a specified location, then writes your search query into the search bar. Then it scrolls down until it reaches the final page or maxCrawledPlacesPerSearch. It enqueues all the places as separate pages and then copypastes all visible data into an organized document. To understand the process fully, just try it out in your browser - the scraper does exactly the same thing, only much faster.

Question 3

How do I use Google Maps Scraper?

Accepted Answer

To understand how to configure and run the scraper, follow our step-by-step guide on how to scrape Google Maps or watch a short video tutorial ▷ on YouTube.

Question 4

What are the disadvantages of Google Maps API?

Accepted Answer

With the Google Maps API, you get $200 worth of credit usage every month free of charge. That means 28,500 maploads per month. However, the Google Maps API caps your search results to 60, regardless of the radius you specify. So, if you want to scrape data for bars in New York, for example, you'll get results for only 60 of the thousands of bars in the area.

Question 5

What can I use the extracted data from Google Maps for?

Accepted Answer

You can use the extracted data to:
create a potential customer base and prospection files
find new clients
generate leads
search and analyze businesses similar to yours
monitor brand sentiment and service quality, and identify fake reviews
find where to buy products
analyze geo-spatial data for scientific or engineering work

Question 6

Is it legal to scrape Google Maps data?

Accepted Answer

Web scraping is legal if you are extracting publicly available data which is most data on Google Maps. However, you should respect boundaries such as personal data and intellectual property regulations. You should only scrape personal data if you have a legitimate reason to do so, and you should also factor in Google's Terms of Use.

Question 7

Can I integrate Google Maps Scraper with other apps?

Accepted Answer

Last but not least, Google Maps Scraper can be connected with almost any cloud service or web app thanks to integrations on the Apify platform. You can integrate with Make, Zapier, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub, Google Sheets, Google Drive, and more. Or you can use webhooks to carry out an action whenever an event occurs, e.g. get a notification whenever Google Maps Scraper successfully finishes a run.

Question 8

Can I use Google Maps Scraper with the API?

Accepted Answer

Using Google Maps Scraper with the Apify API
The Apify API gives you programmatic access to the Apify platform. The API is organized around RESTful HTTP endpoints that enable you to manage, schedule, and run Apify Actors. The API also lets you access any datasets, monitor Actor performance, fetch results, create and update versions, and more.

Question 9

What are other tools for scraping Google Maps services?

Accepted Answer

📩 Google Maps with Contact Details
⭐️ Google Maps Reviews Scraper
📍 Google Places API Radar Search
⛽️ Gas Prices Scraper

Google Maps Scraper

Get 500 results in one time and then get another 500 results (with no duplicate)

Broken build - No places found

Timeout error

I wrote the json correctly and its not wanting to take the code

Unable to resurrect

Sometimes reservationUrl is actually the Order Online link (e.g., get food delivered link instead of the expected reservation URL).

Location Not Found

Optimizing Scraper results for specific keywords and locations?

Feature Request: Is there a setting in this scraper to only pull businesses that have a certain number of reviews, like scraping only companies with 30+ reviews in a given search category?

missing price details when the its mentioned as RM 20–40 instead of "$$"

Setting location to County Waterford but it's picking up the city

Why does scraper cannot find images of the location I specified?

Crawl stalled 2 entries away from my goal.

I only asked for 2,000 contacts and it's giving me significantly more

I didn't get the data I paid for?

APIFY result is not traslated to Spanish, information is in english

Feature Request: Return knowledge graph identifier in response

How can I find peak of mountain?

Data is not received

Crawling starts over and over (5K reviews)