Google Maps Scraper
Pricing
Pay per event
Google Maps Scraper
Extract data from thousands of Google Maps locations and businesses. Get Google Maps data including reviews, reviewer details, images, contact info, opening hours, location, prices & more. Export scraped data, run the scraper via API, schedule and monitor runs, or integrate with other tools.
4.3 (42)
Pricing
Pay per event
996
Monthly users
5.1k
Runs succeeded
97%
Response time
4.9 days
Last modified
5 hours ago
Why does Google Maps Scraper create so many requests?
In this search task, Google Maps Scraper create 3.8k requests, and find only 63 results. For a small city, I think the number of search results is reasonable, but the number of requests is unreasonable. Too many requests seem to directly increase the cost of computing. How can we reduce the number of requests and save computing costs while ensuring the comprehensiveness of the search?
Hi,
Sorry for the late response. The run returned only 63 results at the point of abortion was because it simply did not find any more results that matched the search criteria.
You could optimize this process, however, it could lead to losing a few results. You could do that by:
- Disabling Deeper City Scrape. This feature creates a lot more requests for places with high population density, such as cities. But if you know that there is not a high amount of places that match your criteria, you can potentially disable this function.
- Overriding zoom level. The zoom level that was set for this run was 15. If you override this number to 14. it should generate less amount of requests (but it could result in not finding all places, if set incorrectly).
If you have any more question, please do not hesitate to ask.
billcawell
After trying with different terms and options, I find that if the zoom level is increased (Some place will appear until zoom level 17, even 20), the huge amount of data calculation is almost unacceptable. The computational costs are staggering. My current approach to balancing coverage and computational effort is to reduce search terms and focus on the few terms that I care about most. I feel there is no better way, so do you have any better suggestions?
Ondrej Klinovský (ondrejklinovsky)
Hey,
I apologize for late response. Looking at your search term, what I would do is to set up two runs based on success rate of search terms:
- one run would use
deeper city scrapewith the following search terms:restaurant,cafe,hotel,store - another run would use normal search with the rest of the search terms, e.g.
observation deckis not that common place so no need to use deeper city scrape
You can then user Merge, Dedup & Transform Datasets to merge the two runs into one dataset.
Of course, with this approach you're gonna miss some places but I believe it's the best cost/results performance.
I'm gonna close the issue now but feel free to reopen if you have any questions.
billcawell
Thanks, very thoughtful advice. I will try it right now.
Pricing
Pricing model
Pay per eventThis Actor is paid per result. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for each dataset of 1,000 items in the Actor outputs.
Actor start
$0.007
Flat fee for starting an Actor run. <a href="https://help.apify.com/en/articles/10774732-google-maps-scraper-is-going-to-pay-per-event-pricing">More details.</a>
Place scraped
$0.004
Cost per place successfully scraped from Google Maps. <a href="https://help.apify.com/en/articles/10774732-google-maps-scraper-is-going-to-pay-per-event-pricing">More details.</a>
Add-on: Filter applied
$0.001
Extra cost per place for each filter applied (e.g. category, title match, minimum stars, website availability, or skipping closed places). Final price = places scraped * filter price * number of filters. <a href="https://help.apify.com/en/articles/10774732-google-maps-scraper-is-going-to-pay-per-event-pricing">More details.</a>
Add-on: Additional place details scraped
$0.002
Flat cost per place to retrieve additional place details (e.g. table reservation data, web results, or max questions). The price remains the same no matter how many details you select. <a href="https://help.apify.com/en/articles/10774732-google-maps-scraper-is-going-to-pay-per-event-pricing">More details.</a>
Add-on: Contact details scraped
$0.002
Extra cost per place for finding the associated web page and extracting contact information (e.g. social media accounts or emails). <a href="https://help.apify.com/en/articles/10774732-google-maps-scraper-is-going-to-pay-per-event-pricing">More details.</a>
Add-on: Review scraped
$0.001
Extra cost per individual review scraped. <a href="https://help.apify.com/en/articles/10774732-google-maps-scraper-is-going-to-pay-per-event-pricing">More details.</a>
Add-on: Image scraped
$0.001
Extra cost per image retrieved from a place, including author details. <a href="https://help.apify.com/en/articles/10774732-google-maps-scraper-is-going-to-pay-per-event-pricing">More details.</a>
