Google Maps Reviews Scraper

Extract reviews from any Google Maps business or place. Get reviewer names, star ratings, full review text, dates, likes, and business details — all in a structured dataset.

Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
placeUrl	string	Yes	—	Google Maps place URL
maxReviews	integer	No	50	Maximum number of reviews to extract

Example Input

{
    "placeUrl": "https://www.google.com/maps/place/Joe's+Pizza/@40.7305137,-73.9968643,17z/data=!3m2!4b1!5s0x89c2599bcc4854cd:0xabc03f64af538b40!4m6!3m5!1s0x89c2599bca4854c5:0x48e61b36c6e9e68!8m2!3d40.7305137!4d-73.9942894!16s%2Fg%2F1tfrzlcv",
    "maxReviews": 30
}

How to Get the Place URL

1. Go to Google Maps
2. Search for the business or place
3. Click on the place to open its details
4. Copy the URL from your browser's address bar

The URL should look like: https://www.google.com/maps/place/PLACE+NAME/@...

Output

Each row in the dataset represents one review. Every row includes both the review data and the business context.

Sample Output

{
    "review_id": "ChZDSUhNMG9nS0VJQ0...",
    "reviewer_name": "John Smith",
    "reviewer_avatar": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a/...",
    "rating": 5,
    "review_text": "Best pizza in NYC! The classic slice is perfection.",
    "review_date": "2 weeks ago",
    "likes": 3,
    "business_name": "Joe's Pizza",
    "business_rating": 4.5,
    "business_total_reviews": 12847,
    "business_category": "Pizza restaurant",
    "business_address": "7 Carmine St, New York, NY 10014",
    "place_url": "https://www.google.com/maps/place/Joe's+Pizza/...",
    "order": 0,
    "scraped_at": "2026-02-19T12:00:00+00:00"
}

Output Fields

Field	Type	Description
review_id	string	Unique review identifier
reviewer_name	string	Name of the reviewer
reviewer_avatar	string	URL of the reviewer's profile picture
rating	integer	Star rating (1–5)
review_text	string	Full review text
review_date	string	Relative date (e.g., "2 weeks ago")
likes	integer	Number of likes on the review
business_name	string	Name of the business
business_rating	number	Overall business star rating
business_total_reviews	integer	Total number of reviews for the business
business_category	string	Business category (e.g., "Pizza restaurant")
business_address	string	Business street address
place_url	string	Original Google Maps URL provided as input
order	integer	Position of the review in results (0-based)
scraped_at	string	ISO 8601 timestamp of when the data was scraped

Tips

• Restaurants, shops, and hotels work best — these are the most common use cases
• Set maxReviews wisely — higher values take longer but give more data
• Reviews are sorted by relevance (Google's default sorting)
• Review dates are relative (e.g., "a month ago"), not absolute calendar dates

Limitations

• Parks, landmarks, and large public areas may return fewer or no reviews due to Google Maps rendering differences
• Google may occasionally restrict access from data center IPs
• The scraper extracts reviews visible on Google Maps — private or filtered reviews are not accessible

🗺️ Complete Google Maps Scraper Suite

This actor is part of a comprehensive Google Maps data extraction toolkit by crawlerbros. All actors run on the free Apify plan, use no proxy by default, and return clean, structured data.

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