Google Maps Place Photos Scraper

Paste a Google Maps place and get its photos and videos back as rows: an image link at the width you choose, the original pixel size, the upload date, the spot Google pins the picture to, and the caption when somebody wrote one. Videos and Street View shots come labelled.

The limit to plan around: each place gives you one page of its gallery, which was 150 pictures on the Seattle roastery we tested, out of the 67,548 Google said it had. No row names the person who took the picture, because Google's gallery doesn't say. And the form arrives filled in with a real place and 30 photos, so pressing Start without editing it runs that job and bills the photos it finds.

Input	Google Maps place links, Share links, ?cid= links or place ids
Output	One row per photo, video or Street View shot
Ceiling	One gallery page per place (150 on the place we tested), 50 places and 5,000 rows per run
Account needed	None
Price	$0.23 per 1,000 photos on the Free plan, a little less on paid plans. The free plan's $5 a month covers about 21,000

🔍 What Google Maps Place Photos Scraper does

Open a place on Google Maps and click its photos. That grid is what this reads. Each picture becomes a row with a link to the image at the width you set, the thumbnail Google showed, the native size, the date it went up and its coordinates.

A run can take several places. maxPhotos is split evenly between them and maxPhotosPerPlace caps any single one, so one busy place can't eat the whole budget.

You can keep everything, photographs only (videos and Street View panoramas dropped) or videos only. Whatever you drop is never charged.

📋 What data you get from each Google Maps photo

What you get	Field
The picture at the width you asked for, and the small version Google showed	photoUrl, thumbnailUrl
The picture's native size	width, height
Photo, video or Street View	mediaType
A video's length and a link to the clip	videoDurationMs, videoUrl
What the uploader typed, when they typed anything	caption
When it went up, to the hour	uploadedAt
Where Google pins that picture	latitude, longitude
Google's id for the picture	photoId
The place: its name, Google's id, the numeric id and a link	placeName, placeId, cid, placeUrl
The link or id you gave for the place	target

▶️ How to scrape Google Maps photos

1. Open Google Maps Place Photos Scraper and click Try for free.
2. Open the place on Google Maps, copy the link from the address bar and paste it into Google Maps places, one place per line. Delete the example first.
3. Set Maximum photos per place and Maximum photos for the run.
4. Pick What to keep: everything, photographs only, or videos only.
5. Click Start, then download the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read it from the Apify API.

💰 How much does it cost to scrape Google Maps photos?

$0.23 per 1,000 photos on the Free plan. Paid plans pay a little less: $0.228 on Starter, $0.226 on Scale and $0.224 on Business. On the free plan, the $5 Apify gives you each month covers about 21,000 photos. A video or a Street View row counts as one photo.

You pay per row delivered. The sample row and the diagnostic rows are never charged, and neither is anything mediaType filtered out.

📥 What you give it

{
  "placeUrls": [
    "https://www.google.com/maps/place/Starbucks+Reserve+Roastery/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x54906acdccf44db1:0x6da0c1f2d7a6736e"
  ],
  "maxPhotosPerPlace": 30,
  "maxPhotos": 200,
  "mediaType": "all",
  "imageWidth": 1600
}

Field	If you leave it empty	What it is
placeUrls	the free sample row	Up to 50 places: the address-bar link with the place open, the short link from the Share button, a ?cid= link, or Google's own 0x...:0x... place id. The form arrives with a Seattle Starbucks in it.
maxPhotosPerPlace	50	The most rows one place may produce, 1 to 1,000. The form suggests 30. A place still stops at its first gallery page.
maxPhotos	200	Rows for the whole run, 1 to 5,000, shared evenly between your places.
mediaType	all	all, photos (no videos or Street View) or videos (the clips only). All three read the same first gallery page.
imageWidth	1600	Width in pixels for photoUrl, 100 to 4,096. The height follows the picture's own shape.
language	en	Two-letter interface language for the request.
country	us	Two-letter country code for the request.
proxyUrls	empty	Only if you want the requests to go out through servers of your own, as http://user:pass@host:port.

📤 What you get back

A real row from a run on 20 September 2026, with the two image links cut short:

{
  "ok": true,
  "charged": true,
  "recordType": "photo",
  "target": "https://www.google.com/maps/place/Starbucks+Reserve+Roastery/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x54906acdccf44db1:0x6da0c1f2d7a6736e",
  "placeName": "Starbucks Reserve Roastery",
  "placeId": "0x54906acdccf44db1:0x6da0c1f2d7a6736e",
  "cid": "7899526995152106350",
  "placeUrl": "https://www.google.com/maps?cid=7899526995152106350",
  "photoId": "CIHM0ogKEICAgIC-7fOx6AE",
  "mediaType": "photo",
  "photoUrl": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/gps-cs-s/AHRPTWlnERVZyB9D3zFYFg7wFEDmh5g...=w1600-h900-k-no",
  "thumbnailUrl": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/gps-cs-s/AHRPTWlnERVZyB9D3zFYFg7wFEDmh5g...=w203-h114-k-no",
  "caption": null,
  "width": 4032,
  "height": 2268,
  "uploadedAt": "2022-11-10T20:00:00.000Z",
  "latitude": 47.6140399947503,
  "longitude": -122.328100047145,
  "videoDurationMs": null,
  "videoUrl": null,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-20T16:19:23.434Z"
}

Field	How to read it
width, height	The picture's native size, so you can tell when imageWidth asked for more pixels than exist.
videoDurationMs, videoUrl	On a video row, the clip's length in milliseconds and a link to the clip. Null on photos.
caption	Null when the uploader typed nothing, or only the place's name. Most rows have none.
uploadedAt	In UTC, to the hour. Google doesn't give the minute.
latitude, longitude	Where Google pins that picture. It can differ from photo to photo, so it isn't the business's own pin.
placeId	Google's internal id for the place, in the same 0x…:0x… form Google Maps Scraper writes. The one to join on.
photoId	Google's id for the picture. It stayed the same between our runs, so diff on it to find new pictures.

🧾 Reading the output

Three kinds of row can land in the dataset.

Row	How to spot it	Charged
A picture	charged: true	yes
The sample row	_sample: true	no
A diagnostic	_diagnostic: true, with an errorCode and a details sentence	no

The sample row only turns up when placeUrls is empty. It also says recordType: "photo", so filter on _sample and _diagnostic being absent rather than on recordType.

errorCode	What it means
PLACE_NOT_RESOLVED	The link couldn't be tied to a place. Paste the address-bar link with the place open, or the Share link.
NO_PHOTOS	The place's first gallery page has no pictures of that kind.
NOT_SERVED	This photo was not served this run. Re-run it later. Until 12 October 2026 this code was called BLOCKED.
TIME_BUDGET	The run reached its time limit. The photos already delivered stay, and the rest were not charged. The run ends as failed only when the time limit stopped it before any photo came back.
NETWORK and the rest	Rare. The details sentence says what happened.

💡 What people use it for

• Watching a place change over time. Sort by uploadedAt and a refit or a new sign shows up in the dates.
• Comparing the branches of a chain by what their galleries actually show.

From a city search to photos matched to their places, in three steps:

1. Run Google Maps Scraper on a search like cafes in Lisbon and copy the placeUrl column.
2. Paste those links into placeUrls here, with maxPhotosPerPlace at 20 and mediaType on photos.
3. Join the two datasets on placeId, which both actors write the same way, so every picture sits next to its place's name, rating and address.

🚧 What it does not do

• More than one gallery page per place. That was 150 pictures on the place we tested, out of 67,548. Raising maxPhotosPerPlace doesn't change it.
• Every video a place has. videos keeps the clips in that one gallery page, which was 10 of 150 on the Eiffel Tower.
• Name the photographer. Google's gallery carries no uploader, and nothing is guessed.
• Anything else about the place. No rating, address, hours or reviews. The scrapers below cover those.
• Captions you can count on. Most pictures have none.
• Upload minutes. Dates stop at the hour.
• More than 50 places in one run. Split a longer list across runs.
• It is not an official Google tool. Dami's Studio is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Google, or by any other company named on this page.

🧭 Which Google Maps scraper do you need?

If you want	Use
Places from a search, with reviews optional	Google Maps Scraper
Reviews for a place you can link or name, with exact dates	Google Maps Reviews Scraper
The photos and videos on a place	This one
Only what changed in your own locations' reviews, on a schedule	Google Reviews Monitor
Businesses in Russia and the CIS, from Yandex Maps	Yandex Maps Scraper

❓ Questions people ask

Do I need a Google API key or account to get Google Maps photo links?

No. The gallery is public, and the run needs nothing from you but the place.

How do I get the link for a place?

Open it on Google Maps and copy the address bar, or press Share and copy the short link. Either works.

Can I get the original resolution?

Set imageWidth as high as 4,096. Every row reports the native width and height, so you can see when you've asked for more than the picture has.

Why did I get fewer photos than I asked for?

Each place stops at its first gallery page, maxPhotos is split between your places, and mediaType drops whatever you didn't ask for.

Can I call it from code or connect it to an AI assistant?

Yes. The API tab has ready-made code for Python, JavaScript and the command line. For Claude, ChatGPT or another MCP client, connect https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,dami_studio/google-maps-place-photos-scraper. Either way the run happens on your Apify account at the same price.

Can I use the photos?

Reading a public gallery is one question and republishing a picture is another. Each photo belongs to whoever took it, so check the rights before you publish one. Apify's write-up on the legality of web scraping covers the first part, and we are not lawyers.

🆘 If something breaks

Open the Issues tab on the actor page and send the place link and the run ID. The diagnostic row in the dataset usually names the reason already.