Google Maps Reviews Scraper

Extract reviews, ratings, photos, and owner replies from any Google Maps business listing — fast, structured, and ready to use.

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What it does

This actor opens a Google Maps place page in a real browser, navigates to the Reviews tab, and continuously scrolls to collect reviews up to your specified limit. For each review it extracts the author's name, profile link, Local Guide status, review and photo counts, star rating, date, source platform, full text (with translation if present), photos, and owner replies. Short maps.app.goo.gl links are resolved automatically before scraping begins.

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Output

The result is a JSON object with place metadata and an array of reviews:

{
  "placeId": "0x3a02a586c15e1b3d:0x2e5b31b1d5397aae",
  "reviews": [
    {
      "id": "Ci9DQWLR...",
      "author": "John Smith",
      "authorUrl": "https://www.google.com/maps/contrib/123456789/reviews",
      "isLocalGuide": true,
      "authorReviewCount": 42,
      "authorPhotoCount": 7,
      "rating": 4,
      "date": "2 months ago",
      "reviewSource": "Google",
      "reviewUrl": "https://www.google.com/maps/reviews/data=...",
      "text": "Great place, would definitely come back again...",
      "textTranslated": null,
      "photos": [
        {
          "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/...=s1600"
        }
      ],
      "replies": [
        {
          "author": "Response from the owner",
          "date": "1 month ago",
          "text": "Thank you for your kind words!",
          "textTranslated": null
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Review fields

Field	Type	Description
placeId	string	Unique Google place ID
placeName	string	Name of POI or business
reviewId	string	Unique Google review ID
author	string	Reviewer's display name
authorUrl	string | null	Link to the reviewer's Google Maps profile
isLocalGuide	boolean	Whether the reviewer is a Google Local Guide
authorReviewCount	number | null	Total number of reviews written by the author
authorPhotoCount	number | null	Total number of photos uploaded by the author
rating	number	Star rating (1–5)
date	string | null	Relative date as shown on Google Maps
reviewSource	string | null	Source platform (e.g. Google, Google Maps)
reviewUrl	string | null	Direct link to the review on Google Maps (Google reviews only)
text	string	Original review text
textTranslated	string | null	Translated text if Google auto-translated the review, otherwise null
photos	array	Review photos with thumbnail and fullsize (up to 1600px) URLs
replies	array	Owner replies, each with author, date, text, and textTranslated

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Input

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
placeUrl	string	required	Google Maps URL for the place. Supports full URLs and short maps.app.goo.gl links
maxReviews	number	20	Maximum number of reviews to collect
sortBy	string	newest	Sort order: newest, highest, lowest, or relevant

Example input

{
  "placeUrl": "https://maps.app.goo.gl/abc123",
  "maxReviews": 50,
  "sortBy": "newest"
}

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Features

• Short URL support — resolves maps.app.goo.gl short links automatically before navigating
• Cookie consent handling — automatically dismisses Google's cookie consent popup
• Sorting — supports all four Google Maps sort modes: newest, highest rating, lowest rating, and most relevant
• Full text expansion — clicks "More" to expand truncated review texts and owner replies before extraction
• Translation detection — if Google has auto-translated a review, both the translated version (textTranslated) and the original (text) are captured
• Owner replies — extracts owner responses including author, date, text, and translation if present
• Full-size photos — thumbnail URLs are normalized to full-resolution (=s1600) variants

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Supported URL formats

https://maps.app.goo.gl/abc123xyz
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Place+Name/@lat,lng,zoom/data=...