Google Maps Scraper — Places, Details, Reviews & Geocoding

Extract business data from Google Maps without an API key, a Google Cloud project, or a billing quota. This Actor talks to Google's own map endpoints directly — no headless browser — so runs are fast and cheap.

What you get

Action	What it returns
Search places	Every business matching a query: name, address, coordinates, rating, review count, price level, categories, phone, website, place ID, Maps URL
Place details	The full record for a single named place
Reviews	Individual reviews for a place — author, rating, text, date, likes
Geocode	Address → latitude/longitude, plus the matched place name and formatted address
Autocomplete	Search-as-you-type suggestions for a partial query

Results land in the run's dataset and export to JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or via the API.

Pricing

Pay only for what you get back. No subscription, no monthly minimum.

You pay for	Price
Each place scraped	$1.50 per 1,000
Each review scraped	$0.40 per 1,000
Each address geocoded	$0.50 per 1,000
Each autocomplete query	$0.30 per 1,000
Actor start	$0.05 per 1,000 runs

That is roughly 2.5× cheaper than the leading Google Maps scrapers on Apify Store, and platform compute is included — you are never billed separately for usage.

Set a maximum cost per run in the run options and the Actor stops cleanly the moment it gets there. Nothing is charged for queries that return no data.

Input

{
  "action": "search",
  "queries": [
    "coffee shops in Austin",
    "pharmacy in Dhaka"
  ],
  "maxPlacesPerQuery": 20,
  "country": "us",
  "language": "en"
}

Field	Description
action	search, place_details, reviews, geocode or autocomplete
queries	One or more queries. Batch them — one run with 50 queries is far cheaper than 50 runs.
maxPlacesPerQuery	Cap on places returned per search query (1–100, default 20)
maxReviewsPerPlace	Cap on reviews per place (1–500, default 20)
reviewsSort	most_relevant, newest, highest or lowest
latitude / longitude / zoom	Optional viewport bias for searches
country / language	Google gl and hl codes, e.g. gb / en
proxyConfiguration	Optional. Google Maps is lightly protected, so a proxy is usually unnecessary.
requestDelaySeconds	Pause between Google requests. Raise it if you see blocked responses.

Output

One dataset item per result. A search item looks like:

{
  "type": "place",
  "query": "coffee shops in Austin",
  "name": "Merit Coffee",
  "address": "222 W 4th St, Austin, TX 78701",
  "latitude": 30.2667,
  "longitude": -97.7456,
  "rating": 4.6,
  "reviews_count": 1284,
  "price_level": "$$",
  "categories": ["Coffee shop", "Cafe"],
  "phone": "+1 512-585-0621",
  "website": "https://meritcoffee.com",
  "place_id": "ChIJ...",
  "maps_url": "https://www.google.com/maps/search/coffee+shops+in+Austin"
}

A reviews item carries author, rating, text, published and likes alongside place_name and feature_id. Failed queries are written as {"type": "error", ...} items rather than killing the run, and are not charged.

Common uses

• Build local business lead lists by category and city
• Monitor competitor ratings and review volume over time
• Enrich a CRM with phone numbers, websites and coordinates
• Bulk-geocode a spreadsheet of addresses
• Feed place data to an AI agent (this Actor supports agentic payments via x402 and Skyfire)

Integrations

Trigger runs on a schedule, or connect the output to Google Sheets, Airtable, Slack, Make, Zapier, or your own webhook. Everything is also reachable through the Apify API and the JavaScript and Python clients.

Notes and limits

• This is an unofficial scraper. Google occasionally changes its internal response layout; when a parse comes back empty the Actor logs a warning and moves on rather than failing the run.
• Lookup by raw place_id is not supported for place_details and reviews — pass a name plus location instead (e.g. Blue Bottle Coffee San Francisco). Place IDs are still returned in search output.
• Review pagination is best-effort; very high maxReviewsPerPlace values may return fewer reviews than requested.
• Scrape only public data and use the output in line with Google's terms and applicable law.

Support

Found a bug or need a field that is not extracted yet? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab and it will be looked at.