Google Maps Scraper — Cheap Places & Business Leads (No Browser)

Extract business listings from Google Maps for any search term and any area: name, categories, full address (street, city, postal code, state, country), business phone, website, rating, review count, opening hours, coordinates, plus code, Google place ID / CID and a Maps link.

It reads the same JSON data the Google Maps web app loads, over plain HTTP — no headless browser — so it is fast and cheap: you pay per place saved (see Pricing). A deep area scan splits busy areas into smaller map tiles, so a city-wide search returns far more than the ~120–200 places a single map view shows.

• No login, no API key, no Google Cloud billing account
• Whole cities, regions or countries, a radius around a point, or your own Google Maps search URLs
• Filters: minimum rating, has website, has phone, category contains, skip permanently closed
• Business data only: no reviews, no reviewer names, no owner/personal data

What you get

Field	Example
name	Bittersweet
category, categories	Coffee shop · [Coffee shop, Cafe, Espresso bar]
address, street, neighborhood, city, postalCode, state, countryCode	180 Dekalb Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11205 · … · US
lat, lng, plusCode	40.6894477, -73.9725096 · 87G8M2QG+QX
phone, phoneInternational, phoneUnformatted	(718) 852-2556 · +1 718-852-2556 · +17188522556
website, domain	http://www.bittersweetbk.com/ · bittersweetbk.com
rating, reviewsCount	4.5 · 352
openingHours	[{ day: "Monday", hours: "7 AM–5 PM" }, …]
description	Google's one-line summary, when it has one
permanentlyClosed, temporarilyClosed	false · false
placeId, cid, kgmid, googleMapsUrl	ChIJ6wYBS7dbwokR0K9qNZKlD2A · 6921933199671734224 · …
imageUrl, imagesCount, timezone, priceLevel	main photo · 109 · America/New_York · (rarely provided)
searchString, searchLocation, rank, scrapedAt	which search found it and its position

Input examples

Dentists in a city (the default):

{
    "searchStrings": ["dentist"],
    "location": "Austin, Texas",
    "maxItemsPerSearch": 50
}

Several categories, every place in the area, with filters:

{
    "searchStrings": ["plumber", "electrician", "hvac contractor"],
    "location": "Denver, Colorado",
    "maxItemsPerSearch": 0,
    "minRating": 4,
    "onlyWithWebsite": true
}

A radius around a point, in another language:

{
    "searchStrings": ["Zahnarzt"],
    "latitude": 52.5200,
    "longitude": 13.4050,
    "radiusKm": 3,
    "language": "de",
    "countryCode": "de"
}

Your own Google Maps search URLs (term and visible map area are read from the URL):

{
    "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.google.com/maps/search/pizza/@41.9028,12.4964,15z" }]
}

Output example

{
    "placeId": "ChIJ6wYBS7dbwokR0K9qNZKlD2A",
    "cid": "6921933199671734224",
    "name": "Bittersweet",
    "category": "Coffee shop",
    "categories": ["Coffee shop", "Cafe", "Espresso bar"],
    "address": "180 Dekalb Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11205",
    "street": "180 Dekalb Ave",
    "neighborhood": "Fort Greene",
    "city": "Brooklyn",
    "postalCode": "11205",
    "state": "New York",
    "countryCode": "US",
    "lat": 40.6894477,
    "lng": -73.9725096,
    "plusCode": "87G8M2QG+QX",
    "phone": "(718) 852-2556",
    "phoneInternational": "+1 718-852-2556",
    "phoneUnformatted": "+17188522556",
    "website": "http://www.bittersweetbk.com/",
    "domain": "bittersweetbk.com",
    "rating": 4.5,
    "reviewsCount": 352,
    "priceLevel": null,
    "description": "Cozy coffee shop offering handcrafted coffee, house-made pastries & sandwiches.",
    "openingHours": [
        { "day": "Monday", "hours": "7 AM–5 PM" },
        { "day": "Tuesday", "hours": "7 AM–5 PM" },
        { "day": "Wednesday", "hours": "7 AM–5 PM" },
        { "day": "Thursday", "hours": "7 AM–5 PM" },
        { "day": "Friday", "hours": "7 AM–5 PM" },
        { "day": "Saturday", "hours": "7:30 AM–5 PM" },
        { "day": "Sunday", "hours": "7:30 AM–5 PM" }
    ],
    "permanentlyClosed": false,
    "temporarilyClosed": false,
    "timezone": "America/New_York",
    "imageUrl": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/grass-cs/AABkmLew…=w800-h600-k-no",
    "imagesCount": 109,
    "kgmid": "/g/1tl8lmsd",
    "googleMapsUrl": "https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=Bittersweet&query_place_id=ChIJ6wYBS7dbwokR0K9qNZKlD2A",
    "searchString": "coffee shop",
    "searchLocation": "Brooklyn, New York",
    "rank": 3,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-13T12:21:08.284Z"
}

The dataset has two ready-made views: Overview and Contacts (leads) (name, phone, website, domain, address, postal code, country) — export either one to CSV/Excel in one click.

Pricing

Pay per event — you only pay for places actually saved to the dataset.

Event	When
place-result	each place saved to the dataset
apify-actor-start	once per run (a fraction of a cent)

From 30 October 2026, 1,000 places cost US$3 on the Apify Free plan; paid Apify plans pay less per place — see the Pricing tab for your plan's rate. Duplicates, filtered-out places and places outside your area are never charged. Set a maximum cost per run in the Apify console and the actor stops cleanly when it is reached.

How the area scan works

1. Location is looked up on Google Maps itself, which returns the area's boundaries (city, district, postal code, state or country).
2. The area is searched as a map view. Google only lists the most prominent places of a view and pads the list with places outside it — exactly like the Maps app, where more pins appear as you zoom in.
3. With Deep area scan on, every tile that still holds many places is split into 4 smaller tiles and searched again, recursively. On "dentist" in Austin this finds 1,251 places versus ~170 from one map view.
4. Places outside the area (and across national/state borders) are dropped, results are deduplicated by place ID across all your search terms, and the run stops exactly at your limit.

FAQ

How many places can I get? As many as Google Maps shows when you zoom in across the area. Set Max places per search term to 0 for everything. Big cities hold hundreds to thousands of places per category.

Does it scrape reviews or emails? No. It returns business-level data only. Reviews, reviewer names and photos of people, owner accounts and personal data are deliberately not collected. Use the website/domain fields with an email-finder of your choice if you need emails.

Why is address empty for some businesses? Service-area businesses (plumbers, cleaners, mobile services) hide their street address on Google Maps; you still get name, phone, website, categories and an approximate location.

Why does the location also include nearby towns? Google returns a bounding box for a city, so neighbouring suburbs inside that box are included. Use the city field to filter, or a smaller location / radius.

Is priceLevel filled? Only when Google includes a price level in its list results, which is currently rare. Everything else in the table above is filled whenever the business published it.

Do I need proxies? No setup needed. The actor starts on Apify datacenter proxy and, if Google rate-limits those IPs, switches automatically to residential proxy for the rest of the run. The run summary (key-value store record SUMMARY) shows which proxy was used, per-search counts and any errors.

What happens if Google blocks everything? The run fails with a clear message instead of finishing "successfully" with 0 results, and you are not charged for places that were not saved.

Which languages and countries? Any. language sets the language of categories, hours and descriptions; countryCode helps with ambiguous place names.

Can I get leads for several cities in one run? Run one task per city (the location field takes one area), or paste several Google Maps search URLs into startUrls. Results are deduplicated by place ID across your search terms.

Use cases

• Lead generation — local business lists with phone and website for sales and agencies
• Market research — count and map competitors by category, rating and neighbourhood
• Local SEO — audit categories, ratings and review counts across a city
• Travel & directories — restaurants, hotels, attractions with coordinates and hours
• Data enrichment — attach place IDs, coordinates and plus codes to your own records

Is it legal to scrape Google Maps?

This actor only collects business information that Google Maps shows publicly to any visitor, without logging in, and it deliberately skips reviews, reviewer names and owner accounts. Business listings can still contain personal data, for example the phone number or address of a sole trader, so laws such as the EU GDPR, Chile's Ley 21.719 or the California CCPA, and anti-spam rules for cold calls and e-mails, may apply to how you use the data; you are responsible for a lawful purpose. Respect Google's terms of service, and do not republish photos or descriptions as your own. This is general information, not legal advice.

Integrations

Run the Google Maps Scraper from the Apify API or the JavaScript and Python clients, push new leads to your CRM with webhooks, or schedule it in Apify Console. It works with n8n, Make and Zapier (for example, to send the Contacts (leads) view to Google Sheets or HubSpot), and with LangChain and LlamaIndex through their Apify integrations. AI agents in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other MCP clients can find and run it through Apify's MCP server. Export as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read from the dataset API.

Use with AI agents

Use this actor to list businesses on Google Maps for a search term and an area (city, region, country, radius or Maps URL), with address, phone, website, rating, review count, opening hours and coordinates.

{ "searchStrings": ["coffee shop"], "location": "Brooklyn, New York", "maxItemsPerSearch": 30 }

Main output fields: name, category, address, city, postalCode, countryCode, phone, website, domain, rating, reviewsCount, openingHours, lat, lng, placeId, googleMapsUrl. It is pay-per-event: an agent pays a small start fee plus a fixed price per place saved, not for compute time.

Related actors

• Chile Company RUT Lookup — official SII data for Chilean businesses you find on the map.
• Google Ads Transparency Scraper — check which of those businesses advertise on Google.
• Booking.com Scraper — hotel prices and ratings for the same city.
• Airbnb Scraper — short-term rentals with prices and coordinates.
• Google Trends Scraper — search interest for a category by region.

Ready-made examples

• Dentists in Miami with phone numbers
• Plumbers in London with websites
• Restaurantes en Ciudad de México

Changelog

• 2026-10-16 — README: legal notes, integrations, AI-agent usage, related actors and example tasks added; pricing text updated.
• 2026-10-15 — Tiered pricing announced, effective 2026-10-30 (lower per-place price on paid Apify plans).
• 2026-10-13 — Builds 0.1.1–0.1.2: initial release with deep area scan, radius and URL search, lead filters, Contacts view and residential proxy fallback; default memory 512 MB.

En español

Extrae negocios de Google Maps para cualquier búsqueda y zona: nombre, categorías, dirección completa (calle, ciudad, código postal, región, país), teléfono del negocio, sitio web, nota, cantidad de reseñas, horario, coordenadas, plus code, place ID y enlace a Maps. Funciona por HTTP sin navegador, se cobra por lugar guardado (precio vigente en la pestaña Pricing) y el escaneo profundo divide la zona en cuadrantes para obtener muchos más resultados que una sola vista del mapa. Escribe el rubro en Search terms (por ejemplo dentista), la zona en Location (Providencia, Santiago, Chile) y elige language: "es". No recopila reseñas, nombres de usuarios ni datos personales: solo datos públicos de negocios.