Free Google Maps Scraper II 🗺️

Extract business and place data from Google Maps — for free. Give it a search term (e.g. coffee shops, dentist, plumber) and a location (e.g. Austin, TX, Paris, France), and get back a clean, structured dataset of places: name, address, phone, website, category, rating, GPS coordinates, photos, attributes — plus optional e-mail & social-media enrichment. No Google API key required.

This Actor is free: you only pay for your own Apify platform usage (compute + optional proxy). There is no developer markup, no per-result fee, no monthly rent.

Features

• 🔍 Search by keyword + location (auto-geocoded) or by Google Maps URL / CID.
• 🧭 Geographic tiling — split an area into an N×N grid to blow past Google's ~120-results-per-search limit and get exhaustive coverage.
• 📇 Contact enrichment — optionally visit each place's website (and its contact / mentions légales pages) to pull e-mails and social profiles (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X, YouTube, TikTok). mailto: links are read first and addresses are TLD-validated to avoid garbage.
• ⚡ Fast — websites are enriched in parallel (configurable concurrency).
• 🎯 Quality filters — minimum rating, category words, only-with-website, only-with-phone.
• 🕒 Opening hours & live status — today's hours and the real-time "Open · Closes 6 PM" / "Closed" status, straight from the search response.
• ⭐ Deep mode (optional) — turn on scrapeDetails to also get the real review count, the full 7-day opening hours, and individual reviews (author, rating, text, date) via a headless browser. Slower, off by default.
• 🏷️ Rich fields — rating, category, coordinates, phone, website, domain, photo thumbnail, place attributes (service options, accessibility…), neighborhood, CID, structured address (street / city / postal code), and reservation/booking link.
• 📊 Rank & timestamp on every result, run statistics saved to the key-value store.
• 🛡️ Robust — user-agent rotation, retries with exponential backoff, proxy support, and global deduplication.

Input

Field	Type	Description
searchStringsArray	array	Search terms; each searched separately.
locationQuery	string	Location to center on (e.g. "Austin, TX"), geocoded automatically.
maxCrawledPlacesPerSearch	integer	Max places per term (across tiles). Default 20.
startUrls	array	Google Maps place URLs to scrape directly.
placeIds	array	Google Maps CIDs (numeric) to resolve directly.
categoryFilterWords	array	Keep only places whose category matches one of these words.
placeMinimumStars	string	Keep only places rated ≥ this (e.g. "4.0").
onlyWithWebsite / onlyWithPhone	boolean	Keep only places that have a website / phone.
scrapeContacts	boolean	Visit each website to extract e-mails & social profiles.
scrapeDetails	boolean	Deep mode: review count, full weekly hours, reviews (headless browser, slow).
maxReviews	integer	In deep mode, scrape up to N reviews per place. 0 = none.
detailsConcurrency	integer	Parallel browser pages in deep mode. Keep at 1 on small runs.
tiles	integer	N×N grid for exhaustive coverage. 1 = off.
language / countryCode	string	Google hl / gl codes.
latitude / longitude / zoom	string/int	Manual map center & zoom.
maxRetries	integer	Attempts per request (exponential backoff). Default 3.
maxConcurrency	integer	Parallel website visits during enrichment. Default 10.
proxyConfiguration	object	Proxy settings (Apify Proxy recommended for larger runs).

Example input

{
  "searchStringsArray": ["coffee shops"],
  "locationQuery": "Austin, TX",
  "maxCrawledPlacesPerSearch": 60,
  "tiles": 3,
  "placeMinimumStars": "4.3",
  "onlyWithWebsite": true,
  "scrapeContacts": true
}

Output

Each place is one dataset item:

{
  "searchString": "coffee shops",
  "rank": 1,
  "title": "Epoch Coffee",
  "categoryName": "Coffee shop",
  "categories": ["Coffee shop"],
  "address": "Epoch Coffee, 221 W N Loop Blvd, Austin, TX 78751",
  "street": "221 W N Loop Blvd",
  "neighborhood": "North Loop",
  "latitude": 30.3195,
  "longitude": -97.7237,
  "totalScore": 4.5,
  "openStatus": "Open 24 hours",
  "openingHoursToday": "Open 24 hours",
  "postalCode": "78751",
  "city": "Austin",
  "reservationUrl": null,
  "phone": "(512) 454-3762",
  "website": "http://www.epochcoffee.com/",
  "domain": "epochcoffee.com",
  "emails": ["hello@epochcoffee.com"],
  "socialProfiles": { "instagram": "https://www.instagram.com/epochcoffee" },
  "thumbnail": "https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/...",
  "additionalInfo": { "Service options": ["Dine-in", "Takeaway"] },
  "timezone": "America/Chicago",
  "placeId": "0x8644ca6bc309e81b:0x1f1a903bbb66839",
  "cid": "140078896924485689",
  "url": "https://maps.google.com/?cid=140078896924485689",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-08T18:40:00.000Z",
  "status": "found",

  "_comment": "the fields below are added only in deep mode (scrapeDetails=true)",
  "reviewsCount": 1972,
  "openingHours": [
    { "day": "Monday", "hours": "7 AM to 7 PM" },
    { "day": "Tuesday", "hours": "7 AM to 7 PM" }
  ],
  "reviews": [
    { "author": "Venus", "rating": 3, "text": "Famous for its iconic mural…", "date": "2 months ago" }
  ]
}

A Leads dataset view (name, phone, e-mails, website, socials) is included for lead-generation exports. Export to CSV, Excel, JSON, or via the Apify API.

Use cases

• Lead generation — targeted lists of local businesses with phone, website, e-mail and socials.
• Local SEO & rank tracking — the rank field + daily scheduling track who ranks for a query.
• Market research — business density, ratings and attributes by category and city.
• Data enrichment — resolve names / URLs / CIDs to coordinates and structured fields.

Limitations & fair use

• The fast default uses the search tier (rating, today's hours, live status, address, contacts). Review count, full weekly hours and review text require deep mode (scrapeDetails), which drives a headless browser — much slower and, because Google renders some atypical places incompletely, occasionally returns a place without the deep fields. It works reliably for the large majority of established businesses.
• Google may rate-limit high-volume runs from a single IP. Enable Apify Proxy (and residential proxies for very large runs) to keep the success rate high.
• E-mail/social enrichment depends on each business publishing that info on its website; coverage varies.
• Use responsibly and in line with applicable laws and terms. Scrape public business information only.

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