# Top-Rated Competitors (4.5 Stars and Up)

**Use case:** 

Map your best-rated competitors: only businesses rated 4.5 stars or higher, with rating, review count, popular times, opening hours, attributes such as seating or Wi-Fi where Google lists them, plus phone, website and published emails. This example finds 30 top-rated coffee shops in Melbourne.

## Input

```json
{
  "searchStringsArray": [
    "coffee shop"
  ],
  "locationQuery": "Melbourne, Australia",
  "maxCrawledPlacesPerSearch": 30,
  "maxCrawledPlaces": 30,
  "language": "en",
  "scrapeContacts": true,
  "scrapeSocialMediaProfiles": {
    "facebooks": true,
    "instagrams": true,
    "youtubes": true,
    "tiktoks": true,
    "twitters": true,
    "linkedins": true
  },
  "scrapePlaceDetailPage": false,
  "maxReviews": 0,
  "reviewsSort": "newest",
  "maxImages": 0,
  "placeMinimumStars": "4.5",
  "skipClosedPlaces": true,
  "website": "allPlaces",
  "geo_split": false,
  "geo_split_max_cells": 100,
  "max_requests_per_minute": 400,
  "detail_retries": 3,
  "max_concurrency": 10,
  "request_delay": 0,
  "cache_provider": "memory",
  "cache_ttl_seconds": 86400
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "place_id": {
    "label": "Place ID",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "name": {
    "label": "Name",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "address": {
    "label": "Address",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "phone": {
    "label": "Phone",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "website": {
    "label": "Website",
    "format": "link"
  },
  "emails": {
    "label": "Emails",
    "format": "array"
  },
  "email_type": {
    "label": "Email type"
  },
  "has_contact_form": {
    "label": "Has contact form"
  },
  "rating": {
    "label": "Rating",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "review_count": {
    "label": "Reviews",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "categories": {
    "label": "Categories",
    "format": "array"
  },
  "place_type": {
    "label": "Place type",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "business_status": {
    "label": "Business status",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "data_groups": {
    "label": "Detail groups",
    "format": "array"
  },
  "hours": {
    "label": "Hours"
  },
  "latitude": {
    "label": "Latitude",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "longitude": {
    "label": "Longitude",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "google_maps_url": {
    "label": "Maps URL",
    "format": "link"
  },
  "social_links": {
    "label": "Social links"
  },
  "reviews": {
    "label": "Reviews"
  },
  "images": {
    "label": "Images"
  },
  "neighborhood": {
    "label": "Neighborhood"
  },
  "timezone": {
    "label": "Timezone"
  },
  "country_code": {
    "label": "Country code"
  },
  "business_photo": {
    "label": "Business photo"
  },
  "open_status": {
    "label": "Open status"
  },
  "price_level": {
    "label": "Price level"
  },
  "popular_times": {
    "label": "Popular times"
  },
  "scraped_at": {
    "label": "Scraped at"
  },
  "_meta.status": {
    "label": "Outcome",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "_meta.message": {
    "label": "Outcome message",
    "format": "text"
  }
}
```

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [Google Maps Business & Contact Scraper](https://apify.com/herus13/google-maps-scraper.md) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/herus13/google-maps-scraper.md) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.


## How to integrate an Actor?

This Task's input is already configured above. Use it as-is rather than inventing a new one.

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