Google Maps Reviews Scraper -- Full Review Data

Extract Google Maps reviews for any business by place ID or Google Maps URL. Get up to 500 reviews per business with the full review text, star rating, reviewer name, and date. Results are returned instantly.

This is a lookup actor. Provide place IDs or Google Maps URLs for the businesses whose reviews you want, and get structured review data back.

What data do you get?

Per business:

Field	Description
name	Business name
place_id	Google Place ID
google_maps_url	Direct Google Maps link
rating	Overall Google rating (1.0 - 5.0)
review_count	Total number of Google reviews
reviews	Array of individual reviews (up to 500)

Per review (inside the reviews array):

Field	Description
name	Reviewer's display name
rating	Star rating given by this reviewer (1-5)
text	Full review text
time_ago	Relative time of the review (e.g. "3 months ago")
lang	Language of the review
profile_id	Reviewer's Google profile ID
visit_date	Date the reviewer visited the business (if provided)
reviewer_reviews	Total number of reviews by this reviewer

Use cases

• Sentiment analysis: Collect reviews for a set of businesses and run NLP or LLM analysis to identify common complaints, praise patterns, or feature requests at scale.
• Reputation monitoring: Track reviews for your own business or your clients' businesses. Compare review volumes and sentiment over time.
• Competitor benchmarking: Pull reviews for all competitors in a category and location. Compare what customers praise and complain about across the market.
• Customer research: Read what real customers say about businesses in a specific niche before entering a new market or launching a competing product.
• Content generation: Use review insights to create data-driven blog posts, industry reports, or marketing materials backed by real customer feedback.
• Quality scoring: Build custom quality scores for businesses based on review text analysis, beyond the simple 1-5 star average.
• Location intelligence: Analyze review themes by geography to understand regional customer preferences and service expectations.

How to use

1. Get a free API key at app.iblead.com (200 free credits, no credit card).
2. Open this actor in Apify Console.
3. In the Place IDs or Google Maps URLs field, paste your list of businesses. Accepted formats:
   • Google Maps Feature IDs: 0x89c2598f7ff4aa09:0x313547e757cb8cea
   • Full Google Maps URLs: https://www.google.com/maps/place/...
4. Enter your API key and run.

Each business returns its overall rating, review count, and an array of individual reviews with full text.

Input parameters

Parameter	Required	Type	Description
place_ids	Yes	Array	List of Google Maps place IDs or full Google Maps URLs.
min_stars	No	Integer	Only return reviews with this rating or higher (1-5).
max_stars	No	Integer	Only return reviews with this rating or lower (1-5). Set to 1 to get only negative reviews.
only_with_text	No	Boolean	Skip reviews that have no written text (rating-only reviews). Default: false.
language	No	String	Only return reviews in this language (ISO code: 'en', 'fr', 'de', etc.).
sort_by	No	String	Sort reviews: "newest" (default), "highest_rating", or "lowest_rating".
api_key	Yes	String	Your IBLead API key.

Pricing

This actor charges $0.30 per 1,000 reviews.

Actor	Price per 1K reviews	Max reviews/business	Speed
IBLead Reviews (this actor)	$0.30	500	Instant
Compass Reviews Scraper	~$0.60	Varies	Live scraping (slow)

The price is per review, not per business. A business with 200 reviews counts as 200 units. A business with 5 reviews counts as 5 units.

FAQ

How many reviews can I get per business? Up to 500 reviews per business. This covers the vast majority of businesses -- only a small fraction of Google Maps listings have more than 500 reviews.

Are reviews available for all 50M+ businesses? Reviews are stored for businesses that have them. Some businesses have zero reviews on Google Maps. For those, the reviews array will be empty and the review_count will be 0.

Can I filter reviews by date or rating? Yes. You can filter by star rating (min_stars, max_stars), by language, and by text presence (only_with_text). You can also sort by newest, highest rating, or lowest rating. You are only charged for reviews that match your filters.

What languages are the reviews in? Reviews are in whatever language the reviewer wrote them in. The lang field tells you the detected language for each review. There is no translation -- you get the original text.

How fresh are the reviews? Reviews are collected as part of the regular data refresh cycle. Very recent reviews (posted in the last few days) may not be included yet.

How does pricing work exactly? You are charged per review returned, not per business. If you look up 10 businesses and they have a total of 2,000 reviews, you are charged for 2,000 review units. Businesses with zero reviews cost nothing. This makes the pricing fair -- you only pay for the data you actually receive.

Can I combine this with other IBLead actors? Yes. A typical workflow: (1) use the flagship actor to search businesses by category and city, (2) pick the businesses you want to analyze based on rating or review count, (3) feed those place IDs into this Reviews actor to get the full review text. This way you search cheaply at $3.50/1K and only pull detailed reviews for businesses that matter.

What is the output format? Each business is one row in your Apify dataset. The reviews field is a JSON array containing individual review objects. You can export the dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel from the Apify Console. In CSV format, the reviews array is serialized as a JSON string in a single cell.

About IBLead

IBLead covers 50M+ businesses across 38 countries and 4,037 Google Maps categories. Review data is collected alongside business information during regular refresh cycles. Sign up at app.iblead.com for 200 free credits.