OpenStreetMap Places API — Businesses & POIs by Area

A category and a place in, one row per business or point of interest out — from OpenStreetMap, with no API key. "Cafés in Berlin", "bicycle shops in Cambridge", "pharmacies in this bounding box", "dentists within 2 km of 52.52,13.40".

Every row carries the name, the category, the address, coordinates, website, phone, opening hours, brand, cuisine, wheelchair access, the OSM link and — if you want them — the raw OSM tags. Areas come from a place name (looked up once on Nominatim), a bounding box, or a point and a radius. The places come from the public Overpass API, one polite query at a time.

No login. No browser. No API key of anyone's. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License (ODbL) — every row says so.

At a glance

Input — this is the Store prefill; paste it and run:

{ "categories": ["amenity=cafe"], "areas": [], "bboxes": ["52.50,13.38,52.52,13.42"], "points": [],
  "radiusMeters": 2000, "useAreaBoundary": true, "requireName": true, "keywords": [], "maxPlaces": 100,
  "reverseGeocode": false, "includeRawTags": true, "maxRunSecs": 240,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true } }

That is one Overpass query and 100 named cafés in central Berlin, in a few seconds. Put "Berlin, Germany" in areas instead of the box for the whole city.

Output — one place row per business or point of interest. The fields you will use most are name, category, address, phone, website, openingHours, lat, lon and osmUrl (full list under Output reference). Each area searched adds one free area row, and anything that could not be read comes back as a free diagnostic row (ok: false, errorType, error) instead of a charge.

Price — $0.50 per 1,000 places (+ $0.001 per run); areas, diagnostics and empty runs free; no API key, no browser, limited permissions, works over the Apify MCP server (mcp.apify.com) and with x402 agentic payments.

From code — client.actor("insight.solutions/osm-places-api").call(run_input={…}) with apify-client, or POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/insight.solutions~osm-places-api/run-sync-get-dataset-items.

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What you get

One real row from the prefill's box, run with "maxPlaces": 0 (the prefill's cap of 100 stops just before it) — a café mapped as a building outline, so its coordinates are the building's centre (abridged; tags shortened):

{
  "ok": true,
  "rowType": "place",
  "input": "amenity=cafe in 52.50,13.38,52.52,13.42",
  "osmType": "way",
  "osmId": 113084569,
  "osmUrl": "https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/113084569",
  "name": "Café am Engelbecken",
  "category": "amenity=cafe",
  "categoryLabel": "A generally informal place with sit-down facilities selling beverages and light meals and/or snacks.",
  "lat": 52.5062646,
  "lon": 13.4186304,
  "street": "Michaelkirchplatz",
  "houseNumber": "25",
  "postcode": "10179",
  "city": "Berlin",
  "address": "Michaelkirchplatz 25, 10179 Berlin",
  "website": "https://www.cafe-am-engelbecken.de/",
  "phone": "+49 157 75431795",
  "openingHours": "Mo-Su 10:00-24:00",
  "wheelchair": "yes",
  "outdoorSeating": "yes",
  "internetAccess": "yes",
  "tags": { "amenity": "cafe", "name": "Café am Engelbecken", "website": "http://www.cafe-am-engelbecken.de", "…": "…" },
  "areaName": "52.50,13.38,52.52,13.42",
  "rank": 135,
  "source": "openstreetmap",
  "sourceUrl": "https://overpass-api.de/api/interpreter?data=%5Bout%3Ajson%5D…",
  "attribution": "© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL"
}

A chain outlet carries its brand too — the Starbucks in the same box comes back with "brand": "Starbucks", "brandWikidata": "Q37158" and "openingHours": "Mo-Fr 07:00-21:00; Sa 08:00-21:00; Su 09:00-19:30".

sourceUrl is the exact Overpass query the row came from, as a link: open it and you see the raw response.

Quick start

Cafés in a city — the name is looked up once and searched inside the city's exact boundary:

{ "categories": ["cafe"], "areas": ["Berlin, Germany"], "maxPlaces": 500 }

Bicycle shops inside a boundary, two categories at once:

{ "categories": ["shop=bicycle", "amenity=bicycle_rental"], "areas": ["Cambridge, UK"] }

Dentists around a point, nearest first, with distanceMeters:

{ "categories": ["dentist"], "points": ["52.52,13.40"], "radiusMeters": 2000 }

dentist is a bare name that both amenity and healthcare use, so both are searched in one union query.

Every hotel in a bounding box, to CSV — maxPlaces: 0 means no cap:

{ "categories": ["tourism=hotel"], "bboxes": ["48.80,2.25,48.91,2.42"], "maxPlaces": 0, "includeRawTags": false }

then download the dataset as CSV (Storage → Export, or …/datasets/{id}/items?format=csv&clean=true). Turning includeRawTags off keeps the CSV to the named columns.

Only vegan places, filtered on any tag:

{ "categories": ["cafe", "restaurant"], "areas": ["Kreuzberg, Berlin"], "keywords": ["vegan"] }

Category names

Write a category as an OSM tag, key=value (amenity=cafe), as key=* for every value of a key (craft=*), or as a bare name from the table below (cafe, bicycle, hotel, fitness centre). A bare name that more than one key uses — dentist, pharmacy, tailor — searches all of them. A bare key name (office, tourism) means every value of that key. Anything else comes back as a free invalid-input row telling you to write it as key=value — any OSM tag works in that form, including ones not listed here.

amenity and shop are the 100 most-used values of each as published by taginfo on 2026-09-30, with taginfo's own description (bar and pub have none there). The other five keys are hand-written from the OSM wiki.

amenity (100 values, taginfo, top 100 by use)

Value	Description
parking	A place for parking cars.
parking_space	A single parking space on a parking lot.
bench	A place for people to sit, allowing room for one or more people.
place_of_worship	A place where religious services are conducted.
restaurant	A restaurant sells full sit-down meals with servers, and may sell alcohol.
school	A primary or secondary school (pupils typically aged 6 to 18).
waste_basket	A single small container for depositing garbage that is easily accessible for pedestrians.
bicycle_parking	A parking space designed for bicycles.
shelter	A small structure for protection against bad weather conditions
fast_food	A place which offers self-service and take-away food.
cafe	A generally informal place with sit-down facilities selling beverages and light meals and/or snacks.
recycling	A container or centre that accepts waste material for reuse or recycling.

Also: fuel, toilets, pharmacy, post_box, bank, vending_machine, drinking_water, kindergarten, waste_disposal, hunting_stand, parking_entrance, bar, atm, community_centre, clinic, post_office, hospital, doctors, charging_station, fountain, pub, social_facility, townhall, police, dentist, grave_yard, fire_station, car_wash, library, parcel_locker, marketplace, bicycle_rental, childcare, telephone, college, bus_station, ice_cream, veterinary, university, theatre, taxi, public_bookcase, motorcycle_parking, bbq, letter_box, water_point, loading_dock, grit_bin, shower, ferry_terminal, events_venue, clock, driving_school, public_building, car_rental, courthouse, cinema, watering_place, arts_centre, trolley_bay, nightclub, bicycle_repair_station, bureau_de_change, lounger, studio, food_court, monastery, internet_cafe, prison, ticket_validator, social_centre, music_school, payment_terminal, vehicle_inspection, compressed_air, animal_breeding, public_bath, prep_school, car_sharing, weighbridge, lavoir, nursing_home, sanitary_dump_station, mobile_money_agent, language_school, biergarten, dojo, vacuum_cleaner.

shop (100 values, taginfo, top 100 by use)

Value	Description
convenience	A small local shop carrying a variety of everyday products, such as packaged food and hygiene products.
supermarket	A large shop selling groceries, fresh produce, and other goods.
clothes	A shop which primarily sells clothing
hairdresser	A hairdressers or barbers shop, where hair is cut
car_repair	A business where cars are repaired.
bakery	A shop selling bread
yes	A shop of unspecified type or an indicator that a feature such as a fuel station has a shop.
beauty	A non-hairdresser beauty shop, spa, nail salon, etc.
car	A place that primarily sells cars (automobiles)
hardware	Shop selling primarily metal fasteners and tools, sometimes also other workshop and homeware products.
butcher	A shop selling meat or meat products.
kiosk	A small shop on the pavement that sells magazines, tobacco, newspapers, sweets and stamps.

Also: mobile_phone, furniture, car_parts, alcohol, variety_store, florist, optician, electronics, jewelry, outpost, shoes, vacant, mall, gift, doityourself, greengrocer, chemist, laundry, books, bicycle, department_store, pet, travel_agency, stationery, sports, confectionery, tyres, storage_rental, tobacco, cosmetics, trade, massage, tailor, computer, funeral_directors, copyshop, pastry, motorcycle, dry_cleaning, farm, garden_centre, beverages, newsagent, general, ticket, interior_decoration, deli, houseware, toys, seafood, wine, tattoo, wholesale, paint, second_hand, pawnbroker, medical_supply, charity, photo, bed, kitchen, bookmaker, art, lottery, agrarian, outdoor, antiques, e-cigarette, fabric, coffee, perfumery, gas, motorcycle_repair, hearing_aids, appliance, craft, electrical, telecommunication, money_lender, pet_grooming, tea, bag, dairy, baby_goods, musical_instrument, rental, fashion_accessories, cannabis.

tourism (20 values, hand-written from the OSM wiki)

Value	Description
hotel	An establishment providing accommodation with en-suite rooms and services.
guest_house	A small accommodation such as a bed and breakfast or guest house.
hostel	Cheap accommodation with shared bedrooms.
motel	A roadside hotel with parking directly outside each room.
apartment	A furnished apartment or flat rented for short stays.
chalet	A holiday cottage or hut rented as a whole.
camp_site	An area where people can camp overnight using tents or vehicles.
caravan_site	An area where people can stay overnight in caravans or motorhomes.
alpine_hut	A mountain hut, usually staffed, providing shelter and meals.
wilderness_hut	An unstaffed hut in a remote area, free or cheap to use.
attraction	A generic tourist attraction.
museum	An institution that displays collections of historical, cultural or scientific objects.

Also: gallery, artwork, viewpoint, information, picnic_site, theme_park, zoo, aquarium.

leisure (24 values, hand-written from the OSM wiki)

Value	Description
fitness_centre	A gym or fitness centre with exercise equipment.
sports_centre	A facility where a range of sports take place.
sports_hall	A large indoor hall for sports.
swimming_pool	A swimming pool.
water_park	An amusement park with water slides and pools.
stadium	A major sports arena with substantial tiered seating.
pitch	An area designed for playing a particular sport.
track	A track for running, cycling or other non-motorised racing.
golf_course	The course of a golf club.
miniature_golf	A miniature golf course.
ice_rink	A place where people skate on ice.
bowling_alley	A place for ten-pin or nine-pin bowling.

Also: marina, park, playground, garden, nature_reserve, dog_park, sauna, dance, escape_game, amusement_arcade, horse_riding, fitness_station.

office (24 values, hand-written from the OSM wiki)

Value	Description
company	An office of a private company.
government	An office of a government agency or authority.
estate_agent	An office of a real estate agent.
insurance	An office of an insurance company or broker.
lawyer	An office of a lawyer or law firm.
accountant	An office of an accountant.
tax_advisor	An office of a tax advisor.
notary	An office of a notary.
architect	An office of an architect or architecture firm.
it	An office of an IT specialist or IT company.
consulting	An office of a consulting firm.
financial	An office of a financial services company.

Also: advertising_agency, employment_agency, travel_agent, telecommunication, logistics, coworking, ngo, association, educational_institution, research, political_party, religion.

healthcare (24 values, hand-written from the OSM wiki)

Value	Description
doctor	A doctor's practice.
dentist	A dentist's practice.
pharmacy	A pharmacy: a shop where medicines are dispensed.
hospital	A hospital providing in-patient medical treatment.
clinic	A medical centre with more than one doctor, usually without overnight stays.
physiotherapist	A physiotherapy practice.
psychotherapist	A psychotherapy practice.
optometrist	An optometrist or eye-care practice.
audiologist	A hearing-care practice.
podiatrist	A podiatry or foot-care practice.
speech_therapist	A speech and language therapy practice.
occupational_therapist	An occupational therapy practice.

Also: alternative, laboratory, sample_collection, rehabilitation, counselling, midwife, nurse, dialysis, blood_donation, vaccination_centre, hospice, birthing_centre.

craft (24 values, hand-written from the OSM wiki)

Value	Description
carpenter	A workplace of a carpenter who works with timber.
electrician	A workplace or office of an electrician.
plumber	A workplace or office of a plumber.
hvac	A heating, ventilation and air-conditioning installer.
painter	A workplace of a house or decorative painter.
roofer	A workplace of a roofer.
glaziery	A workplace of a glazier who cuts and fits glass.
locksmith	A workplace of a locksmith.
key_cutter	A place where keys are cut.
metal_construction	A workplace for metal construction and fabrication.
window_construction	A workplace for making and fitting windows.
stonemason	A workplace of a stonemason.

Also: gardener, photographer, shoemaker, tailor, upholsterer, jeweller, confectionery, brewery, winery, beekeeper, handicraft, blacksmith.

Input

Field	Type	Default	What it does
categories	string[]	["amenity=cafe"]	OSM key=value pairs, key=*, or bare names from the table above. Each category is searched in each area separately.
areas	string[]	[]	Place names — Berlin, Germany, Cambridge, UK, Kreuzberg, Berlin. One Nominatim lookup each.
bboxes	string[]	[]	south,west,north,east in decimal degrees.
points	string[]	[]	lat,lon, searched within radiusMeters.
radiusMeters	integer	2000	For points. 50–20,000.
useAreaBoundary	boolean	true	For a named area that is an administrative boundary, search inside the exact boundary rather than its bounding box.
requireName	boolean	true	Skip unnamed elements (benches, parking spaces, anonymous vending machines).
keywords	string[]	[]	Keep only places whose name, brand, cuisine or any tag (key=value) contains one of these words, case-insensitive.
maxPlaces	integer	500	Per category and area. 0 = no cap (up to 5,000 per Overpass query, within maxRunSecs).
reverseGeocode	boolean	false	For places with no addr:* tag at all, ask Nominatim for the nearest address. One request a second, at most 200 a run.
includeRawTags	boolean	true	Add the place's OSM tags as a tags object.
maxRunSecs	integer	240	30–3,600. No new query is started after this.
proxyConfiguration	object	{ "useApifyProxy": true }	Apify datacenter proxy by default; both services answered through it in testing.

At least one valid category and one of areas, bboxes or points are needed; a run with neither fails straight away without sending a request, and costs nothing. There is no concurrency setting: this Actor keeps exactly one Overpass query in flight, always (see Fair use).

Output reference

Every row has the same columns; the ones that do not apply are null.

Envelope (every row): ok, rowType (place, area or diagnostic), input (the category and area, as amenity=cafe in Berlin, Germany), error, errorType, scrapedAt, source (openstreetmap), sourceUrl, attribution (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL).

place rows (paid):

Column	From	Notes
osmType, osmId, osmUrl	the element	node, way or relation; the id is permanent.
name, brand, brandWikidata	name, brand, brand:wikidata
category, categoryKey, categoryValue, categoryLabel	the tag it was found by	amenity=cafe; the label is taginfo's description. For key=* the element's own value.
cuisine	cuisine	An array, split on ;.
lat, lon	the node, or the centre of a way or relation	WGS84.
street, houseNumber, postcode, city, suburb	addr:*
country	addr:country, else the named area's country	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2.
address	the above, joined in local order	Or addr:full, or the reverse-geocoded address.
website	website → contact:website → brand:website	Normalised to an https:// URL; the tag's own spelling stays in tags.
phone	phone → contact:phone	The first number when several are tagged.
email	email → contact:email	Only on a named business (see Personal data).
openingHours	opening_hours	Exactly as tagged, in OSM's opening-hours syntax.
wheelchair, outdoorSeating, takeaway, delivery, internetAccess, level	the matching tags	Values as tagged (yes, no, limited, wlan…).
checkDate	check_date	When a mapper last confirmed the place.
wikidata, wikipedia	wikidata, wikipedia	The Wikipedia tag as an article URL.
tags	every tag	Minus the personal ones; null when includeRawTags is off.
areaName, areaOsmId	the area searched	areaOsmId for named areas (62422 for Berlin).
distanceMeters	points mode	Straight-line metres from your point.
rank		Position within its category and area: OSM id order for areas and boxes, nearest first for points.

area rows (free, one per area): areaName, displayName, osmType, osmId, osmUrl, boundingBox ({ south, west, north, east }), areaId (the Overpass area id, 3600000000 + the relation id), country, addressType, lat/lon (Nominatim's centre for a named area, the point itself for a points search), tiles (Overpass queries it took, across all categories) and placeCount.

diagnostic rows (free):

errorType	Meaning
invalid-input	A category, box, point or area that could not be used, and why.
area-not-found	Nominatim had no match for the name.
no-results	The query worked and nothing matched — or everything it found was dropped by requireName, keywords, or had already been returned.
overpass-busy	Both public Overpass instances answered 429 or 5xx (see Fair use).
overpass-timeout	Part of an area could not be finished within Overpass's 60 s limit even after halving it.
rate-limited, blocked	Nominatim answered 429 or 403, or Overpass answered 403 twice.
http, timeout	Any other HTTP status, or no answer in time.
deadline	maxRunSecs ran out; what was delivered is kept.
budget	Your maximum total charge was reached; what was delivered is kept.
upstream-format	A response in a shape this Actor does not recognise, or Overpass refusing the query or the User-Agent.
actor-error	The Actor itself failed; the run is marked FAILED.

The dataset has three views: Places (name, category, city, address, phone, website, openingHours, lat, lon, osmUrl), Areas and Diagnostics.

How areas are resolved

• A name goes to OpenStreetMap's Nominatim geocoder once: search?q=<name>&format=jsonv2&limit=1&addressdetails=1. Its first hit gives a bounding box and, when it is an administrative boundary (an OSM relation, as cities and districts are), the boundary itself. With useAreaBoundary on, the search is area(3600000000 + relation id) — exactly the city, not the edge of the next one. Otherwise, or when the hit is not a boundary, its bounding box is used. Nominatim is asked once per distinct name per run however many categories you list, and never more than one request per second, as its usage policy requires: https://operations.osmfoundation.org/policies/nominatim/. A 429 or 403 from Nominatim is never retried and stops every further Nominatim request in that run.
• A bounding box is used as given.
• A point is searched with Overpass's around filter, and the results sorted nearest first.

A name Nominatim cannot find is a free area-not-found row; the other areas still run. Adding the country usually fixes it ("Cambridge, UK", not "Cambridge").

Fair use

Overpass and Nominatim are run by volunteers and the OSM Foundation on donated hardware. This Actor treats them accordingly:

• One identifying User-Agent on every request: insight-solutions-osm-places-api/0.1 (+https://apify.com/insight.solutions). Overpass refuses generic ones — in testing it answered a curl and a browser User-Agent with HTTP 406 — and both services' policies ask for it.
• One Overpass query in flight for the whole run, a short pause between queries, and [timeout:60] on every query.
• Small queries. A box larger than 0.5° × 0.5° is split into tiles of at most 0.25° a side, queried one after another; more than 64 tiles (about 2° × 2°) is refused — name the area instead. Every query is capped with out … n: at what the run still needs, or at 5,000 when keywords or a points search mean the filtering and sorting happen on our side.
• Busy servers are left alone. A 429 or 5xx waits 10 seconds and tries the other public instance (overpass-api.de ↔ lz4.overpass-api.de) from a fresh proxy exit, then waits 20 and 30 seconds for two more alternations made directly, without the proxy — four attempts spread over about a minute — and then gives up on that query with a free overpass-busy row. Three of those in a row and the run stops querying altogether.
• Oversized queries are halved. A query that hits the 60-second limit is halved and retried, down to an eighth of the original, and a category that times out six times in one area stops there with one overpass-timeout row.
• Reverse geocoding is opt-in, one request a second, at most 200 a run, and only for places with no address at all.
• The Store's daily test run never calls Nominatim — the prefill is a bounding box.

Attribution

The data is © OpenStreetMap contributors and is available under the Open Database License (ODbL): https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright. Every row carries "attribution": "© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL", and a successful run's status message ends with it. If you publish or redistribute the data — a map, a directory, a report — you must credit OpenStreetMap contributors and keep the ODbL's share-alike terms for any database you derive from it.

What is and isn't in OSM

OpenStreetMap is mapped by volunteers, so coverage varies: dense and current in most European and many North American cities, thinner elsewhere, and a small village café may simply not be mapped. Measured on the 137 named cafés of the prefill box (central Berlin, 2026-09-30):

Field	Filled
openingHours	64%
address	64%
website	39%
phone	26%
email	13%
wheelchair	68%
outdoorSeating	69%
cuisine	40%
brand	16% (chains only)

• There are no reviews, ratings, photos or price levels — OSM does not collect them.
• Opening hours are as tagged, in OSM's own syntax (

  Mo-Fr 07:00-21:00; Sa 08:00-21:00
  ); this Actor does not evaluate them into "open now". checkDate, where present, says when someone last confirmed the place.
• A place closed since it was last mapped is still there until a mapper removes it.

Personal data

OSM describes places, but its free-form tags occasionally name a person. This Actor returns organisation-level facts only:

• contact:person, contact:name, owner and contact:owner are never returned — not as a column and not in tags.
• An operator that looks like a personal name (two or three capitalised words with no company marker such as GmbH, Ltd, Inc or e.V.) is removed from tags. The test errs on the side of removing: a company whose name looks like a person's is removed too.
• email is returned only for a named business — an element with one of the seven category keys and a name — where it is the organisation's published mailbox; otherwise it is removed from tags as well.
• A business phone is kept: it is the business's number.

What you are never charged for

• The area row for each area searched.
• Every diagnostic row: areas not found, categories with nothing mapped, busy or timed-out Overpass queries, rate limits, the time budget and the charge limit.
• Places dropped by requireName or keywords — they are filtered before they are written.
• A place already returned earlier in the same run, under another category, in a neighbouring tile or in an overlapping area.
• Nominatim lookups and the addresses reverseGeocode fills in.
• A run that returns no place at all: it finishes SUCCEEDED with a "0 results … Nothing was charged." status message, and the start fee is not billed either.

Pricing

Event	FREE	BRONZE	SILVER	GOLD
Run started (once, only when a place is returned)	$0.001	$0.001	$0.001	$0.001
Place	$0.0005	$0.0005	$0.0004	$0.0003

That is $0.50 per 1,000 places on the FREE tier. The prefill costs $0.051; every café in central Berlin (about 1,400) costs 1,400 × $0.0005 + $0.001 = $0.701. Set a maximum total charge on the run and it stops querying when it gets there, keeping everything already delivered.

Use it from an AI agent, or from code

Over the Apify MCP server (mcp.apify.com) an agent can call it as insight.solutions/osm-places-api with the same JSON input. From Python:

# pip install apify-client
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("insight.solutions/osm-places-api").call(run_input={
    "categories": ["amenity=cafe"],
    "areas": ["Berlin, Germany"],
    "maxPlaces": 200,
})
for place in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    if place["rowType"] == "place":
        print(place["name"], place["address"], place["website"])

Or in one HTTP call: POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/insight.solutions~osm-places-api/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN> with the input as the JSON body.

FAQ

Do I need an OpenStreetMap or Overpass account or key? No. Both services are public; this Actor identifies itself with its own User-Agent.

Why did "Cambridge" give me the wrong Cambridge? Nominatim returns its best match, and there are several. Add the country — Cambridge, UK or Cambridge, MA, USA — or pass a bounding box.

Why is address empty for some places? Because nobody has tagged an address on them in OSM. Turn on reverseGeocode to fill it from the nearest address Nominatim knows (slow by design: one a second, 200 a run).

Why is website https when the tag says http? The column is normalised so every value is a link you can open over TLS; the original is in tags.website.

How do I get more than 500 places? Raise maxPlaces, or set it to 0 for no cap. Large areas take more queries and more time; raise maxRunSecs too.

Can I search a whole country? By name, with useAreaBoundary on, it is one boundary query per category — which Overpass may not finish in 60 s for a common category; the Actor then halves the area a few times and tells you what it could not finish. A city or region at a time is faster and more reliable.

Is the same place ever charged twice? Not in one run. Across runs, yes — each run returns what is in OSM at the time.

What does categoryLabel say for bar? Nothing: taginfo publishes no description for it, and the Actor does not invent one.

Limitations

• The upstream formats may change. Overpass, Nominatim and OSM's tagging conventions are maintained by volunteers; a changed response shape comes back as a free upstream-format row rather than bad data.
• Coverage and freshness are OSM's, and vary by place and category.
• Public Overpass instances are shared and sometimes busy; a busy run returns free diagnostics rather than retrying aggressively.
• At most 5,000 places per Overpass query; a tile that would hold more is cut at that number.
• Boxes across the 180th meridian are not supported; split them in two.
• The personal-name check on operator is a heuristic and errs on the side of removing.
• Opening hours are returned as tagged, not evaluated.
• Nominatim resolves a name to its single best match; there is no disambiguation prompt.

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• Substack Scraper — posts with full free text, comments and publication profiles.
• Hacker News API — stories, comments, users, front page and a structured "Who is hiring?" parser from the official HN APIs.
• Discourse Forum API — topics, posts and categories from any Discourse community via its own JSON endpoints, usernames only.

News, documents & the web

• Google News Search, Topics & Real Article URLs — news search and topic feeds with the publisher's real URL decoded.
• Website to Markdown — Content Extractor for LLMs & RAG — any site as clean Markdown, text and heading-aware chunks.
• Internet Archive API — archive.org search, item metadata, files and reviews.
• Wayback Machine Toolkit — archived URL inventories, snapshots and text diffs between dates.
• Website Technology Detector — the tech stack behind any site, with the evidence for each detection.
• Domain Intelligence API — DNS, RDAP registration, TLS certificate and HTTP facts in one row per domain.
• SEO Page Audit — sitemap crawl with on-page checks, structured data and broken-link reports.
• Keyword Suggestions API — Google, YouTube, Bing, Amazon and eBay autocomplete with alphabet and question expansions.
• Website Contact Extractor — emails, phone numbers and social profiles from any list of websites.
• Web Search Results API — Bing and DuckDuckGo organic results with snippets, no key, no browser.
• Company Enrichment API — a domain in, a company profile out: firmographics, contacts, tech stack, DNS and hiring signal.
• Company Dossier API — one company in, twelve sections out: profile, tech, contacts, DNS, open roles, news, SEC filings, federal awards, recalls, YC batch and apps.
• Press Releases API — GlobeNewswire and PR Newswire releases plus any newsroom feed, by keyword, company, ticker or subject.
• Federal Register API — rules, proposed rules, notices and the Public Inspection desk with dockets, comment deadlines and CFR references.
• Academic Papers Search API — OpenAlex, Crossref, arXiv and PubMed in one row per paper: abstract, citations, open-access PDF, authors and venue.
• RSS & Atom Feed Monitor — any RSS, Atom or JSON feed (or an OPML file) in, only the new items out, with keyword filters and a webhook.
• Website Change Monitor — watch any pages, diff the text between runs, get change rows with added/removed lines, keyword alerts and a webhook.
• Wikipedia & Wikidata API — article text, search, daily pageviews and Wikidata entity facts, any language edition.

Business, finance & jobs

• Congress & Insider Trades API — STOCK Act periodic transaction reports and SEC Form 4 insider trades in one schema.
• Federal Contracts, Grants & Lobbying API — SAM.gov opportunities, USAspending awards, Grants.gov notices and Senate lobbying filings in one schema.
• SEC EDGAR API — filings, XBRL financials and full-text search by ticker or CIK.
• Clinical Trials & FDA API — ClinicalTrials.gov studies plus openFDA recalls, labels, approvals, 510(k)s and adverse-event reports.
• Product & Vehicle Recalls API — CPSC, NHTSA, FDA and USDA recalls, vehicle complaints and ratings, plus a VIN decoder.
• Y Combinator Companies, Batches & Founders — the YC directory with founders and social links, filterable by batch, industry and hiring status.
• Career Site Jobs API — jobs straight from Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable and 10+ other ATS career sites.
• New Job Postings Monitor — new, closed and changed postings on the career sites you watch.
• Hiring Signals API — Open Roles & Hiring Surge by Company — one row per company per run: open roles, what opened and closed, department and seniority breakdowns, and a hiring-surge flag.
• Remote Jobs API — RemoteOK, Remotive, We Work Remotely, Himalayas, Jobicy and more in one schema, deduplicated.
• Shopify Products API — any Shopify store's catalogue, variants, prices and stock signals.
• Shopify Store Monitor — price drops, sales, restocks, sell-outs and new products on any Shopify store, one row per change.
• Public Tenders API — EU TED, UK Find a Tender and Contracts Finder notices by keyword, CPV code, country, stage and deadline.
• Nonprofit & IRS 990 Lookup API — search US nonprofits and get EIN, NTEE code and multi-year Form 990 financials.

Apps & games

• App Store & Google Play Reviews API — reviews from both stores with ratings, versions and developer replies.
• App Store Top Charts & App Search API — Apple top charts by country and genre, plus app search and details.
• App Store Keyword Rank Tracker — where any app ranks for any keyword on the App Store and Google Play, with rank changes and ASO suggestions.
• Steam Reviews API — Steam reviews with playtime, helpfulness and game details.
• Steam Game Data API — prices, tags, review scores, live player counts and top charts.