Google Maps Reviews Scraper

This Google Maps reviews scraper lets you scrape the reviews of any Google Maps place and export them to JSON, CSV or Excel. Paste a few place links or Place IDs, press Start, and get one row per review: the star rating, text (translated into your language, with the original kept), date, likes, photos, the owner's reply, the reviewer and the place. No Google account, no login and no API key are needed.

What data can you extract from Google Maps reviews?

Each review comes back as one row with 30 fields.

Group	Fields
Review	Review ID and link, stars, text, original text and its language, date (ISO 8601 in UTC) and the date as Google shows it, month of visit, likes
Details	Aspect ratings and answers such as Food 5, Service 4, Meal type Dinner; links to the review's photos
Owner reply	The owner's response and when it was posted
Reviewer	Name, contributor ID, profile link, profile picture, number of reviews written, Local Guide badge
Place	Name, address, main category, average rating, number of reviews, Place ID, CID and Google Maps link
Run details	The input the review came from, and when the row was scraped

Use cases

• Reputation management: track new reviews of your locations every day, and catch bad ones early.
• Competitor analysis: read what customers praise and criticise at competing businesses.
• Sentiment analysis and research: export thousands of reviews, already translated into one language, for sentiment, topic or NLP work.
• Customer service: find reviews without an owner reply, or the negative ones, and answer them.
• Multi-location brands: compare ratings and complaints across all your branches.
• Lead qualification: see how a business treats its customers before you contact it.

How to scrape Google Maps reviews

1. Open Google Maps Reviews Scraper in Apify Console and go to the Input tab.
2. In Places, paste one Google Maps place link per line (copy it from your browser's address bar), or a Place ID such as ChIJg4octORx5kcRijmhQTSm1Fs.
3. Set Max reviews per place, or leave it empty for every review.
4. Pick a Sort by order and, if you like, Newer than, Language, star filters and Only reviews with text.
5. Click Start and watch the reviews appear in the Output tab.
6. Download the data as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML, or read it through the Apify API.

Input

Field	What it does
Places	One per line: a place URL (https://www.google.com/maps/place/...), a share link (https://maps.app.goo.gl/...), a cid link (https://www.google.com/maps?cid=...) or a Place ID (ChIJ...). The same place entered twice is scraped once.
Max reviews per place	Stops each place after this many reviews. Leave empty for every review.
Sort by	Newest (default), Most relevant, Highest rating or Lowest rating.
Newer than	Only reviews written after a date in UTC (2026-01-31) or within a duration back from now (24h, 7d, 2w, 6m, 1y). With Newest it also stops each place at the first older review, which keeps scheduled runs cheap.
Language	Language code such as en, fr, de or pt-BR. Google translates reviews into it and the scraper keeps the untranslated text in original_text.
Min stars, Max stars	Keep only reviews in a star range: Max stars 2 gives the negative reviews.
Only reviews with text, Only reviews with photos	Leave out star-only reviews, or reviews without photos.
Max results	Stops the whole run after this many reviews.

{
    "urls": [
        "https://www.google.com/maps/place/La+Tour+d'Argent/@48.8499542,2.3524796,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x47e671e4b41c8a83:0x5bd4a63441a1398a!8m2!3d48.8499369!4d2.3547128",
        "ChIJi_GO28PAyRIR8lA2xszYZW0"
    ],
    "maxReviewsPerPlace": 500,
    "sort": "newest",
    "newerThan": "30d",
    "language": "en"
}

Output

A row from a real run, with the reviewer's details replaced by placeholders:

{
    "review_id": "Ci9DQUlRQUNvZENodHljRjlvT21ReldHRjBjM1EyTVY5V1NWOU1aVU5TVWpkRFUzYxAB",
    "review_url": "https://www.google.com/maps/reviews/data=!4m8!14m7!1m6!2m5!1sCi9DQUlRQUNvZENodHljRjlvT21ReldHRjBjM1EyTVY5V1NWOU1aVU5TVWpkRFUzYxAB!2m1!1s0x0:0x5bd4a63441a1398a!3m1!1s2@1:CAIQACodChtycF9oOmQzWGF0c3Q2MV9WSV9MZUNSUjdDU3c%7C%7C?hl=en-US",
    "rating": 5,
    "text": "I came here specifically for the chicken, and it absolutely did not disappoint!! The chicken was great (so was the wine) but the place was otherwise so cool!!",
    "original_text": null,
    "original_language": "en",
    "published_at": "2026-10-15T08:25:03+00:00",
    "published_at_relative": "a day ago",
    "visited_in": "Oct 2026",
    "likes_count": 0,
    "aspects": {"Food": 5, "Service": 5, "Atmosphere": 5},
    "photos": ["https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/grass-cs/AABkmLfcDOnJ7FsvFpIGJfgvY-xzztkf11VZfxmSu2SoKW-EnQZlg36RKINpZWs5GobcdjFC6kYJpILi5rZYFeL5Lgh4vdImaIPTTumph5eBs9bOR_AAozSe83fSM148wr6Ufn4237qOgTTSv1Uw"],
    "owner_response": "Dear E.H,\n\nThank you so much for taking the time to share this! …",
    "owner_response_relative": "6 hours ago",
    "reviewer_name": "<reviewer's name>",
    "reviewer_id": "<reviewer's contributor ID>",
    "reviewer_url": "https://www.google.com/maps/contrib/<reviewer's contributor ID>/reviews",
    "reviewer_photo_url": "<reviewer's profile picture URL>",
    "reviewer_reviews_count": 32,
    "reviewer_is_local_guide": true,
    "place_name": "La Rôtisserie d'Argent",
    "place_address": "19 Quai de la Tournelle, 75005 Paris, France",
    "place_category": "French restaurant",
    "place_rating": 4.5,
    "place_reviews_count": 3724,
    "place_id": "ChIJg4octORx5kcRijmhQTSm1Fs",
    "place_cid": "6617096495883696522",
    "place_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?cid=6617096495883696522",
    "source_url": "ChIJg4octORx5kcRijmhQTSm1Fs",
    "scraping_time": "2026-10-16T15:21:40+00:00"
}

You can export the results to JSON, CSV, Excel, XML and HTML from the Output tab, or fetch them with the API. Photo and profile picture links come from Google and can stop working after a while, so download the images soon if you need them.

How much does it cost to scrape Google Maps reviews?

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing: you pay only for the reviews you get.

• $0.45 per 1,000 reviews on the Apify Free plan.
• Bronze, Silver and Gold Apify plans pay less: $0.35, $0.30 and $0.22 per 1,000 reviews.
• Proxies are included. There is no separate charge per place or per run.

Inputs that fail (see the FAQ) give no rows, so they cost nothing. Use Max reviews per place, Newer than and Max results to keep a run within budget.

Integrations and API

Everything you can do in Apify Console you can also do through the Apify API: start runs, pass input, and read the reviews as JSON, CSV or Excel.

Python, with the apify-client package:

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("keklik/google-maps-reviews-scraper").call(run_input={
    "urls": ["ChIJg4octORx5kcRijmhQTSm1Fs"],
    "maxReviewsPerPlace": 200,
})
for review in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(review["rating"], review["text"])

Node.js, with the apify-client package:

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>' });
const run = await client.actor('keklik/google-maps-reviews-scraper').call({
    urls: ['ChIJg4octORx5kcRijmhQTSm1Fs'],
    maxReviewsPerPlace: 200,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

You can also:

• Schedule runs, for example every day with Newer than set to 24h, to collect only the new reviews.
• Use webhooks to get notified, or start another process, when a run finishes.
• Send the data to Google Sheets, Make, Zapier, Slack and other apps with Apify integrations.
• Let AI agents run the scraper through the Apify MCP server, from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other MCP clients.

FAQ

Is it legal to scrape Google Maps reviews?

The scraper reads only what Google shows publicly to visitors who are not logged in. Reviews are still personal data of the people who wrote them: their names, profile pictures and words. If you are in the EU or handle data of people there, the GDPR applies, and other countries have similar laws. Make sure you have a lawful reason to collect and use the data, keep only what you need, and ask a lawyer if you are unsure.

Do I need a Google account or an API key?

No. You don't need a Google account, a login, cookies or a Google Places API key, and there is no proxy to set up. The official Places API returns at most 5 reviews per place; this scraper returns all of them.

How many reviews can I get from one place?

Every review Google shows to visitors, in the order you choose. In our tests the scraper read 1,200 reviews of one restaurant in about 90 seconds. Google's review count includes reviews it later hides or filters, so you can get somewhat fewer rows than place_reviews_count.

Are reviews from Tripadvisor and other sites included?

No. You get Google reviews only: the review feed Google serves to visitors who are not logged in doesn't include reviews from partner sites.

Why did some inputs fail?

Failed inputs give no rows. They are listed with a reason in the FAILED record of the run's key-value store (Storage tab), not in the dataset:

• invalid_input: not a place link or Place ID. Search URLs (/maps/search/...) and directions are not places: use Google Maps Leads Scraper to find places first.
• not_found: the place doesn't exist or was removed.
• no_reviews: the place has no reviews.
• blocked: Google refused every attempt. Run it again later.
• google_error: Google answered with an error the scraper doesn't recognise. Please report it.

If no input returns a single review, the run ends with the status Failed.

Can I get reviews together with business data?

Yes. Google Maps Leads Scraper can add a few reviews to each place with its Reviews per place setting. Use this Actor when you want many reviews per place, or each review as a row of its own. You can also feed the url or place_id column of the leads scraper's output into this Actor.

Related scrapers

• Google Maps Leads Scraper: find businesses by keyword and city, with phone, website, rating and emails, then scrape their reviews here.

Support

Found a bug or missing a field? Open an issue in the Issues tab of this Actor and we'll look into it. Need a custom scraper for another website, or a different output format? Get in touch through the Issues tab and tell us what you need.