Google Maps Company Scraper (Apify Actor)

This Actor scrapes company profiles from Google Maps search results and exports structured business data.

What it does

• Builds a Google Maps query from your input parameters.
• Opens the Google Maps search result list for that query.
• Scrolls the result feed until it collects enough place links.
• Saves search-list results to the default Apify dataset as soon as links are collected, so output is available before short run timeouts.
• Visits remaining place detail pages only when there is enough time and the result was not already saved.
• Extracts normalized company fields from the best data available before timeout.

Extracted output fields

Each dataset item contains:

• companyName
• companyIndustry
• locationRegion
• exactAddress
• servicesOffered
• companyDomain
• googleMapsLink
• contactNumber
• emailId
• starRating
• reviewCount
• totalCompaniesFound

Input schema

The Actor expects the following input fields (configured in .actor/input_schema.json):

• searchQuery (string, optional)
  • Main query term. If empty, query is auto-built.
• location (string, required)
  • City/region to search in.
• industryFilter (string, optional)
  • Used for auto-built query when searchQuery is empty.
• minEmployees (integer, optional, default 0)
  • Appended to the query when greater than 0.
• maxEmployees (integer, optional)
  • Used with minEmployees for range query text.
• numResults (integer, required, default 50, max 500)
  • Number of places to extract.
• useProxy (boolean, default true)
  • Enables Apify Proxy configuration.

Query-building behavior

Query logic:

1. Start with searchQuery if provided.
2. Otherwise use:
   • "<industryFilter> companies" when industryFilter is set, or
   • "companies" fallback.
3. Append in <location> unless the base query already includes the city name.
4. Append employee-size text:
   • with <min> to <max> employees when both min and max are provided.
   • with <min>+ employees when only min is provided.

Anti-block and reliability settings

• Optional Apify Proxy support (useProxy).
• Session pool enabled.
• Persistent cookies per session enabled.
• Browser launch args include:
  • --disable-blink-features=AutomationControlled
  • --lang=en-US

Tech stack

• Node.js (ES modules)
• Apify SDK (apify)
• Crawlee (PlaywrightCrawler)
• Playwright

Example input

{
  "searchQuery": "AI Companies",
  "location": "Bangalore, India",
  "industryFilter": "IT Services",
  "minEmployees": 500,
  "maxEmployees": 1000,
  "numResults": 20,
  "useProxy": true
}

Notes

• Data quality depends on what each Google Maps place profile exposes publicly.
• The actor prioritizes saving records before a run timeout; records saved directly from the search list may contain N/A for fields that require opening a detail page.
• emailId is inferred as info@domain when website domain is available.
• contactNumber may be parsed from page text when a direct phone selector is absent.