Google Maps Contributor Reviews Scraper

The Google Maps Contributor Reviews Scraper is an Apify actor that extracts the latest public reviews written by a Google Maps contributor (reviewer profile). Provide one or more contributor profile URLs, and the actor returns the reviews per URL with rich place metadata, owner replies, media, and the contributor's profile metrics.

✨ Key Features

• Reviewer-first extraction: Scrapes reviews authored by a specific Google Maps contributor.
• Place enrichment: Includes place details such as name, address, coordinates, rating, categories, country, and more.
• Owner replies & media: Captures owner replies, review text, images, videos, and structured aspects.
• Profile metrics: Enriches each review with the contributor's profile stats (level, points, reviews, photos, answers, etc.).

💡 Why It's Important

Monitoring a contributor's activity can help you:

• Understand reviewer influence across places, categories, and geographies.
• Analyze sentiment and engagement through owner replies and aspects.
• Audit reputation insights by linking each review to comprehensive place metadata.

👤 Who Is It For?

• Local businesses and franchises tracking brand mentions and responses.
• Agencies and analysts studying reviewer behavior and impact.
• Data teams building dashboards and pipelines around reviews data.

🚀 Business Use Cases

• Reputation monitoring: Follow prolific contributors who post about your locations.
• Reviewer profiling: Aggregate a contributor's footprint, categories, and content types.
• Content moderation & QA: Surface replies, timestamps, and aspects for internal checks.

⚠️ Public Data Limitation

This scraper retrieves only the latest ~10 reviews per provided contributor profile (startUrl). It mirrors the public Google Maps interface without authentication, which exposes only the first set of recent reviews. As a result, each startUrl yields up to ~10 reviews.

🛠 Input Schema

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.google.com/maps/contrib/102461194647441801965?hl=en" }
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}

Notes:

• Required: startUrls (array of Google Maps contributor profile URLs). Supported forms include:
  • https://www.google.com/maps/contrib/<CONTRIBUTOR_ID>?hl=en
  • https://www.google.com/maps/contrib/<CONTRIBUTOR_ID>/reviews/...
• Language is normalized to hl=en automatically.
• For unauthenticated runs, Google returns only the first ~10 reviews per contributor. The actor mirrors this limit per startUrl.
• Configure proxyConfiguration as needed for your environment.

📦 Output Schema

Each dataset item corresponds to a single review authored by the contributor, enriched with place and reviewer objects, plus media and aspects.

Example item:

{
  "id": "Ci9DQUlRQUNvZENodHljRjlvT25SM2N6aDZRVFF0UWxaelZEWnNkek0xUjFZd05uYxAB",
  "url": "https://www.google.com/maps/reviews/data=!4m8!14m7!1m6!2m5!1sCi9DQUlRQUNvZENodHljRjlvT25SM2N6aDZRVFF0UWxaelZEWnNkek0xUjFZd05uYxAB!2m1!1s0x0:0xcd91729489a76bb8!3m1!1s2@1:CAIQACodChtycF9oOnR3czh6QTQtQlZzVDZsdzM1R1YwNnc%7C%7C?hl=en-GB",
  "rating": 5,
  "text": "Thank you for the absolutely beautiful flowers and wonderful customer service! Your shop is top notch!",
  "createdAt": 1756943722314191,
  "reviewText": {
    "text": "Thank you for the absolutely beautiful flowers and wonderful customer service! Your shop is top notch!",
    "createdAt": 1756943722314191
  },
  "placeReply": {
    "text": "Hilarie, thank you so much for your review and for your business!  We appreciate you and look forward to serving you in the future!",
    "createdAt": 1757342635000000
  },
  "images": [],
  "videos": [],
  "aspects": [],
  "place": {
    "name": "Especially For You Your Downtown Florist",
    "address": "221 W 400 S, Salt Lake City, UT 84101, United States",
    "coordinates": { "lat": 40.760356, "lng": -111.89755269999999 },
    "rating": 4.9,
    "reviewCount": 516,
    "priceRange": null,
    "photo": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/gps-cs-s/AC9h4nrQLlcBPftUuYUg2KCCNFKS5enB2Ykg06tKsRLl9qeDmaMuPfTmS78uK17UXHL9_urMSQUr4T3hSUpD6WusIRR-ynFmMUmqjgiw_tzI04DhM3ZqdTZY1Ac6qWZIpCetLSTTp8Ju=w355-h200-k-no",
    "url": "https://www.google.com/maps/place//data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x8752f5126bafadd3:0xcd91729489a76bb8?authuser=-1&hl=en&gl=eg",
    "categories": [
      "Florist",
      "Flower delivery",
      "Flower designer",
      "Flower market",
      "Gift basket store"
    ],
    "country": "United States",
    "countryCode": "US",
    "timezone": "America/Denver"
  },
  "reviewer": {
    "id": "102461194647441801965",
    "name": "Hilarie Sant",
    "profileUrl": "https://www.google.com/maps/contrib/102461194647441801965",
    "profileImage": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a/ACg8ocJvpMzu29bAueBOk0bWNSVkhEs7qQ2CRTECQddnHRtYOhcH9w=s120-c-rp-mo-br100",
    "level": 3,
    "points": 154,
    "nextLevelPoints": 250,
    "numOfReviews": 9,
    "numOfRatings": 2,
    "numOfPhotos": 2,
    "numOfVideos": 0,
    "numOfCaptions": 0,
    "numOfAnswers": 13,
    "numOfEdits": 0,
    "numOfIncorrectReports": 0,
    "numOfPlacesAdded": 0,
    "numOfRoadsAdded": 0,
    "numOfFactsChecked": 0,
    "numOfQAndA": 0
  }
}

Notes:

• createdAt fields are numeric timestamps. Treat them as Unix timestamps at microsecond precision.
• images and videos arrays may be empty; when present, items contain a url.
• aspects may include structured Q&A-like items with question, answerType, and answer.

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