📍 Google Maps Scraper — Local Business Leads, Reviews, Hours, Phones at Scale

Pull live business listings from Google Maps for any query + region — names, phones, websites, ratings, reviews, opening hours, latitude / longitude. A drop-in alternative to Google Maps Places API, Yelp Fusion, SerpApi Maps, Outscraper, and Bright Data Maps — with no per-call SDK fees.

Why Google Maps Scraper Beats Places API, Yelp Fusion, SerpApi, Outscraper & Bright Data

Feature	NexGenData Google Maps Scraper	Google Maps Places API	Yelp Fusion API	SerpApi Maps	Outscraper Maps	Bright Data Maps
Cost	Pay-per-event, no subscription	$17 – $32 per 1,000 calls	Free but limited	$75 – $2,500 / month	Per-result, plan-gated	Enterprise contract
Coverage	Global — every Google Maps locale	Global	US + 30 countries	Global	Global	Global
Reviews per place	Full review text + author + rating	Limited (5 per call)	Limited	Yes	Yes	Yes
Phone + website	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Hours of operation	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Lat / long	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Bulk query input	Unlimited per run	Per-call	Plan-gated	Plan-gated	Plan-gated	Plan-gated
Output	CSV / JSON / Excel / API	JSON	JSON	JSON	CSV / JSON	JSON
Auth	Apify token	Google Cloud API key + billing	API key + plan	API key + plan	API key	Enterprise SSO
Time-to-first-row	< 60 seconds	Billing + project setup	Signup + plan	Signup + plan	Signup	Sales cycle

Most lead-gen and local-SEO teams pick this scraper because it is cheaper than Places API at scale, simpler than Bright Data's enterprise contract, and broader than Yelp Fusion's 30-country footprint. JSON drops straight into your CRM.

What You Get

Each place returns:

• Business name + Google place_id
• Category — primary + secondary tags (e.g., "Italian restaurant", "Pizza takeaway")
• Address — street, city, state, ZIP, country
• Latitude / longitude
• Phone number (formatted)
• Website URL + Google Maps URL
• Hours of operation — weekly schedule + special hours
• Average rating (1–5) + total review count
• Full review text — author, rating, date, text per review (configurable depth)
• Photos — array of image URLs
• Plus code (Google Open Location Code)
• Price level (1–4, where shown)
• Currently open / temporarily closed / permanently closed flag
• Owner-claimed flag
• Scrape timestamp

Output streams to a clean Apify dataset — CSV, JSON, Excel, RSS, or hit the API directly.

Use Cases

• Outbound sales — build a list of every dentist / law firm / HVAC company in a city, enriched with phone + website
• Local SEO agencies — audit a client's competitors' review counts, ratings, and category overlap
• Franchise + multi-location ops — monitor each franchisee's review velocity and rating trend
• Restaurant tech / delivery — build a market-coverage map of all eligible merchants per zone
• Real-estate retail leasing — source vacant-storefront leads by tracking permanently-closed flags
• Brand-protection — detect fake duplicate listings impersonating your brand
• Travel + hospitality — build hotel + attraction directories per region with review-sourced sentiment

Quick Start

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run_input = {
    "searchStringsArray": ["dentist in austin tx"],
    "maxCrawledPlacesPerSearch": 100,
    "includeReviews": True,
    "maxReviews": 10,
}
run = client.actor("nexgendata/google-maps-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item.get("name"), item.get("phone"), item.get("rating"))

Pricing

Pay-per-event. Small Actor Start fee + per-place fee for each business written to the dataset. No subscription, no minimum, no seat fee.

Compare to Google Maps Places API at $17-$32 per 1,000 calls (and Place Details charges separately), SerpApi at $75-$2,500 per month, or Bright Data's enterprise contract — this actor pays for itself within the first 1,000-row batch for most teams.

Related NexGenData Actors

Use case	Actor
Yelp business scraper (US + international)	Yelp Business Scraper
Maps API access for AI agents (MCP)	Google Maps MCP Server
Bulk B2B leads finder	B2B Leads Finder
Detect hiring signals from local businesses	Hiring Signal Detector
Find emails for a company domain	Company Email Finder
Scrape contact info from any URL	Contact Info Scraper
Enrich a domain list with leads	Lead List Enricher
Validate emails (deliverability)	Email Validator

FAQ

Is scraping Google Maps legal? This actor reads publicly displayed business listings the same way a regular browser does, throttled and proxied. We do not bypass logins or paywalls.

How fresh is the data? Live on every run. Each invocation pulls the current Google Maps result at runtime.

Coverage? Global — every country and locale Google Maps serves.

Drop-in for the Places API? For data extraction, yes — you get a superset of Places Details (full review text, owner-claimed flag, photos array). For autocomplete / nearby-search SDK use cases inside a native mobile app, you still want Places API directly.

Can I scrape reviews? Yes — set includeReviews: true and maxReviews: N. Each result returns up to N reviews with author, rating, date, and full text.

Can I schedule daily? Yes — native Apify scheduling + webhook on completion.

Does it return latitude / longitude? Yes — every result includes lat / long, plus Google's plus code.

About NexGenData

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How NexGenData Pricing Works

Every NexGenData actor uses pay-per-event pricing — you only pay for results that actually land in your dataset. No monthly minimum, no seat fees, no surprise overage bills.

• Actor Start: a single-event charge each time you spin the actor up (scaled to memory size)
• Result: charged per item written to the default dataset
• No charge for retries, internal proxy rotation, or failed sub-requests — those are absorbed by the platform

If you only need the data once a quarter, you only pay once a quarter. If you scale to millions of records, the unit cost stays the same.

Apify Platform Bonus

New to Apify? Sign up with the NexGenData referral link — you get free platform credits on signup (enough for several thousand free results) and you help fund the maintenance of this actor fleet.

Integration Surface

Every actor in the NexGenData catalog can be triggered from:

• Apify console — point-and-click run
• Apify API — REST + webhooks
• Apify Python / JS SDKs — programmatic batch
• Zapier, Make.com, n8n — official integrations
• MCP — many actors are exposed as MCP tools for Claude / ChatGPT / Cursor agents
• Schedules — built-in cron for daily / weekly / monthly runs
• Webhooks — POST results to any HTTPS endpoint on dataset write

Support

NexGenData maintains 260+ Apify actors and ships updates regularly. Bug reports via the Apify console issues tab get a response within 24 hours. Roadmap requests are welcome — high-demand features ship in the next version.

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