Google Maps Business Scraper & Monitor: Leads by Category

List the businesses Google Maps shows for any category in any city: name, category, rating, reviews count, address, website, opening status, coordinates and place ID. Or schedule it in changes mode and get only what moved since the last run: new businesses, closures, new websites and rating changes.

Business data only. No login, no reviews, no photos, no reviewer names. The phone number is optional and off by default.

What it does

• Searches Google Maps for every search term in every location (e.g. "dentist" × "Austin, Texas").
• Scrolls the result list up to your limit (Google stops at about 120 places per search).
• Reads each business from the list, so one search page gives up to 120 places.
• Optionally opens each place page (includeDetails) for the full address with postal code, website, phone, plus code and weekly opening hours.
• Removes duplicates found by more than one search.
• Applies your filters before charging: rating, reviews count, with or without website, category.
• In changes mode, compares with the last run and returns only the differences.

Use cases

• Lead lists: every plumber, dentist or gym in a city, with website and rating. Use website: "without" to find businesses that still have no site.
• Market research: count competitors by category and neighborhood, compare ratings.
• Monitoring: a weekly run tells you which businesses opened, closed or changed their website in your area.
• AI agents: two input fields, a flat output, and you only pay for places returned.

Input

{
  "searchTerms": ["dentist", "orthodontist"],
  "locations": ["Austin, Texas", "Round Rock, Texas"],
  "maxPlacesPerSearch": 60,
  "minRating": 4,
  "mode": "all"
}

Field	Default	What it does
searchTerms	—	What to look for. Each term is searched in each location.
locations	—	Where to look. Leave empty if your terms already say where.
queries	—	Full queries as typed in Google Maps, added to the others.
maxPlacesPerSearch	60	Up to 120. For more places, split a city into neighborhoods.
mode	all	all returns every place; changes returns only new, updated or missing places.
monitorId	from searches + filters	Name of the saved state for changes mode.
includePhone	false	Add the business phone shown on the listing.
includeDetails	false	Open each place page for full address, website, phone, plus code and opening hours. Turned on by the website filter.
minRating	—	Keep places rated at least this much.
minReviews	—	Keep places with at least this many reviews.
website	any	with or without a website. Reads each place page, so it turns on details.
categories	—	Keep places whose Google category contains any of these.
excludeClosed	true	Skip permanently closed places.
maxConcurrency	2	Search pages loaded at once (1 to 3).

Up to 200 searches per run.

Output

One item per business:

{
  "placeId": "ChIJf9IQjhDTFJYRg8x0vx6FLNg",
  "cid": "15576971578275318915",
  "name": "Urgencia Dental Temuco- Dentista Temuco",
  "category": "Dentist",
  "rating": 4.9,
  "reviewsCount": 288,
  "priceLevel": null,
  "address": "España 460, Ofi 605",
  "description": null,
  "openingStatus": "Open · Closes 9 PM",
  "businessStatus": "OPERATIONAL",
  "website": "https://brunovalderramacea.wixsite.com/urgenciadentaltemuco",
  "latitude": -38.733945,
  "longitude": -72.6123218,
  "url": "https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJf9IQjhDTFJYRg8x0vx6FLNg",
  "searchQuery": "dentist in Temuco, Chile",
  "rank": 1,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-26T22:00:00.000Z"
}

With includePhone: true the item also has phone. With includeDetails: true it also has fullAddress, plusCode and openingHours (one entry per day, e.g. {"day": "Monday", "hours": "8 AM to 5 PM"}), and website comes from the place page. Without details, website is only filled when the list shows a Website button, which Google does for some categories only. detailsLoaded says which one you got. businessStatus is OPERATIONAL, TEMPORARILY_CLOSED or PERMANENTLY_CLOSED. address is the street address as shown in the list. openingStatus is the text Google shows at the time of the run.

In changes mode each item also has changeType, changes and monitorId:

{
  "changeType": "UPDATED",
  "changes": [{ "field": "businessStatus", "previous": "OPERATIONAL", "current": "PERMANENTLY_CLOSED" }],
  "name": "Clínica Cataluña - Dentista en Temuco",
  "monitorId": "austin-dentists"
}

• NEW: a place not seen before. The first run returns every place as NEW.
• UPDATED: name, category, address, price level, status, website or phone changed, or the rating moved by 0.1 or more (small moves add up).
• MISSING: a known place was not in the list for two complete runs in a row. Lists shift a little between runs, so this is a hint, not proof of closure.

For monitoring, set maxPlacesPerSearch to 120: with a short limit, places near the cut move in and out of the list and show up as NEW or MISSING.

The run summary (key-value store record OUTPUT) has the searches done, places found and filtered, changes by type, and any search that failed.

Example run

The prefilled input runs in about a minute and costs a few cents at most. It returns up to 20 places.

Input:

{
  "searchTerms": ["dentist"],
  "locations": ["Austin, Texas"],
  "maxPlacesPerSearch": 20
}

First result (long text shortened):

{
  "placeId": "ChIJb5gBC-u0RIYRHkntaUcdJGs",
  "name": "ATX Family Dental",
  "category": "Dentist",
  "rating": 4.9,
  "reviewsCount": 916,
  "address": "1700 S 1st St",
  "businessStatus": "OPERATIONAL",
  "latitude": 30.2482229,
  "longitude": -97.7559705,
  "searchQuery": "dentist in Austin, Texas",
  "rank": 1
}

Pricing

Pay per event:

Event	Price	When
Place result	$0.0015 ($1.50 per 1,000)	Each place returned. In changes mode, each change returned.
Place page read	$0.002	Only with details on (or a website filter): each place page read for a place returned, or, in changes mode, for each tracked place checked.

Places removed by your filters, failed searches and pages Google did not serve are free. Without details, 1,000 places cost $1.50; with details, $3.50.

How it works and limits

• It opens Google Maps in a regular headless Chromium, through Apify datacenter proxies, in English (hl=en) so the fields read the same everywhere. Names and addresses stay as Google shows them.
• By default it loads only the search pages, which keeps it fast and cheap. With details on it also loads each place page, about 4 to 8 seconds per place. Reviews and photos are never collected.
• It does not retry a page that Google answered with a challenge, and it stops the run if that happens on more than 5% of the pages. You are not charged for those searches.
• Google decides the order and the number of places in each list. Two runs of the same search can differ slightly.

Responsible use

This Actor returns business listings that Google Maps shows publicly. It does not collect reviews, reviewer names or photos. Some small businesses use a personal mobile number as their business phone; that is why phones are off by default. If you turn them on, use them only in line with the privacy, anti-spam and telemarketing laws that apply to you (for example GDPR, CAN-SPAM or TCPA). You are responsible for how you use the data and for complying with Google's terms.