# Latin America business directory scraper

**Use case:** 

The same Actor across 16 countries in the Americas. It takes a bounding box, not a country, so switching market is a different ISO code and nothing else. Measured in Lima: phone 74.8%, opening hours 80.5%. Countries under GDPR, UK GDPR and LGPD are refused by design — see the README.

## Input

```json
{
  "country": "PE",
  "categories": [
    "restaurante",
    "taller mecánico"
  ],
  "bbox": {
    "lat_min": -12.13,
    "lng_min": -77.06,
    "lat_max": -12.03,
    "lng_max": -76.96
  },
  "maxPlaces": 300,
  "requestBudget": 120,
  "censusOnly": false,
  "useCache": true,
  "maxDepth": 4,
  "saturationThreshold": 190,
  "gridStep": 1,
  "maxConcurrency": 6
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "name": {
    "label": "Name",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "categories": {
    "label": "Categories",
    "format": "array"
  },
  "address": {
    "label": "Address",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "locality": {
    "label": "Locality",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "phone_e164": {
    "label": "Phone (E.164)",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "website": {
    "label": "Website",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "rating": {
    "label": "Rating",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "latitude": {
    "label": "Latitude",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "longitude": {
    "label": "Longitude",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "country_code": {
    "label": "Country",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "from_cache": {
    "label": "From cache",
    "format": "boolean"
  },
  "data_age_hours": {
    "label": "Data age (h)",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "scraped_at": {
    "label": "Scraped at",
    "format": "string"
  }
}
```

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [Google Maps Business Scraper — Country-Scale](https://apify.com/oswaldocarabano/google-maps-scraper.md) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/oswaldocarabano/google-maps-scraper.md) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.


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