Google Maps Reviews & Photos Scraper
Under maintenancePricing
Pay per event
Two-mode Google Maps scraper. Pass search queries to discover candidate places, or Place IDs / CIDs / FIDs / short URLs / full URLs to extract reviews + Photos-tab images per place. Generic review fields: rating, date, owner response, translation, reviewer profile, helpful votes. Pay-per-event.
Initial v0.1 — private actor; not yet pushed to Apify Store.
Two-mode Google Maps scraper:
searchStringsArray): resolves free-form queries to candidate places, returning Place ID + summary fields per match.placeIds[]): given Place IDs (or CIDs / FIDs / short URLs / full Maps URLs — all normalized), extracts reviews + Photos-tab images.CONSENT cookie pre-seeding for EU/UK egress IPs.src/maps/identifiers.ts) for Place ID / CID / FID hex pair / short URL (goo.gl/maps, maps.app.goo.gl) / full /maps/place/... URL — all forms resolve to canonical Place ID before crawl. CID↔FID is pure arithmetic; short URLs resolve via redirect-following with a strict cross-origin allowlist (defends against SSRF-via-redirect leaking proxy session headers).recordType discriminator ('place' | 'review' | 'place_photos' | 'run_summary') so callers route by type without re-deriving from shape.rating, publishedAt, ownerResponse, detectedLanguage, reviewerProfileUrl, reviewerReviewCount, helpfulVotes, originalText, originalLanguage.{ url, originalUrl } — url keeps Google's existing size suffix; originalUrl carries the =s0 "give me original size" form.reviewUrl and every reviewImageUrls[] entry: scheme must be https, host must end in google.com / googleusercontent.com / ggpht.com. Disallowed URLs are dropped with a per-record audit note; status downgrades to 'partial'.status enum: 'ok' | 'place_not_found' | 'consent_wall' | 'rate_limited' | 'partial' | 'parse_error'.log.info mirror) with aggregate counts and consecutiveBlocksAtEnd for detecting session-wide regressions./maps/preview/listentitiesreviews HTTP, but maintaining a pb protobuf decoder is non-trivial. HTTP-reviews is a v0.2 perf optimization, not a v0.1 commitment.maxReviews counts post-filter (after onlyWithPhotos). Caller's intuition is "give me 50 reviews"; the actor scrolls past more raw reviews when needed, bounded by maxReviewsScanned (default maxReviews × 10).hl=en (and other language codes) sets Maps' UI locale only — does NOT filter reviews by language. All-language reviews are returned with detectedLanguage / originalLanguage annotations.