Google Maps Review Summary Scraper

The Google Maps Review Summary Generator is an Apify Actor that returns AI-powered review summaries for places on Google Maps. Google synthesizes what visitors write into concise paragraphs—covering food, atmosphere, service, location, and more—so you can surface high-level place insights without reading hundreds of individual reviews.

Each result includes the summary text and a link to the place's reviews on Google Maps.

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Key Features

• AI review summaries: Short, sentiment-aware overviews synthesized from visitor reviews.
• Two ways to run: Look up specific places, or discover places with a keyword search.
• Review links included: Each row includes a URL to the place's reviews on Google Maps.
• Batch processing: Many places or searches in one run.
• Structured dataset: One row per place, ready for spreadsheets, databases, or pipelines.

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Why Use Google Maps Review Summaries?

Review summaries help users and teams understand what visitors consistently say about a place:

• Travel and hospitality apps showing quick place insights before booking.
• Location intelligence enriching point-of-interest data with reputation themes.
• Market research comparing how guests describe competitors in a category or area.
• Sales and partnerships qualifying venues by reputation at scale.

Review summaries are not available for every place or in every language and region.

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Who Is It For?

• Developers building location-aware products.
• Data teams enriching place datasets with review insights.
• Travel, real estate, and retail analysts monitoring reputation themes.
• Product managers prototyping location features without manual review reading.

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Input Schema

{
  "places": ["ChIJD2l2k7ZL0YkRC80d-3MV1lM"],
  "searchQueries": ["coffee shop in Seattle"],
  "maxItems": 5
}

Provide at least one place or search query.

Field	Type	Default	Description
places	Array of strings	—	Google Place IDs (ChIJ…) or Google Maps place URLs
searchQueries	Array of strings	—	Keyword searches, e.g. "pizza in Brooklyn"
maxItems	Integer	5	Max places per search query (up to 20; not used for direct place lookups)

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Output Schema

Each dataset item is one place with its review summary when available:

{
  "placeId": "ChIJD2l2k7ZL0YkRC80d-3MV1lM",
  "displayName": "Dumpling House",
  "source": "placeDetails",
  "sourceLabel": "ChIJD2l2k7ZL0YkRC80d-3MV1lM",
  "reviewSummaryText": "People say this restaurant serves delicious dumplings, noodles, and pork belly buns...",
  "reviewSummaryLanguageCode": "en-US",
  "reviewsUri": "https://www.google.com/maps/place/...",
  "flagContentUri": "https://www.google.com/local/review/rap/report?...",
  "hasReviewSummary": true,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-01T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Field	Description
placeId	Google Place ID
displayName	Place name
source	placeDetails or textSearch
sourceLabel	The Place ID, URL, or search query for this row
reviewSummaryText	AI-generated summary, or empty if none is available
reviewSummaryLanguageCode	Language of the summary
reviewsUri	Link to the place's reviews on Google Maps
flagContentUri	Link to report inappropriate summary content
hasReviewSummary	Whether a summary was returned
scrapedAt	When this row was created (ISO 8601)

Displaying summaries

When you show summaries to end users, follow Google's policies for AI-powered summaries, including linking to the place's reviews where required.

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Notes and Limitations

• Availability: Summaries are not guaranteed for every place.
• No pagination: Each search query returns at most 20 places in a single request (limited by maxItems). Run again with different queries for more coverage.

Supported languages and regions

Review summaries are supported for points of interest only in the following languages and regions:

Language	Region
English	Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, India, Japan, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela
Japanese	Japan
Portuguese	Brazil
Spanish	Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela

Places outside these markets may return no summary even when reviews exist on Google Maps.