# Google Maps Places & Ratings Scraper (`reventadata/google-maps-scraper`) Actor

Extract Google Maps places, businesses, ratings, review counts, categories, addresses, and coordinates into clean datasets. Fast pay-per-event API.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/reventadata/google-maps-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [reventadata](https://apify.com/reventadata) (community)
- **Categories:** Travel, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $3.00 / 1,000 google maps places

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Google Maps Places & Ratings Scraper

> **Unofficial.** This Actor is not affiliated with, authorised by, endorsed by, or in any
> way officially connected to Google. "Google Maps" is a trademark of Google LLC and is used
> here only to describe what this tool reads. It reads the same public pages a browser does.

Google Maps Places & Ratings Scraper turns a Google Maps search into rows: one row per place in the results.

### What does it do?

For each search query (for example `pizza barcelona`) it reads the Google Maps results and saves each
place's name, category, address, coordinates, star rating and review count, with a link that opens the
place on Google Maps. It does not read individual reviews.

### Why use it?

- **What Google Maps shows, as rows:** business name, category, address, coordinates, rating and review count for every place in the results.

### How to use it

1. Put one or more searches in `searchQueries`, written as you would type them into Google Maps.
2. Optionally set `minRating` to drop places rated below it (places with no rating are dropped too).
3. Run the Actor and download results as JSON, CSV, Excel, or NDJSON from the dataset.

#### Input

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `searchQueries` | array | Searches to run, e.g. `pizza barcelona`, `hotels tokyo`. |
| `maxItems` | integer | Maximum number of places to save in the run. |
| `minRating` | number | Optional minimum star rating, e.g. `4.0`. |
| `proxyConfiguration` | object | Apify proxy settings; Unblocker is the default. |

#### Sample Input

```json
{
    "searchQueries": ["pizza barcelona"],
    "maxItems": 5
}
```

#### Output

One row per place:

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `id` | string | Google Maps place identifier. |
| `title` | string | Place name. |
| `url` | string | Link that opens the place on Google Maps. |
| `category` | string | Main category as Google Maps shows it. |
| `address` | string | Full address. |
| `rating` | number / null | Star rating, 1 to 5. |
| `reviewsCount` | integer / null | Number of reviews. |
| `latitude`, `longitude` | number | Coordinates. |
| `searchQuery` | string | The search that returned this place. |
| `scrapedAt` | string | ISO timestamp of when the row was read. |

#### Sample Output

```json
{
    "id": "0x12a4a2eb343246fb:0x4db9be4af396861f",
    "title": "Restaurant Pizzeria Edén",
    "url": "https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=Restaurant+Pizzeria+Ed%C3%A9n&query_place_id=ChIJ-0YyNOuipBIRH4aW80q-uU0",
    "category": "Pizza restaurant",
    "address": "Carrer de Provença, 332, Eixample, 08037 Barcelona, Spain",
    "rating": 4.8,
    "reviewsCount": 5778,
    "latitude": 41.397219899999996,
    "longitude": 2.1649694,
    "searchQuery": "pizza barcelona",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-21T23:45:15.459165+00:00"
}
```

### How much does it cost to scrape Google Maps?

Pay-per-event: **$0.003 per place** saved to the dataset (**$3.00 per 1,000 places**), plus **$0.00005** charged once when the run starts. No subscription. Only rows saved to the dataset are charged.

### Privacy & Compliance

This Actor reads only publicly accessible pages and returns the public data they show. It sends no login.

# Actor input Schema

## `searchQueries` (type: `array`):

List of search queries (e.g. 'pizza barcelona', 'hotels tokyo').

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of places to return.

## `minRating` (type: `number`):

Minimum customer rating (e.g. 4.0) to filter places.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Apify proxy settings. Unblocker or Residential proxy recommended.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchQueries": [
    "pizza barcelona"
  ],
  "maxItems": 5,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "UNBLOCKER"
    ]
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `dataset` (type: `string`):

Items scraped from the target website.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "searchQueries": [
        "pizza barcelona"
    ],
    "maxItems": 5
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("reventadata/google-maps-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "searchQueries": ["pizza barcelona"],
    "maxItems": 5,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("reventadata/google-maps-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "searchQueries": [
    "pizza barcelona"
  ],
  "maxItems": 5
}' |
apify call reventadata/google-maps-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,reventadata/google-maps-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/Patk0eDaLBQTG6RoN/builds/dUZEq9VLuSyr1fvAw/openapi.json