# Google Reviews Scraper & API – Export Google Maps Reviews (`rowfeed/google-maps-reviews-scraper`) Actor

Export Google Maps reviews of any business: rating, full text, date, owner reply and review highlights, plus the place's rating and review count. Paste Maps links, place IDs or names. Newest, best or worst first. About $0.30 per 1,000 reviews.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/rowfeed/google-maps-reviews-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Rowfeed](https://apify.com/rowfeed) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Marketing, Travel
- **Security:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 3 total users, 2 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.20 / 1,000 reviews

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?

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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.

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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 Reviews Scraper & API – Export Google Maps Reviews

Export the Google Maps reviews of any business as clean rows: star rating, full text, date, the owner's reply and Google's review highlights, together with the place's overall rating and review count.
Paste Google Maps links, share links, place IDs or just "name, city". Get the newest, the most relevant, the best or the worst reviews first.
Built for reputation monitoring, competitor research, local SEO agencies, sentiment analysis and AI agents that need Google reviews as JSON. No Google API key, no browser, no 5-review limit.

### What you get

- **One row per review** in the order you chose: `rating`, `review_text`, `published_at` (and Google's own "a week ago" text), `owner_answer` and `owner_answered_at`, `review_highlights` (e.g. Food 5, Service 4, Wait time), `image_urls` of photos in the review, `review_id` and `review_url`.
- **Translations:** when Google translates a review, `review_text` is the translation and `original_review_text` / `original_language` hold the original.
- **The place on every row:** `place_title`, `place_address`, `place_rating`, `place_reviews_total`, `place_id`, `cid` and a `google_maps_url`, so many places export into one sheet.
- **Only reviews with text** with one switch (star-only reviews are left out and not charged).

The reviewer's name, profile link and profile photo are left out on purpose: they are personal data. Email addresses and phone numbers inside review texts are blanked out.

### Example output

```json
{
  "query": "Katz's Delicatessen, New York",
  "place_title": "Katz's Delicatessen",
  "place_address": "205 E Houston St, New York, NY 10002, United States",
  "place_rating": 4.5,
  "place_reviews_total": 56406,
  "place_id": "ChIJCar0f49ZwokR6ozLV-dHNTE",
  "cid": "3545819340560108778",
  "review_id": "Ci9DQUlRQUNvZENodHljRjlvT21oVmVGTmlSMVl3Umtsbk1FSmtZalIxVTJoSFNsRRAB",
  "position": 1,
  "rating": 5,
  "review_text": "Los sandwich 🥪 tremendous and delicious",
  "published_at": "2026-11-01 15:40:26 +00:00",
  "published_text": "an hour ago",
  "owner_answer": null,
  "review_highlights": { "Food": "5", "Service": "5", "Atmosphere": "5" },
  "image_urls": [],
  "sort": "newest",
  "checked_at": "2026-11-01T17:35:06+00:00"
}
```

### Input

| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
| `places` | One per line: Google Maps link (also `maps.app.goo.gl` share links), place ID (`ChIJ...`), CID, or "name, city". A Maps link without the place's id is looked up by its name where the map was. Up to 500 per run. |
| `maxReviews` | Reviews per place, 1 to 4,490. Default 20. |
| `sortBy` | `newest` (default), `relevant`, `highest` or `lowest`. |
| `onlyWithText` | Leave out star-only reviews (not charged). |
| `newerThan` | Only reviews newer than a date (`2026-10-01`) or an age (`7 days`, `3 months`). Older ones are left out and not charged. |
| `location` | Country used to find places given by name, e.g. `United States`. Links and IDs work anywhere. |
| `language` | Google interface language, e.g. `English`. |

### Pricing

Pay per event, no subscription. **About $0.30 per 1,000 reviews:**

- **$0.20 per 1,000 reviews** ($0.0002 per review row).
- $0.001 per place for every 10 reviews asked for. The first 20 are asked for first, and more only when the place has them, so a place with 7 reviews never pays for 1,000.
- $0.006 per run start (covers the server time while the reviews are fetched).
- Requests the data provider never accepted are free. An accepted request is charged its page fee even when it brings nothing back (the provider bills it), e.g. a place Google cannot find costs its first lookup ($0.002, or $0.001 for 10 reviews or fewer).

Examples: 1 place with 20 reviews costs $0.012. 100 places with 100 reviews each cost about $3.21 (the extra over $3.00 is the first 20 reviews, which are asked for twice, and the start).
Cap the cost of a run with the maximum charge setting; the Actor never asks for reviews the budget cannot pay for.
**Try it for $0.006:** the pre-filled example is answered from a saved snapshot of real reviews (rows carry `from_snapshot: true`). Change anything and it runs live.
Live runs need a paid Apify plan (any plan); the pre-filled example works on the free plan.

### Good to know

- **Monitoring:** schedule the Actor daily with `sortBy: newest` and `newerThan: 2 days`. Each run only pays for the first page of each place and the reviews that are actually new, because no further reviews are fetched once the cutoff is reached.
- Reviews come through a licensed data provider (DataForSEO) that reads Google Maps, usually within 1 to 5 minutes per run. Big places (thousands of reviews) can take longer.
- Google shows at most about 4,490 reviews per place and order; use `newest` on a schedule to keep a running history.
- A place found by name is the first match Google gives for that name in the chosen country; add the city or use a link to be exact.
- With `newest`, the first 20 reviews of each place are in Google's order; when more are asked for, the rest come from a second fetch and can include a few reviews posted in between (`position` is Google's order in the fetch that brought the review).

### More tools from Rowfeed

- [Google Maps Scraper](https://apify.com/rowfeed/google-maps-scraper) – every business Google Maps shows for a search, with rating, review count, phone and website.
- [Trustpilot Reviews Scraper](https://apify.com/rowfeed/trustpilot-reviews-scraper) – the newest Trustpilot reviews of any company, with rating, text and company reply.
- [Tripadvisor Reviews Scraper](https://apify.com/rowfeed/tripadvisor-reviews-scraper) – the newest Tripadvisor reviews of any hotel, restaurant or attraction, with rating, text and owner reply.
- [Google Maps Rank Tracker](https://apify.com/rowfeed/google-maps-rank-tracker) – where a business ranks on Google Maps across a grid of points.
- [AI Visibility Tool](https://apify.com/rowfeed/ai-search-visibility-tracker) – is your brand named and cited by ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Mode.
- [SERP API & Rank Checker](https://apify.com/rowfeed/google-serp-api) – Google results for any keyword and country, with your domain's position.

Not affiliated with Google.

# Actor input Schema

## `places` (type: `array`):

One place per line: a Google Maps link (also maps.app.goo.gl share links), a place ID (ChIJ...), a CID, or the business name with its city, e.g. "Katz's Delicatessen, New York". Up to 500 per run.

## `maxReviews` (type: `integer`):

How many reviews to get per place, in the chosen order. Up to 4,490. Places with fewer reviews only pay for what they have.

## `sortBy` (type: `string`):

Which reviews come first: newest, most relevant (Google's default), highest or lowest rating.

## `onlyWithText` (type: `boolean`):

Leave out star-only reviews that have no text. Left-out reviews are not charged.

## `newerThan` (type: `string`):

Leave out older reviews: a date (2026-10-01) or an age (7 days, 2 weeks, 3 months). Left-out reviews are not charged. With "Newest first", no further reviews are fetched once the cutoff is reached, which makes scheduled monitoring cheap.

## `location` (type: `string`):

Used to find places given by name, e.g. "United States", "United Kingdom", "Germany". Links and IDs work anywhere.

## `language` (type: `string`):

Google interface language, e.g. "English", "German". Reviews keep their own language; Google's translation is in review_text when it differs.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "places": [
    "https://maps.app.goo.gl/...",
    "ChIJLU7jZClu5kcR4PcOOO6p3I0",
    "Blue Bottle Coffee, San Francisco"
  ],
  "maxReviews": 20,
  "sortBy": "newest",
  "onlyWithText": false,
  "newerThan": "30 days",
  "location": "United States",
  "language": "English"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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 = {
    "places": [
        "Katz's Delicatessen, New York"
    ],
    "location": "United States",
    "language": "English"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("rowfeed/google-maps-reviews-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 = {
    "places": ["Katz's Delicatessen, New York"],
    "location": "United States",
    "language": "English",
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("rowfeed/google-maps-reviews-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 '{
  "places": [
    "Katz'\''s Delicatessen, New York"
  ],
  "location": "United States",
  "language": "English"
}' |
apify call rowfeed/google-maps-reviews-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,rowfeed/google-maps-reviews-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/qhVI6MCl1IWGxgiEH/builds/j7MM3a8PWzWfjztyW/openapi.json