🚀 Fast Google Review Tracker & Extractor

The most efficient, resilient, and cost-effective way to track Google Maps reviews. Verify if reviews are still active, detect fake review purges, and extract rich metadata—at lightning speed.

Powered by 100% HTTP requests. No bulky headless browsers. No slow startups. Just blazing-fast results at a fraction of the compute cost.

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🎯 Why this Actor?

Checking the status of hundreds or thousands of Google Reviews can be painful. Google actively blocks scrapers, and running headless browsers (like Puppeteer or Playwright) for this simple task is unnecessarily expensive and slow.

This Actor solves this by using advanced HTTP fingerprinting to blend in perfectly with real user traffic. It bypasses the need for slow browsers entirely.

✨ Key Benefits:

• ⚡ 10x Faster: Bypasses browser startup and rendering overhead.
• 💰 10x Cheaper: Extremely low memory and CPU usage = minimal Apify Compute Units (CUs).
• 🛡️ Anti-Scraping Built-in: Automatically handles 403s, rate limits, and CAPTCHAs by intelligently rotating proxies.
• 💾 Smart Auto-Save: Apify server restarts? No problem. The Actor remembers exactly which URLs it already processed and resumes instantly without duplicating work (or billing).
• 🔍 Deep Extraction: Retrieves the full review text, star rating, business name, and reviewer details instantly and reliably.

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🔗 Supported URL Formats

We support the two most common types of Google Maps review URLs:

1. Review Data URLs (/maps/reviews/data=...) The direct link to a specific review on a business profile.
2. Contrib Profile URLs (/maps/contrib/.../place/...) The link to a review from a specific user's public contribution timeline.

Just paste your URLs into the input, and the Actor handles the rest!

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💼 High-Value Use Cases

1. Reputation Management: Automatically track false-positive deletions of legitimate 5-star reviews so you can appeal them immediately.
2. Competitor Analysis: Track if competitors are losing reviews due to fake review purges.
3. Agency Reporting: Provide accurate, verified reporting to clients on exactly which reviews are currently live on their Google Business Profile.

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📊 Extracted Data (Output)

For every URL provided, the Actor returns a rich JSON object indicating its exact status and metadata.

Field	Description
is_active	Boolean. true if the review is live, false if it was removed/hidden.
reviewer_name	The public name of the person who left the review.
review_stars	The rating given (1 to 5).
review_text	The full text of the review (translated to English if applicable).
review_text_original	The original text of the review (if translated).
review_date	The relative date the review was posted (e.g. "3 months ago").
business_name	The name of the Google Business Profile the review was left on.
owner_reply	The text of the response from the business owner (if any).

Example JSON Output:

{
  "url": "https://www.google.com/maps/contrib/114972551601633519894/place/...",
  "reviewer_name": "John Doe",
  "is_active": true,
  "text_snippet": "This place has amazing coffee and great service!",
  "timestamp": "2024-05-15T14:32:01.123Z",
  "review_text": "This place has amazing coffee and great service!",
  "review_text_original": null,
  "review_date": "3 months ago",
  "review_stars": 5,
  "review_language": "en",
  "business_name": "Awesome Cafe",
  "business_address": "123 Main St, City, ST 12345, United States",
  "owner_reply": "Thank you for the kind words!",
  "owner_reply_date": "3 months ago",
  "error": null
}

(Note: The full raw API payload is also returned in api_payload for advanced use cases).

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📈 Performance & Cost Expectations

Because this Actor uses pure HTTP requests:

• Speed: Can process ~50-100 reviews per minute (depending on proxy speed and concurrency).
• Cost: Costs fractions of a cent per run. A standard $5/month Apify plan can run tens of thousands of checks.

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👨‍💻 Support & Maintenance

This Actor is actively maintained by an expert scraping team. If Google updates their API structures or DOM, we patch the Actor within 24-48 hours. If you encounter any bugs or need feature requests, please use the Issues tab.

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🔍 Search Keywords

Google Maps Review Scraper, Google Review Tracker, Monitor Google Reviews, Check Removed Google Reviews, Google Business Profile Scraper, Reputation Management Tool, Google Maps Contributor Scraper, Review Status Checker, Fake Review Detection, Local SEO Tracking, Extract Google Reviews