# Google Maps Business Links & Social Profiles Scraper (`seemuapps/google-maps-business-links-scraper`) Actor

Extract every website, booking link, and social media profile — Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, LinkedIn and more — from any Google Maps business listing.

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

## Pricing

$1.20 / 1,000 place results

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/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
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.
Actors are written with capital "A".

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## Google Maps Business Links & Social Profiles Scraper

Extract every outbound link Google Maps has for a business — official website, booking/reservation link, menu URL, and social media profiles across Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, LinkedIn, Twitter/X, YouTube, and Yelp — as one clean row per listing. Search by keyword and city or paste specific place URLs; no login or API key required.

### What you get

- **One row per business**: `placeName`, `placeAddress`, `rating`, `reviewCount`, `placeUrl`
- **Every link Google Maps shows**: `website`, `menuUrl`, `bookingLinks` (OpenTable, Resy, Google's own booking partners, etc.), `socialLinks` (platform + URL for every social profile detected)
- **Convenience per-platform fields**: `instagramUrl`, `facebookUrl`, `tiktokUrl`, `linkedinUrl`, `twitterUrl`, `youtubeUrl`, `yelpUrl` — each `null` when the business has no profile on that platform
- **`totalLinksFound`**: quick count of website + menu + booking + social links combined, for sorting and filtering
- **Identifiers**: `placeId`, `googlePlaceId`, `searchQuery`, `scrapedAt`
- Businesses with zero links found are skipped automatically — every row has at least one usable link
- Export to CSV, Excel, JSON, or Google Sheets

### Use cases

- **Social media agency prospecting** — find local businesses missing an Instagram or TikTok presence to pitch social management services
- **Lead generation & outreach lists** — build contact-ready lists enriched with every public link a business has
- **Competitive social-presence audits** — see which platforms competitors are active on across a market
- **Franchise & multi-location brand consistency checks** — verify every location links to the correct website and social accounts
- **Local SEO agency client research** — spot businesses with no website or broken links as warm sales leads

### How to use

1. Enter **Search queries** such as `coffee shops in Austin Texas` or `hair salons in Brooklyn` — or paste specific **Place URLs or IDs**.
2. Set **Max places per query** (default 20).
3. Run — one row per business with links streams into the **Dataset** tab; export as CSV.

### Output format

```json
{
  "placeId": "0x8644b599c8ff7e79:0x2c1f5a3a9c9a1234",
  "googlePlaceId": "ChIJeX7_yJm0RIYRMBKcnjpaHCw",
  "placeName": "Cuvee Coffee",
  "placeAddress": "2000 E 6th St, Austin, TX 78702",
  "rating": 4.6,
  "reviewCount": 1284,
  "placeUrl": "https://maps.google.com/?cid=3187513366956871988",
  "website": "https://cuveecoffee.com/",
  "menuUrl": null,
  "bookingLinks": [],
  "socialLinks": [
    { "platform": "instagram", "url": "https://www.instagram.com/cuveecoffee/" },
    { "platform": "facebook", "url": "https://www.facebook.com/cuveecoffee" }
  ],
  "instagramUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/cuveecoffee/",
  "facebookUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/cuveecoffee",
  "tiktokUrl": null,
  "linkedinUrl": null,
  "twitterUrl": null,
  "youtubeUrl": null,
  "yelpUrl": null,
  "totalLinksFound": 3,
  "searchQuery": "coffee shops in Austin Texas",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-18T13:00:00.000Z"
}
```

### Pricing

Pay per business record saved to the dataset. Businesses with no website, booking link, menu, or social profile are skipped and cost nothing.

### FAQ

**Do all businesses have social links?** No — social profile links depend on what the business owner has linked on their Google Maps listing. Independent local businesses tend to have more social links than large chains.

**Do I need a Google API key?** No.

# Actor input Schema

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

Businesses to search on Google Maps, one query per line — e.g. "coffee shops in Austin Texas", "hair salons in Brooklyn".

## `placeUrls` (type: `array`):

Alternatively (or additionally) scrape links for specific businesses — Google Maps place URLs, maps.app.goo.gl short links, ?cid= links, Place IDs (ChIJ…) or hex IDs (0x…:0x…).

## `maxPlacesPerQuery` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of businesses to process per search query (Google Maps returns at most ~120 per query). 0 = everything Google returns.

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

Language code for results, e.g. en, de, fr, es, pt-BR.

## `country` (type: `string`):

Two-letter country code that biases search results, e.g. us, gb, de, au.

## `latitude` (type: `number`):

Optional latitude to center search results on a specific area.

## `longitude` (type: `number`):

Optional longitude to center search results on a specific area.

## `zoom` (type: `integer`):

Optional map zoom level (3-21) used with latitude/longitude to control how tightly search results are clustered around the center point.

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

Optional. By default the actor connects directly and automatically falls back to Apify datacenter → residential proxies only if Google starts blocking. Set a specific proxy here to force it for all requests.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchQueries": [
    "coffee shops in Austin Texas"
  ],
  "placeUrls": [],
  "maxPlacesPerQuery": 20,
  "language": "en",
  "country": "us",
  "zoom": 13,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

One business per record: placeName, placeAddress, rating, reviewCount, placeUrl, website, menuUrl, bookingLinks, socialLinks, instagramUrl, facebookUrl, tiktokUrl, linkedinUrl, twitterUrl, youtubeUrl, yelpUrl, totalLinksFound, placeId, googlePlaceId, searchQuery, scrapedAt.

# 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": [
        "coffee shops in Austin Texas"
    ],
    "placeUrls": [],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": false
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("seemuapps/google-maps-business-links-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": ["coffee shops in Austin Texas"],
    "placeUrls": [],
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": False },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("seemuapps/google-maps-business-links-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": [
    "coffee shops in Austin Texas"
  ],
  "placeUrls": [],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}' |
apify call seemuapps/google-maps-business-links-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,seemuapps/google-maps-business-links-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/UPEpS1xet5miUQfwB/builds/GKQ475d4gVucAuYKR/openapi.json