Google Maps Popular Times Scraper

Extract the "how busy is this place" histogram Google Maps shows for any business — busyness percentage for every hour, every day of the week — plus a live "how busy right now" reading when the place is currently open. Search a query or paste place URLs and get one clean row per place.

What you get

• Full weekly histogram: weeklyPopularTimes — one entry per day of the week (day + an hours array of { hour, busynessPct, label }), covering every hour Google reports data for
• Live busyness: currentBusynessPct and currentBusynessLabel (e.g. "Not too busy") when the place is open right now; null when it's closed
• Peak time at a glance: peakDay, peakHour, peakBusynessPct — the single busiest hour of the week, precomputed for you
• Place context: placeName, placeAddress, rating, reviewCount, placeUrl, isOpenNow
• Identifiers: placeId, googlePlaceId, searchQuery
• Export to CSV, Excel, JSON, or Google Sheets

Use cases

• Best-time-to-visit apps — tell users when a restaurant, gym, or store is quietest
• Staffing & scheduling — benchmark competitor foot-traffic patterns to plan your own staffing
• Foot-traffic market research — compare busyness patterns across a city, cuisine, or category
• Delivery & logistics timing — route drivers around a location's known peak-busy windows
• Restaurant & retail site selection — evaluate how busy nearby competitors get before choosing a location

How to use

1. Enter Search queries such as Starbucks Times Square New York or gyms in Austin TX — or paste specific Place URLs or IDs.
2. Set Max places per query (default 20).
3. Run — one row per place with popular-times data streams into the Dataset tab.

Not every place on Google Maps has popular-times data available. Places without it are skipped automatically so every row in your dataset has real busyness data.

Output format

{
  "placeId": "0x89c258552071bcb3:0x5cc7129cc313de1a",
  "googlePlaceId": "ChIJs7xxIFVYwokRGt4Tw5wSx1w",
  "placeName": "Starbucks Coffee Company",
  "placeAddress": "1500 Broadway, New York, NY 10036",
  "rating": 4,
  "reviewCount": 2239,
  "placeUrl": "https://maps.google.com/?cid=6685332636351847962",
  "isOpenNow": true,
  "currentBusynessPct": 41,
  "currentBusynessLabel": "Not too busy",
  "weeklyPopularTimes": [
    {
      "day": "Sunday",
      "hours": [
        { "hour": 5, "busynessPct": 24, "label": "Usually not too busy" },
        { "hour": 6, "busynessPct": 24, "label": "Usually not too busy" },
        { "hour": 18, "busynessPct": 100, "label": "Usually as busy as it gets" }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "peakDay": "Sunday",
  "peakHour": 18,
  "peakBusynessPct": 100,
  "searchQuery": "Starbucks Times Square New York",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-18T03:17:34.688Z"
}

Pricing

Pay per place saved to the dataset.

FAQ

Which places have popular times on Google Maps? Most busy chains and popular independent businesses. Quiet or newly-listed places often have no data — these are skipped rather than saved with empty fields.

Do I need a Google API key? No.