# Local Business Coverage Intelligence API (`soilair/local-business-coverage-intelligence-api`) Actor

Find deduplicated local businesses around explicit coordinates with bounded coverage profiles, stable place identity, and a coverage certificate.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/soilair/local-business-coverage-intelligence-api.md
- **Developed by:** [Salih Can Kurnaz](https://apify.com/soilair) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $3.50 / 1,000 business 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/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
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- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

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

## Local Business Coverage Intelligence API

Find local businesses around explicit latitude/longitude centers and return one clean, deduplicated row per business.

### What it does

- Searches one or more business categories around explicit coordinates.
- Uses bounded adaptive map coverage rather than a single center query.
- Deduplicates overlapping observations into a stable business row.
- Returns name, category, address, coordinates, rating, review count, website, phone, Google place identifiers, and Maps URL when available.
- Writes a `COVERAGE_CERTIFICATE` describing the bounded search actually performed.

This Actor does **not** claim complete coverage of every business in a city or of all Google Maps data. Coverage is bounded by the requested area and selected profile.

### Input

Each item in `searches` accepts:

- `query` — business category or phrase, e.g. `coffee shops`
- `locationLabel` — human-readable area label
- `centerLat` / `centerLng` — explicit search center
- `radiusKm` — square half-width/half-height from 1 to 6 km
- `hl` / `gl` — Google language and country context
- optional `searchId` — stable label for correlating output

`coverageProfile`:

- `QUICK` — faster, lower request count
- `BALANCED` — recommended default
- `DEEP` — broader bounded coverage at higher runtime/cost

The Actor never infers the user's current location.

### Example input

```json
{
  "searches": [
    {
      "searchId": "seattle_coffee",
      "query": "coffee shops",
      "locationLabel": "Seattle, WA",
      "centerLat": 47.6062,
      "centerLng": -122.3321,
      "radiusKm": 2,
      "hl": "en",
      "gl": "us"
    }
  ],
  "coverageProfile": "BALANCED"
}
```

### Output

The default Dataset contains one row per `searchId + stableKey`. Internal tile, parser, request-hash, and viewport diagnostics are excluded from public Dataset rows.

Main outputs:

- `dataset` — deduplicated businesses
- `summary` — run-level counts and field coverage
- `coverageCertificate` — bounded coverage evidence

Typical fields include `name`, `category`, `address`, `latitude`, `longitude`, `rating`, `reviewsCount`, `website`, `phone`, `placeId`, `cid`, `featureId`, `googleMapsUrl`, `observedTiles`, and `distanceFromSearchCenterKm`.

### Pricing

Pay per event:

- `business-result`: **$0.0035 per delivered business**
- `apify-actor-start`: **$0.00005** synthetic start event

A business result is charged only after its row has been persisted to the default Dataset. The Actor respects the run spending limit before deciding how many rows can be delivered.

### Coverage and data notes

- Results reflect the Google Maps data returned for the requested query, coordinates, language/country context, and run time.
- Optional fields can be unavailable for individual businesses.
- The coverage certificate is not an absolute completeness guarantee.
- Stable identity prioritizes Google place identifiers and deterministic fallbacks.

### Programmatic use

Run the Actor from Apify Console, API, clients, MCP/agent integrations, or scheduled tasks. The output schema links directly to the Dataset, summary, and coverage certificate.

# Actor input Schema

## `searches` (type: `array`):

One or more local-business searches. Each search uses an explicit center and square radius; it does not infer your location.

## `coverageProfile` (type: `string`):

QUICK favors speed, BALANCED is the V142-proven default, and DEEP maximizes bounded coverage at higher request cost.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searches": [
    {
      "searchId": "seattle_coffee",
      "query": "coffee shops",
      "locationLabel": "Seattle, WA",
      "centerLat": 47.6062,
      "centerLng": -122.3321,
      "radiusKm": 6,
      "hl": "en",
      "gl": "us"
    }
  ],
  "coverageProfile": "BALANCED"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `summary` (type: `string`):

Run-level business counts, field coverage, and per-search coverage metadata.

## `coverageCertificate` (type: `string`):

Bounded coverage evidence for each search; never an absolute Google Maps completeness claim.

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

Deduplicated public-facing local-business rows.

# 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 = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("soilair/local-business-coverage-intelligence-api").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 = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("soilair/local-business-coverage-intelligence-api").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 '{}' |
apify call soilair/local-business-coverage-intelligence-api --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,soilair/local-business-coverage-intelligence-api"
        }
    }
}
```

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/z518dJZmd5dDtIuSl/builds/sEA0ChTVdOWeEwYGn/openapi.json