Google Maps Reviews Scraper

Extract Google Maps reviews at scale. Get review text, star ratings, reviewer details, owner responses, photos, and Local Guide badges for any place on Google Maps — sorted, filtered, and ready for analysis. Supports 30+ languages and 50+ countries.

Why This Scraper?

• Up to 50,000 reviews per place - Scrape 10, 1,000, or thousands of reviews from a single place
• Multiple input methods - Paste Google Maps URLs, place IDs (ChIJ...), or just search by name
• Smart filtering - Filter by star rating, date range, or text-only reviews before results hit your dataset
• 4 sort options - Most Relevant, Newest First, Highest Rating, or Lowest Rating
• Rich reviewer data - Names, profile URLs, photos, and Local Guide badges (when available)
• Owner responses included - Capture business replies alongside the original review
• Review photos - Extract photo URLs attached to reviews
• 30+ languages - Get reviews in English, Spanish, Japanese, Arabic, and many more
• Lowest price on Apify - $3.00 per 1,000 reviews with no hidden fees

Use Cases

Reputation Monitoring & Brand Management

• Track new reviews across all your locations in one place
• Monitor competitor review sentiment and trends over time
• Identify recurring complaints or praise themes for operational improvements

Market Research & Competitive Intelligence

• Compare review volumes and ratings across competitors in a market
• Analyze customer sentiment by category (restaurants, hotels, clinics, etc.)
• Spot emerging trends from what customers praise or criticize

Lead Generation & Sales

• Find businesses with low ratings that could benefit from your service
• Identify locations with high review volume as potential partnership targets
• Build prospect lists filtered by rating and review activity

Academic & Data Science

• Gather large review datasets for NLP and sentiment analysis research
• Study rating distributions and reviewer behavior patterns
• Analyze geographic and temporal trends in customer feedback

Getting Started

Simple: Paste Place URLs

The fastest way to start — paste one or more Google Maps place URLs:

{
    "placeUrls": [
        "https://www.google.com/maps/place/Eiffel+Tower/@48.8583701,2.2944813"
    ],
    "maxReviewsPerPlace": 100
}

Search by Name

Don't have a URL? Just search for the place:

{
    "searchQueries": ["Central Park New York", "Sagrada Familia Barcelona"],
    "maxReviewsPerPlace": 200
}

Filtered Reviews

Zero in on exactly the reviews you need:

{
    "placeUrls": ["https://www.google.com/maps/place/..."],
    "maxReviewsPerPlace": 500,
    "sortBy": "newest",
    "minReviewRating": 1,
    "maxReviewRating": 3,
    "onlyWithText": true,
    "reviewsStartDate": "2024-01-01"
}

Multi-Language Reviews

Get reviews displayed in a specific language:

{
    "searchQueries": ["Tokyo Tower"],
    "maxReviewsPerPlace": 100,
    "language": "ja",
    "countryCode": "JP"
}

Input Reference

Places

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
placeUrls	string[]	[]	Google Maps place URLs or place IDs (ChIJ...)
searchQueries	string[]	[]	Search queries to find places (e.g. "Eiffel Tower Paris")

Options

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
maxReviewsPerPlace	integer	100	Max reviews to collect per place. Set to 0 to collect up to 50,000 reviews
sortBy	string	"relevant"	Sort order: Most Relevant, Newest First, Highest Rating, or Lowest Rating
language	string	"en"	Language for the Google Maps interface (30+ supported)
countryCode	string	Auto-detect	Country context for results (50+ countries)

Filters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
reviewsStartDate	string		Only include reviews on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD)
minReviewRating	integer		Minimum star rating (1-5)
maxReviewRating	integer		Maximum star rating (1-5)
onlyWithText	boolean	false	Skip rating-only reviews without text

Output

Each review contains up to 15 structured fields. Here's an example:

{
    "placeName": "Carmine's - Times Square",
    "placeUrl": "https://www.google.com/maps/place/...",
    "reviewerName": "Sarah M.",
    "reviewerUrl": "https://www.google.com/maps/contrib/1234567890",
    "reviewerPhotoUrl": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/...",
    "isLocalGuide": false,
    "rating": 5,
    "reviewText": "Incredible family-style Italian food! The portions are massive and perfect for sharing. We had the vodka rigatoni and chicken parm — both outstanding. Service was attentive even on a busy Saturday night.",
    "publishedAt": "2 months ago",
    "publishedAtTimestamp": 1706745600,
    "language": "en",
    "responseFromOwnerText": "Thank you for the wonderful review, Sarah! We're so glad you enjoyed the rigatoni. Hope to see you again soon!",
    "responseFromOwnerDate": "2024-02-15",
    "reviewPhotoUrls": ["https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/..."],
    "reviewId": "ChdDSUhNMG9...",
    "reviewUrl": "https://www.google.com/maps/reviews/data=ChdDSUhNMG9...",
    "source": "Google",
    "placeFeatureId": "0x89c259af3367d0f5:0x3bdb6f7c1c5b8b5d"
}

All Available Fields

Field	Type	Description
placeName	string	Name of the reviewed place
placeUrl	string	Google Maps URL of the place
placeFeatureId	string	Google internal feature ID for the place
reviewerName	string	Reviewer's display name
reviewerUrl	string	Reviewer's Google Maps profile URL
reviewerPhotoUrl	string	Reviewer's profile photo URL
reviewerNumberOfReviews	number	Optional reviewer review count when Google exposes it
reviewerNumberOfPhotos	number	Optional reviewer photo count when Google exposes it
isLocalGuide	boolean	Optional Local Guide badge flag when available
rating	number	Star rating (1-5)
reviewText	string	Full review text
publishedAt	string	Relative publish date (e.g. "2 months ago")
publishedAtTimestamp	number	Unix timestamp of publication
language	string	Language code of the review
visitedDate	string	Optional visited-date label when Google provides it
responseFromOwnerText	string	Business owner's reply text
responseFromOwnerDate	string	Date the owner replied (YYYY-MM-DD)
reviewPhotoUrls	string[]	Photos attached to the review
reviewId	string	Unique review identifier
reviewUrl	string	Direct link to the review
source	string	Upstream review source label, when present

Tips for Best Results

Choosing a Sort Order

• Most Relevant (default): Google's ranking — a mix of recency, helpfulness, and rating
• Newest First: Best for monitoring recent feedback or tracking trends over time
• Highest/Lowest Rating: Useful for sentiment analysis or finding specific pain points

Maximizing Coverage

• Set maxReviewsPerPlace to 0 to collect up to 50,000 reviews
• Use sortBy: "newest" with reviewsStartDate to collect only recent reviews efficiently
• Combine minReviewRating and maxReviewRating to target specific star levels

Working with Multiple Places

• Mix URLs and search queries in the same run
• Each place is processed sequentially with automatic pacing
• Failed places are skipped without stopping the run — check the log for details

Large-Scale Collection

• Use residential proxies for best success rates on large runs
• For places with 10,000+ reviews, consider splitting across multiple runs with different sort orders
• Results are pushed to your dataset as they're collected — no need to wait for the full run

Pricing

$3.00 per 1,000 reviews — among the lowest prices on Apify for Google Maps review data.

Reviews	Cost
100	$0.30
1,000	$3.00
10,000	$30.00
100,000	$300.00

Platform fees (compute, proxy, storage) are additional and depend on your Apify plan.

Integrations

Export data in JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or RSS. Connect to 1,500+ apps via:

• Zapier / Make / n8n - Workflow automation
• Google Sheets - Direct spreadsheet export
• Slack / Email - Notifications on new results
• Webhooks - Custom API integrations
• Apify API - Full programmatic access

Legal & Ethical Use

This actor is designed for legitimate reputation monitoring, market research, and competitive intelligence. Users are responsible for complying with applicable laws and Google's Terms of Service. Do not use scraped data for spam, harassment, or any illegal purpose.