Google Local Business Ranking Scraper (local pack, bulk)

Local business results from Google for up to 200 search queries per run: name, rating, review count, category, price band, address and the Google place id. You only pay for businesses that are actually delivered.

Why this scraper

• Built for lists of queries. Paste 200 searches like plumber manchester or coffee amsterdam and get one flat table with the query and the position on every row. That is the shape you need to compare neighbourhoods, cities or trades.
• No browser, no bot wall. Results come as server-rendered HTML through Google's own search proxy, which is faster and a fraction of the cost of a browser-based scraper.
• Properly region aware. country sets both the proxy exit country and the Google region, so a Dutch search returns what a visitor in the Netherlands sees.
• Only delivered businesses are charged. A query without local results comes back as a clear error record at no cost.
• The place id comes with it, so rows can be matched to your own records or to other Google data across runs.

Who this is for

Market and competitor research: who ranks locally for a trade, how they are rated, how many reviews they have and what they charge. Useful for site selection, franchise analysis and tracking a local market over time by running the same query list on a schedule.

Who this is not for

Read this before you buy. This actor does not return phone numbers, email addresses or contact persons, and it never will. That is a deliberate choice, not a gap: a business listing should stay business information rather than become a lead record. If you are building a cold-call list, this is the wrong tool and you should not buy it.

It also returns what Google shows on the local results page, which was 10 to 20 businesses per query in testing on 13-09-2026. For deeper coverage, split the search by neighbourhood or by trade, exactly as you would on Google itself. If you need hundreds of places per area with phone numbers and opening hours, a Google Maps extractor is the better tool; this actor is about who ranks for a search, in Google's order.

Input fields

Field	Type	Required or default	What it does
queries	list of text	required	What you would type into Google, e.g. 'coffee amsterdam' or 'plumber manchester'. Up to 200 per run.
maxResultsPerQuery	number	20	Stop after this many businesses per query. This is your cost ceiling: one delivered business is one charged event. Google shows about 20 per query.
country	text	NL	ISO country code, e.g. NL, US, DE. Sets both the proxy exit country and the Google region, so local results match the market you want.
language	text	en	Interface language, e.g. en, nl, de.

Input example

{
    "queries": [
        "coffee amsterdam",
        "plumber manchester",
        "tandarts utrecht"
    ],
    "maxResultsPerQuery": 20,
    "country": "NL",
    "language": "en"
}

Output example

Field	Type	What it holds	Example
query	text	The search term this row was found with, so rows from several inputs can be told apart.	coffee amsterdam
country	text	The country the request was made from; the answer differs per country.	NL
position	number	The place in the source's own order, counting from 1.	1
name	text	The name of the business as Google shows it.	Hummingbird Coffee Amsterdam
rating	number	The average star rating.	4.7
reviewCount	number	How many reviews that average rests on.	1100
category	text	What Google calls the business, for example restaurant or garage.	Coffee shop
priceRange	text	Google's price class, from one to four euro signs; empty when Google gives none.	€1–10
address	text	The address as Google prints it.
placeId	text	Google's own id for the place, the key to join other Google data on.	/g/11gy8cmr7j

{
    "query": "coffee amsterdam",
    "country": "NL",
    "position": 1,
    "name": "Kafenion Amsterdam",
    "rating": 4.9,
    "reviewCount": 3800,
    "category": "Cafe",
    "priceRange": "€1–10",
    "address": "Bloemgracht 49",
    "placeId": "/g/11h4lk7q",
    "status": "ok"
}

priceRange is Google's own price band (€1–10, $$) and is only present where Google shows one; restaurants and cafes usually have it, plumbers and dentists do not. Measured on 20 Amsterdam restaurant and coffee results: 14 carried a price band.

A query that cannot be delivered produces an error record instead, and is not charged:

{
    "input": "asdkjhasdkjh",
    "status": "error",
    "errorCode": "NO_RESULTS",
    "error": "No local businesses on the results page for 'asdkjhasdkjh'"
}

Error codes: INVALID_QUERY, NO_RESULTS, BLOCKED. INPUT_TRUNCATED appears once when your input is longer than this actor accepts.

Related actors from steadydata

• google-ads-transparency: what those businesses are advertising
• website-tech-stack: what their websites run on

Pricing

Pay per event: one business-listed event per delivered business. No charge for queries that fail or return nothing, no separate platform-usage surcharge.

Free Apify plan: this actor delivers up to 25 rows per run for accounts on the Apify free plan, and then stops with a message. That limit is set by us, not by Apify. It exists so the actor keeps paying for itself for the people who do pay. Any paid Apify plan runs it at full size, billed per delivered row, with failed rows never charged.

Reviews: if this actor saves you time, a short review on this page is the one thing that helps most. Ratings are what other buyers look at first, and we have no other way to ask.

FAQ

How many businesses do I get per query? Ten to twenty, which is what Google shows on the local results page for that search. You are only charged for what actually arrives.

Why is the price band sometimes empty? Because Google does not show one for every business. The field is left empty rather than filled with a guess.

Are results different per country? Yes, and that is the point. Set country to the market you care about; local rankings differ per region and per language.

Can I track a local market over time? Yes, and that is the common pattern: run the same query list daily or weekly and keep the rows with a timestamp. Ratings and review counts move slowly, positions move faster.

Is personal data collected? No. Business name, rating, category, price band and address only. No phone numbers, no email addresses, no contact persons, no reviewer names.

What happens when Google changes something? Google changes its markup constantly; that is the nature of this work. The actor is monitored daily and fixed fast, and while it is broken you are not charged, because only delivered businesses cost anything.

Can I call it from my own code, like an API? Yes. Every run is available through the Apify API: start it with one HTTP request, then read the results as JSON, CSV or Excel from the dataset endpoint, or use the official Python and JavaScript clients. The input is the same JSON as in the input example above, so a scheduled script, a Make or Zapier step or an AI agent can call it without any changes.