Google Maps Contributor & Local Guide Reviews Scraper

Scrape every public review a Google Maps contributor has written — the Local Guide's whole review history across every place they reviewed — from their contributor profile link or id: each review's stars, text, Google's translation, photos, dates, owner reply and the reviewed place (name, address, category, rating, CID, place id, coordinates), plus the contributor's profile: Local Guide level and points, and their counts of reviews, ratings, photos, videos, answers and edits.

Give it a business instead and it reads the business's newest reviewers and scrapes each of their profiles and histories: the quickest way to spot fake Google reviews — brand-new accounts, one-review profiles, reviewers who only ever give five stars, or whole review histories in another country. No login, no browser, no Google API key.

What a Google Maps contributor scrape returns

One contributor row per profile, followed by one review row per review (newest first):

Row	Fields
contributor	name, contributorId, profileUrl, photoUrl, isLocalGuide, localGuideLevel, localGuidePoints, contributions (reviews, ratings, photos, videos, captions, tips, answers, edits, reportedIncorrect, placesAdded, roadsAdded, qa, tripFeedback, incidentReports), reviewsListed, reviewsReturned, historyComplete, shortfallReason, reviewStats, source, reviewedBusiness, input
review	contributorId, contributorName, position (1 = newest), reviewId, reviewUrl, stars, text, language, textTranslated, publishedAt, editedAt, relativeDate, details (Food 5, Service 4, Price per person "$20–30", Wait time…), photoUrls, ownerReply (text, repliedAt), placeName, placeId, cid, placeUrl, address, city, category, lat, lng, placeRating, placeReviewCount, priceRange
input (free)	status (contributor_not_found, business_not_found, no_reviewers, invalid, blocked, spending_limit), reason, input

Star-only ratings (a rating with no text) are included as review rows with text: null. A review of a place Google Maps no longer shows keeps its cid and placeUrl; its placeName and other place fields are null.

reviewStats summarises the returned reviews for a quick fake-review check: sampleSize, averageStars, fiveStar, oneStar, withText, withPhotos, withOwnerReply, newestAt, oldestAt, distinctCities.

Use cases for Google Maps reviewer data

• Report fake reviews: check who left the newest reviews on your client's (or a competitor's) Google Business Profile — one-review accounts, all-five-star histories, a burst of reviews on the same day, reviews in cities the reviewer never visits — before you flag them to Google.
• Reputation management: export a disgruntled reviewer's public history to see whether they review every place they visit the same way.
• Influencer and Local Guide outreach: find high-level Local Guides who review your category in your city.
• Research: what a set of reviewers rates, where, and how their ratings compare with each place's average.

Input example

{
    "contributors": [
        "https://www.google.com/maps/contrib/112533194102203327973/reviews",
        "115659172211656792609"
    ],
    "businesses": ["https://www.google.com/maps/place/Franklin+Barbecue/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x8644b5a4ae3bcc33:0x31aba8abf8f64c84"],
    "maxReviewsPerContributor": 50,
    "reviewersPerBusiness": 5,
    "language": "en",
    "country": "us"
}

• Contributors: a profile link (…/maps/contrib/<21 digits>…, open a reviewer's name on any Google Maps review to get it), a maps.app.goo.gl share link of the profile, or the 21-digit contributor id.
• Businesses (optional): a Google Maps link, place id (ChIJ…), CID, or "name, city". Each business gives its newest reviewers (up to 5, the ones Google Maps shows first); the business itself is free.
• maxReviewsPerContributor: 0–200 (default 200). 0 returns the profile and its counts only.

Output example (shortened)

[
    {
        "rowType": "contributor",
        "contributorId": "112533194102203327973",
        "name": "三浦祐介",
        "profileUrl": "https://www.google.com/maps/contrib/112533194102203327973",
        "isLocalGuide": true,
        "localGuideLevel": 5,
        "localGuidePoints": 649,
        "contributions": { "reviews": 11, "ratings": 4, "photos": 76, "videos": 5, "answers": 59, "edits": 1, "…": 0 },
        "reviewsListed": 14,
        "reviewsReturned": 14,
        "historyComplete": true,
        "shortfallReason": null,
        "reviewStats": { "sampleSize": 14, "averageStars": 4.36, "fiveStar": 11, "oneStar": 2, "withText": 10, "withPhotos": 9, "withOwnerReply": 5, "newestAt": "2026-10-19T04:12:55.206Z", "oldestAt": "2022-06-21T13:49:36.479Z", "distinctCities": 14 },
        "source": "contributor",
        "reviewedBusiness": null
    },
    {
        "rowType": "review",
        "contributorName": "三浦祐介",
        "position": 1,
        "stars": 5,
        "text": "オースティンを代表するお店ということで…",
        "language": "ja",
        "textTranslated": "Franklin's is considered one of Austin's most famous restaurants…",
        "publishedAt": "2026-10-19T04:12:55.206Z",
        "editedAt": null,
        "relativeDate": "a week ago",
        "details": [{ "label": "Food", "stars": 5, "answer": null }, { "label": "Wait time", "stars": null, "answer": "10-30 min" }],
        "photoUrls": ["https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/…"],
        "ownerReply": null,
        "placeName": "Franklin Barbecue",
        "placeId": "ChIJM8w7rqS1RIYRhEz2-KuoqzE",
        "cid": "3579139785445756036",
        "address": "900 E 11th St, Austin, TX 78702",
        "city": "Austin",
        "category": "Barbecue restaurant",
        "placeRating": 4.7,
        "placeReviewCount": 7332,
        "priceRange": "$20–70"
    }
]

Full history or not: historyComplete and shortfallReason

reviewsListed is how many reviews and ratings Google lists on the profile; historyComplete is true when all of them were returned. When not, shortfallReason says why:

• max_reviews — you asked for fewer (maxReviewsPerContributor).
• google_limit — this Actor returns at most a contributor's newest 200 reviews (the most one Google Maps answer holds); older reviews of a very active Local Guide are not returned.
• restricted_profile — the profile shows its counts but no reviews to visitors (the contributor restricted their profile, or Google holds the reviews back). The profile row is still returned.
• spending_limit — your run's spending limit was reached.

contributions.reviews is the profile's own figure ("213 reviews"); it can be a little higher than what Google lists.

Pricing

Pay per event, no start fee:

Event	Price
contributor — one profile with its level, points and contribution counts	US$0.002
review — one review or star-only rating	US$0.001

A contributor with 50 reviews: US$0.052. A business's 5 newest reviewers with 20 reviews each: US$0.11. Free: contributors or businesses not found, invalid inputs, businesses without reviews, blocked rows, and inputs left out by your spending limit. The limit is checked before each contributor is read, and reviews are returned only as far as it pays.

Stops when Google asks for verification

The Actor reads the same answers Google Maps gives its own web page, at a moderate pace (two requests in flight). If Google ever asks for verification — its "unusual traffic" page, a CAPTCHA, a JavaScript check, or any answer that is not Google Maps' normal data — the run stops sending requests: every input left is a free blocked row that says so, and the run ends normally with a message. It never solves, bypasses or replays a challenge. Plain overloads (HTTP 429 or 5xx without a challenge) are retried through Apify's datacenter proxy.

Limits

• Up to 500 contributors and 500 businesses per run; up to the newest 200 reviews per contributor.
• A business gives at most its 5 newest reviewers (Google orders "newest" by last edit).
• No emails, phone numbers or private data exist on a contributor profile, and none are returned.

Is it legal?

This is an unofficial tool, not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Google. It reads only public contributions — what Google Maps shows any signed-out visitor on a contributor's public profile — without logging in, at a pace a person browsing could produce. Reviewer names and reviews are personal data in many jurisdictions (GDPR, CCPA): use them for a legitimate purpose, keep only what you need, and follow Google's terms and the laws that apply to you.