Apple Maps Scraper

Extract places from Apple Maps with a plain search query: business name, category, full address, GPS coordinates, phone, website, star rating and rating count, opening hours, amenities, photos, review snippets and editorial descriptions. No Apple account, no API key, no browser. Results come straight from the same data feed the Apple Maps web app uses, so they are as fresh as what you see at maps.apple.com.

Apple Maps is the default map on more than two billion iPhones, iPads and Macs, and its place data is a blend of Apple's own listings plus Yelp, TripAdvisor, Foursquare and The Infatuation. That makes it a distinct signal from Google Maps: different ratings, different photos, different business coverage, and amenities such as "Accepts Apple Pay" that only Apple tracks.

What you get

One dataset item per place. A single search returns 20 to 60 places; ask for more and the Actor tiles the resolved search area into a grid and searches again, de-duplicating by Apple place ID.

Field	Description
placeId	Apple's stable place identifier (for example I15FF30DE01EC121F)
muid	Apple's numeric place ID (used in auid= share links)
name	Business or place name
category	Primary category as shown on the place card ("Coffee Shop")
categories	All category labels, most general first ("Dining", "Coffee Shop", "Cafe")
mapsCategoryId	Apple's machine category path (dining.cafe.coffee_shop)
placeType	BUSINESS, LANDMARK, TRANSIT, ...
phone, phoneFormatted	Phone in E.164 and display format
website	Business website
address, addressLines	Full formatted address as one string and as lines
street, neighborhood, city, state, stateCode, county, postalCode, country, countryCode	Structured address components
latitude, longitude	WGS-84 coordinates
timezone	IANA time zone of the place (America/Chicago)
rating, maxRating, ratingOutOf5	Rating score on the provider's scale (Yelp is 0-5, Apple's own ratings are 0-100) plus a normalised 0-5 value
ratingCount	Number of ratings behind the score
ratingProvider	Who supplied the rating: Yelp, Apple, TripAdvisor, ...
priceLevel, priceSymbol	Price tier when Apple exposes one (sparse)
hours	Opening hours per weekday as [{ "open": "07:00", "close": "22:00" }]; 24:00 means midnight; days missing hours are closed
open24Hours, hoursType	Convenience flags
amenities	[{ "name": "Accepts Apple Pay", "id": "crossbusiness.payments.applepay", "available": true }]
coverPhoto, photos	Business cover image and up to maxPhotos photos with URL, thumbnail, size, caption and provider
reviews	Review snippets from the place card (text, rating, reviewer, link)
description	Business-supplied "About" text
editorial	Editorial blurb, for example from The Infatuation
accolades	Awards and lists ("The Infatuation: Top 25")
quickLinks	Menu, reservation and ordering links
dataProvider, dataProviderUrl	Third-party provider behind the listing and the link back to it
appleMapsUrl	Deep link to the place on maps.apple.com
language, query, scrapedAt	Provenance

Sample record

{
  "placeId": "I15FF30DE01EC121F",
  "name": "Daydreamer Coffee",
  "category": "Coffee Shop",
  "categories": ["Dining", "Coffee Shop", "Cafe"],
  "phone": "+17404000238",
  "website": "https://www.daydreamer.coffee/",
  "address": "80 Rainey St, Austin, TX 78701, United States",
  "neighborhood": "Downtown",
  "city": "Austin",
  "stateCode": "TX",
  "postalCode": "78701",
  "countryCode": "US",
  "latitude": 30.2592149,
  "longitude": -97.7389039,
  "rating": 4,
  "maxRating": 5,
  "ratingOutOf5": 4.0,
  "ratingCount": 27,
  "ratingProvider": "Yelp",
  "hours": { "Monday": [{ "open": "07:00", "close": "22:00" }], "...": "..." },
  "amenities": [{ "name": "Accepts Apple Pay", "id": "crossbusiness.payments.applepay", "available": true }],
  "photos": [{ "url": "https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/.../750x1000bb.jpg", "caption": "interior", "provider": "Yelp" }],
  "appleMapsUrl": "https://maps.apple.com/place?place-id=I15FF30DE01EC121F"
}

Input

{
  "queries": ["coffee in Austin, TX", "dentists near Manchester"],
  "maxResults": 100,
  "language": "en-US",
  "includePhotos": true,
  "maxPhotos": 5,
  "includeReviews": true
}

Field	Type	Default	Notes
queries	array of strings	required	Write them the way you would type into Apple Maps. Put the location in the query ("in Austin, TX", "near Soho, London") unless you set coordinates.
maxResults	integer 1-500	50	Per query. Above one page the search area is tiled automatically.
latitude, longitude	number	-	Search around a fixed point instead of the location in the query.
radiusKm	number 0.5-100	5	Radius around the point above.
language	BCP-47 tag	en-US	Changes names, categories, amenities and reviews (fr-FR, de-DE, ja-JP, ...).
countryCode	ISO-2	-	Bias for ambiguous queries.
includePhotos, maxPhotos	bool, int	true, 5
includeReviews	bool	true
proxyConfiguration	object	off	Not needed for Apple Maps; only enable if your runs start erroring.

Search around coordinates:

{
  "queries": ["pharmacy"],
  "latitude": 51.5074,
  "longitude": -0.1278,
  "radiusKm": 2,
  "maxResults": 40,
  "language": "en-GB"
}

Pricing

Pay per place, nothing else. No charge for the run start, for empty searches or for compute.

Plan	Price per place	Per 1,000 places
Free	$0.001	$1.00
Bronze	$0.0009	$0.90
Silver	$0.0008	$0.80
Gold	$0.0007	$0.70

A run of 10 city-level queries at 100 places each costs about $1.00 and finishes in roughly a minute. The Actor runs on 256 MB with pure HTTP, so there is no hidden platform usage bill on top.

Use cases

1. Lead lists for local-business sales. Search "roofing contractors in Phoenix, AZ" or "dental clinics in Leeds" and get phone, website, full address, rating and whether they accept Apple Pay in one pass. Feed the CSV into your CRM or an enrichment step; placeId stays stable across runs so you can diff for new businesses each month.

2. Location intelligence and site selection. Pull every "coffee shop", "gym" and "grocery store" within a radius of a candidate site using latitude/longitude + radiusKm, then map density, rating and price tiers against foot traffic. Apple's categories are hierarchical (dining.cafe.coffee_shop) which makes rolling up by vertical easy.

3. Reputation monitoring across map providers. Apple Maps surfaces Yelp and TripAdvisor ratings, Apple's own 0-100 "recommend" score, editorial blurbs from The Infatuation and accolades. Scrape your locations weekly and compare with Google Maps data to catch rating drops, wrong hours or missing photos on the map two billion iPhones use by default.

How it works

The Actor talks to the JSON endpoint behind maps.apple.com search. Every response already carries the complete place card, so there is one HTTP request per search page and none per place. Queries are passed through verbatim, Apple parses "what in where" itself, and the area it resolves is reused for grid tiling when you ask for more results than one page holds. Results are de-duplicated by placeId across all queries in a run.

• Geographic hits (cities, streets, postcodes) are filtered out; only places are pushed.
• An empty result set from Apple finishes as a successful run with a clear status message. A run only fails when Apple Maps could not be reached for any query.
• Requests are paced at about one per second with exponential backoff on 429/5xx.

Limitations

• Apple returns at most around 60 places per search; grid tiling extends this but very generic queries over a whole metro area top out at a few hundred distinct places.
• Full review text is not exposed by Apple Maps; you get the snippets shown on the place card (typically three).
• Price tier is only present for a subset of restaurants.
• Queries with no location and no coordinates are resolved relative to the server's IP location, which is rarely what you want. Always include a place name or set coordinates.

Related Actors by Thirdwatch

• Google Maps Scraper for the Google side of the same data
• Yelp Scraper for full Yelp reviews
• TripAdvisor Scraper

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