Google Maps Scraper: Places, Phones, Emails, Reviews

Price per 1,000 places	Free plan	Starter	Scale	Business
This Actor	$1.50	$1.50	$1.50	$0.75
Most-used alternative	$4.00	$3.00	$2.00	$1.50

Search Google Maps by keyword and location and get a clean table of businesses: name, address, phone, website, rating, review count, opening hours, categories, coordinates and the Google Maps link. Turn on one switch to add emails and social profiles from each business website, and another to add up to 5 reviews per place.

No Google account, no API key, no browser extension. $1.50 per 1,000 places.

Run in 30 seconds

1. Type a search term, for example dentist.
2. Type a location, for example Denver, CO.
3. Click Start. 20 places arrive in under a minute. Download as CSV, Excel or JSON.

Leave everything empty and the actor runs a small demo search (coffee shop in Detroit, MI) so you can see the output first.

What you get for each place

Field	Example
title	Decent Detroit
categoryName / categories	Coffee shop
address	14834 Kercheval Ave, Detroit, MI 48215
street, city, postalCode, state, countryCode, neighborhood	14834 Kercheval Ave, Detroit, 48215, Michigan, US, Riverbend
phone / phoneUnformatted	(313) 499-8236 / +13134998236
website / domain	https://www.instagram.com/decentdetroit / instagram.com
totalScore	4.9
reviewsCount	121
priceLevel	$1-10 (when Google shows it)
openingHours	Monday 7 AM-4 PM ... Sunday 8 AM-1 PM
openNowText, permanentlyClosed, temporarilyClosed	Closed · Opens 7 AM Wed / false / false
location	{ lat: 42.38016, lng: -82.94337 }
placeId, cid, fid, kgmid	ChIJMxsyZgDVJIgRwb_5TSUPNdw, 15867605515006230465 ...
url, cidUrl, reviewsUrl	Google Maps links that open the place
imageUrl	Main photo
claimedByOwner, ownerName	true, Decent Detroit
additionalInfo	Accessibility, service options, payments, amenities
timezone	America/Detroit
searchString, searchLocation, rank	coffee shop, Detroit, MI, 1
placesTags	Highlights such as LGBTQ+ friendly, Women-owned
imagesCount	66
reviewsDistribution	{ oneStar: 1, twoStar: 1, threeStar: 1, fourStar: 3, fiveStar: 115 } (detail page)
reviewsTags	"People often mention": [{ title: pastries, count: 17 }, ...] (detail page)

With "Find emails and social profiles" on: emails, websitePhones, socials (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X/Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, Pinterest, Yelp), contactsFound.

With "Image URLs per place" > 0: imageUrls (full-size photo links). With "Order-online links" on: orderBy (the order-online links Google shows for restaurants). Both are free extras; no extra event.

With reviews on (1-5): reviews with stars, text, reviewerName, publishedAt, publishedAtText, reviewerUrl.

Field names follow the most widely used Google Maps actor on Apify, so existing spreadsheets, Zapier/Make flows and scripts keep working when you switch.

Pricing

Pay only for what is delivered. No monthly fee from this actor.

Event	Free / Starter / Scale	Business, Platinum, Diamond	When it is charged
Place scraped	$0.0015 ($1.50 / 1,000)	$0.00075 ($0.75 / 1,000)	Each place delivered after your filters
Website contacts found	$0.001	$0.00037	Only when the website crawl actually finds an email or social profile
Review scraped	$0.0003	$0.00009	Each review delivered (optional, 0-5 per place)
Actor start	$0.00005	$0.00005	Once per run

Every tier is at or below the most-used Google Maps actor's price for the same event. Places on your skip list, filtered-out places and dropped reviews are never charged.

Examples: 1,000 dentists = $1.50. 1,000 dentists with emails where 600 have one = $1.50 + $0.60 = $2.10. Set Max total charge on the run and the actor stops cleanly at your budget.

Input options

Option	What it does
Search terms	One or many, like plumber, roofing contractor, vegan restaurant
Location / More locations / ZIP codes	Each term runs in each location as "term in location"
City / County / State / Postal code	Structured location fields, joined into one area
Skip these places	Place IDs, CIDs or Maps URLs you already have: dropped before delivery, never charged
Google Maps URLs	Paste search URLs or place URLs (including ?cid= links)
Place IDs	Look up known places directly (refresh a list)
Max places per search	1-120 (Google's own cap per search)
Max places in total	Hard stop for the whole run
Language / Country	en, de, es ... and us, gb, ca ...
Only these categories	Drop places whose category does not contain your words
Name must match search	For brand searches: contains or equals
Minimum rating / Minimum review count	Quality filters
Website: with / without	"Without a website" = web design leads
Only places with a phone, Skip closed places	Cleaner call lists
Find emails and social profiles	Crawls the place's own website (home + up to 2 contact/about pages)
Reviews per place	0-5 reviews
Review order / Only reviews newer than / Only reviews containing	Sort, date and keyword filters on the returned reviews (dropped reviews are not charged)
Image URLs per place	Full-size photo links, free
Order-online links	Restaurant ordering links, free
Only new places (monitor mode)	Returns and charges only places earlier runs did not return

Getting more than 120 places

Google Maps itself stops at about 120 results for one search. To cover a whole city, add More locations (neighborhoods) or ZIP codes: each one is a fresh search of up to 120, and duplicates across searches are removed automatically (you are never charged twice for the same place in a run).

Monitor new businesses

Turn on Only new places, then schedule the actor daily or weekly. Each run remembers the place IDs it has already returned and gives you only new ones, charged only for new ones. Use Monitor key to keep separate lists for separate schedules.

Use it from code, Make, Zapier or an AI agent

curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/transparent_meteorite~google-maps-places-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"searchStringsArray":["dentist"],"locationQuery":"Denver, CO","maxCrawledPlacesPerSearch":50,"website":"withoutWebsite"}'

MCP (Claude, Cursor, any MCP client): add the Apify MCP server with this actor enabled:

{ "mcpServers": { "apify": { "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?actors=transparent_meteorite/google-maps-places-scraper" } } }

Then ask: "Find 30 roofing contractors in Tampa without a website and give me their phone numbers."

How it works and limits (honest list)

• It reads the same public data the Google Maps website shows to any visitor who is not logged in. No login, no cookies from your account, no CAPTCHA solving.
• Up to about 120 places per search (Google's limit). Split big areas as described above.
• Reviews: up to 5 per place, the ones Google shows on the public place page. If you need every review of a place, this is not the right tool.
• Emails come only from the business's own website. Many small businesses publish none; you are charged for contacts only when something is found.
• Google can rate limit any single IP. The actor rotates proxy sessions and switches to residential proxy automatically when that happens; very large runs take longer, they do not fail silently. The run summary (OUTPUT) lists per-search counts, filters and any warnings.
• Google's robots.txt asks automated agents to stay away from parts of /maps/. This actor makes the same requests the Maps web page makes for a visitor, at a modest rate. You are responsible for how you use the data (for example, follow anti-spam law when you contact businesses).

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Related actors

More tools from the same publisher that fit this workflow:

• Local Business Leads: find local businesses with no website from OpenStreetMap, a cheap complement to Maps data
• Website Email Extractor: pull emails, phones and socials from each business website
• Company Enrichment by Domain: enrich a domain with socials, emails and tech stack
• Website Tech Stack Detector: detect the CMS, frameworks and hosting behind any site
• Shopify Leads & Store Scraper: Shopify store leads with apps, products and contacts
• WHOIS & Domain Lookup: WHOIS/RDAP, DNS, subdomains and SSL for a domain

Use from AI agents: every actor here is callable through the Apify MCP server (mcp.apify.com).

FAQ

Do I need a Google API key? No.

How fast is it? About 20 places in 5-15 seconds per search page; contacts and reviews add a few seconds per place (run in parallel).

Which countries work? Any country Google Maps covers. Set Language and Country for local names and formats.

Why are some phones or websites empty? The business did not list one on Google Maps. Use "Only places with a phone" to skip them.

Can I get the place's full description and amenities? Turn on "Open each place page" (no extra charge, slower).

Is this the official Google Places API? No. It is an independent tool that reads public Google Maps pages. Not affiliated with Google.

Who uses this scraper and why

• Web design and SEO freelancers search a trade in one city with the Website filter set to "Only places WITHOUT a website". The result is a call list of working businesses that have a phone number and no site, which is the cleanest cold-outreach list a small agency can build.
• Sales teams selling to local businesses (payments, insurance, software, equipment) build territory lists by category and ZIP code, keep only places with a rating and a phone, and push the table into a CRM.
• Market researchers compare how many competitors of a type exist in each neighborhood, their average totalScore and their reviewsCount, using the location coordinates to plot them.
• Franchise and retail planners check the density of a category around a candidate address before signing a lease.
• Lead-gen and local-SEO agencies refresh a client's competitor list monthly with monitor mode, so only newly listed businesses are returned.
• Data teams use the Google place identifiers (placeId, cid) as stable keys to join this table with their own records.

Input fields explained

The input form is grouped into sections. Every field is optional; the actor runs a small demo search when nothing is filled in.

What and where. searchStringsArray takes one or many search terms. locationQuery is added to each term as "term in location". locations and postalCodes add more areas, and each extra area repeats every search term, so 3 terms across 4 ZIP codes is 12 searches. The structured fields city, county, state and postalCode are joined into one area string, which is handy when the values come from a spreadsheet column.

Limits. maxCrawledPlacesPerSearch accepts 1 to 120 and defaults to 20. maxCrawledPlaces is a hard stop for the whole run; 0 means no overall limit. The Max total charge setting on the run is a third, money-based brake.

URLs and place IDs. startUrls accepts Google Maps search URLs and place URLs, including ?cid= links. placeIds takes ChIJ... identifiers to refresh a list you already hold. skipPlaces takes place IDs, CIDs or Maps URLs that you do not want delivered or charged again.

Language and filters. language (default en) controls names, categories and hours. countryCode (default us) biases results. categoryFilterWords keeps only places whose category contains one of your words. searchMatching has three values: all, only_includes and only_exact. placeMinimumStars is a select from 2 to 4.5, and minReviews is a plain count. website is allPlaces, withWebsite or withoutWebsite. onlyWithPhone and skipClosedPlaces are booleans that default to off.

Extras. scrapeContacts crawls the business website for emails, extra phones and social links. maxReviews returns 0 to 5 reviews. scrapePlaceDetailPage opens each place page for the description and the full attribute list. maxImages returns up to 100 photo links when available. scrapeOrderOnline adds ordering links for restaurants. reviewsSort, reviewsStartDate and reviewsFilterString shape the returned reviews.

Monitoring and proxy. onlyNew and monitorKey control monitor mode. proxyConfiguration defaults to Apify Proxy and escalates by itself when Google rate limits an exit.

Worked examples

1. Web design leads: plumbers in Tampa with a phone and no website

{
  "searchStringsArray": ["plumber"],
  "locationQuery": "Tampa, FL",
  "maxCrawledPlacesPerSearch": 60,
  "website": "withoutWebsite",
  "onlyWithPhone": true,
  "skipClosedPlaces": true
}

2. Whole-city coverage with ZIP codes

{
  "searchStringsArray": ["dentist"],
  "postalCodes": ["80202", "80203", "80205", "80206"],
  "maxCrawledPlacesPerSearch": 120,
  "placeMinimumStars": "four",
  "minReviews": 20
}

3. Competitor review sampling

{
  "searchStringsArray": ["vegan restaurant"],
  "locationQuery": "Portland, OR",
  "maxCrawledPlacesPerSearch": 10,
  "maxReviews": 5,
  "reviewsSort": "newest",
  "reviewsStartDate": "2026-01-01"
}

A trimmed output record for a place looks like this. Only fields listed in the table above are used.

{
  "title": "Decent Detroit",
  "categoryName": "Coffee shop",
  "address": "14834 Kercheval Ave, Detroit, MI 48215",
  "phone": "(313) 499-8236",
  "phoneUnformatted": "+13134998236",
  "website": "https://www.instagram.com/decentdetroit",
  "domain": "instagram.com",
  "totalScore": 4.9,
  "reviewsCount": 121,
  "location": { "lat": 42.38016, "lng": -82.94337 },
  "searchString": "coffee shop",
  "rank": 1
}

Tips to keep runs fast and cheap

1. Start with maxCrawledPlacesPerSearch at 10 to check that the category and location return what you expect, then raise it.
2. Put quality filters in the input instead of filtering the spreadsheet afterwards. Places removed by filters are not delivered and not charged.
3. Use skipPlaces with the place IDs from your previous export so that a refresh only pays for new rows.
4. Turn on scrapeContacts only for lists you will actually contact. It adds a website crawl per place and a few seconds of runtime.
5. Prefer ZIP codes over one huge city search when you need more than 120 places. Duplicates across searches are removed within the run.
6. For recurring jobs, use onlyNew with a monitorKey per schedule instead of re-exporting the whole list.
7. Set Max total charge on every scheduled run so a typo in the input cannot grow into a large bill.

Call it with the Apify API in Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("transparent_meteorite/google-maps-places-scraper").call(run_input={
    "searchStringsArray": ["roofing contractor"],
    "locationQuery": "Austin, TX",
    "maxCrawledPlacesPerSearch": 30,
    "website": "withoutWebsite",
})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item["title"], item.get("phone"))

The run summary is stored in the key-value store under the key OUTPUT and contains per-search counts, filters applied and warnings. Read it after unattended runs to see why a search returned fewer places than expected.

More questions

How do I get leads for one trade across a whole state? Run the trade as the search term and list the state's largest cities in locations. Each city is its own search of up to 120 places.

Does the scraper return the same field names as other Google Maps scrapers on Apify? The field names follow the most widely used one, so existing mappings keep working. Fields that Google does not show for a place are simply absent.

Can I filter by category after the run? You can, but categoryFilterWords removes unrelated places before delivery, so you do not pay for them.

What does rank mean? It is the position of the place in the search results for that search term and location.

Why did my search return fewer places than I asked for? Google returned fewer matches for that area, or filters removed some. The OUTPUT summary lists how many were filtered and why.

Can I scrape a single place by URL? Yes. Paste a place URL or a ?cid= link into startUrls, or use placeIds.

Can I schedule it? Yes. Use an Apify schedule with onlyNew turned on to receive only newly listed places each time.

Is the data stored by the actor? Results go to your own run dataset. The only state kept between runs is the list of place IDs for monitor mode, in a named key-value store in your account.