Google Maps Search Places

Find places on Google Maps by free-text keyword, by coordinates, or around a specific anchor place. Works for any country and language.

What you get

A list of places matching your query, with name, address, rating, review count, coordinates, category, opening hours, popular times, photos URL, and a clean Google Maps URL to open the place.

Use cases

• Lead generation — pull every cafe / dentist / gym / law firm in a city to a spreadsheet for cold outreach.
• Market research — count competitors in a neighborhood, see their ratings and review volume.
• Local SEO audits — discover all businesses in a category and compare GMB profiles.
• Real-estate scouting — list every clinic, school, or grocery store near a coordinate.
• Travel planning — collect attractions and viewpoints around a destination.

Why this actor

• Multi-country, multi-language out of the box — set language (hl) and country (gl), get localized results.
• Three search modes — keyword, by coordinates, or near an anchor place — covering most real-world use cases.
• Cursor-based pagination so you can pull many pages of results without losing context.
• Rich fields per place — not just name + address but also categories, hours, popular times, region, and a stable item_id you can chain into our Place Detail or Reviews actor.
• No API key, no quota — runs on Google's public Maps frontend.

Sample input

{
    "keyword": "Statue of Liberty",
    "mode": "keyword",
    "language": "en",
    "country": "us",
    "max_pages": 1
}

Sample output

[
    {
        "name": "Statue of Liberty",
        "address": "New York, NY 10004",
        "item_id": "0x89c25090129c363d:0x40c6a5770d25022b",
        "search_path": "/m/072p8",
        "place_id": "ChIJPTacEpBQwokRKwIlDXelxkA",
        "coordinate": [40.6892494, -74.04450039999999],
        "rating_star": 4.7,
        "review_count": null,
        "region": "America/New_York",
        "scheduler": [
            {"day": "Sunday", "schedule": "9 AM–4:30 PM"}
        ],
        "status": "closed",
        "detail": {
            "category": "Historical landmark",
            "website": "https://www.nps.gov/stli/index.htm",
            "phone": "(212) 363-3200",
            "open_hours": "Open · Closes 4:30 PM",
            "type": "TYPE_HISTORICAL"
        },
        "tags": ["Food & Drink", "Other"],
        "url": "https://www.google.com/maps/place/Statue+of+Liberty/@40.6892494,-74.04450039999999,14z/data=..."
    }
]

How to get the inputs

• keyword — anything you would type into Google Maps' search box, or a full Maps URL, or a lat,lng pair. No special preparation needed.
• lat / lng (for by_location mode) — right-click any spot on Google Maps and copy the coordinates that appear, or read them from the URL's @LAT,LNG segment (e.g. @40.7484,-73.9857,17z).

Tips

• For US-centric queries pick United States (us) in the country dropdown. For Japan pick Japan (jp) + Japanese (ja), etc.
• Want results in the local language? Pick the language dropdown to match the country (e.g. country: jp + language: ja).

Pair with other actors

• Send each result's item_id into Google Maps Place Detail for a full place profile (hours, prices, popular times, hotel rates, restaurant attributes).
• Send each result's item_id into Google Maps Reviews to pull every customer review (and optionally the photo gallery in one shot).
• Send item_id into Google Maps Photos & Videos for a deep dive on a single place's gallery with category filters (owner / visitors / menu / Street View).
• For a search-by-category workflow (cafes, hotels, gyms near X), use Google Maps Places by Category instead — it handles hotel-pricing enrichment automatically.