Scrape Google Maps Places — 30+ Fields per Business at $1 per 1,000

Extract comprehensive business data from Google Maps at a fraction of the cost of alternatives. Get name, address, phone, website, ratings, opening hours, GPS coordinates, photos, plus optional featured reviews, popular-times histograms, and AI-powered contact or job enrichment. Global coverage, any language, one flat rate.

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Docker Image

~80MB

RAM

256MB

Proxy

BUYPROXIES Datacenter

Coverage

Global

Pricing

$1 / 1,000 places

Anti-Bot

Session rotation

What You Can Scrape

Business profiles — name, category, address (with parsed street/city/postal code/state/country), phone, website, Google Maps URL
Ratings breakdown — average rating, review count, and reviews-per-rating distribution (1 to 5 stars)
Featured reviews (opt-in) — author name, star rating, publication date, review text, owner responses
Opening hours — full weekly schedule with multiple slots per day, current open/closed status
Popular times (opt-in) — visitor-traffic histogram by weekday and hour (0 to 100)
GPS + geo data — latitude, longitude, Plus Code, IANA timezone
Photos and menu — thumbnail, image gallery, menu link, reservation and order-online links
Attributes — dine-in, delivery, Wi-Fi, wheelchair access, and other Google-listed amenities

Primary Use Cases

Local lead generation — build prospect lists of businesses by category and location
Market mapping — analyze business density, competition, and gaps in any geographic area
Review monitoring — track ratings and review sentiment for brands or competitors
Real estate analysis — map nearby amenities, businesses, and points of interest
Data enrichment — add phone, website, and GPS data to existing business databases

API Example

# Start a run and get results back in one request
curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/santamaria-automations~google-maps-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "searchStrings": ["restaurants in Munich"],
    "maxResultsPerQuery": 100,
    "language": "en",
    "includeReviews": true,
    "maxReviewsPerPlace": 10
  }'

# Or use with AI agents via MCP:
# https://mcp.apify.com?tools=santamaria-automations/google-maps-scraper

Optional Enrichments

includeReviews — fetch featured reviews per place with author, star rating, date, text, and owner response. Configure with maxReviewsPerPlace, reviewsSort, and reviewsNewerThan. Adds ~300 ms per place. Free.
includePopularTimes — pull Google's visitor-traffic histogram by weekday and hour. Adds ~1.5 s per place. Free.
enableContactExtraction — AI-powered add-on that visits each business website and extracts team member names, emails, phones, and departments. Billed by the Website Contact Extractor.
enableJobExtraction — AI-powered add-on that scans each business's career page and returns open positions. Billed by the Website Job Extractor.
excludeCids — pass an array of Google CIDs to skip places you have already collected. Perfect for incremental scheduled runs.
Structured queries — instead of plain searchStrings, use the queries array to attach a per-query company_id and separate the search term from the location and country code.

Tutorials

How to Scrape Google Maps with n8n — connect this actor to n8n and push results into a Google Sheet. Free workflow template, 10-minute setup.

Integrations

n8n / Make / Zapier — trigger runs and process results via webhook
AI Agents (MCP) — Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, LangChain, LlamaIndex
Python / Node.js — Apify SDK for programmatic access
Google Sheets / Airtable — export via Apify integrations

How It Compares

Feature	NanoScrape	compass/crawler-google-places
Cost per 1k places	$1.00 (all fields included)	$35 - $50
RAM usage	256MB	2-8GB
Proxy type	Datacenter	Residential ($$$)
Fields per place	30+	20-30
Reviews	Featured reviews included, opt-in	Extra billing
Popular times	Included, opt-in	Extra billing
Contact / job enrichment	AI-powered add-on	Not available
Incremental scraping (excludeCids)	Yes	No

Output Fields (Sample)

Field	Type	Example
title	string	Augustiner-Keller
category	string	Beer garden
address	string	Arnulfstr. 52, 80335 Munich, Germany
complete_address	object	{ street, city, postal_code, state, country }
phone	string	+49 89 594393
website	string	https://www.augustinerkeller.de
review_rating	number	4.5
review_count	number	12847
reviews_per_rating	object	{ "1": 42, "2": 31, "3": 89, "4": 312, "5": 1349 }
user_reviews	array	[ { name, rating, text, published_at, response_from_owner } ]
popular_times	object	{ "Monday": { "12": 43, "13": 61, ... } }
latitude / longitude	number	48.1432 / 11.5512
open_hours	object	{ "Monday": ["11:00-23:00"], ... }
cid	string	12345678901234567 (stable, use for excludeCids)

30+ fields total. See the actor README on Apify for the complete field reference.

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