Google Maps Phone Scraper

No. It never uses a Google account, so there is none to block. It reads Google Maps' public search results, with requests spaced two seconds apart.

Yes, for business listings. This Actor costs $0.85 per 1,000 places on Apify's free plan and $0.75 on paid plans; compass/crawler-google-places costs $4.00 and $3.00, and lukaskrivka/google-maps-with-contact-details $5.00 and $4.00. None bills platform usage on top. Website emails and socials are an option at $1.50 per 1,000 places, charged only when found. Compass is the better pick if you need review text, images or rating and category filters, which this Actor does not offer.

Two ways. For a fixed workflow, add Apify's n8n or Make node, choose **Run Actor**, enter aurelix/google-maps-scraper and map the dataset to the next step. For an AI agent (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or an n8n AI Agent node), add https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=aurelix/google-maps-scraper as an MCP server and ask for businesses in plain words; setup for each client is in the section above. Runs bill your own Apify account at the same per-result price.

$0.85 per 1,000 places ($0.75 on paid Apify plans), billed through your Apify account; you pay only for results. Apify's free plan includes $5 of credit a month, enough for about 5,882 places.

One place-result ($0.85 per 1,000) per place returned. With 'Add website emails and socials' on, also one contact-result ($1.50 per 1,000) per place whose website gave at least one email, extra phone or social link; nothing for sites with no contacts. Places already returned in the run, places returned by an earlier run when 'Only new places since last run' is on, suppressed places and failed searches are not charged.

Yes, optionally. Google Maps does not show emails, so with 'Add website emails and socials' on the Actor reads each business's own website (home page plus up to 4 contact or about pages, robots.txt obeyed) and returns generic business emails such as info@ or sales@, extra phones and social profile links. Emails of named people are not returned.

Turn on 'Only new places since last run' and schedule the run. Places returned before are skipped and not charged; give the same 'stateKey' (or the same searches) each time. A place not seen for 60 days is forgotten.

Up to 300 per search term and location, in Google's ranking order; fewer when Google lists fewer (a broad city search lists about 260 to 290). For more coverage, split large areas into neighbourhoods or use more specific terms, e.g. 'emergency plumber' and 'drain cleaning'.

No. Review text, reviewer names and photos are never collected. Only the average rating and the number of reviews are returned.

Yes. Google's robots.txt allows Maps search results (/search?tbm=map), which is the only Google page type this Actor requests. With 'Add website emails and socials' on, it also reads the businesses' own websites, and only the pages their robots.txt allows; a site whose robots.txt disallows us is skipped.

Yes. Give 'searchTerms' and 'locations'; it works through Apify's MCP server and API.

It reads only public data any logged-out visitor can see: Google Maps search results. It goes at a polite pace, respects robots.txt, never logs in and never solves CAPTCHAs. It returns business listing fields (name, categories, address, phone, website, rating, review count, hours, coordinates); no review text or reviewer data. To have a record removed, open an issue on this Actor's Issues tab; if Google formally asks us to stop, this Actor will stop. You are responsible for using the data lawfully, incl. anti-spam and privacy laws; this is not legal advice.

Open an issue in the Issues tab with the business name or website. It is added to the shared suppression list within 7 days.

The run still finishes normally and returns what Google lists. You pay per place returned plus the $0.001 start fee, so a search with no matches costs only the start fee. The run's status message says how many places came from how many searches and lists anything skipped: places returned by an earlier run, suppressed places, or result pages that failed. If you set a maximum charge, the run stops before the next place would pass it and says so; places already returned are kept. A run that nears its timeout stops early and keeps its results.

By Google's place ID across the whole run. A place found by two searches, e.g. 'coffee shop' and 'cafe' in the same city, is returned and charged once, with the search_term and search_location of the search that found it first. Across runs, use 'Only new places since last run'.

A place whose ID was not returned by an earlier run under the same state name. It is not the date the business opened: a long-standing business that shows up in Google's results for the first time also counts as new. Places that keep appearing stay remembered; one not seen for 60 days is forgotten and can come back as new. Without a stateKey, the name is derived from your search terms, locations and language, so changing any of them starts a fresh memory. Changing Max places per search does not.

Any location you can type into Google Maps. Our tests covered the US, Canada, the UK, France, Germany and Spain. The language setting (English, French, Spanish or German) changes category names and the opening-hours text; days are always listed Monday to Sunday. Addresses are split into street, city, region, postal code and country code as Google provides them.

Each request to Google returns up to 20 places, and requests are spaced two seconds apart, so a 300-place search needs 15 requests. In our test run, 4 searches returning 100 places took 25 s. Website contacts add time: up to 5 pages per site, at most 45 s per site, 5 sites at a time, and each site is read once per run.

place_id is Google's place ID, the best key for matching records over time. cid is Google's numeric customer ID for the listing, and google_maps_url opens the place. phone is E.164 (e.g. +14032641736) and phone_display is the number as Google shows it. rating is null when a place has no reviews. timezone is a name such as America/Toronto. search_term and search_location record which search found the place.

The default Apify datacenter proxy is enough; in our tests no request was blocked or shown a CAPTCHA. If Google answers with something other than a Maps result, that search stops, the places found so far are kept, and the status message counts the failed pages. Nothing is charged for a failed search. Website contact pages are fetched directly, without the proxy.