Google Maps Directions Scraper

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Extract driving, walking, bicycling, and transit directions between any two locations from Google Maps — including distance, duration, traffic conditions, route alternatives, and turn-by-turn steps.

What It Does

Provide an origin and a destination (as addresses, place names, or lat,lng coordinates), and this actor returns:

• All route alternatives Google Maps offers (up to 5)
• Distance in both human-readable form ("1.2 mi") and integer meters
• Duration in human-readable form ("8 min") and integer seconds
• "via" road for each route (e.g. "via Broadway")
• Traffic condition notes when available (e.g. "Moderate traffic")
• Turn-by-turn step instructions for the primary route (best-effort)
• Resolved origin and destination strings (what Google actually matched)
• The final Google Maps directions URL you can share or open in a browser

Use Cases

• ETA calculators, courier and logistics planning, dispatch dashboards
• Travel-time monitoring between business locations
• Field-service routing and territory planning
• Sales and customer-visit scheduling
• Real-estate commute analyses
• Tourism / transit research

Input

Example input:

{
"origin":"Times Square, New York, NY",
"destination":"Central Park, New York, NY",
"travelMode":"driving"
}

Walking directions:

{
"origin":"Eiffel Tower, Paris",
"destination":"Louvre Museum, Paris",
"travelMode":"walking",
"language":"en"
}

Output

Each route alternative produces one dataset record:

{
"origin":"Times Square, New York, NY",
"destination":"Central Park, New York, NY",
"originResolved":"Times Square",
"destinationResolved":"Central Park",
"midpointLocation":{"lat":40.7700,"lng":-73.9758},
"travelMode":"driving",
"language":"en",
"units":"metric",
"routeIndex":0,
"distance":"1.2 mi",
"distanceMeters":1931,
"duration":"8 min",
"durationSeconds":480,
"via":"via Broadway",
"trafficCondition":"Moderate traffic",
"steps":[
{"instruction":"Head north on Broadway","distance":"0.3 mi"}
],
"googleMapsUrl":"https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Times+Square/Central+Park/?hl=en&travelmode=driving",
"scrapedAt":"2026-06-16T10:30:00+00:00"
}

Empty fields are omitted from the record.

How It Works

• Loads the canonical Google Maps directions URL in a stealth Chromium browser
• Waits for route alternatives to render, then extracts them from the DOM
• Distance and duration strings are also normalised to integer meters / seconds for downstream analytics

FAQ

How many routes are returned per run? Up to 5 alternatives, in the order Google Maps shows them. routeIndex: 0 is Google's recommended route.

Why does Google sometimes resolve my origin/destination differently? Google Maps performs its own geocoding and may match the closest known place. The originResolved and destinationResolved fields show what it actually matched.

Can I use coordinates instead of addresses? Yes — pass "40.7580,-73.9855" (or similar) as origin/destination and the actor will route between the exact points.

Does this actor use cookies or login? No. Google Maps directions are public and require no authentication.

Is a proxy needed? Usually not. The actor first attempts the run without a proxy, which is the most reliable approach for Google Maps. If you configure a proxy, it is used only as a fallback.

What if Google Maps cannot find a route (e.g. between two continents for driving)? The actor will report no routes found and fail the run gracefully so you can see the issue in the status message.

🗺️ Complete Google Maps Scraper Suite

This actor is part of a comprehensive Google Maps data extraction toolkit by crawlerbros. All actors run on the free Apify plan, use no proxy by default, and return clean, structured data.