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Google Maps Reviews Scraper

Extract reviews, ratings and photos from any Google Maps business listing — with AI-powered sentiment analysis and business insights. Fast, structured, and ready to use

What it does

This actor calls the Google Maps API to collect reviews for one or more places. For each place it retrieves the author's name, profile link, Local Guide status, review and photo counts, star rating, date, source platform, full text (with translation if present), photos, and owner replies — all without running a browser.

You can feed it:

• A list of place URLs or IDs — scrape specific known places in bulk
• A search query + location — let the actor discover matching places within a radius and scrape them all

Output

The result is a JSON object with place metadata and an array of reviews. When generateAIOverview is enabled, an reviewOverview field is added at the place level:

{
"placeId":"0x3a02a586c15e1b3d:0x2e5b31b1d5397aae",
"placeName":"Some Business",
"reviewOverview":"### Overall Sentiment\nPositive\n\n### Top Strengths\n- **Food Quality**: Customers consistently praise the deliciousness and quality of the food....",
"reviews":[
{
"reviewId":"Ci9DQWLR...",
"author":"John Smith",
"authorUrl":"https://www.google.com/maps/contrib/123456789/reviews",
"isLocalGuide":true,
"authorReviewCount":42,
"authorPhotoCount":7,
"rating":4,
"date":"2 months ago",
"reviewSource":"Google",
"reviewUrl":"https://www.google.com/maps/reviews/data=...",
"text":"Great place, would definitely come back again...",
"textTranslated":null,
"photos":[
{
"thumbnail":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/...",
"fullsize":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/...=s1600"
}
],
"replies":[
{
"author":"Response from the owner",
"date":"1 month ago",
"text":"Thank you for your kind words!",
"textTranslated":null
}
]
}
]
}

Review fields

Input

Scraping specific places

Provide a list of place URLs or IDs in placeUrls. Multiple entries are processed in parallel.

Supported place URL / ID formats

Short maps.app.goo.gl links are resolved automatically before scraping begins. Hex and Base64 IDs are converted to canonical place URLs.

Example input — specific places

{
"placeUrls":[
"https://maps.app.goo.gl/ykgpkGMfASnkhQgXA",
"0x40d4e9413c90fc47:0xe70863b37a371fdf",
"ChIJgUbEo8cfqokR5lP9_Wh_DaM"
],
"maxReviews":50,
"sortBy":"newest",
"language":"en"
}

Discovering places by search

Leave placeUrls empty and provide a search query with a location to let the actor find matching places automatically and scrape reviews from all of them.

Example input — search-based discovery

{
"searchQuery":"coffee shop",
"searchLocation":"Paris, France",
"searchRadius":2000,
"maxPlaces":20,
"maxReviews":30,
"sortBy":"newest"
}

This finds up to 20 coffee shops within 2 km of central Paris and collects the 30 newest reviews from each.

AI Overview

When generateAIOverview is set to true, the actor uses an AI model to produce a concise written summary of all collected reviews for each place. The summary is returned as an aiOverview string at the place level alongside the individual reviews.

Pricing: this feature incurs an additional charge per review with text that is processed by the AI. Reviews without text are not charged. The charge is applied on top of the standard per-review cost.

Example output:

{
"placeId":"0x3a02a586c15e1b3d:0x2e5b31b1d5397aae",
"placeName":"Some Business",
"reviewOverview":"### Overall Sentiment\nPositive\n\n### Top Strengths\n- **Food Quality**: Customers consistently praise the deliciousness and quality of the food....",
"reviews":[...]
}

Features

• Bulk place input — supply as many URLs or IDs as needed; all are processed automatically
• Search-based discovery — find places by name or category within any radius and scrape them all in one run
• All place ID formats — accepts full URLs, short links, hex IDs, and Base64 IDs
• No browser required — uses the Google Maps API directly for fast, reliable data retrieval
• Date filtering — newerThan limits results to recent reviews only, forcing newest-first sort automatically
• Language control — request review text in any supported Google Maps language
• Sorting — supports all four Google Maps sort modes: newest, highest rating, lowest rating, and most relevant
• Translation detection — captures both the auto-translated version (textTranslated) and the original (text) when present
• Owner replies — extracts owner responses including author, date, text, and translation if present
• Full-size photos — thumbnail URLs normalized to full-resolution (=s1600) variants
• AI overview — optional AI-generated summary of all reviews per place; charged per source review with text