Google Maps Reviews Scraper

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Get real reviews — author, star rating, full text, and timestamp — from any Google Maps place. This actor drives a real browser because Google's modern review endpoint requires a BotGuard anti-abuse token that only a real browser session can produce; static HTTP replay does not work for this data (verified during development).

How it works

1. Resolves the place's display name from its Google place ID.
2. Searches for it on Google Maps and opens the place's full detail panel.
3. Opens the Reviews tab and extracts the first batch of reviews directly from the page.
4. If more reviews are available ("More reviews" / scrolling), intercepts the browser's own review-loading network calls to capture additional pages.

Because this is a real browser run (not a lightweight HTTP request), it is slower and costs more to run than a typical HTTP-based actor — budget maxReviewsPerPlace accordingly.

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One record per review:

Pay-Per-Event billing

This actor runs a real browser per place, so price both events higher than a typical HTTP-based scraper to cover the extra compute cost — check current Apify Store "Google Maps Reviews" actor pricing before finalizing.

Running locally

$apify run --purge

Put a test input in storage/key_value_stores/default/INPUT.json, e.g.:

{
"placeIds":["ChIJ67CkOzjvDogR2L42VGEgXJo"],
"maxReviewsPerPlace":10,
"proxyConfiguration":{"useApifyProxy":true}
}