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Google Maps Scraper

Scrapes Google Maps for full place data. No API key. $0.00.

Two ways to run

1. Local (Swagger UI)

pip install fastapi uvicorn playwright
python3 -m playwright install chromium
python3 -m uvicorn crawler_api:app --port8080--reload

Open http://localhost:8080/docs

2. Apify (cloud)

npminstall-g apify-cli
apify login
apify push

Or run via API:

curl-X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/YOUR_ACTOR_ID/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN"\
-H"Content-Type: application/json"\
-d'{"query": "top things to do in London", "maxResults": 5}'

Files

What you get per spot

• name, place_id (ChIJ format)
• rating, review_count
• address, coordinates
• phone, website
• primary_type, opening_hours
• description, price_level
• photos (free Google CDN URLs)
• reviews (text, rating, author, time)
• review_tags (e.g. "chicken ruby 309")
• popular_times (hourly busyness)
• atmosphere (About tab categories)
• bookings (reservation links — OpenTable, Resy, Google Reserve, etc.)

Anti-detection

• navigator.webdriver spoofed to false
• Fake Chrome plugins, languages, runtime
• --disable-blink-features=AutomationControlled
• Random jitter between tab launches
• Heavy resources blocked (images, fonts, CSS, media)

Speed

• Local: ~5s for 5 spots (parallel tabs)
• Apify: ~13s for 5 spots (includes container startup)