Search Google Maps for places, retrieve detailed business information, collect reviews, access place photos, and monitor public Google Business Profile updates as structured JSON.
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{
"title": "Harbor Coffee Roasters",
"rating": 4.6,
"reviews_count": 842,
"address": "100 Market Street, San Francisco, CA",
"gps_coordinates": {
"lat": 37.7936,
"lng": -122.3965
}
}Choose an endpoint to see what it does, which parameters it accepts, and the structured JSON your application receives.
x-api-key/v1/google/maps/search7 creditsSearch for businesses and places by keyword. Returns name, identifiers, rank, rating, address, coordinates, hours, and more. Use the returned place_id or data_id with any other endpoint.
q | required | Search query, for example pizza in New York . |
ll | optional | Map center and zoom as @lat,lng,zoom . |
gl | optional | Country code. Defaults to us . |
hl | optional | Language code. Defaults to en . |
start | optional | Zero-based pagination offset in increments of 20. |
curl --get \
'https://scrapebadger.com/v1/google/maps/search' \
--data-urlencode 'q=coffee shops in San Francisco' \
--data-urlencode 'll=@37.7749,-122.4194,13z' \
--header 'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY'{
"results": [
{
"title": "Harbor Coffee Roasters",
"place_id": "ChIJ_EXAMPLE_PLACE_ID",
"data_id": "0xEXAMPLE:0xEXAMPLE",
"rank": 1,
"rating": 4.6,
"reviews_count": 842,
"type": "Coffee shop",
"address": "100 Market Street, San Francisco, CA",
"phone": "+1 415-555-0100",
"website": "https://example.com",
"gps_coordinates": {
"lat": 37.7936,
"lng": -122.3965
},
"open_state": "Open",
"google_maps_url": "https://www.google.com/maps/..."
}
],
"pagination": {
"current": 1,
"next": "...",
"total_results": 120
}
}Search by business type, service, brand, or location, then enrich each result with identifiers, categories, address, phone, website, coordinates, opening hours, ratings, and service options. Build searchable business directories, supplier databases, travel guides, and location-based applications from structured place records.
Collect recent or top-ranked reviews, compare rating distributions, identify frequently mentioned topics, and measure whether owners respond to customers. Use scheduled snapshots to monitor how customer feedback and overall ratings change across your own locations or a defined competitor set.
Track which businesses appear for high-value local queries and compare their Maps rank, categories, ratings, review volume, hours, service options, and public profile content. Re-run the same query and location context on a schedule to build your own historical view of market changes.
Monitor public Google Business Profile changes across multiple locations. Detect new reviews, owner responses, photo updates, business announcements, offers, and merchant descriptions, then route the structured data into dashboards, alerts, CRM workflows, or internal research tools.
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Everything you need to know about the Google Maps API.
place_id typically starts with ChIJ , while a data_id is a hexadecimal pair such as 0x...:0x... . Get Place Details accepts either identifier. Get Place Reviews and Get Place Photos require data_id . Get Business Posts can use data_id or place_id ; use data_id when it is available from a Maps search result.gl to select the country context and hl to select the response language. For Maps search, use ll in the form @latitude,longitude,zoom to set the map center and zoom, and include the target location in q when it helps disambiguate the search. The place, reviews, photos, and posts endpoints support gl and hl but do not accept ll .qualityScore (the default), newestFirst , ratingHigh , and ratingLow . Set results from 1 to 20 to control the page size. Continue with the previous response's next_page_token , or use the zero-based offset parameter. Maps search uses a separate start offset in increments of 20.null , arrays can be empty, and the posts response can return has_updates: false . An empty optional data set does not necessarily mean the place ID is invalid.X-Credits-Used response header. New accounts receive 1,000 free credits, which cover 142 successful Google Maps requests.Use 1,000 free credits to search Google Maps places, retrieve detailed business data, collect reviews, access public photos, and monitor Google Business Profile updates through five structured JSON endpoints.
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