OpenStreetMap Scraper - Places, POIs & Geocoding

Disclaimer: This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the OpenStreetMap Foundation or any of its subsidiaries. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. "OpenStreetMap" is referenced only to describe the publicly available website this Actor collects data from.

Search OpenStreetMap (via the official Nominatim API) and get clean rows for any named place or address: coordinates, full structured address, category/type, OSM ids and bounding box. Geocode addresses in bulk or look up landmarks, cities and points of interest. No API key, no browser.

What you get per place

Field	Meaning
displayName / name	Full display name and short name
lat / lon / boundingBox	Coordinates and bounding box
category / placeType / addressType	OSM class, type and address type
houseNumber / road / city / county / state / postcode / country / countryCode	Structured address parts
osmType / osmId / placeId / placeUrl	OSM identifiers and the map page

Input

{ "searchQueries": ["Eiffel Tower", "1600 Pennsylvania Ave"], "countryCodes": "us", "maxItemsPerQuery": 10 }

• Search terms - named places or addresses, one per line. Optionally restrict to countryCodes (e.g. us,ca).
• Import from a file - paste a list, or link a public .txt/.csv, a Google Sheet/Drive link, or an Apify key-value-store record.
• Output fields - trim every record to exactly the columns you need.

Leave everything empty and the run returns a small free sample so you can see the shape first.

Reliability

Reads the official Nominatim API with a descriptive User-Agent and a built-in delay that respects Nominatim's usage policy (about one request per second). A search that matches nothing, or an import that cannot be read, bills $0 and says why.

Honest limits

• Matches named places and addresses, not "category in a city" phrases. Use Eiffel Tower, Berlin, or a street address - a query like "coffee shops in Berlin" is not a Nominatim geocoding query and returns nothing.
• Street-level fields (houseNumber, road, postcode) fill only for address queries - city and landmark searches return the place without a house number by design.
• Throttled to ~1 request/second per Nominatim policy, so large lists take proportionally longer.

Pricing

$0.001 per place on the FREE tier (tiered pricing lowers it with volume). Only places actually saved are billed; empty searches and unreadable imports cost nothing.

Output views

• Places - name, full name, category, coordinates and the OSM URL.

Use with AI assistants (MCP)

Available through the Apify MCP server - an agent can geocode an address, resolve a landmark to coordinates, or enrich a list of place names with lat/lon and structured addresses in one call.

Agent-ready: autonomous payments (x402 & Skyfire)

This actor is agent-ready - AI agents can discover it, run it, and pay for it autonomously, with no Apify account and no human in the loop. It uses pay-per-event pricing and limited permissions, so it qualifies for Apify's agentic-payment standards:

• x402 - an open, HTTP-native payment protocol. Agents pay per run in USDC on the Base network directly through the Apify MCP server - no account, no API key.
• Skyfire - agent-to-service payments for fully autonomous AI-agent workflows.

Building an AI agent, MCP tool, or autonomous data pipeline? This scraper is ready to plug in and pay as it goes.

Automate & schedule

Run this Actor on autopilot and pull results into your own stack:

• Apify API - start runs, fetch datasets and manage schedules over REST.
• apify-client for JavaScript and apify-client for Python - official SDKs.
• Schedules - run it hourly, daily or weekly and keep your dataset current.
• Webhooks - trigger downstream actions (CRM import, Slack alert, email sequence) the moment a run finishes.

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'MY_APIFY_TOKEN' });

const run = await client.actor('scrapesage/openstreetmap-scraper').call({
    "searchQueries": [
        "Eiffel Tower"
    ],
    "maxItemsPerQuery": 5
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(`Got ${items.length} records`);

Integrate with any app

Connect the dataset to thousands of apps - no code required:

• Make - multi-step automation scenarios.
• Zapier - push new records straight into your CRM or spreadsheet.
• Slack - get notified when a scheduled run finds something new.
• Google Drive / Sheets - auto-export every run to a spreadsheet.
• Airbyte - pipe results into your data warehouse.
• GitHub - trigger runs from commits or releases.

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FAQ

How is this Actor billed? Pay-per-event: you pay only for the results it delivers, with no monthly rental and no start fee. The per-event price is shown on the Pricing tab.

Can I schedule it and get results automatically? Yes - create a Schedule and add a webhook or an integration (Google Sheets, Slack, Make, Zapier) to push each run's dataset wherever you need it.

Which export formats are available? Every run's dataset can be downloaded as JSON, CSV, Excel (XLSX), XML, HTML or RSS from the Apify Console or the API.

Can I run it from code or an AI agent? Yes - through the Apify API and client libraries, or from Claude, ChatGPT and other assistants via the Apify MCP server.

Is it legal to scrape OpenStreetMap? This Actor collects publicly available data only. You are responsible for using the output in compliance with applicable laws (including data-protection law where personal data is involved) and the source's terms. See the Disclaimer below.

Is this an official OpenStreetMap tool? No. It is an independent, third-party Actor with no affiliation to, endorsement by or sponsorship from the OpenStreetMap Foundation. See the Disclaimer below.

Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the OpenStreetMap Foundation or any of its subsidiaries. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

"OpenStreetMap" and any related marks are the property of their respective owners and are used here only in a descriptive, nominative sense - to identify the publicly accessible website from which this Actor collects data. This Actor is not an official OpenStreetMap product, is not authorised or certified by the OpenStreetMap Foundation, and does not distribute OpenStreetMap software. It collects only publicly available information; you are responsible for ensuring your use of that data complies with applicable laws, regulations and the terms of the source website.

Need help?

Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab, or visit the Apify help center. Feature requests are welcome - this Actor is actively maintained.