# Google Maps Search Places - Worldwide Place Finder (`xtracto/gmaps-search-places`) Actor

Find every business, landmark, or POI on Google Maps from a keyword, coordinate, or anchor place. Works in every country and language, no API key or Google login. Returns name, address, rating, review count, coordinates, hours, popular times, category, and a clean Maps URL.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/xtracto/gmaps-search-places.md
- **Developed by:** [Farhan Febrian Nauval](https://apify.com/xtracto) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Developer tools, Integrations
- **Stats:** 28 total users, 9 monthly users, 98.5% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.99 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Google Maps Search Places

Find places on Google Maps by free-text keyword, by coordinates, or around a specific anchor place. Works for any country and language.

### What you get

A list of places matching your query, with name, address, rating, review count, coordinates, category, opening hours, popular times, photos URL, and a clean Google Maps URL to open the place.

### Use cases

- **Lead generation** — pull every cafe / dentist / gym / law firm in a city to a spreadsheet for cold outreach.
- **Market research** — count competitors in a neighborhood, see their ratings and review volume.
- **Local SEO audits** — discover all businesses in a category and compare GMB profiles.
- **Real-estate scouting** — list every clinic, school, or grocery store near a coordinate.
- **Travel planning** — collect attractions and viewpoints around a destination.

### Why this actor

- **Multi-country, multi-language** out of the box — set `language` (hl) and `country` (gl), get localized results.
- **Three search modes** — keyword, by coordinates, or near an anchor place — covering most real-world use cases.
- **Cursor-based pagination** so you can pull many pages of results without losing context.
- **Rich fields per place** — not just name + address but also categories, hours, popular times, region, and a stable item\_id you can chain into our Place Detail or Reviews actor.
- **No API key, no quota** — runs on Google's public Maps frontend.

### Sample input

```json
{
    "keyword": "Statue of Liberty",
    "mode": "keyword",
    "language": "en",
    "country": "us",
    "max_pages": 1
}
```

### Sample output

```json
[
    {
        "name": "Statue of Liberty",
        "address": "New York, NY 10004",
        "item_id": "0x89c25090129c363d:0x40c6a5770d25022b",
        "search_path": "/m/072p8",
        "place_id": "ChIJPTacEpBQwokRKwIlDXelxkA",
        "coordinate": [40.6892494, -74.04450039999999],
        "rating_star": 4.7,
        "review_count": null,
        "region": "America/New_York",
        "scheduler": [
            {"day": "Sunday", "schedule": "9 AM–4:30 PM"}
        ],
        "status": "closed",
        "detail": {
            "category": "Historical landmark",
            "website": "https://www.nps.gov/stli/index.htm",
            "phone": "(212) 363-3200",
            "open_hours": "Open · Closes 4:30 PM",
            "type": "TYPE_HISTORICAL"
        },
        "tags": ["Food & Drink", "Other"],
        "url": "https://www.google.com/maps/place/Statue+of+Liberty/@40.6892494,-74.04450039999999,14z/data=..."
    }
]
```

### How to get the inputs

- **`keyword`** — anything you would type into Google Maps' search box, or a full Maps URL, or a `lat,lng` pair. No special preparation needed.
- **`lat` / `lng`** (for `by_location` mode) — right-click any spot on Google Maps and copy the coordinates that appear, or read them from the URL's `@LAT,LNG` segment (e.g. `@40.7484,-73.9857,17z`).

### Tips

- For US-centric queries pick **United States (us)** in the country dropdown. For Japan pick **Japan (jp)** + **Japanese (ja)**, etc.
- Want results in the local language? Pick the language dropdown to match the country (e.g. `country: jp` + `language: ja`).

### Pair with other actors

- Send each result's `item_id` into **[Google Maps Place Detail](https://apify.com/xtracto/gmaps-detail-places)** for a full place profile (hours, prices, popular times, hotel rates, restaurant attributes).
- Send each result's `item_id` into **[Google Maps Reviews](https://apify.com/xtracto/gmaps-reviews)** to pull every customer review (and optionally the photo gallery in one shot).
- Send `item_id` into **[Google Maps Photos & Videos](https://apify.com/xtracto/gmaps-photos-videos)** for a deep dive on a single place's gallery with category filters (owner / visitors / menu / Street View).
- For a search-by-category workflow (cafes, hotels, gyms near X), use **[Google Maps Places by Category](https://apify.com/xtracto/gmaps-places-by-category)** instead — it handles hotel-pricing enrichment automatically.

# Actor input Schema

## `keyword` (type: `string`):

What to search for. Can be a text query (e.g. 'O Block Chicago'), a Google Maps URL, or 'lat,lng' coordinates.

## `mode` (type: `string`):

keyword = free-text search. by\_location = search at lat/lng. nearby\_place = search around an anchor place.

## `lat` (type: `number`):

Latitude for by\_location mode.

## `lng` (type: `number`):

Longitude for by\_location mode.

## `place_keyword` (type: `string`):

Place name or Google Maps URL to use as search anchor.

## `max_pages` (type: `integer`):

Number of pages to fetch (1 page ≈ 20 places).

## `language` (type: `string`):

Language for result text (names, addresses, descriptions).

## `country` (type: `string`):

Geographic bias for Google results. Picks how Google ranks places and what currency/units it shows.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "keyword": "O Block Chicago",
  "mode": "keyword",
  "max_pages": 1,
  "language": "en",
  "country": "us"
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "keyword": "Statue of Liberty"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("xtracto/gmaps-search-places").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "keyword": "Statue of Liberty" }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("xtracto/gmaps-search-places").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "keyword": "Statue of Liberty"
}' |
apify call xtracto/gmaps-search-places --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,xtracto/gmaps-search-places"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/xCwzPEwjNe6V6uMmO/builds/ccWVZlZowSVuenCsH/openapi.json