# Google Maps Reviews Scraper (`dadhalfdev/google-maps-reviews-scraper`) Actor

Extract up 300 Google Maps reviews per run from any restaurants, hotels, shops, museums, and more. Instantly get clean, structured data with english and original reviews and normalized timestamps. Just enter a place name or address and start scraping.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/dadhalfdev/google-maps-reviews-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Marco Rodrigues](https://apify.com/dadhalfdev) (community)
- **Categories:** SEO tools, Travel, Automation
- **Features:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 15 total users, 2 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 1 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
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?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
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.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## 🗺️ Google Maps Reviews Scraper (by Search Term)

Want to see what people are saying about a specific restaurant, hotel, or shop? This scraper makes it super easy!

Just **enter a search term** (like "Calouste Gulbenkian Museum" or "Starbucks Lisbon"), and the scraper will find the place on Google Maps, extract up to 300 reviews, automatically translate them into **the language you choose** (English by default), and neatly pack them into a CSV or JSON file.

### 💡 Perfect for...

- **Reputation Management:** Keep an eye on what customers are saying about your own business so you can respond and improve.
- **Competitor Analysis:** Snoop on your rivals! See what their customers love (or complain about) to find your competitive edge.
- **Market Research:** Looking to open a new business? Check the vibe of local cafes and stores in the neighborhood.
- **Sentiment Analysis:** Download the data to build charts, word clouds, or feed it into AI tools to gauge overall customer happiness.
- **🤖 OpenClaw & AI Agents:** Power your autonomous agents with real customer feedback. Perfect for OpenClaw workflows, AI assistants, and automation bots that need live data.
- **📚 RAG Systems:** Feed cleaned, translated reviews into Retrieval-Augmented Generation pipelines. The structured JSON output with original + translated text is ideal for knowledge bases.
- **🔗 AI Workflows:** Integrate seamlessly with LangChain, AutoGPT, CrewAI, and other AI frameworks that need structured review data.

### ✨ Why you'll love this scraper

- 🔍 **Search & Go:** Just type the name or address—there's no need to find a Google Maps URL.
- 🌍 **Language Barrier Removed:** Every review is automatically translated into your selected `target_language` (default: English), while still keeping the original text.
- ⏱️ **Clean Dates:** We turn confusing timestamps like "6 hours ago" into clean, sortable calendar dates (e.g., `2025-05-20`).
- 👤 **Deep Insights:** Get the reviewer's name, star rating, profile picture, and even see if they are a trusted "Local Guide".

### 📦 What's inside the data?

For every single review, you will get:

- **The Text:** Both the `original_review` and the `translated_review`.
- **The Date:** The exact parsed `timestamp` (ISO format) and the `raw_timestamp` ("3 weeks ago").
- **The Score:** The star `rating` (1 to 5) and the detected `language`.
- **The Reviewer:** Their name, profile link, total review count, and Local Guide level.

### 🛠️ Sort options

You can tell the scraper what order to read the reviews in:

- **Newest** – Most recent first (default and highly recommended!)
- **Most relevant** – Google's default sorting
- **Highest rating** – 5 stars down to 1
- **Lowest rating** – 1 star up to 5

### 🚀 Quick start

1. **Enter a `search_term`** – e.g. "Calouste Gulbenkian Museum" or "Starbucks Lisbon".
2. **Pick your `target_language`** (e.g., `en` for English, `es` for Spanish, `pt` for Portuguese).
3. **Set `max_reviews`** (how many you want, up to 300).
4. **Choose your sorting** (e.g., "Newest").
5. **Click Start** and let it run! ☕ Once it's done, you can export your data as a CSV, Excel spreadsheet, or JSON file.

***

#### Tech details for developers 🧑‍💻

**Input Example:**

```json
{
  "search_term": "Calouste Gulbenkian Museum",
  "max_reviews": 300,
  "sort_by": "Newest",
  "target_language": "en"
}
```

```json
{
  "original_review": "Ruhig, etwas Abseits gelegen. Innen sehr schön eingerichtet und gemütlich. Ich hatte Pulpo ti Maria und Thunfischtatar und war sehr begeistert. Auch der Wein war gut.",
  "english_review": "Quiet, somewhat secluded. Inside very nicely decorated and cozy. I had Pulpo ti Maria and tuna tartare and was very impressed. The wine was also good.",
  "rating": 5,
  "source": "Google",
  "raw_timestamp": "a month ago",
  "timestamp": "2026-02-03T22:32:39",
  "language": "de",
  "author_name": "Claudia Heinz",
  "author_id": "103070251665876657030",
  "author_profile_link": "https://www.google.com/maps/contrib/103070251665876657030?hl=en",
  "author_profile_picture": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a/ACg8ocKTTzffvyf1VtcS6wypzJzuen7oqreiY5R5z0jDCyG8m7HrRA=s120-c-rp-mo-br100",
  "author_review_count": 7,
  "author_local_guide_level": 0,
  "author_badge": null
}
```

**Parameters:**

| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|-----------|------|----------|-------------|
| `search_term` | string | Yes | Place to scrape (e.g. hotel, restaurant, museum, address). |
| `max_reviews` | integer | No | Max reviews to scrape (50–300, default: 200). |
| `sort_by` | string | No | One of: `Newest`, `Most relevant`, `Highest rating`, `Lowest rating` (default: `Newest`). |
| `target_language` | string | No | Language code to translate all reviews into (default: `en`). Supports 100+ languages. |

### 🔧 Custom scrapers and agents

If you need a custom web scraper, or custom AI agents and workflows, contact me through [tuik.ai](https://www.tuik.ai). We help businesses cut costs and time by up to 10x.

# Actor input Schema

## `search_term` (type: `string`):

Search for a Hotel, Restaurant, Museum, or other location to scrape reviews from.

## `max_reviews` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of reviews to scrape. Default is 200.

## `sort_by` (type: `string`):

Choose how to sort the reviews.

## `target_language` (type: `string`):

Language to translate all reviews into. Default is English (en).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "search_term": "Calouste Gulbenkian Museum",
  "max_reviews": 200,
  "sort_by": "Newest",
  "target_language": "en"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `overview` (type: `string`):

Table view using the dataset 'overview' view.

## `results` (type: `string`):

All items from the default dataset without view transformation.

# 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 = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("dadhalfdev/google-maps-reviews-scraper").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 = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("dadhalfdev/google-maps-reviews-scraper").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 '{}' |
apify call dadhalfdev/google-maps-reviews-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,dadhalfdev/google-maps-reviews-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

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/QI6CjuHQw8gvqiNLM/builds/Q54bxNg50qatpgjCA/openapi.json