# Google Reviews Scraper — Maps Reviews + Place Profiles (`buff_pineapple/google-reviews-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Google Maps reviews for any place by Maps URL, feature ID (0x:0x), ChIJ ID, CID or business name. Returns every review the public panel exposes — reviewer, star rating, text, date, owner reply, photos, like count — plus the place profile (rating, total, address, phone, website, category).

- **URL**: https://apify.com/buff\_pineapple/google-reviews-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [yossef Nagy](https://apify.com/buff_pineapple) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Business, Automation
- **Stats:** 9 total users, 4 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per event

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

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases.
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".

## 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.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md):

```bash
npm install apify-client
```

In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md):

```bash
pip install apify-client
```

In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md):

````bash
# MacOS / Linux
curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash
# Windows
irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex
```bash

In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md).

If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

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

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).


# README

## Google Reviews Scraper

Scrape Google Maps reviews for any place — by Maps URL, place ID, CID, or business name. No login, no API key.

### What it does

Give it one or more places and it returns, for each:

- **Reviews** the Maps reviews panel exposes (Google currently shows ~8–20 reviews per place in the unauthenticated panel, sorted by newest / most-relevant / highest / lowest): reviewer name, profile URL, local-guide flag and review-count, star rating (1–5), full review text, relative date ("2 months ago"), owner response (text + date), attached review photos, like/helpful count.
- **The place profile** (optional): overall rating, total review count, address, phone, website, category — one extra item per place.

Behind the scenes the actor drives a real browser to the Maps page with the "all reviews" panel open, scrolls the panel with mouse-wheel events to load every review the panel will surface, and extracts each review from stable DOM anchors (`[data-review-id]`, the `aria-label` star span). Images / media / fonts / stylesheets are blocked so each page is lean.

> **Note on volume.** In February 2026 Google rolled out a "limited view" for unauthenticated review pages: many places now surface only a handful of recent / most-relevant reviews via the public panel. The actor returns every review the public panel exposes for each place. For chains/lead-gen use cases this is usually all you need; for an audit of 1,000+ reviews on a single landmark you'll see fewer than the place's total.

### Use cases

- **Reputation monitoring** — bulk-pull recent reviews for your own locations.
- **Competitor sentiment** — feed it competitor place IDs and analyze tone.
- **Multi-location chains** — pass 100s of place IDs from the [Google Maps Scraper](https://apify.com/) → every visible review for every store in one run.
- **Owner-response audits** — see which reviews lack a reply.
- **AI training data** — clean, structured review corpus.
- **Lead qualification / CRM enrichment** — score a prospect's customer experience before outreach.

### Input

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `places` | array | Maps URLs, `0xHEX:0xHEX` feature IDs, `ChIJ…` place IDs, numeric CIDs, or business names. **Required.** |
| `maxReviewsPerPlace` | integer | Maximum reviews per place. The actor returns up to this many or however many the public panel exposes — whichever is fewer. Default `100`. |
| `reviewsSort` | string | `newest`, `most_relevant`, `highest_rating`, `lowest_rating`. Default `newest`. |
| `language` | string | Two-letter language code (`hl`). Default `en`. |
| `country` | string | Two-letter country code (`gl`). Default `us`. |
| `includePlaceProfile` | boolean | Push one extra item per place with rating, total reviews, address, phone, website, category. Default `true`. |
| `proxyConfiguration` | object | Proxy. Defaults to Apify **RESIDENTIAL** (Google rate-limits datacenter IPs). |
| `maxConcurrency` | integer | Places processed in parallel. Default `2`. |

Identifiers accepted:
- Full Maps URL: `https://www.google.com/maps/place/Sydney+Opera+House/@-33.85,151.21,17z/data=...`
- Feature ID: `0x6b12ae665e892fdd:0x3133f8d75a1ac251` (what the Google Maps Scraper outputs)
- ChIJ place ID: `ChIJ3S-JXmauEmsRUcIaWtf4MzE`
- Numeric CID: `1656234906611026312`
- Free-text business name: `Sydney Opera House`

### Output

Each **review** item:

```json
{
  "_kind": "review",
  "review_id": "Ci9DQUlRQUNvZENodHljRjlvT210d2N6aDNaemxwZGtOWFMweDBjbm8wWDJsUFNsRRAB",
  "place_name": "Sydney Opera House",
  "author_name": "Christopher lowe",
  "author_url": "/maps/contrib/110000…",
  "author_review_count": 236,
  "is_local_guide": true,
  "rating": 5,
  "text": "The Sydney Opera House is one of those places that genuinely lives up to the hype...",
  "relative_date": "2 months ago",
  "owner_response": null,
  "owner_response_date": null,
  "photos": ["https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/..."],
  "likes": 0,
  "place_url": "https://www.google.com/maps/place/Sydney+Opera+House/...",
  "review_url": "https://www.google.com/maps/reviews/@?placeid=&review=Ci9DQUlRQU…",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-15T12:00:00.000Z"
}
````

Each **place** item (`_kind: "place"`): `place_name`, `rating`, `total_reviews`, `address`, `phone`, `website`, `category`.

Fields are `null` only when the data genuinely isn't present on the review (e.g. no owner response, no photos, place has no listed phone).

### Pricing

Pay per result:

- **$0.003** per review scraped
- **$0.01** per place profile (only when "Include place profile" is enabled)

Platform cost on residential proxy is a small fraction of revenue per result.

### Notes

- A residential proxy is strongly recommended (it's the default) — Google rate-limits datacenter IPs on Maps review pages.
- The actor handles Apify host migrations transparently (state is persisted to the key-value store) and rotates the proxy session if blocked.

# Actor input Schema

## `places` (type: `array`):

Places to scrape reviews for. Each entry can be a Google Maps place URL (e.g. "https://www.google.com/maps/place/..."), a feature-id place ID in 0xHEX:0xHEX format (the format the Google Maps Scraper outputs), a ChIJ… place ID from Google Places API, or a numeric CID. One run can cover many places.

## `maxReviewsPerPlace` (type: `integer`):

How many reviews to return per place. The actor scrolls the reviews panel automatically. Set 0 to scrape every available review.

## `reviewsSort` (type: `string`):

Order in which reviews are returned.

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

Two-letter language code (hl) for review metadata and owner replies, e.g. en, es, de, fr.

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

Two-letter country code (gl) used for biasing Google Maps results, e.g. us, gb, de.

## `includePlaceProfile` (type: `boolean`):

If enabled, push one extra item per place with its name, rating, total review count, address, phone, website and category.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Required. Defaults to Apify RESIDENTIAL — Google's review pages aggressively rate-limit datacenter IPs.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

Number of places processed in parallel.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "places": [
    "https://www.google.com/maps/place/Sydney+Opera+House/@-33.8567844,151.2127218,17z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x6b12ae665e892fdd:0x3133f8d75a1ac251!8m2!3d-33.8567844!4d151.2152967!16zL20vMDZfbm0"
  ],
  "maxReviewsPerPlace": 100,
  "reviewsSort": "newest",
  "language": "en",
  "country": "us",
  "includePlaceProfile": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  },
  "maxConcurrency": 2
}
```

# 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 = {
    "places": [
        "https://www.google.com/maps/place/Sydney+Opera+House/@-33.8567844,151.2127218,17z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x6b12ae665e892fdd:0x3133f8d75a1ac251!8m2!3d-33.8567844!4d151.2152967!16zL20vMDZfbm0"
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ]
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("buff_pineapple/google-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 = {
    "places": ["https://www.google.com/maps/place/Sydney+Opera+House/@-33.8567844,151.2127218,17z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x6b12ae665e892fdd:0x3133f8d75a1ac251!8m2!3d-33.8567844!4d151.2152967!16zL20vMDZfbm0"],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("buff_pineapple/google-reviews-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

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

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

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "places": [
    "https://www.google.com/maps/place/Sydney+Opera+House/@-33.8567844,151.2127218,17z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x6b12ae665e892fdd:0x3133f8d75a1ac251!8m2!3d-33.8567844!4d151.2152967!16zL20vMDZfbm0"
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}' |
apify call buff_pineapple/google-reviews-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=buff_pineapple/google-reviews-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
{
    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "Google Reviews Scraper — Maps Reviews + Place Profiles",
        "description": "Scrape Google Maps reviews for any place by Maps URL, feature ID (0x:0x), ChIJ ID, CID or business name. Returns every review the public panel exposes — reviewer, star rating, text, date, owner reply, photos, like count — plus the place profile (rating, total, address, phone, website, category).",
        "version": "0.1",
        "x-build-id": "8eup1YIInDvxlkXI2"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
        "/acts/buff_pineapple~google-reviews-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-buff_pineapple-google-reviews-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/buff_pineapple~google-reviews-scraper/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-buff_pineapple-google-reviews-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK",
                        "content": {
                            "application/json": {
                                "schema": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/buff_pineapple~google-reviews-scraper/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-buff_pineapple-google-reviews-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "components": {
        "schemas": {
            "inputSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "required": [
                    "places"
                ],
                "properties": {
                    "places": {
                        "title": "Places",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "Places to scrape reviews for. Each entry can be a Google Maps place URL (e.g. \"https://www.google.com/maps/place/...\"), a feature-id place ID in 0xHEX:0xHEX format (the format the Google Maps Scraper outputs), a ChIJ… place ID from Google Places API, or a numeric CID. One run can cover many places.",
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string"
                        }
                    },
                    "maxReviewsPerPlace": {
                        "title": "Max reviews per place",
                        "minimum": 0,
                        "maximum": 100000,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "How many reviews to return per place. The actor scrolls the reviews panel automatically. Set 0 to scrape every available review.",
                        "default": 100
                    },
                    "reviewsSort": {
                        "title": "Review sort order",
                        "enum": [
                            "newest",
                            "most_relevant",
                            "highest_rating",
                            "lowest_rating"
                        ],
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Order in which reviews are returned.",
                        "default": "newest"
                    },
                    "language": {
                        "title": "Language",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Two-letter language code (hl) for review metadata and owner replies, e.g. en, es, de, fr.",
                        "default": "en"
                    },
                    "country": {
                        "title": "Country",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Two-letter country code (gl) used for biasing Google Maps results, e.g. us, gb, de.",
                        "default": "us"
                    },
                    "includePlaceProfile": {
                        "title": "Include place profile",
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "description": "If enabled, push one extra item per place with its name, rating, total review count, address, phone, website and category.",
                        "default": true
                    },
                    "proxyConfiguration": {
                        "title": "Proxy configuration",
                        "type": "object",
                        "description": "Required. Defaults to Apify RESIDENTIAL — Google's review pages aggressively rate-limit datacenter IPs."
                    },
                    "maxConcurrency": {
                        "title": "Max concurrency",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 8,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Number of places processed in parallel.",
                        "default": 2
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "object",
                        "properties": {
                            "id": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "actId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "userId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "startedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "inputBodyLen": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2000
                                    },
                                    "rebootCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "restartCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "resurrectCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "computeUnits": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "options": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "build": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "latest"
                                    },
                                    "timeoutSecs": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 300
                                    },
                                    "memoryMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1024
                                    },
                                    "diskMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2048
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "buildId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultDatasetId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultRequestQueueId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "buildNumber": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "1.0.0"
                            },
                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "usage": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "usageTotalUsd": {
                                "type": "number",
                                "example": 0.00005
                            },
                            "usageUsd": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "number",
                                        "example": 0.00005
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```