Google Maps Reviews Scraper — Reviewer, Rating, Text & Date

Pull the reviews for any place on Google Maps into clean, structured JSON, CSV, Excel or XML. Give it place names (e.g. "Katz's Delicatessen New York") or Google Place IDs / Maps URLs, and this scraper returns each review's author, star rating, text and relative date. Fast and reliable, ideal for reputation monitoring, competitor research and local market analysis.

What does Google Maps Reviews Scraper do?

This Google Maps reviews scraper turns public place reviews into a structured dataset. Provide place names or Place IDs and it returns a record per review with the reviewer name, rating, text and relative date, each tagged with its placeId. Use it for reputation monitoring, sentiment analysis and competitor benchmarking, and export the results in any format the Apify platform supports.

What data can you scrape from Google Maps reviews?

Data point	Description
Place id	The Google Place ID the review belongs to.
Review id	Unique identifier for the review.
Author	Reviewer display name.
Rating	Star rating from 1 to 5.
Review text	Full text of the review.
Relative date	When the review was posted, e.g. "2 weeks ago".

Use cases

• Reputation monitoring — catch new negative reviews of your own business early.
• Competitor research — benchmark a competitor's ratings and read customer praise and complaints.
• Sentiment analysis — collect qualitative review text for NLP and product research.
• Multi-location tracking — track review trends across many locations from a single run.
• Dataset building — assemble a structured feed of place reviews.

How to scrape Google Maps reviews

1. Add Google Maps Reviews Scraper to your Apify account and open its input.
2. Enter place names under searches, or paste exact placeIds (ChIJ… IDs or Maps URLs).
3. Set maxReviewsPerPlace to control how many reviews to collect per place.
4. Click Run.
5. Export the results as JSON, CSV, Excel or XML, or fetch them through the Apify API.

Input

{
  "searches": ["Katz's Delicatessen New York"],
  "placeIds": ["ChIJ_0123456789abcdefghijklmn"],
  "maxReviewsPerPlace": 30
}

Field	Description
searches	Place names to look up and scrape reviews for (one per line).
placeIds	Optional Google Place IDs (ChIJ…) or Maps place URLs — e.g. chained from the Maps Scraper.
maxReviewsPerPlace	How many reviews to scrape per place (1–500), newest / most-relevant first.
proxyConfiguration	Standard Apify proxy settings for the run.

What you get

One record per review, each tagged with its placeId. Ready to export to CSV, Excel, JSON or XML.

{
  "placeId": "ChIJ_0123456789abcdefghijklmn",
  "reviewId": "ChdDSUhNMG9nS0VJQ0FnSUNabABEE",
  "author": "Jamie R.",
  "rating": 5,
  "relativeDate": "2 weeks ago",
  "text": "Best pastrami in the city. The line moves fast and it's worth every minute."
}

Output schema

Field	Type	Description
placeId	string	The Google Place ID the review belongs to.
reviewId	string	Unique identifier for the review.
author	string	Reviewer display name.
rating	integer	Star rating from 1 to 5.
relativeDate	string	When the review was posted (e.g. "2 weeks ago").
text	string	Full text of the review.

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FAQ

Do I need an account or API key? No. There is no login or key — just add place names or Place IDs and click Run.

How many reviews can I get per place? Set maxReviewsPerPlace from 1 to 500. Pass many places in one run to collect reviews across multiple locations at once.

Can I chain this with the Google Maps Scraper? Yes. Feed Place IDs from the Google Maps Scraper output straight into placeIds.

Does it collect reviewer contact info? No. It captures the reviewer's display name, rating, text and relative date — no private contact details.

What export formats are available? JSON, CSV, Excel and XML, plus programmatic access through the Apify API.

Can I connect this to my other tools? The Google Maps Reviews Scraper can be connected with almost any cloud service or web app thanks to integrations on the Apify platform. It works with Make, Zapier, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub, Google Drive and many more, plus the Apify API, JavaScript/Python clients and MCP. Or use webhooks to trigger an action whenever a run finishes.

Is scraping Google Maps reviews legal? This actor reads only publicly visible reviews. You are responsible for using the data responsibly and in line with applicable laws and Google's terms.

Related Actors

• Google Maps Scraper
• Google Maps Email Extractor
• App Store Reviews Scraper

Notes

Original clean-room implementation. Reads only publicly visible reviews; you are responsible for compliant use. Not affiliated with Google; Google Maps is a trademark of Google LLC.