Google Maps scraping: business data and geo monitoring
Google Maps is a goldmine for leads, market research, and geo-targeting ad campaigns. But it has a strict rate-limit and CAPTCHAs for automated requests. Here's how to work around it.
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How to set up — step by step
1. Use Place Search API instead of HTML scraping
Google officially exposes Place Search and Place Details APIs. The first 200K requests / month are free. If your volume fits — that's the best option.
2. If the API doesn't fit — use a SERP API
Bright Data and Oxylabs offer ready SERP APIs for Google — they return structured JSON instead of raw HTML. Saves a ton of parsing and CAPTCHA work.
3. For direct scraping — rotating residential
Browser requests via Puppeteer + residential proxy + 2captcha for CAPTCHA solving. Pace — no more than 1 request / 3 seconds per IP.