Google Search Business Search API
Scrape Google Search Business Search data with one API call. Returns the Google Maps businesses for a keyword or category in a place, in Google's own order: name, cid, place_id, address, phone, website, category and additional categories, star rating and review count, coordinates, claimed status and opening hours. `place.id` is the cid, so any row chains into GET /v1/google/business/info?cid= or /v1/google/business/extended-reviews?cid=. `place.ext` adds `place_id`, `maps_url`, `domain`, `rank`, `city`, `postal_code`, `region`, `country_code`, `hours` and `status`. Give the place as `location` ("Milano, Italy", a country, or a full "City,Region,Country" name such as "Milan,Lombardy,Italy") or as `lat` + `lng` (with an optional `zoom`); sending neither, or both, is a free 400. Sponsored listings are left out. A flat 5 credits for up to 100 places; a search with no results returns an empty list and is not billed.
Last updated October 2026Maintained by the SocialCrawl team
Returns the Google Maps businesses for a keyword in a place: name, cid, place_id, address, phone, website, categories, rating, review count, coordinates and hours.
Use it to build a list of local businesses by trade and area, such as dentists in Milano, then pass a cid to business/info for the full profile.
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The Business Search endpoint gives you structured Google Search data with computed fields in a single request. No scraping infrastructure to build or maintain.
Example Request
curl -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
"https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/google/business/search?query=dentista&location=Milano%2C+Italy"import requests
response = requests.get(
"https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/google/business/search",
params={
'query': 'dentista',
'location': 'Milano, Italy',
},
headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
)
data = response.json()const response = await fetch(
"https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/google/business/search?query=dentista&location=Milano%2C+Italy",
{
headers: { "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY" },
},
);
const data = await response.json();Parameters
| Parameter | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
| query | Yes | What to look for, as you would type it into Google Maps: a category or trade ('dentista', 'ristorante', 'commercialista') or a business name. Use the local language for local results. |
| location | No | Where to search: 'City, Country' (e.g. 'Milano, Italy'), a country name or ISO code ('Italy', 'IT'), or a full City,Region,Country name ('Milan,Lombardy,Italy'). Required unless lat and lng are sent. |
| lat | No | Latitude of the search centre (-90 to 90). Send with lng instead of location. |
| lng | No | Longitude of the search centre (-180 to 180). Send with lat instead of location. |
| zoom | No | Google Maps zoom level around lat/lng, 3 (continent) to 21 (street). Defaults to 14, about a city district. Only with lat/lng. |
| language | No | Language code for the results ('it', 'en', 'de'). Defaults to the main language of the country in location ('it' for Italy), or 'en' for coordinates. |
| limit | No | How many places to return, 1-100 (default 20). The price is the same at any limit. |
What does the Google Search Business Search API return?
Every response follows one unified schema. Here is a real, unmodified response body, so you can see the exact fields you get back before spending a credit.
Example response
{
"success": true,
"platform": "target",
"endpoint": "/v1/target/stores",
"data": {
"items": [
{
"place": {
"id": "3412",
"name": "Chelsea 23rd and 8th",
"url": null,
"category": null,
"rating": {
"value": null,
"max": null
},
"reviews_count": null,
"price_level": null,
"address": "258 8th Ave, New York, NY 10011-1619",
"phone": "646-720-0024",
"latitude": null,
"longitude": null,
"verified": null,
"description": null,
"image_urls": null,
"ext": {
"distance": 0.37,
"status": "Open",
"timezone": "America/New_York",
"hours": [
{
"date": "2026-09-16",
"day_name": "Wednesday",
"is_open": true,
"opens_at": "08:00:00",
"closes_at": "23:00:00"
},
{
"date": "2026-09-17",
"day_name": "Thursday",
"is_open": true,
"opens_at": "08:00:00",
"closes_at": "23:00:00"
}
]
}
}
},
{
"place": {
"id": "3277",
"name": "Manhattan Herald Square",
"url": null,
"category": null,
"rating": {
"value": null,
"max": null
},
"reviews_count": null,
"price_level": null,
"address": "112 W 34th St, New York, NY 10120-0101",
"phone": "646-968-4739",
"latitude": null,
"longitude": null,
"verified": null,
"description": null,
"image_urls": null,
"ext": {
"distance": 0.42,
"status": "Open",
"timezone": "America/New_York",
"hours": [
{
"date": "2026-09-16",
"day_name": "Wednesday",
"is_open": true,
"opens_at": "08:00:00",
"closes_at": "23:00:00"
},
{
"date": "2026-09-17",
"day_name": "Thursday",
"is_open": true,
"opens_at": "08:00:00",
"closes_at": "23:00:00"
}
]
}
}
}
],
"total": 20,
"dropped": 0
},
"credits_used": 1,
"request_id": "req_example000000",
"cached": false,
"pagination": {
"next_cursor": null,
"has_more": false,
"page_size": 20
},
"credits_remaining": 9999,
"redacted": true
}Example captured from the Target API. Every SocialCrawl endpoint returns this same unified schema, so your Google Search Business Search response has the same fields.
How does the Google Search Business Search API work?
Send a GET request with your API key and get back clean, structured JSON in our unified schema. Supported computed fields are populated when the source provides the required inputs.
Method
GET
Response
JSON
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import requests
response = requests.get(
'https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/tiktok/profile',
params={'handle': 'charlidamelio'},
headers={'x-api-key': 'sc_YOUR_API_KEY'}
)
data = response.json(){
"success": true,
"platform": "tiktok",
"data": {
"author": {
"username": "charlidamelio",
"followers": 152400000
},
"engagement": {
"likes": 12400000000,
"engagement_rate": 0.087
},
"metadata": {
"language": "en",
"content_category": "lifestyle"
}
}
}Ready to scrape Google Search Business Search data?
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