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Crawlora's Google Maps coverage: 4 live API endpoints and 58 guides on scraping Google Maps data. See the endpoint table and the Google Maps scraping API hub below for parameters, pricing, and comparisons.
API endpoints
| Method | Endpoint | Summary | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
GET | /google/map/place/{place_id} | Google Maps place details API | |
GET | /google/map/place/{place_id}/photos | Google Maps place photos API | |
GET | /google/map/place/{place_id}/reviews | Google Maps place reviews API | |
POST | /google/map/search | Google Maps search API |
API hub
Fetch Google Maps place details and local search results through documented Crawlora API endpoints.
Explore the Google Maps scraping APIGuides
A census of 20M US Google Maps listings: 16.93% are unreachable, but among real businesses it's 8.15% — and the pattern tracks whether customers walk in.
A US business averages 209 Google reviews in Nevada and 36 in Vermont. We tested tourism and migration, and both failed. The answer is the denominator.
Six phone numbers account for 166,191 US Google Maps listings. The phone field is a fingerprint: it finds whole networks of machines, and one dead chain.
Five obvious category searches return zero results across 3.19M US listings. And where the generic label does exist, it's a biased sample, not a small one.
A census of 19.5M US Google Maps listings and 1.34 billion reviews: the top 10% of businesses hold 85.9% — more concentrated than US household wealth.
H&R Block dominates Google Maps at 22.8%. Its biggest rivals show up at 0.4% each — not because they're small, but because they're invisible.
One public company (Driven Brands) owns Take 5, Meineke, Maaco, and CARSTAR — four brands that read as unrelated auto shops.
One PE-owned conglomerate (Sonic + Arby's + Dunkin') controls 11.2% of US fast food listings — almost matching McDonald's 13.0% alone.
We mapped 38,332 US hotels by website domain. Marriott, Hilton, Choice, Wyndham, and IHG combine for 58% — hidden behind dozens of unrelated brand names.
We mapped 62,892 US bank branches and 14,620 credit unions. Rural states have far more per capita than cities, and the 9 biggest banks are only 31% of listings.
We mapped 11,469 US cannabis dispensaries. Medical-only Oklahoma beats nearly every recreational-legal state — legal status barely predicts store density.
We mapped 42,506 US liquor retailers by state. Retail-control states average half the outlets of license states — Utah is last nationally at 1.94 per 100k.
We mapped Meijer, Publix, Wegmans, and WinCo state by state. Michigan and Florida each run ~2x their runner-up — real regional grocery monopolies, measured.
We ranked 132M+ Google Maps listings by US county. LA tops the raw table at 409K — but sum New York's five boroughs and NYC actually leads by 20%.
Google Maps caps every search at ~120 results. Here's the real architecture behind a 132.2M-listing dataset: seeding, tiling, and three production incidents.
We mapped 7 retail chains across all 50 states by Google Maps listings. Raw counts favor Texas everywhere — per capita, Mississippi and DC actually lead.
We mapped 395,000+ churches by state and category. The Bible Belt leads clearly — and Utah's near-last rank exposed a real Google Maps taxonomy quirk.
We mapped 25,000+ funeral homes by state, then found 15.8% of a national sample secretly link to the same company website, under totally different names.
We mapped 3,517 US casino listings. Illinois and Montana's top rankings are mostly bar slot machines, not casinos — verified by reading the actual listings.
We mapped 8,705 US pawn shops. FirstCash and EZPAWN, the two public consolidators, capture under a third — and the density map lines up with unbanked America.
We mapped 50,513 US self-storage facilities by website domain. The top public REITs combine for ~32-38% of listings — rivaling this series' banking findings.
We mapped 46,065 US vet clinics by state. Unlike funeral homes, no single company hides behind them — ownership is split across five visible chains instead.
We mapped Aldi and Lidl across 14 countries, then proved the 1960s Aldi Nord/Süd sibling split still divides Germany today — down to the exact historic line.
We mapped 234,908 US dentists. Aspen Dental shows up clearly at 2.87% — the industry's largest DSO shows up not at all, seemingly by design.
We mapped 240,000+ US hair salons and barbershops. Unlike every other industry in this series, over 90% is genuinely independent — chains never took over.
32,111 US dollar stores, 99.6% owned by just three companies. One was just sold to private equity, and has closed 350 stores in 10 months.
We mapped 44,043 US car washes. The 10 biggest PE-backed chains combine for just 21% of listings — and the flagship one, Zips, went through bankruptcy in 2025.
We mapped 145,798 gas stations and 62,025 EV chargers. ChargePoint alone accounts for ~42% of chargers — more consolidated than any category in this series.
We mapped 14,614 Starbucks and 7,748 Dunkin' locations. The Northeast-Dunkin'/West-Starbucks split isn't a stereotype — it's a 5-to-1 divide in real data.
Germany legally bars corporations from owning pharmacies. We mapped 9,271 of them against CVS, Walgreens, and Boots to see what that actually looks like.
Guangdong holds 10.9% of China's 7.4M Google Maps listings, but Beijing has double its website coverage rate. We mapped all 31 provinces.
9 of China's top 10 Google Maps categories are real businesses — vs. 4 of 10 in Japan, where shrines, temples, and parks dominate instead.
China is the 2nd-largest market in Crawlora's Google Maps dataset — yet only 1.3% of listings have ever been reviewed, and 5.0% have a website.
Tokyo holds 13.1% of Japan's 4.9M Google Maps listings and a 67% website rate vs. 57% nationally. We mapped all 47 prefectures.
6 of Japan's top 10 Google Maps categories by volume aren't businesses — they're shrines, temples, parks, and apartment blocks.
We analyzed 4.9M live Japan Google Business Profile listings: 98.1% have a review, but only 4.6% clear the local-pack reputation bar.
We analyzed 18.1M live US Google Business Profile listings: 10.1% have never been reviewed, and only 8.4% clear the local-pack reputation bar.
At 12.4M Google Business listings the US led website coverage at 61.0%. At 76M listings across six countries, Canada (70.8%) and Germany (67.6%) beat it.
27,591 US storefront lenders, owned by public companies, private equity, and a Mexican conglomerate. Payday is shrinking; installment lending is growing.
KinderCare and Learning Care Group, both named in a 2026 Senate PE investigation, run ~2,400 US childcare centers under 13 storefront names.
Private equity bought ~800 HVAC and plumbing firms since 2022. We mapped 30,336 listings and found almost no trace of it. Here is why.
Collect Google reviews — ratings, review text, author, and dates — as structured JSON via API, why the official Places API caps out, and the legal basics.
A candy company and a coffee conglomerate own the two largest US veterinary chains. We mapped 46,405 listings to measure it two ways.
Private equity and hospital systems each own 18% of US urgent care. We also found a listing artifact that inflates the count.
Two Google categories for the same service, near-identical size, opposite composition. Pick wrong and you get the wrong owner entirely.
Two companies dominate US eye care and barely share a category. One makes the lenses, owns the brands, the stores, and your vision insurance.
Rite Aid closed every store in October 2025. This dataset still shows about 1,100 of them. Listing data cannot see a chain die.
Across 30 studies one method produced an 18x range in how visible ownership is. Six mechanisms decide whether you can see it at all.
Change only the sort order and the same dialysis duopoly measures 36% or 71%. Which giant looks dominant flips entirely.
The med spa category looks like the most fragmented industry we have measured. The chains are all filed one category over.
Turn Google Maps into a list of reachable local business leads with verified emails in 2026 — the tools, the 3 hidden catches, and how to choose by buyer.
We counted every major fitness chain in 132M Google Business listings. The biggest operators don't have their names on any door — and one is nearly invisible.
We measured ratings across 19 US industries and eight gym chains. Appointment-based businesses beat walk-in ones by half a star — and price barely matters.
We measured every rated US listing in 16 categories, 569,422 in all. The independent premium is real, ranges from 0.06 to 0.71 stars, and we can't explain it.
We found the densest points in US business data at 3.7cm precision. Three unrelated things produce the same signature, and only one is what you'd guess.
We measured every star rating in 20M US business listings. The perfect score is the single most common rating, and the reason isn't what you'd expect.
Three ways to scrape Google Maps business listings and reviews in 2026 — DIY Python, no-code, or a structured API — what each returns and the legal basics.
Compare the best Google Maps scraping APIs in 2026 — structured place APIs, dedicated Maps scrapers, and the Places API — on fields, reviews, and cost.