Google Maps Business Search API

Local businesses from a Maps search — name, address, phone, website, rating, hours, place id.

Search Google Maps for a keyword and get up to 100 businesses. q is required (min 2 characters). Pass location as a place name — Austin, TX, Istanbul, Turkey, Paris, France, Brooklyn, NY, or a country such as Germany — or omit it and use locationCode (default 2840, the United States). The response echoes the matched place name and its locationCode. A city name shared by several places (Paris, London) returns 400 with suggestions and costs nothing; add the region or country. language defaults to en. limit is 1–100 and is not a page you can walk: there is no nextCursor. A successful call costs 2 credits even when businesses is empty, because the lookup still ran. Failures cost 0. phone, website, rating, and reviewCount are null when Maps does not publish them — null is not zero. hoursStatus is Maps' own open/closed label (for example open or close), not a boolean we invented. image URLs are hosted by Google and can expire; there is no expiresAt. Ads and other non-business rows are left out and counted in omittedCount. This endpoint does not return owner emails. cache defaults to false. cache=true reuses a 24 hour response, and cache hits are free. The sample is one live listing captured on 10 October 2026, with every field Maps published on that row filled in. Other listings still leave unpublished fields null.

Docs: https://captapi.com/apis/google-maps-business-search