google

Search Google Maps businesses

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.

get/google/business/search

Request

  • Base URL: https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1
  • URL: https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/google/business/search
  • Auth: API key in header x-api-key

Query parameters

querystring required

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.

locationstring

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. (one of: location, lat; at least one required)

latstring

Latitude of the search centre (-90 to 90). Send with lng instead of location. (one of: location, lat; at least one required)

lngstring

Longitude of the search centre (-180 to 180). Send with lat instead of location.

zoominteger

Google Maps zoom level around lat/lng, 3 (continent) to 21 (street). Defaults to 14, about a city district. Only with lat/lng.

languagestring

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.

limitinteger

How many places to return, 1-100 (default 20). The price is the same at any limit.

Headers

Cache-Controlstring

Send no-cache to bypass the response cache and force a live fetch. Billed at the normal endpoint cost; the fresh result is written back to cache for the next caller. Only the no-cache directive triggers this. See the Response Schema guide for details.

Idempotency-Keystring

Optional UUID that makes the request safely retriable. The key is reserved atomically per account before billing. A concurrent retry receives 409 IDEMPOTENCY_IN_PROGRESS with a Retry-After of 1 second while the original is young, growing to a quarter of the time it has been running (at most 30); a crashed reservation expires after 5 minutes. A replay keeps the cached payload immutable except for billing metadata: credits_used becomes 0, idempotent_replay becomes true, and credits_remaining is refreshed to the current balance. A known current balance appears in both the body and X-Credits-Remaining header; no balance row resolves to 0. On a transient lookup failure, body credits_remaining is null and X-Credits-Remaining is omitted. Completed outcomes expire after 24 hours. If the claim store is unavailable, the request fails closed before billing. GET endpoints do not combine idempotent replay with Server-Sent Events: use Accept: application/json when sending this header. The unsupported key-plus-SSE combination is rejected before billing.

Response

Successful response

successboolean required

Whether the request succeeded

platformstring required

Platform name

endpointstring required

API endpoint path

credits_usedinteger required

Number of credits consumed

credits_remaininginteger nullable required

Current account balance, or null when this response could not establish one. Free cache hits always return null because they do not establish an authoritative post-request balance. An idempotency replay also returns null when its current-balance lookup fails. It is never a fabricated zero, so a zero here means the account really is empty. The authoritative reading is the one on a billed response, which comes straight from the deduction.

request_idstring required

Unique request identifier for support

cachedboolean required

Whether the response was served from cache

idempotent_replayboolean

True only when this response is an idempotency replay

Example response

{
  "success": true,
  "platform": "google",
  "endpoint": "/v1/google/business/search",
  "credits_used": 1,
  "credits_remaining": 4999,
  "request_id": "req-abc123",
  "idempotent_replay": true,
  "meta": {
    "hint": {
      "code": "search_multi",
      "message": "You searched \"matcha\" on 3 platforms one call at a time; /v1/search/multi returns each platform's own search rows in one call at the same price per platform, and a platform with no rows is not charged.",
      "method": "GET",
      "path": "/v1/search/multi?query=matcha&platforms=instagram,tiktok,youtube"
    }
  },
  "pagination": {
    "next_cursor": "sc.eyJ2IjoyLCJjIjoiMiIsInAiOiJwYWdlIn0",
    "has_more": true,
    "page_size": 30,
    "stopped_at": "known_id"
  }
}

Changes

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