ScrapeUnblocker Documentation

The Google Local plugin turns a Google Local (Maps) search into structured JSON. Give it a search phrase and a country, and it returns the businesses Google shows in its local finder - each with name, rating, review count, price level, category, address, opening hours and a top review snippet. It runs on the same warm, anti-bot-cleared Google sessions as our SERP endpoint, so you get the local pack without a Google Places API key, billing project, or quota approval.

Try it in the dashboard first: app.scrapeunblocker.com/dashboard/plugins. You get a live results view plus a copy-paste snippet.

Endpoint

POST /maps/google-local

Field	Required	Notes
`keyword`	yes	Search phrase, e.g. `coffee shops in chicago` or `plumbers near SW1A`.
`proxy_country`	no	Exit-IP country (ISO-2, e.g. `US`, `GB`). Local results are location-sensitive - set the market you want.
`gl`	no	Google country of search (ISO-2 lowercase, e.g. `us`, `de`).
`hl`	no	Google UI language (e.g. `en`, `de`, `fr`). Default `en`.

Because local results depend on location, pass proxy_country (and optionally gl) that match the market you care about - a search from a US exit returns US businesses.

curl -X POST "https://api.scrapeunblocker.com/maps/google-local?keyword=coffee%20shops%20in%20chicago&proxy_country=US&gl=us" \
  -H "x-scrapeunblocker-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Response

A JSON object with a results array (up to ~20 businesses) plus counts:

{
  "keyword": "coffee shops in chicago",
  "proxyCountry": "US",
  "resultsCollected": 20,
  "results": [
    {
      "position": 1,
      "name": "Starbucks Reserve Roastery",
      "rating": 4.4,
      "reviews": 19000,
      "price": "$10-20",
      "category": "Coffee shop",
      "address": "646 N Michigan Ave",
      "hours": "Closed - Opens 6:30 AM",
      "review_snippet": "The wide variety of coffee, food, drinks, and alcohol is out of this world."
    }
  ]
}

Field	Notes
`name`	Business name.
`rating`	Average star rating (e.g. `4.4`), or `null` if unrated.
`reviews`	Review count as an integer (Google’s `19K` is expanded to `19000`).
`price`	Price level as shown (e.g. `$10-20`), when present.
`category`	Primary category (e.g. `Coffee shop`).
`address`	Street address as shown in the listing.
`hours`	Open/closed status line (e.g. `Closed - Opens 6:30 AM`), when present.
`review_snippet`	A top review quote, when present.
`position`	1-based rank in the local results.

What you can build

Local lead generation - pull every business for a category and city, with contact-ready name and address.
Review and rating monitoring - track how a business (or its competitors) ranks and rates over time.
Local SEO research - see who ranks in the local pack for a keyword and market, and how positions move.
Market mapping - enumerate coverage of a category across many cities.

Google’s own Places API

Google offers the Places API directly, but it requires a Google Cloud project, an API key, per-request billing, and it meters and restricts what you can pull. This plugin needs none of that: sign up, add your ScrapeUnblocker key, and pull local listings the same day - from the dashboard or from code.

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Google Local plugin

Endpoint

Response

What you can build

Google’s own Places API

Next steps

Open the plugins

Get an API key

​Endpoint

​Response

​What you can build

​Google’s own Places API

​Next steps

Open the plugins

Get an API key

Endpoint

Response

What you can build

Google’s own Places API

Next steps