Do I need a Google Cloud project or a Places API key?

No. Your agent calls the operations with a looot key, so you do not set up Google billing or manage Places API quotas.

How do I get reviews for a place?

Run a place search first, take the place id or feature id from a result, and pass it to a reviews operation. One provider returns many reviews per call, sorted the way you ask.

What is the Local Finder?

It is the local pack Google shows for a query with a location. The SEO provider returns it in an advanced form, or as raw HTML, which suits checking who ranks locally.

Can I get phone numbers and websites?

Place detail and search operations return the phone and website where Google lists them. A business that does not list one returns none.

Why do some operations ask for latitude and longitude?

Some search operations let you set a map center and zoom to bound the search. Others take a text location. The input line on each operation shows which.

How does my agent call a Google Maps operation?

It connects to looot once, searches the catalog for the job, reads the input fields and the price, then runs the operation. Setup takes one line from skill.md, and the same key works for every provider.

How is a Google Maps call billed?

Per call, at the price shown on this page for that operation. The agent sees the price before the run, and the run is recorded with its cost in your ledger.

Where do I find the full input and output fields?

Each operation has a reference page on docs.looot.ai with its input fields, an example call and the response. The For agents card on this page links the cheapest ones.

Are the prices on this page current?

They are read from the live looot catalog every few minutes, so they change when a provider changes its price. When the catalog cannot be read, the page shows no numbers.

Which Google Maps operation should I start with?

Start with the cheapest operation in the job you need, which is listed first in its group. Check that it returns the fields your agent reads, and switch to another provider if it does not.

Google Maps data API

Google Maps data for your agent, places, reviews and photos.

Find businesses by query and location, read place details and reviews, and fetch photos or directions. Several providers, one looot key, a price before every call.

Give this to your agent

set up looot - https://looot.ai/skill.md

SearchAPI.io
DataForSEO
Anysite
AnyAPI

Google Maps data API

Google Maps data for your agent, places, reviews and photos.

Find businesses by query and location, read place details and reviews, and fetch photos or directions. Several providers, one looot key, a price before every call.

Give this to your agent

set up looot - https://looot.ai/skill.md

The short answer

looot lists the Google Maps operations of several data providers in one catalog. An agent searches businesses for a query in a location, reads the full details of a place, lists its reviews and photos, or asks for driving directions. Prices show per call before the run.

Jobs agents bring here

Build a local lead list: every plumber or dentist in a city, with phone and website.
Read the reviews of a competitor location and group the complaints.
Check a client's listing: rating, hours, category and photos.
Pull the Local Finder results to see who shows up for a local query.
Plan a route and list the stops along it.

What 100 results cost

$0.0539

The cheapest live operation is Any Site API / /google/maps/users/reviews from Anysite. Another provider can cost more.

21
operations: 4
providers: per call
billing

Operations

What your agent can do on Google Maps

Grouped by job. Each line shows the provider and the live price per call, cheapest first.

Reviews
Reviews of a place by place id, and the reviews one contributor wrote.
4 operations
- Any Site API / /google/maps/users/reviewsAnysite$0.000539 / result
- Anysite / Get Google Maps reviews for a placeAnysite$0.000899 / result
- AnyAPI / Google Maps ReviewsAnyAPI$0.0035 / call
- SearchAPI.io - Google Maps Reviews APISearchAPI.io$0.0040 / call
Photos
Photo urls for a place with captions and sizes.
2 operations
- Any Site API / /google/maps/photosAnysite$0.000899 / result
- SearchAPI.io - Google Maps Photos APISearchAPI.io$0.0040 / call
Directions and routes
Driving directions between two points and the places along a route.
2 operations
- SearchAPI.io - Google Maps Directions APISearchAPI.io$0.0040 / call
- SearchAPI.io - Google Maps Directions Search Along Route APISearchAPI.io$0.0040 / call
Place details
One place in full: address, hours, phone, rating and website where Google lists them.
3 operations
- AnyAPI / Google Maps Place LookupAnyAPI$0.00175 / call
- SearchAPI.io - Google Maps Place APISearchAPI.io$0.0040 / call
- Any Site API / /google/maps/placesAnysite$0.017985 / call
Search for places
Businesses that match a query and a location, with ratings and contact basics.
10 operations
- Anysite / Search Google Maps placesAnysite$0.000539 / result
- AnyAPI / Google Maps SearchAnyAPI$0.00175 / call
- DataForSEO / Get top 100 Google Maps resultsDataForSEO$0.0020 / call
- DataForSEO / Search Google Local Finder (advanced)DataForSEO$0.0020 / call
- DataForSEO / Search Google Local Finder (raw HTML)DataForSEO$0.0020 / call
- SearchApi / Search Google MapsSearchAPI.io$0.0040 / call
and 4 more operations in this group

Providers

Who covers Google Maps, and how they differ

Search operations return different slices. One returns up to a page of normalized place records with ratings and contact basics. The SEO provider returns Maps and Local Finder result pages in an advanced or raw HTML form for a keyword and location. Detail operations want a place id or a feature id, which a search call returns, so chain them.

SearchAPI.io7 operations$0.0040 / call
SearchApi / Search Google Maps, SearchAPI.io - Google Maps Directions API, SearchAPI.io - Google Maps Directions Search Along Route API
DataForSEO6 operations$0.0020 / call
DataForSEO / Get top 100 Google Maps results, DataForSEO / Search Google Local Finder (advanced), DataForSEO / Search Google Local Finder (raw HTML)
Anysite5 operations$0.000539 / result
Any Site API / /google/maps/users/reviews, Anysite / Search Google Maps places, Any Site API / /google/maps/photos
AnyAPI3 operations$0.00175 / call
AnyAPI / Google Maps Place Lookup, AnyAPI / Google Maps Search, AnyAPI / Google Maps Reviews

The prompt

Copy one prompt, give it to your agent.

Edit the names, paste it, and the agent runs the job and shows the cost of each call first.

Build a local lead list: every plumber or dentist in a city, with phone and website.
Read the reviews of a competitor location and group the complaints.
Check a client's listing: rating, hours, category and photos.

Prompt: Google Maps

Use looot to search Google Maps for coffee roasters in Lisbon, return name, address, rating and website for each, and show the price of every call before you run it. Setup is in skill.md.

Give this to your agent

Setup command

set up looot - https://looot.ai/skill.md

FAQ

Questions about Google Maps data

Search places by query and location, read place details, list reviews and photos, read a contributor's reviews, ask for directions and see the places along a route.

Keep going

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Use case
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Give your agent the list and the fields. It fills the gaps from many providers behind one key, billed per call.