Can I filter by rating or by website?

On the provider that supports it, yes. One endpoint takes a minimum star rating and a website filter, which saves you from paying to enrich weak leads.

How many businesses does one search return?

Up to 20 on one provider and a page at a time on the others. Your agent pages through more, and each call is billed.

Can I get the phone number and website?

When the business lists them on Maps, the provider returns them with the place. Some providers return only the basics, so check the endpoint page for the fields.

Can I search an area, not a city?

Two providers take coordinates, and one adds a zoom level. Send the center of the area and the zoom that covers it.

How much does one search cost?

You pay per call, and the price depends on the provider your agent picks. This page reads the cheapest live price from the catalog and shows no number when the catalog is unreachable.

Do I pay when a local business search call fails?

No. A call that fails at the provider costs nothing, and your agent can retry it or send it to another provider.

Do I need an account with each local business search provider?

No. One looot key reaches every provider in the catalog. You top up once, and each call is billed at the price shown before it runs.

How do I call local business search from code?

Send a POST to /v1/runs with the endpoint id, the input and a new idempotency key, and your looot token in the Authorization header. With wait set to 30, the answer comes back in the response when the run ends within 30 seconds. Otherwise poll GET /v1/runs/ .

Can I run local business search on a schedule?

That needs scheduled runs, not available yet. Run it by hand whenever you want fresh results.

Do I pay while my agent is idle?

No. looot bills per call, and nothing runs while your agent is idle.

Use case, Local business search

Local business search API for your agent. One call per search.

Send a business type and a location. Read business name and address back. Your agent picks the provider, and you pay per call.

Give this to your agent

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

AnyAPI
Anysite
SearchAPI.io
DataForSEO

Use case, Local business search

Local business search API for your agent. One call per search.

Send a business type and a location. Read business name and address back. Your agent picks the provider, and you pay per call.

Give this to your agent

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

The short answer

Local business search API for an agent: it sends a business type and a location to a catalog endpoint and reads business name, address and coordinates back. Several providers sell the call, so the agent tries the cheapest first. You pay per call, and a failed call costs nothing.

Business name
Address and coordinates
Rating and review count
Category
Website and phone

Cost per 1,000 search runs

$0.5390

Cheapest live endpoint for every step. The provider your agent picks can cost more.

1
steps: 4
providers: per call
billing

The job

What the Local business search API gives your agent

A local search finds businesses by type and place, the way a person types it into Google Maps. Your agent sends coffee shop and Austin and gets back the businesses with their rating, address and contact basics. That is a lead list for any local trade, or a map of the competition around a site.

The providers return different slices. One returns up to 20 normalized places with filters for category words, minimum stars and whether the business has a website. One searches by text and coordinates with a zoom. One parses the Google Maps results page. Use the filters when the list will feed outreach.

You give

a business type and a location

coffee shops in Austin, USA

You get

Business name
Address and coordinates
Rating and review count
Category
Website and phone

Providers, cheapest first

What actually differs between providers

Today the price runs from $0.000539 to $0.0040 across 4 endpoints. The dearest costs about 7.4 times the cheapest. Price is only one difference. Each entry below says what that endpoint takes or returns that the others do not.

Anysite
Searches by text with optional latitude, longitude and zoom, returns name, address, rating, categories and GPS, and bills per result.
anysite-api-google-maps-places-search
$0.000539 / result
AnyAPI
Returns up to 20 normalized places per request with ratings, addresses and contact basics, and filters by category words, minimum stars and website.
anyapi-run-maps-search
$0.00175 / call
DataForSEO
Returns Google Maps results in the advanced format, as live tasks.
dataforseo-google-maps-advanced
$0.0020 / call
SearchAPI.io
Returns local businesses with ratings, reviews and contact details, with a coordinate parameter and paging.
searchapi-io-google-maps
$0.0040 / call

Cost

What 100 Local business search runs cost

$0.0539

100 searches cost about $0.0539 through the cheapest endpoint, at Anysite, and about $0.4000 through the dearest. Each run is one call. The cheapest endpoint bills per result, so the figure assumes one result per run.

Sample calls

The request and what comes back

Each run is one POST to /v1/runs with an endpoint id and an input. These are illustrative calls with generic values. The run's result holds the provider's own fields.

Request

{"endpointId":"anyapi-run-maps-search","input":{"query":"coffee shop","location":"Austin, USA"},"wait":30}

ResponseSample output

// POST /v1/runs, then read run.status and run.result
// result: returns up to 20 normalized places per request with ratings, addresses and contact basics, and filters by category words, minimum stars and website

The prompt

Copy one prompt, give it to your agent.

Edit the names and numbers, paste it, and the agent runs the job and shows the cost.

One run is one search.
1 steps across 4 providers.
Runs on demand, whenever you ask.

Prompt: Local business search API

Use looot to find coffee shops in Austin, USA through Google Maps and return name, address, rating, review count and website for each, highest rated first. 1. Set up https://looot.ai/skill.md. 2. Search the catalog for each step and check its price before you call. 3. Run the cheapest endpoint that fits. 4. Show the results as a table and the total cost.

Give this to your agent

Setup command

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

Price ladder

Local business search: cheapest first.

Each provider's cheapest endpoint for this job, priced per call or per result. These prices are read live from the catalog.

Cheapest endpoint of each provider

Anysite$0.000539
AnyAPI$0.00175
DataForSEO$0.0020
SearchAPI.io$0.0040

Before you start

Settle these before the first run

Give a location with the search. A city and a country work best. For a map area, send coordinates and a zoom on the providers that take them.
Filter early. A minimum star rating or a website requirement cuts the list before you pay to enrich it.
Plan the next call. A place found here can go to the reviews endpoint, or to a person search for the owner.

FAQ

Questions people ask

Send a business type and a place to a Maps search endpoint. Your agent returns the businesses with their rating, address and contact details, ready to put in a sheet.

Keep going

Use case
Google Maps reviews API
Send a Google Maps place ID. Read review text and star rating back. Your agent picks the provider, and you pay per call.
Use case
Company enrichment API
Send a company domain. Read company name and description back. Your agent picks the provider, and you pay per call.
Use case
Professional email finder API
Send a full name and a company domain. Read work email and verification status back. Your agent picks the provider, and you pay per call.