Google Maps Listings

Give it a search query, get back the local businesses Google Maps returns for it.

What it does

• Returns business listings from Google Maps for a search query, for sourcing local business leads.
• query is the search itself — for example "dentists in Austin".
• location narrows the search to a city or area, for example "Austin, TX".
• include_reviews scrapes each place detail page for reviews and richer data. It costs the same, but it does more work per place.
• max_results sets how many listings come back — 1 to 100, default 10.

This is the standard first step of a local-business list build. Listings give you names and websites; they do not give you contacts. Chain scrape_emails_from_website on each website to get an address you can write to.

Parameters

How to use it

Get Google Maps listings for "dentists in Austin", location Austin, TX,
50 results.

Same search, but include reviews. Rank the practices by review count and
flag anything rated under 4.0.

For every listing with a website, scrape emails from that website.
Skip anything with no site. Report how many credits you used.

Verify each email you found and drop anything that isn't deliverable.

Example prompts

Best prompting practices

• Put the geography in the query and in location. “Dentists in Austin” plus location: "Austin, TX" is more reliable than either alone.
• Only turn on include_reviews when you will use them. It scrapes each place detail page, so the call takes noticeably longer on a large max_results.
• Set max_results to the size of the list you actually want. The default of 10 is a sample, not a territory.
• Run one city per call. “Dentists in Austin and Dallas” gives you a worse result set than two calls.
• Chain, do not guess. Ask for emails to be scraped from the returned websites rather than letting your client invent info@ addresses.

Output

{
  "query": "dentists in Austin",
  "listings": [
    {
      "name": "Congress Ave Dental",
      "website": "https://congressavedental.com",
      "phone": "+1 512-555-0142",
      "rating": 4.7
    }
  ]
}

Credits and limits

0.3 credits per call, whatever max_results you set. Run check_credits (free) before a large batch.

Related tools

Next steps

• All MCP tools — the full catalogue with credit costs
• Research & Web Scraping — workflows that chain this tool into a local list build

Keep learning

Two courses take these tools past the reference page — clustered by GTM job, then chained into workflows.