2GIS Places Scraper

2GIS Places Scraper: business listings with phone, email and opening hours

Type a search and a city the way you would into 2GIS, and get one row per business: name, category, full address down to the district, coordinates, phone, email, website, rating, review count and the week's opening hours. Paste 2GIS search or place URLs instead if you already have them.

2GIS is a regional directory, not a global one. It covers Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, Tajikistan, Cyprus and the UAE. Search anywhere else and there is nothing there to find.

🏙️ What 2GIS Places Scraper does

Two ways in, and they work together in one run.

Search. A term and a city, like кафе in Moscow, and it pages through the matches until it reaches your limit or 2GIS stops handing out new places. Give it a latitude, longitude and radius instead and it searches that circle rather than a whole city.

URLs. Paste a 2GIS search page or a single place page and it reads that.

Filters. Keep only places rated above a floor, or with photos, card payment, Wi-Fi, delivery or takeaway. 2GIS applies them to the search itself, and every row is checked against them again before it is written, so a place that does not match is never charged.

Website links come out clean. 2GIS wraps every outbound link in its own click tracker with tracking tags attached, and those are unwrapped and stripped before the row is written, so you get http://mozhayka.rvbar.ru/ and not a 300-character redirect.

📥 What you give it

{
  "searchQueries": ["кафе", "пиццерия"],
  "city": "Moscow",
  "maxItems": 200
}

Run it with everything empty and you get one labelled sample row.

📤 What you get back

A real place row from a recent run. The raw openingHours block is cut short here, since it repeats the same shape for all seven days.

{
  "placeId": "70000001063551091",
  "name": "Руки Вверх!, бар",
  "nameShort": "Руки Вверх!",
  "brandName": "Руки Вверх!, бар",
  "chainBranchCount": 9,
  "categoryPrimary": "Бары",
  "categories": ["Кафе", "Бары", "Ночные клубы", "Караоке-залы"],
  "address": "Можайское шоссе, 45Б",
  "addressFull": "Москва, Можайское шоссе, 45Б",
  "addressComment": "3 этаж",
  "postcode": "121353",
  "country": "Россия",
  "region": "Москва",
  "city": "Москва",
  "cityAlias": "moscow",
  "district": "Можайский",
  "latitude": 55.7165,
  "longitude": 37.407401,
  "phone": "+74951205368",
  "phones": ["+74951205368"],
  "website": "http://mozhayka.rvbar.ru/",
  "websites": ["http://mozhayka.rvbar.ru/"],
  "email": null,
  "emails": [],
  "socialProfiles": [{"type": "telegram", "url": "https://t.me/book_rvb_bot"}, {"type": "vkontakte", "url": "https://vk.com/rvbar.mozhayka"}],
  "rating": 4.8,
  "reviewCount": 332,
  "openingHours": {"Mon": {"working_hours": [{"from": "18:00", "to": "06:00"}]}, "...": "..."},
  "openingHoursText": "Mon: 18:00-06:00; Tue: 18:00-06:00; Wed: 18:00-06:00; ...",
  "url": "https://2gis.ru/moscow/firm/70000001063551091",
  "searchQuery": "кафе",
  "position": 1,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-20T07:01:26.351Z"
}

🧾 Reading the output

Three kinds of row can land in your dataset.

Diagnostic rows are never charged.

▶️ How to run it

1. Open 2GIS Places Scraper and click Try for free. 2. Put your searches into Search terms, one per line. 3. Type the City, spelled however you like. 4. Set Maximum places low for the first run, then click Start. 5. Download the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read it from the Apify API.

💰 How much does it cost?

$0.50 per 1,000 places. Flat on every Apify plan, no volume tiers.

One row is one place. The sample row and every diagnostic row are not charged, and a search that comes back empty produces no place rows to charge for. A place that does not meet your filters is never charged either.

💡 What people use it for

• Building a local lead list for Russia, the CIS or the UAE with phone, email and website already on

the row.

• Counting how many branches a chain runs in a city, with coordinates ready to plot.
• Comparing ratings and review counts across a category before signing a lease.
• Splitting a city by district and walking each one, when a single search runs out of depth.
• Joining 2GIS data to your own records on placeId, on a schedule.

🚧 What it does not do

• No review text and no photos. You get rating and reviewCount, not what people wrote. There

is a separate actor for that.

• Around 5,000 places per search term. 2GIS stops serving new pages somewhere near that depth,

whatever you set maxItems to. Split the job by district, by rubric, or walk a grid of coordinates.

• rating is the branch score. For a chain branch 2GIS also publishes a company-wide rating;

this returns the branch one.

• No ordering by rating. 2GIS's rating order also weighs how many reviews a place has, so a 4.9

can sit above a 5.0. Use minRating to keep only well-rated places.

• Filters apply to searches only. Place pages you paste are fetched as they are.
• A point search can run a little past the radius. In one test, 2 of 30 places sat 6 m and 65 m

outside an 800 m circle.

• An unknown city ends the run. You get a CITY_NOT_FOUND row, and any place URLs you pasted in

the same run are not fetched either. Check the spelling and start again.

• Paste more place URLs than maxItems allows and the extras are skipped. They come back as

NOT_FOUND, which reads as if the page was missing. Raise the cap to match your list.

• You can land a little under maxItems. The same branch showing up on two pages is written

once, and the cap is counted before that. The copy is not charged.

• Rows are a snapshot. Hours change, places close, ratings move.

🧭 Which directory scraper do you need?

❓ Questions people ask

Do I need a 2GIS account or an API key? No. Nothing to register and no quota to watch.

Which countries actually have data? Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, Tajikistan, Cyprus and the UAE. Outside that list, 2GIS is the wrong source.

Should I search in Russian or English? Russian, in Russian-speaking cities: кафе finds more than cafe in Moscow. In Dubai it is the other way round.

Do I get email addresses? Where 2GIS holds one. In a 50-place Moscow sample, 38 listings had an email on them. It arrives inside the row, with nothing extra to pay for it.

How do I get every cafe in a city? Set the city, put your term in Search terms and raise Maximum places. Expect to top out near 5,000, then keep going per district.

Can I run it on a schedule? Yes. placeId is stable, so diffing hours, ratings or closures between runs is a straight join.

Is scraping 2GIS legal? These are public business listings. Apify's write-up on scraping and the law is a good place to start, and we are not lawyers.

🆘 If something breaks

Open the Issues tab on the actor page. Send the search term, the city and the run ID. The errorCode on the diagnostic row usually names the problem on its own.