Google Maps Place Photos Scraper

Google Maps Place Photos Scraper: the photos and videos on a place, one row each

Paste a Google Maps place and you get its pictures back as rows: an image link at the width you choose, the original pixel size, the upload date, the spot Google pins the picture to, and the caption when somebody wrote one. Videos and Street View shots come labelled, so you can keep only the kind you want. The limit to plan around: each place gives you one page of its gallery, which was 150 pictures on the Seattle roastery we tested, out of the 67,548 Google said it had.

No row names the person who took the picture, because Google's gallery doesn't say. And the form arrives filled in with a real place and 30 photos, so pressing Start without editing it runs that job and bills the photos it finds.

🔍 What Google Maps Place Photos Scraper does

Open a place on Google Maps and click its photos. That grid is what this reads. Each picture becomes a row with a link to the image at the width you set, the thumbnail Google showed, the native size, the date it went up and its coordinates.

You decide what to keep: everything, photographs only (videos and Street View panoramas dropped), or video clips only. Whatever you drop is never charged.

A run can take several places. maxPhotos is split evenly between them and maxPhotosPerPlace caps any single one, so one busy place can't eat the whole budget.

📥 What you give it

{
  "placeUrls": [
    "https://www.google.com/maps/place/Starbucks+Reserve+Roastery/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x54906acdccf44db1:0x6da0c1f2d7a6736e"
  ],
  "maxPhotosPerPlace": 30,
  "maxPhotos": 200,
  "mediaType": "all",
  "imageWidth": 1600
}

📤 What you get back

A real row from a real run, with the two image links cut short:

{
  "ok": true,
  "charged": true,
  "recordType": "photo",
  "target": "https://www.google.com/maps/place/Starbucks+Reserve+Roastery/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x54906acdccf44db1:0x6da0c1f2d7a6736e",
  "placeName": "Starbucks Reserve Roastery",
  "placeId": "0x54906acdccf44db1:0x6da0c1f2d7a6736e",
  "cid": "7899526995152106350",
  "placeUrl": "https://www.google.com/maps?cid=7899526995152106350",
  "photoId": "CIHM0ogKEICAgIC-7fOx6AE",
  "mediaType": "photo",
  "photoUrl": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/gps-cs-s/AHRPTWlnERVZyB9D3zFYFg7wFEDmh5g...=w1600-h900-k-no",
  "thumbnailUrl": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/gps-cs-s/AHRPTWlnERVZyB9D3zFYFg7wFEDmh5g...=w203-h114-k-no",
  "caption": null,
  "width": 4032,
  "height": 2268,
  "uploadedAt": "2022-11-10T20:00:00.000Z",
  "latitude": 47.6140399947503,
  "longitude": -122.328100047145,
  "videoDurationMs": null,
  "videoUrl": null,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-20T16:19:23.434Z"
}

🧾 Reading the output

Three kinds of row can land in the dataset.

The sample row only turns up when placeUrls is empty. It shows the shape of a real row and also says recordType: "photo", so filter on charged rather than recordType to keep just the pictures.

▶️ How to run it

1. Open Google Maps Place Photos Scraper and click Try for free. 2. Open the place on Google Maps, copy the link from the address bar and paste it into Google Maps places, one place per line. 3. Set Maximum photos per place and Maximum photos for the run. 4. Pick What to keep: everything, photographs only, or videos only. 5. Click Start, then download the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read it from the API.

💰 How much does it cost?

$0.23 per 1,000 photos, flat on every Apify plan. A video or a Street View row counts as one photo.

You pay per row delivered. The sample row and the diagnostic rows are never charged, and neither is anything mediaType filtered out.

💡 What people use it for

• Real photography of a venue for a listing, directory or travel page, in place of stock pictures.
• Watching a place change over time. Sort by uploadedAt and a refit or a new sign shows up in the dates.
• Image sets for a vision model, where the pixel size and the date matter as much as the file itself.
• Comparing the branches of a chain by what their galleries actually show.

🚧 What it does not do

• More than one gallery page per place. That was 150 pictures on the place we tested, out of 67,548. Raising maxPhotosPerPlace doesn't change it.
• Name the photographer. Google's gallery carries no uploader, and nothing is guessed.
• Anything else about the place. No rating, address, hours or reviews. The scrapers below cover those.
• Captions you can count on. Most pictures have none.
• Upload minutes. Dates stop at the hour.
• More than 50 places in one run. Split a longer list across runs.

🧭 Which Google Maps scraper do you need?

❓ Questions people ask

Do I need a Google API key or account? No. The gallery is public, and the run needs nothing from you but the place.

How do I get the link for a place? Open it on Google Maps and copy the address bar, or press Share and copy the short link. Either works.

Can I get the original resolution? Set imageWidth as high as 4,096. Every row reports the native width and height, so you can see when you've asked for more than the picture has.

Why did I get fewer photos than I asked for? Each place stops at its first gallery page, maxPhotos is split between your places, and mediaType drops whatever you didn't ask for.

Can I run it on a schedule? Yes. Nothing is kept between runs, so compare photoId with last time to see what's new.

Can I use the photos? Reading a public gallery is one question and republishing a picture is another. Each photo belongs to whoever took it, so check the rights before you publish one. Apify's article on whether web scraping is legal covers the first part.

🆘 If something breaks

Open the Issues tab on the actor page and send the place link and the run ID. The diagnostic row in the dataset usually names the reason already.