Built-in tool
Find Local Businesses
Find local businesses by name/category around a coordinate, with address, phone, website, rating, reviews, and map identifiers.
Endpoint
Parameters
| Name | Type | Required | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| querystring · required | string | required | Business name, category, or service to find. |
| limitnumber · optional | number | optional | Maximum records to return (1-1000). Defaults to 100. Default: |
| categorystring · optional | string | optional | Optional provider category id, e.g. "pizza_restaurant". Example: |
| minimum_ratingnumber · optional | number | optional | Optional minimum rating from 0 to 5. |
| location_coordinatestring · optional | string | optional | Optional "latitude,longitude,radius" (radius in km), e.g. "53.476225,-2.243572,10". Example: |
Response schema
{
"type": "object",
"$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
"required": [
"elements"
],
"properties": {
"elements": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"city": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"name": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"phone": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"rating": {
"type": [
"number",
"null"
]
},
"region": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"address": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"claimed": {
"type": [
"boolean",
"null"
]
},
"reviews": {
"type": [
"number",
"null"
]
},
"website": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"category": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"latitude": {
"type": [
"number",
"null"
]
},
"place_id": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"longitude": {
"type": [
"number",
"null"
]
},
"price_level": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"country_code": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
}
},
"additionalProperties": true
}
},
"returned": {
"type": "number",
"description": "How many rows this run returned, after any Limit was applied."
},
"truncated": {
"type": "boolean"
},
"suggestion": {
"type": "string"
},
"totalCount": {
"type": "number",
"description": "How many records the provider says MATCH in total, independent of Limit — routinely in the millions (spotify.com has 2,583,327 ranking pages). It is a match count, NOT how many this endpoint will serve: Limit caps what one call returns, so do not compare it against the row count to judge completeness and do not paginate towards it. Absent when the provider sent no count."
},
"totalElements": {
"type": "number",
"description": "DEPRECATED — despite the name this is the count RETURNED by this run, not a grand total, so it equals your Limit on a limited run. Kept at that value deliberately: ENG-17058 asked for depth 5 to report 5, and it is a live number in existing flows. Use `returned` for this number or `totalCount` for how many records match."
}
},
"additionalProperties": true
}