live · 2026 · tooling
maps-scrapper
A self-hosted Google Maps places scraper - a free alternative to paid actors. CLI and MCP server, no API key.
A self-hosted Google Maps places scraper - a free alternative to Apify’s
crawler-google-places actor. It scrapes Google Maps directly with a headless
browser (Playwright), so there’s no API key required.
Two ways to use it
- As a CLI, for scripts and one-off pulls.
- As an MCP server, so AI assistants (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, etc.) can call it as a tool during a conversation.
That second mode is the interesting part: it turns “scrape these places” into something an agent can do on your behalf, mid-task.
Source on GitHub.