Google Maps Api Skill

What This Skill Does

The Google Maps API Skill is a powerful automation tool designed to extract structured business data directly from Google Maps. By utilizing BrowserAct's specialized infrastructure, it bypasses common web scraping hurdles such as CAPTCHAs, IP blocking, and geo-fencing. The skill acts as an intermediary, taking your search parameters—such as business types and geographical locations—and returning clean, actionable data including business names, categories, contact information, website links, opening hours, and review ratings. It is designed for consistency, providing stable, non-hallucinated results that are more reliable than standard LLM web-browsing capabilities.

Installation

To integrate this skill into your environment, use the OpenClaw package manager. Open your terminal and run: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/phheng/google-maps-api-skill

After installation, ensure you have a valid BROWSERACT_API_KEY set as an environment variable. Without this, the skill will remain inactive. You can obtain your key by visiting the BrowserAct Console.

Use Cases

This skill is highly versatile for professionals in sales, marketing, and market research. Common use cases include:

• Lead Generation: Compiling lists of businesses within a specific industry, such as dental clinics or coffee shops, including their phone numbers for cold outreach.
• Market Research: Analyzing competitor density or regional business trends to inform expansion strategies.
• Local Monitoring: Keeping track of business ratings and review trends to benchmark service performance.
• Data Enrichment: Aggregating addresses and website links to build comprehensive CRM databases.

Example Prompts

1. "Find all the top-rated Italian restaurants in downtown Chicago and extract their phone numbers and websites into a list for me."
2. "I need a spreadsheet of all dental clinics in London with more than 50 reviews and their current operating hours."
3. "Search for startup incubators in Berlin and extract their contact details so I can perform outreach for our new software solution."

Tips & Limitations

To get the best results, always be specific with your search keywords and include location biases if the search is broader than a single city. The skill relies on accurate input parameters; vague queries may return broad or irrelevant datasets. Remember that this tool performs actual web interaction, so avoid over-scraping to respect site terms of service. Always check that your BROWSERACT_API_KEY is active if you encounter connection errors.