// google local api

The world's cheapest Google Local API

The local results Google shows for a query and location, as JSON: name, rating, review count, category, address, hours and a place_id for each listing. Up to 20 desktop or 10 mobile/tablet results per page.

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Search local businesses on Google

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Local query

Search Google local business listings or look up one decimal local CID.

Local CID ludocidGoogle local CID, up to 128 digits.Search filter tbsGoogle compatibility token forwarded unchanged; the provider may leave ranking unchanged.Start offset startLocal-result offset through 10,000; source-exhausted offsets above 1,000 return empty.

Geography

Choose a human-readable location or a canonical UULE, never both.

Location locationHuman-readable location, up to 512 characters. Cannot be combined with uule.UULE uuleCanonical Google named-location token, up to 2,048 characters. Cannot be combined with location.

Localization

Control the first-party Google host, language, country, and request profile.

Google domain google_domainValidated Google domain. Examples: google.com, google.co.uk, google.fr.Country glCountry localization normalized to lowercase.Language hlGoogle interface and result language.Device deviceCompatibility value over device-invariant Maps data.

# pip install litescrape-sdk
# GET https://ecll-litescrape-v3--site-api-web.modal.run/api/google/local
from litescrape_sdk import scrape

[result] = scrape(
    [
        {
            "endpoint": "google_local",
            "q": "coffee shops",
            "start": "0",
            "location": "Austin, Texas",
            "google_domain": "google.com",
            "gl": "us",
            "hl": "en",
            "device": "desktop",
        }
    ],
    api_key="ls_live_your_key",
)
print(result.raise_for_error())

Ready

Run the request to draw its results here. This endpoint returns:

local_results
local_map
discover_more_places
pagination

// what you get

What the Google Local API returns

Device-sized result pages

Up to 20 desktop or 10 mobile/tablet listings, each with position, title, rating, reviews, type, address, hours, open state, website and thumbnail.

IDs that open other endpoints

place_id, data_id and data_cid, plus ready-made links to the reviews and photos of each place.

A named location or uule

location takes a city or region; uule takes Google's own encoded token.

Pages through the local finder

start moves through desktop results in steps of 20, or mobile/tablet results in steps of 10.

Target one business by CID

ludocid narrows the finder to one Google local CID.

// use cases

What teams build with it

01
Local rank tracking
Where each business ranks for a category term in each city and neighborhood, every day.
02
Lead lists by category and city
Every dentist, roofer or gym Google lists for a location, with website, hours and rating.
03
Citation audits
Compare the name, address and hours Google shows against your own records across locations.
04
Market density research
Count competitors per category in each city before opening a location.

// why it's the cheapest

Google Local API pricing, per 1,000 requests

Public list prices for 100,000 requests a month, read on September 17, 2026. Litescrape's rate is flat at every volume.

Month-to-month list prices in USD. A provider that bills per record or per queued task shows how it bills instead of a per-request price.
Provider	Plan modeled	Per 1,000 requests	Monthly cost
Litescrape	Flat prepaid rate	$0.15	$15.00
DataForSEO	Standard queue, up to 45 minutes	$0.60	$60.00
Serper	Standard pack, places endpoint	$0.75	$75.00
Scrapingdog	Standard, 5 credits per request	$0.90	$90.00
Oxylabs	Starter, local pack	$0.99	$99.00
ScrapingBee	Startup, 100,000 searches	$0.99	$99.00
Zenserp	Medium, 100,000 searches	$1.50	$150.00
VALUE SERP	200,000 credits, places mode	$2.40	$240.00
SearchApi	BigData, 100,000 searches	$2.50	$250.00

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