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Local-business / maps reference

Subcommands: google-maps, google-maps-place, google-maps-reviews, google-maps-contributor-reviews, google-maps-photos, google-maps-posts, yelp-search, yelp-place, yellowpages-search, yellowpages-place. 5 credits each (10 for google-maps-posts and YellowPages).

google-maps

hasdata google-maps --q "coffee" --ll "@30.2672,-97.7431,14z" --raw | jq '.local_results[]'

Required: --q TEXT. Other useful flags:

--ll "@LAT,LNG,ZOOMz" — center point + zoom (Google's ll parameter)
--gl us|gb|... — country
--hl en|es|... — language
--type search|place — search vs. specific place lookup
--data / --cid / --fid — Google identifiers (advanced)

Per-result: title, place_id, rating, reviews, address, phone, website, types[], gps_coordinates.

google-maps-place

hasdata google-maps-place --place-id "ChIJ..." --raw | jq .

Single place: full details, hours, popular times, attributes.

google-maps-reviews

hasdata google-maps-reviews --place-id "ChIJ..." [--sort newest|highest|lowest] --raw \
  | jq '.reviews[] | {author, rating, date, snippet}'

For pagination, the response includes a next_page_token — pass via --next-page-token.

google-maps-contributor-reviews

Reviews authored by a specific Google contributor (by --contributor-id). Useful for local-guide analysis.

google-maps-photos

hasdata google-maps-photos --place-id "ChIJ..." --raw

Returns photo URLs by category (interior, exterior, food, etc.).

google-maps-posts (10 credits)

hasdata google-maps-posts --place-id "ChIJ..." [--hl en] [--next-page-token TOKEN] --raw \
  | jq '.posts[] | {postedAt, description, cta, postUrl}'

Posts are the business-owner publications shown on a Maps listing: offers, events, holiday hours, announcements. Either --place-id or --data-id is required.

Per-post fields (verified live): postId, locationId, title, description, image, cta (object with label + url), createdAt (ISO), postedAt (human-readable), shareUrl, postUrl. Use pagination.nextPageToken for older posts.

yelp-search

hasdata yelp-search --query "italian" --location "Brooklyn, NY" [--page 1] --raw \
  | jq '.businesses[] | {name, rating, review_count, price, categories}'

yelp-place

hasdata yelp-place --url "https://www.yelp.com/biz/SLUG" --raw | jq .

Single business: full details, hours, top reviews, photos, attributes.

yellowpages-search

hasdata yellowpages-search --search-terms "plumber" --geo-location-terms "Atlanta, GA" --raw

yellowpages-place

hasdata yellowpages-place --url "https://www.yellowpages.com/atlanta-ga/mip/..." --raw

Non-obvious use cases

Sales-lead research — google-maps --q "INDUSTRY" --ll "@LAT,LNG,12z" to enumerate businesses, then xargs into google-maps-place for public phone/website details. Use email collection only for legitimate business outreach with opt-out, privacy-law, and rate-limit controls.
Reputation monitoring — google-maps-reviews --place-id X --sort lowest returns the worst reviews first; great for surfacing crisis signals fast. Run weekly to detect new 1-star drops.
"Is this business open?" — google-maps-place --place-id X --raw | jq '.hours' for current hours; also surfaces permanently_closed status.
Verify an address user gave you — google-maps --q "BUSINESS NAME, CITY" --raw | jq '.local_results[0].address'. Don't trust user-provided addresses for high-stakes actions (mailing, payments).
Public business contact lookup — google-maps-place includes phone and website; web-scraping --url WEBSITE --extract-emails returns emails parsed from the homepage. Use only for public business contact channels and disclose uncertainty.
Competitive-density mapping — google-maps --q "coffee shop" --ll "@LAT,LNG,Zz" at varying zoom levels; aggregate .local_results[] into a CSV with addresses + ratings to find under-served zones.
Service-area validation — chain yelp-search --location "CITY" for a few cities to confirm a business with the same name covers them.
Find recently opened businesses — google-maps-place returns description.years_in_business and posts/updates timestamps; sort.
Negative-review sample for product analysis — yelp-place --url X --raw | jq '.reviews[] | select(.rating <= 2)'; useful as input to a "what do customers complain about" summary.
Photo-mining for visual docs — google-maps-photos --place-id X returns categorized photo URLs (interior, food, exterior). Useful when the user needs an image and doesn't want to rely on google-images.
Local-guide credibility — google-maps-contributor-reviews --contributor-id X shows everything a specific reviewer wrote, useful for filtering out shilling/fake reviewers when their pattern is suspicious.
YellowPages for B2B niches — service-business categories (plumbers, electricians, lawyers) are often better indexed by YellowPages than Yelp; try both when one comes up empty.
Cross-platform reputation diff — same business name + city via yelp-search and google-maps to compare ratings across platforms (gap often signals fake reviews on one).
Promo / event surveillance — google-maps-posts --place-id X surfaces current offers, holiday hours, and limited-time events the business is actively pushing. Cheaper signal than scraping the website, and the cta.url typically links to the canonical landing page.
Detect a business about to relaunch / rebrand — sudden burst of new google-maps-posts after months of silence usually precedes a re-grand-opening or ownership change.

Common patterns

# Build a directory: search → fan out to per-place details
hasdata google-maps --q "yoga studios" --ll "@30.27,-97.74,12z" --raw \
  | jq -r '.local_results[].place_id' \
  | head -10 \
  | xargs -I{} hasdata google-maps-place --place-id {} --raw

# Sentiment / review analysis
hasdata google-maps-reviews --place-id "$PID" --sort lowest --raw \
  | jq '.reviews[] | {rating, snippet}'

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