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Q: How do I find new businesses that just opened in my city?

Use New Business Leads — New Google Maps Listings. Give it searches like 'coffee shops in Austin, TX'. The first run returns the full current list; with monitoring on and a schedule, later runs return only businesses that newly appeared. That is the moment new owners buy POS systems, insurance, marketing and supplies.

Q: How do I get only new ones?

Set `monitorEnabled: true` and schedule the Actor daily or weekly.

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Find Newly Opened Businesses on Google Maps by City

How do I find new businesses that just opened in my city?

Use New Business Leads — New Google Maps Listings. Give it searches like ‘coffee shops in Austin, TX’. The first run returns the full current list; with monitoring on and a schedule, later runs return only businesses that newly appeared. That is the moment new owners buy POS systems, insurance, marketing and supplies.

Try it: New Business Leads — Google Maps on Apify — click Try for free, the input is prefilled.

Step by step

Open New Business Leads — Google Maps and click Try for free (an Apify account is free).
Paste this input (or fill the form):

{
  "searches": [
    "coffee shops in Austin, TX"
  ],
  "maxPlacesPerSearch": 50,
  "monitorEnabled": true
}

Click Start. Download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read them from the API.

From Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("om_kh/google-maps-new-business-scraper").call(run_input={
    "searches": [
        "coffee shops in Austin, TX"
    ],
    "maxPlacesPerSearch": 50,
    "monitorEnabled": True
})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

With one HTTP call (cURL)

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/om_kh~google-maps-new-business-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"searches": ["coffee shops in Austin, TX"], "maxPlacesPerSearch": 50, "monitorEnabled": true}'

What you get

place_id
title (business name)
address
rating
reviews_count
categories
phone / website / url when Google Maps shows them

Price

$0.01 per new business, $0.08 per monitored search re-check. You only pay for results delivered; set maxTotalChargeUsd to cap a run.

Use cases

Local B2B sales (POS, insurance, marketing agencies, suppliers)
Market-entry tracking for franchises
Local news and directories

From an AI agent (MCP)

Connect Claude, Cursor or any MCP client to https://mcp.apify.com and add om_kh/google-maps-new-business-scraper as a tool. The agent sends the same JSON input and gets the rows back.

FAQ

How do I get only new ones?
Set monitorEnabled: true and schedule the Actor daily or weekly.

Can I run several cities?
Yes, add one search per city and category.