Collectors: ready-made scraper APIs

A scraper API is a hosted scraper you call over HTTP instead of building and running one yourself. You send parameters — here a keyword, a location, a domain or a product id — and structured rows come back. Every QuanticData Collector is a scraper API with a published output schema, a version number and a price per delivered row.

Collectors are priced per delivered unit, not per request. At launch that runs from $0.0005 per Google review or news article, to $0.001 per Maps place, jobs listing or shopping listing, $0.002 per seller offer or hotel property, $0.01 per enriched local lead, $0.02 per site contact record and $0.03 per company profile. Volume tiers discount those list prices by up to 30%, and the catalog endpoint returns the price your key actually pays.

Every account gets $2 of free usage each month with no card, shared across all QuanticData Data APIs. At launch prices that is about 2,000 Google Maps places, 4,000 reviews or 200 enriched local leads per month. When the allowance runs out you continue at the same public unit prices — there is no subscription to unlock the API.

No. Collectors are billed per delivered result, so zero rows means zero charge — blocked pages, captchas, timeouts and our internal retries are never billed. A run that stops early but still delivers rows is marked partial and charged only for what it actually returned.

Public business listings are public data, and collecting public data is generally lawful in most jurisdictions — but Google's terms restrict automated access, and case law differs by country. Treat anything that identifies a person under the applicable privacy rules, use the output responsibly, and get proper legal advice for your specific case; this answer is not it.

Google's terms restrict automated querying of its services, Maps included, so the practical question is how the requests are made and what you do with the data. Collectors run through our residential network with bounded retries, never bill a blocked attempt, and return only publicly visible fields — but the compliance decision for your use case stays yours.

Call the google_maps_places collector with a keyword and a location — "dentist", "Austin, TX". It returns places with name, rating, review count, category, address, phone, website, opening hours and coordinates, plus the place_id and data_id you need to pull that place’s reviews with the place_reviews collector.

You can start without paying: the $2 monthly allowance covers roughly 1,000 delivered places on the google_maps_places collector at launch pricing, no card required. Free open-source scrapers exist too — the difference is who maintains the parser, the proxies and the anti-bot handling when the page layout changes.

The place_reviews collector takes a place id — or a keyword and a location, if you do not have one yet — and returns that place's Google reviews with rating, date, text, author, images and the owner's reply. At $0.0005 per delivered review the $2 monthly allowance covers about 2,000 reviews, so a small monitoring job costs nothing.

Yes — the google_jobs collector. Call it with a job title and, optionally, a location. It returns each listing with title, company, location, the board it came from, posted date, schedule type, salary when shown and the apply link — $0.001 per delivered listing at launch, and nothing at all if the run delivers no listings.

Google does not offer a public News API today, which is why most projects end up reading Google News through a scraper instead. The google_news collector takes a topic and a country and returns dated articles with title, source, snippet, image and link, at $0.0005 per delivered article — drawing on the same $2 monthly allowance as everything else.

The company_profile collector turns a domain into one structured record: legal or trading name, tagline, description, industry, founding year, headquarters and addresses, emails, phones, socials and logo — $0.03 per delivered profile. For contact details only, site_contacts returns emails, phones, socials and postal addresses per domain at $0.02.

Two collectors do it: local_business_leads takes a keyword and a location and returns businesses enriched from their own websites with emails, phones and socials, at $0.01 per delivered lead; site_contacts does the same for domains you already have, at $0.02 per site. The $2 free monthly allowance covers about 200 enriched local leads, and because billing is per delivered row a run that finds nothing costs nothing.