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Extract how busy any Google Maps business is by hour and day of the week — the full popular-times histogram plus live busyness right now.
Extracts Google Maps "popular times" busyness data by scraping the visible histogram and live occupancy indicators; returns structured popular-times data including hourly busyness percentages for every reported hour of each weekday, a live current busyness percentage and human-readable label when open, a precomputed weekly peak hour and peak busyness metric, and associated place context such as name, address, rating, review count, public place URL and unique identifiers. Designed to accept search queries or place URLs/IDs and produce one structured record per place containing weekly hourly busyness patterns, peak-time summary, live occupancy reading, and place metadata for downstream analysis.
Verified Oct 25, 10:11 PM
$0.01
per place
Up to 100 per call. Only pay for results returned; failed calls are refunded.
Best-time-to-visit applications to recommend quiet or busy hours for restaurants, gyms, and stores
Staffing and scheduling planning by benchmarking competitor foot-traffic patterns
Foot-traffic market research to compare busyness patterns across a city, cuisine, or category
Delivery and logistics timing to route drivers around known peak-busy windows
Restaurant and retail site selection to evaluate competitor peak traffic before choosing a location
Businesses to search on Google Maps, one query per line — e.g.
Alternatively fetch popular times for specific places — Google Maps place URLs, maps.app.goo.gl short links,…
Two-letter country code that biases search results, e.g.
Optional settings
| Window | Uptime | Success rate | p50 | p95 | Calls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24h | — | — | — | — | 0 |
| 7d | — | — | — | — | 0 |
| 30d | — | — | — | — | 0 |
Call it through Sourcelane's gateway or MCP server. We run the connector, apply your agent's spend guardrails, and bill only the results returned.
Call it via Sourcelane
curl -X POST https://api.usesourcelane.com/v1/call \
-H "Authorization: Bearer sl_live_your_agent_key" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"listing":"google-maps-popular-times-scraper-v2","params":{"searchQueries":["Starbucks Times Square New York"],"maxPlacesPerQuery":5},"maxResults":10}'Request params
| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
searchQueries | array | optional | Businesses to search on Google Maps, one query per line — e.g. "Starbucks Times Square New York", "gyms in Austin TX". |
placeUrls | array | optional | Alternatively (or additionally) fetch popular times for specific places — Google Maps place URLs, maps.app.goo.gl short links, ?cid= links, Place IDs (ChIJ…) or hex IDs (0x…:0x…). |
maxPlacesPerQuery | integer | optional | Maximum number of places to process per search query (Google Maps returns at most ~120 per query). 0 = everything Google returns. Capped at 100 per call. |
language | string | optional | Language code for results, e.g. en, de, fr, es, pt-BR. |
country | string | optional | Two-letter country code that biases search results, e.g. us, gb, de, au. |
latitude | number | optional | Optional latitude to bias search results toward a specific area. |
longitude | number | optional | Optional longitude to bias search results toward a specific area. |
zoom | integer | optional | Optional map zoom level (3-21) used together with latitude/longitude to bias search results. Higher = tighter radius. |
Each result contains
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
placeId | string | Place Id |
googlePlaceId | string | Google Place Id |
placeName | string | Place Name |
placeAddress | string | Place Address |
rating | number | Rating |
reviewCount | integer | Review Count |
placeUrl | string | Place Url |
isOpenNow | null | Is Open Now |
currentBusynessPct | null | Current Busyness Pct |
currentBusynessLabel | null | Current Busyness Label |
weeklyPopularTimes | array | — |
peakDay | string | Peak Day |
peakHour | integer | Peak Hour |
peakBusynessPct | integer | — |
searchQuery | null | — |
scrapedAt | string | — |
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Adds the Sourcelane MCP server with your key as a header.
claude mcp add --transport http sourcelane https://api.usesourcelane.com/mcp \
--header "Authorization: Bearer sl_live_your_agent_key"Alternative to the connector URL: add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude.
{
"mcpServers": {
"sourcelane": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"mcp-remote",
"https://api.usesourcelane.com/mcp",
"--header",
"Authorization:${AUTH_HEADER}"
],
"env": {
"AUTH_HEADER": "Bearer sl_live_your_agent_key"
}
}
}
}Add to ~/.cursor/mcp.json (or Windsurf's mcp_config.json).
{
"mcpServers": {
"sourcelane": {
"url": "https://api.usesourcelane.com/mcp",
"headers": {
"Authorization": "Bearer sl_live_your_agent_key"
}
}
}
}Save as .vscode/mcp.json. VS Code prompts for your key once.
{
"servers": {
"sourcelane": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://api.usesourcelane.com/mcp",
"headers": {
"Authorization": "Bearer ${input:sourcelane-key}"
}
}
},
"inputs": [
{
"type": "promptString",
"id": "sourcelane-key",
"description": "Sourcelane agent key",
"password": true
}
]
}Create a GPT → Actions → Import from URL, then Authentication: API Key, Bearer.
https://usesourcelane.com/openapi.jsonOne POST. Pass maxResults to cap cost.
curl -X POST https://api.usesourcelane.com/v1/call \
-H "Authorization: Bearer sl_live_your_agent_key" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"listing":"google-maps-popular-times-scraper-v2","params":{"searchQueries":["Starbucks Times Square New York"],"maxPlacesPerQuery":5},"maxResults":10}'Wrap the REST call as a tool, or point an MCP client at the endpoint.
import requests
res = requests.post(
"https://api.usesourcelane.com/v1/call",
headers={"Authorization": "Bearer sl_live_your_agent_key"},
json={
"listing": "google-maps-popular-times-scraper-v2",
"params": {"searchQueries":["Starbucks Times Square New York"],"maxPlacesPerQuery":5},
"maxResults": 10,
},
timeout=300,
)
body = res.json()
print(body["receipt"]["chargedMicros"], "micro-USD for", body["receipt"]["results"], "results")
print(body["data"])—
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