Placefetch – Google Maps Research Tool
Examine markets, research locations, and work with place data efficiently using Placefetch — a no-code maps tool powered by official Google Places APIs.
Use the simple and intuitive interface to run large-scale place research quickly and export the results of your searches in formats that fit your workflow.
Incredible Speed
Experience the raw power and control of Placefetch – capable of delivering hundreds of high-quality, unique results within seconds. Whether you’re researching a city, rural areas, or large geographic regions, Placefetch efficiently divides searches into manageable segments to retrieve results quickly and reliably.
Why Placefetch is Different
Placefetch isn’t a workaround or browser-based scraper. It’s a no-code tool built on official Google Maps and Places APIs, designed to help you search, retrieve, and work with place data efficiently.
Placefetch handles the technical complexity behind the scenes, allowing you to focus on running place searches, analysing results, and exporting data for your own workflows — all using your own API keys and Google’s supported interfaces.
Search with Google’s API for free
Google provides access to its Maps and Places APIs with usage-based pricing, with a free monthly allowance depending on the services and request volume. A $300 introductory trial credit is also offered.
Placefetch helps you make effective use of these APIs by simplifying configuration, searches, and data retrieval through a no-code interface — all while using your own Google API key and billing account.
How it works
Placefetch is a streamlined tool to help access information that exists on Google’s Map Platform covering businesses and places around the world. To work, it relies upon your Google issued API key to request and receive this information – authenticating your search every time. Getting this key is free and easy (2-3 minutes) and once in place will unlock the full functionality of Placefetch for running searches and managing results.
For each search, you tell the system what information you want receive about the businesses you are searching for from a list of fields that Google’s API supports. Sometimes you might only want information about location and name – whereas for other searches you might also want the phone number and opening hours. You can define the nature of these responses whilst you are setting up your search in just a few clicks.
Placefetch organises searches by dividing an area into manageable segments. Smaller areas may require only a single segment, while larger or more complex regions can be broken into multiple segments to ensure results are retrieved efficiently.
By structuring searches this way, Placefetch avoids unnecessary duplication and processes each segment in turn until the full search area has been covered.
Adaptive Depth Searching
Placefetch is designed to handle the result limits imposed by the Google Places API by intelligently structuring searches across different area sizes. Because individual API responses return a limited number of results, Placefetch adapts search boundaries as needed to retrieve consistent, relevant data across both small and large regions.
This approach allows Placefetch to work efficiently across complex geographic areas while minimising duplicate results and maintaining reliable coverage.
Placefetch Key Features
Powerful features allow you to efficiently define, extract and export business information with minimal effort. Get up to speed quickly by exploring our step-by-step guides, which walk through Placefetch’s core features and search workflows.
Intuitive, single page Interface
Start searching confidently within minutes — Placefetch is designed to help users of all experience levels get the most from the platform. Tools are organised intuitively, with key features easy to find and exactly where you’d expect them to be. Below is a brief overview of the layout to help you get familiar.
