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Find businesses by what they are and where they are, collect a whole city, and export the list.
Remote server: your requests and data go to api.gmaps.dev. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http gmaps-dev https://api.gmaps.dev/mcp · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.
get_attributions — List the projects credited by gmaps.dev, with their licenses and notices. No API key needed. Costs no credits.search_places — Find places by what they are and where they are, such as bakeries in Curitiba. Places we saved from earlier searches come back at once, for get_place — Read one saved place, by our id, Google's cid, Google's place ID, or a Google Maps link to it. It never searches: a place we have not saved create_collection — Search a whole area, square by square, and collect up to maxPlaces of the places in it. Answers straight away with the collection, then worklist_collections — Your collections, newest first, with the total so you know how many more there are. Filter by status to find the ones still running. Needs aget_collection — See where a collection has got to: how much of the area is searched, how many places have arrived, and what it has cost so far. Read it agaicancel_collection — Stop a collection you no longer want. One that has not started yet stops at once and costs nothing. One already running keeps the places thaquote_collection — See what collecting an area would cost before you start it: how much of it we have searched recently, how many places we have saved there (tcreate_export — Get a link to a collection's places as one file: csv, json or xlsx. The file has the places the collection holds now, even if it is still ruget_export — Read an export you made, with its download link, while the link still works. After 24 hours, or once the collection's places are deleted, itget_coverage — See how much of an area we have already searched for a term, when we last searched it, and how many places we have saved there. Use it to deget_usage — See this month's credits: what your plan includes, what you have used, what is left today and this month, and the same totals for each API kcreate_webhook — Tell us where to POST when a collection ends, instead of asking us every few seconds whether it is done. The answer shows the signing secretlist_webhooks — Every endpoint you have added, newest first, with whether it is still receiving events and why we stopped if it is not. Secrets are not showupdate_webhook — Change which events an endpoint receives, rename it, or switch it off and on. This is how an endpoint comes back after we stopped sending todelete_webhook — Stop sending to an endpoint and forget it, along with the record of what we sent there. To pause one instead, set enabled to false. That keetest_webhook — Send a "ping" to one of your endpoints now, so you can check your code reads it and the signature checks out before a real collection dependlist_webhook_deliveries — What we sent to one endpoint, newest first: which event, whether it arrived, how many tries it took, and what your server answered. This is Not tested by KitScout yet. When our harness runs it, pros, cons and the tasks we tried appear here, with the date and evidence.