local-business-finder

local-business-finder is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gmapsscraper/google-maps-agent-skills. It costs 43 tokens per session (1,078 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Google Maps search helper for finding local businesses by type and location. It can return business names, contact details, websites, ratings, reviews, and opening hours.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research local markets or create lists of restaurants, dentists, plumbers, gyms, lawyers, and other services in a specified area.
Why use it?
It reduces the manual work of searching Maps and collecting information from many business listings.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Good fit Use it to research local markets or create lists of restaurants, dentists, plumbers, gyms, lawyers, and other services in a specified area.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gmapsscraper/google-maps-agent-skills/local-business-finder
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add gmapsscraper/google-maps-agent-skills --skill local-business-finder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gmapsscraper/google-maps-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,078 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00043 $0.01078
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00539
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00216
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00108

Measured 11d ago against content hash ea0a2a9ecfa0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

local-business-finder scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- curl
local-business-finder/SKILL.md · 149 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 149 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Local Business Finder

Find any local business by category and location. Get complete profiles including contact info, ratings, reviews, and hours — all from Google Maps.

When to Use

  • User wants to find businesses near a location
  • User asks "find me all [business type] in [city]"
  • User needs a directory of local services
  • User is researching a local market

Important: Credit System

Each search costs 2 credits. Free accounts get 10 credits (5 searches). Help users search smart — specific queries get better results.

Workflow

Step 1: Understand the Request

Parse what the user needs:

  • Business type: restaurants, dentists, gyms, lawyers, etc.
  • Location: city, neighborhood, zip code
  • Filters: minimum rating, must have website, etc.

Step 2: Optimize the Query

Help the user be specific to maximize results per credit:

Too broad (wastes credits) Optimized (better results)
"restaurant" "thai restaurant in downtown Portland OR"
"doctor" "family doctor accepting patients in Austin TX"
"store" "pet store in Brooklyn NY"

Step 3: Confirm Before Searching

📍 Business Search:
   Looking for: {{business_type}}
   Location: {{location}}
   Expected: 20-80 results
   Cost: 2 credits
   
   Proceed?

Step 4: Execute Search

curl -X POST "https://gmapsscraper.io/api/v1/jobs" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GMAPS_SCRAPER_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
    "name": "Find: {{business_type}} in {{location}}",
    "keywords": ["{{business_type}} in {{location}}"],
    "lang": "en",
    "depth": 2,
    "email": true
  }'

Step 5: Download & Present

curl -s "https://gmapsscraper.io/api/v1/jobs/{{job_id}}/download" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GMAPS_SCRAPER_API_KEY" \
  --output businesses.csv

Present results in a clean, scannable format:

Found {{count}} businesses!

1. **{{name}}** ⭐ {{rating}} ({{reviews}} reviews)
   📞 {{phone}} | 🌐 {{website}} | ✉️ {{email}}
   📍 {{address}}

2. **{{name}}** ⭐ {{rating}} ({{reviews}} reviews)
   📞 {{phone}} | 🌐 {{website}}
   📍 {{address}}
...

Read the full file on GitHub · 149 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 149 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A ea0a2a9ecfa0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

local-business-finder is a skill published in the GitHub repository gmapsscraper/google-maps-agent-skills (129 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 1,078 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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