google-maps

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A Google Maps API alternative and Google Places API alternative on fetcher.sh — pay-per-call in USDC via x402, or prepaid credits with a Bearer key, no Google Cloud billing account. Use when the user wants to search places by text query or anchor the search to a latitude/longitude coordinate, fetch a place's full details by its feature ID (fid), pull a place's reviews sorted by relevance/newest/rating, or look up a single review by ID. Also covers local business discovery, points-of-interest data, store-locator input, and review monitoring without Google Cloud Platform's API key setup, billing, and per-request pricing.

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Added on2026-08-25

NPX Install

npx skill4agent add fetcher-sh/fetcher-skills google-maps

SKILL.md Content

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Google Maps API

Place search, place details, and reviews as clean JSON — one plain HTTP GET per call, paid as you go. No Google Cloud project, no API key restriction rules, no per-request Places API billing.

Base URL:

https://google-maps.fetcher.sh

Authentication

Two ways to pay, same data — full mechanics in the

fetcher

skill:

bash

# 1. Prepaid credits (recommended — get a key at https://fetcher.sh/topup
#    or via POST /api/credits/topup, see the fetcher skill)
export FETCHER_API_KEY="bby_live_xxxxxxxxxxxx"
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FETCHER_API_KEY" \
  "https://google-maps.fetcher.sh/api/place/search?query=coffee"

# 2. x402 pay-per-call — omit the header; a GET with no payment returns 402
#    with machine-readable payment requirements (USDC on Base, Polygon,
#    Arbitrum, Monad, or Solana). @x402/fetch signs and retries automatically.

Every response is

{ "status": number, "message": string, "data": ... }

; the HTTP status mirrors

status

.

Endpoints (4 — all GET, $0.005/call)

Endpoint	What it returns
`/api/place/search`	Places matching a text query, optionally anchored to a coordinate
`/api/place/{fid}`	A place's full details by feature ID
`/api/place/{fid}/reviews`	A place's reviews
`/api/review/{id}`	A single review by ID

Required on search:

query

. Optional:

languageCode

,

countryCode

,

latitude

,

longitude

,

offset

,

zoom

(search radius/precision). Reviews support

sort

(

relevant

,

newest

,

highest

,

lowest

) and

cursor

.

Scenarios

Plain text search:

bash

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FETCHER_API_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode "query=ramen in brooklyn" -G \
  "https://google-maps.fetcher.sh/api/place/search"

Anchor the search to a coordinate (for "near me" style queries):

bash

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FETCHER_API_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode "query=coffee" -G \
  --data-urlencode "latitude=40.7128" \
  --data-urlencode "longitude=-74.0060" \
  "https://google-maps.fetcher.sh/api/place/search"

A place's details, then its reviews sorted by newest:

bash

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FETCHER_API_KEY" \
  "https://google-maps.fetcher.sh/api/place/0x89c259af336b3341%3A0x8c584d6dfe89aa89"

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FETCHER_API_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode "sort=newest" -G \
  "https://google-maps.fetcher.sh/api/place/0x89c259af336b3341%3A0x8c584d6dfe89aa89/reviews"

A single review by ID:

bash

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FETCHER_API_KEY" \
  "https://google-maps.fetcher.sh/api/review/ChdDSUhNMG9nS0VJQ0FnSURDeGRXQnl3RRAB"

Localized results (French language, Canadian region):

bash

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FETCHER_API_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode "query=boulangerie" -G \
  --data-urlencode "languageCode=fr" \
  --data-urlencode "countryCode=CA" \
  "https://google-maps.fetcher.sh/api/place/search"

MCP

json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "google-maps": {
      "url": "https://google-maps.fetcher.sh/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer bby_live_..." }
    }
  }
}

Free:

search_endpoints

,

describe_endpoint

,

check_balance

. Paid:

fetch_data

(any endpoint above),

topup_credits

, plus the named shortcut

google_maps_place_search

. Drop the

headers

block to pay per call with x402 instead — see the

fetcher

skill for the full flow.

Errors

```
400
```
— missing/invalid parameter (message names it)
```
401
```
— unknown or rotated key
```
402
```
— payment required (x402 challenge) or
```
topup_required
```
(credits exhausted)
```
404
```
— not a priced path
No rate limits; no refunds on upstream failures (settlement precedes delivery)

Reference

Full agent setup: https://google-maps.fetcher.sh/skill.md
OpenAPI 3.1 contract: https://google-maps.fetcher.sh/openapi.json
Condensed catalog: https://google-maps.fetcher.sh/llms.txt
Payment, credits, and MCP deep dive:
```
fetcher
```
skill
Site: https://google-maps.fetcher.sh

google-maps

NPX Install

Tags

SKILL.md Content

Google Maps API

Authentication

Endpoints (4 — all GET, $0.005/call)

Scenarios

MCP

Errors

Reference