Count how many Google businesses fall under each category within a radius of a c
Count how many Google businesses fall under each category within a radius of a coordinate, optionally filtered by category or name. Returns categories ranked by business count - for local market sizing, competitor-density analysis and site-selection research. No match → empty results.
Answeringour last check, 2026-10-04
1 of 1checks answered this week
460 msmedian answer time
$0.04listed price per call
$0.04price it asked us
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Endpoint
POST https://places.openverbs.com/v1/business-categories
| Category | Market data |
|---|---|
| Provider host | places.openverbs.com |
| Networks | eip155:8453 |
| Payment schemes | exact |
| Self-reported calls, 30 days | 0 from 0 payers (the provider's figure, not ours) |
Our checks, last 30 days
| Day | Result | HTTP | Asked | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-04 | valid payment request | 402 | $0.04 | 460 ms |
Example input (from the provider)
{
"body": {},
"bodyType": "json",
"method": "POST",
"type": "http"
}
Promised output schema (from the provider)
{
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"properties": {
"input": {
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"body": {
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"categories": {
"description": "Optional Google business categories to restrict the aggregation, e.g. [\"restaurant\"].",
"items": {
"maxLength": 80,
"minLength": 1,
"type": "string"
},
"maxItems": 10,
"minItems": 1,
"type": "array"
},
"limit": {
"description": "Maximum category buckets. Defaults to 20.",
"maximum": 100,
"minimum": 1,
"type": "integer"
},
"locationCoordinate": {
"description": "\"lat,lng,radiusKm\", e.g. \"37.7749,-122.4194,10\". Use the geocode verb to turn a place name into coordinates.",
"pattern": "^-?\\d{1,2}(\\.\\d+)?,-?\\d{1,3}(\\.\\d+)?,\\d{1,4}(\\.\\d+)?$",
"type": "string"
},
"query": {
"description": "Optional name text to restrict the aggregation.",
"maxLength": 200,
"minLength": 1,
"type": "string"
}
},
"type": "object"
},
"bodyType": {
"enum": [
"json",
"form-data",
"text"
],
"type": "string"
},
"method": {
"enum": [
"POST"
],
"type": "string"
},
"type": {
"const": "http",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type",
"method",
"bodyType",
"body"
],
"type": "object"
},
"output": {
"properties": {
"example": {
"type": "object"
},
"type": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type"
],
"type": "object"
}
},
"required": [
"input"
],
"type": "object"
}