# google-maps

This skill hands your agent place search, business details and reviews through fetcher.sh. Useful when a project needs points-of-interest data without a Google Cloud setup.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 3700 installs · ★ 2
- Author: fetcher-sh
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/fetcher-sh/fetcher-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/google-maps/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-09-05
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/google-maps

## What it does

Four endpoints sit behind the skill: text search for places, optionally pinned to a latitude and longitude; full place details by feature ID; a place's reviews; and a single review by ID. Each one is a plain HTTP GET against `https://google-maps.fetcher.sh`, and every reply follows the same shape — `{ "status", "message", "data" }`.

Payment comes in two flavours. Prepaid credits use a key: set `FETCHER_API_KEY` and send it as `Authorization: Bearer $FETCHER_API_KEY`. Or skip the header entirely and let x402 settle each call in USDC — an unpaid GET answers 402 with machine-readable payment requirements, and `@x402/fetch` signs and retries for you. Either way a call costs $0.005.

Get the key before you start, at `https://fetcher.sh/topup` or through `POST /api/credits/topup`. One thing to weigh: settlement happens before delivery, so a failure upstream means no refund. There are no rate limits. An MCP config is included, pointing at `https://google-maps.fetcher.sh/mcp` with the key in a `headers` block; drop that block to run on x402 instead.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add fetcher-sh/fetcher-skills --skill google-maps -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/google-maps/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/google-maps/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add fetcher-sh/fetcher-skills --skill google-maps -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/google-maps/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add fetcher-sh/fetcher-skills --skill google-maps -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/google-maps/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install fetcher-sh/fetcher-skills google-maps
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/google-maps/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add fetcher-sh/fetcher-skills --skill google-maps -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/fetcher-sh/fetcher-skills --path skills/google-maps
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/google-maps/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add fetcher-sh/fetcher-skills --skill google-maps -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/fetcher-sh/fetcher-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/google-maps/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- search places from a free-text query
- anchor a search to a coordinate for near-me lookups
- pull a place's full details by feature ID
- list a place's reviews sorted by newest or rating
- feed a store locator with points-of-interest data

## Example prompts
- Find coffee shops near 40.7128, -74.0060
- Show reviews for place `0x89c259af336b3341:0x8c584d6dfe89aa89`, newest first
- Search for bakeries in Canada with query “boulangerie”, languageCode fr, countryCode CA

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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````text
---
name: google-maps
description: >-
  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.
keywords:
  - google-maps
  - google-maps-api
  - google-places-api
  - places-api-alternative
  - local-business-data
  - poi-data
  - x402
  - ai-agent
---

# 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](../fetcher/SKILL.md):

```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):**
````
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