Local Businesses & Places MCP server

How an agent would call it

Two steps: search returns refs, then data_fetch opens one of them. The arguments below are the arguments that were sent.

{
  "tool": "search",
  "arguments": {
    "query": "dentists in manchester",
    "sources": [
      "google-maps"
    ],
    "limit": 2,
    "runId": "<from run_begin>"
  }
}

{
  "tool": "data_fetch",
  "arguments": {
    "sourceId": "google-maps",
    "ref": {
      "id": "0x487a52b04e677177:0x588a64ca16c333b5"
    },
    "runId": "<from run_begin>"
  }
}

This runs against an account — send Authorization: Bearer <token> with the call. Get one at app.bedrocktap.com/dashboard/tokens; the free tier needs no card, and it reaches google-maps like every other source.

What it costs. 0.25 credits per business returned, and 0.25 for a fetch, which re-reads one place live rather than replaying the search snapshot. A search that returns nothing costs nothing.

What came back

{
  "ref": {
    "id": "0x487a52b04e677177:0x588a64ca16c333b5",
    "url": "https://www.citycentredentist.co.uk/?utm_source=googlemaps&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=primary",
    "title": "City Centre Dental & Implant Clinic - Manchester"
  },
  "fetchedAt": "2026-09-12T14:59:00.601Z"
}

Each ref carried rating, reviews, address, category, placeId, lat and lng in its meta — the first hit was rated 4.7 across 507 reviews at 31 Booth St, Manchester, the second 4.5 across 734. The fetch returned that business’s reviews: ten rows with a cursor for the next page, each carrying a review id, rating, timestamp, author name, review text and which site the review came from.

Observed 2026-09-12. One call against a live source — ask again tomorrow and the rows move.

What a row contains

One row is one business: its listing id, its own website where it has one, and its name. meta carries the star rating, the review count, the full address, the phone number where the listing publishes one, the primary category, the place id and the latitude and longitude. Because the search is billed per call and not per row, a wide sweep of a city costs the same as a single lookup. A fetch returns that business’s reviews a page at a time — a sample, not the corpus.

A question it answers. How many businesses of this kind are in this city, how are they rated, and which of them have almost no reviews?

Routing guidance

What an agent reads to decide whether google-maps is the right source, and what to reach for when it is not.

Answers

Who does X near Y. The map-pack world: listings, ratings, review counts and place detail.

Query shape

A place query exactly as you would type it into a map — "dentists in Lisbon", "coffee 10115 Berlin".

Price

Priced in credits, per row, per query or per call depending on the source. Every call is quoted before it runs — `cost_estimate` returns the exact figure and spends nothing. See /pricing.

Latency

Moderate (~6-26s).

Prefer instead

`google-serp` for organic web rankings — this returns listings, not blue links.

Cannot answer

Online-only businesses with no listing, search volume, or web rankings.

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