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Area Search (Bounding Box) — Local Business Search
Area Search (Bounding Box) — Local Business Search is a paid API for AI agents from agents.openwebninja.com, paid per call via MPP, price unknown, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-14).
Search for businesses matching a keyword within a rectangular geographic area defined by south-west and north-east corner coordinates.
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How this service works
Search businesses within a rectangular area defined by its bottom-left (south-west) and top-right (north-east) corner coordinates.
Output
Returns an array of business objects, each containing: business ID, Google Maps ID, name, primary category, address (street, city, state, zip, country), latitude/longitude, rating, review count, phone number, website URL, operating hours, business status, subtypes, owner information, and optionally emails and social media contacts. Also includes request metadata and status.
Example use cases
Restaurant discovery in a neighborhood
“Show me the top 30 Italian restaurants within the SoHo area of Manhattan — use the bounding box from 40.720,-74.005 (bottom-left) to 40.730,-73.995 (top-right) and include their ratings and websites.”
Competitor mapping for a local business
“I need a list of all hair salons and barbershops within a 2-mile radius of downtown Austin — the bounding box is 30.255,-97.760 at the bottom-left and 30.275,-97.730 at the top-right. Give me up to 100 results with their addresses and phone numbers.”
Lead generation with contact extraction
“Find up to 200 plumbers, electricians, and HVAC contractors within the Chicago suburbs bounding box from 41.800,-88.000 (bottom-left) to 42.050,-87.800 (top-right), and extract their emails and social profiles too.”
Technical details
Endpoint
GEThttps://agents.openwebninja.com/local-business-data/area-search-by-bounding-box?utm_source=zero.xyzWhen to prefer
Use this endpoint when you need to search businesses within a specific rectangular map area (e.g. drawn on a map, defined by known corner coordinates). It is ideal for geofenced business discovery, competitive landscape mapping, lead generation within a territory, or powering map-based UIs. Prefer this over point-radius search when your area of interest is naturally rectangular or when you have exact bounding box coordinates. Choose over a text-based location search when precision matters and you already have coordinate boundaries.
Side effects
- Missing required parameters (query, bottom_left, top_right) returns 400 validation error
- Invalid coordinate format (not 'lat,lng') returns parsing error
- Bounding box too large may return incomplete or truncated results
- Region/language codes not matching ISO 639-1 may default or fail
- extract_emails_and_contacts=true significantly increases latency and may time out for large result sets
- No businesses found in the area returns an empty data array
- Rate limit exceeded returns 429 or payment-required error
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| limit | string | Maximum number of businesses to return. **Allowed values:** `1-500` |
| queryrequired | string | Search query / keyword |
| fields | string | A comma separated list of business fields to include in the response (field projection). By default all fields are returned. |
| region | string | Query Google Maps from a particular region or country. For a list of supported region/country codes see *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes (Alpha-2 code)*. |
| language | string | Set the language of the results. For a list of supported language codes see *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes*. |
| subtypes | string | Find businesses with specific subtypes, specified as a comma separated list of types (business categories). For the complete list of types, see *https://daltonluka.com/blog/google-my-business-categories*. **Examples:** `Plumber,Carpenter,Electrician` `Night club,Dance club,Bar,Pub` |
| top_rightrequired | string | The top-right (north-east) corner of the bounding box to search in, as a "lat,lng" string. |
| bottom_leftrequired | string | The bottom-left (south-west) corner of the bounding box to search in, as a "lat,lng" string. |
| extract_emails_and_contacts | boolean | Extract emails, contacts and social profiles for each business in the response. In case true, businesses will be enriched with a emails_and_contacts field with emails, phones, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram and other social profiles. **Note:** in case `true`, the endpoint will scrape emails and contacts from the business website (in case non-empty). For each such business, the API will charge an additional credit. |
Output
Schema · Response
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| datarequired | array | List of businesses returned. |
| statusrequired | string | The status of the API response. |
| parametersrequired | object | The parameters the API received and used for this request, echoed back. |
| request_idrequired | string | A unique ID to trace the API request. |
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