# 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. ## Facts - Endpoint: GET https://agents.openwebninja.com/local-business-data/area-search-by-bounding-box?utm_source=zero.xyz - Price: price unknown - Payment: MPP - Status: unknown - Last checked: 2026-10-14 - Activations on Zero: 0 - Provider: agents.openwebninja.com - Website: https://agents.openwebninja.com - Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/agents-openwebninja-com-area-search-bounding-box-local-business-search-4f943658 - Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap__taAmTUI5b_yMjjOp_2Dr Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently. ## How to call it through Zero Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`): ```sh zero fetch --capability agents-openwebninja-com-area-search-bounding-box-local-business-search-4f943658 ``` Example prompt: Find up to 50 pizza restaurants within the Manhattan bounding box — bottom-left at 40.606540,-74.013580 and top-right at 40.812151,-73.910522 — and include their ratings, addresses, and websites. ## When to prefer this 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. ## Known failure modes - 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 ## 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. ## Request schema (JSON Schema) ```json { "type": "object", "required": [ "query", "bottom_left", "top_right" ], "properties": { "limit": { "type": "string", "default": 20, "description": "Maximum number of businesses to return. \n\n **Allowed values:** `1-500`" }, "query": { "type": "string", "example": "pizza", "description": "Search query / keyword" }, "fields": { "type": "string", "description": "A comma separated list of business fields to include in the response (field projection). \n By default all fields are returned." }, "region": { "type": "string", "default": "us", "description": "Query Google Maps from a particular region or country. \n For a list of supported region/country codes see *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes (Alpha-2 code)*." }, "language": { "type": "string", "default": "en", "description": "Set the language of the results. \n For a list of supported language codes see *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes*." }, "subtypes": { "type": "string", "description": "Find businesses with specific subtypes, specified as a comma separated list of types (business categories). \n For the complete list of types, see *https://daltonluka.com/blog/google-my-business-categories*. \n \n **Examples:** \n `Plumber,Carpenter,Electrician` \n `Night club,Dance club,Bar,Pub` " }, "top_right": { "type": "string", "example": "40.812151,-73.910522", "description": "The top-right (north-east) corner of the bounding box to search in, as a \"lat,lng\" string." }, "bottom_left": { "type": "string", "example": "40.606540,-74.013580", "description": "The bottom-left (south-west) corner of the bounding box to search in, as a \"lat,lng\" string." }, "extract_emails_and_contacts": { "type": "boolean", "default": false, "description": "Extract emails, contacts and social profiles for each business in the response. \n In case true, businesses will be enriched with a emails_and_contacts field with emails, phones, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram and other social profiles.\n \n **Note:** in case `true`, the endpoint will scrape emails and contacts from the business website (in case non-empty). \n For each such business, the API will charge an additional credit." } } } ``` ## Response schema (JSON Schema) ```json { "type": "object", "required": [ "status", "request_id", "parameters", "data" ], "properties": { "data": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "object", "required": [ "business_id", "google_id", "name", "business_status" ], "properties": { "cid": { "type": "string", "nullable": true, "description": "Google CID (Customer ID) of the business." }, "tld": { "type": "string", "nullable": true, "description": "Top-level domain of the business website." }, "city": { "type": "string", "nullable": true, "description": "City of the business location." }, "name": { "type": "string", "description": "Display name of the business." }, "type": { "type": "string", "nullable": true, "description": "Primary business category as labelled by Google Maps." }, "about": { "type": "object", "nullable": true, "properties": { "details": { "type": "object", "nullable": true, "description": "Map of attribute groups (e.g. Amenities, Crowd, Service options) to attribute name -> boolean.", "additionalProperties": { "type": "object", "additionalProperties": { "type": "boolean" } } }, "summary": { "type": "string", "nullable": true, "description": "Free-text description of the business." } }, "description": "Free-form summary and a structured details map of business attributes." }, "state": { "type": "string", "nullable": true, "description": "State / region of the business location." }, "rating": { "type": "number", "nullable": true, "description": "Average review rating (1-5) on Google Maps." }, "address": { "type": "string", "nullable": true, "description": "Street address line of the business." }, "country": { "type": "string", "nullable": true, "description": "ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code of the business location." }, "website": { "type": "string", "nullable": true, "description": "Business website URL." }, "zipcode": { "type": "string", "nullable": true, "description": "ZIP / postal code of the business location." }, "district": { "type": "string", … (truncated) ``` ## More - Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/agents-openwebninja-com-area-search-bounding-box-local-business-search-4f943658/health.json - [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt) - [Other services from agents.openwebninja.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/agents.openwebninja.com/llms.txt)