# DuckDuckGo Maps Local Business Search (Apple Maps + Tripadvisor)

> DuckDuckGo Maps Local Business Search (Apple Maps + Tripadvisor) is a paid API for AI agents from places.use.x402atlas.com, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15, last successful call 2026-07-30).

Search for local businesses by query and location using DuckDuckGo Maps (backed by Apple Maps and Tripadvisor), returning ratings, reviews, address, phone, website, and hours as JSON.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://places.use.x402atlas.com/ddg/local
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Last successful call: 2026-07-30
- Success rate: 100% of calls made through Zero
- Rating: 3.3 / 5 from 1 review
- Activations on Zero: 5
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/duckduckgo-maps-local-business-search-apple-maps-tripadvisor-88852820
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_swxFCKVheQGjhzMxdH9JM

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 duckduckgo-maps-local-business-search-apple-maps-tripadvisor-88852820
```

Example prompt: Find me highly-rated sushi restaurants near coordinates 40.7128, -74.0060 in New York — I need their addresses, phone numbers, hours, and ratings.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need local business search results with Apple Maps and Tripadvisor data quality, including ratings, reviews, and hours, without requiring a Google Maps API key. Prefer it over the Google Maps sibling endpoints when you want DuckDuckGo-sourced data or when combining Apple Maps POI data with Tripadvisor review counts. Best for cases where coordinate-based or bounding-box-based search is needed alongside rich business metadata.

## Known failure modes

- Missing required 'q' parameter returns a validation error
- Providing 'lat' without 'lon' (or vice versa) returns a dependent-field validation error
- Query string exceeding 400 characters is rejected
- No results found for very specific or obscure queries in sparse areas
- DuckDuckGo Maps upstream outage may cause downstream failures
- Coordinates outside valid ranges may return empty or unexpected results

## How this service works

DuckDuckGo Maps local business search (Apple Maps + Tripadvisor data) — find places by query and location, returning ratings, reviews, address, phone, website & hours as clean JSON.

## Output

A JSON object containing the original query string, a timestamp, and an array of business results. Each result includes the business name, address, phone number, website URL, rating (numeric), review count, business types/categories, price level, GPS coordinates (latitude/longitude), opening hours, and rank position in the result list.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "q"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "q": {
       "type": "string",
       "maxLength": 400,
       "description": "DuckDuckGo Maps search query (business or category)"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "query",
      "queried_at",
      "results"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "query": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "results": {
       "type": "array",
       "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "required": [
         "title"
        ],
        "properties": {
         "type": {
          "type": "string"
         },
         "hours": {
          "type": "object",
          "description": "Opening hours, upstream shape passed through as-is"
         },
         "phone": {
          "type": "string"
         },
         "price": {
          "type": "string"
         },
         "title": {
          "type": "string"
         },
         "types": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
           "type": "string"
          }
         },
         "rating": {
          "type": "number"
         },
         "address": {
          "type": "string"
         },
         "reviews": {
          "type": "integer"
         },
         "website": {
          "type": "string"
         },
         "position": {
          "type": "integer",
          "description": "Rank in the result list"
         },
         "gps_coordinates": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
           "latitude": {
            "type": "number"
           },
           "longitude": {
            "type": "number"
           }
          }
         }
        }
       }
      },
      "queried_at": {
       "type": "string",
       "format": "date-time"
      }
     }
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "query": "coffee",
  "results": [
   {
    "type": "Coffee shop",
    "title": "Blue Bottle Coffee",
    "rating": 4.5,
    "address": "1 Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA",
    "reviews": 812,
    "position": 1
   }
  ],
  "queried_at": "2026-07-11T12:00:00Z"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/duckduckgo-maps-local-business-search-apple-maps-tripadvisor-88852820/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from places.use.x402atlas.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/places.use.x402atlas.com/llms.txt)