# Google Places Local Business Search via Serper

> Google Places Local Business Search via Serper is a paid API for AI agents from agentdata-api.sander-van-aard.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.004/call, status healthy (last checked 2026-09-14, last successful call 2026-09-03).

Returns top local business listings (name, address, phone, rating, coordinates, website) for a given query, sourced from Google Places via Serper.dev, paid per call in USDC.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://agentdata-api.sander-van-aard.workers.dev/web/places
- Price: $0.004/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: healthy
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Last successful call: 2026-09-03
- Success rate: 99% of calls made through Zero
- Rating: 5.0 / 5 from 1 review
- Activations on Zero: 317
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/google-places-local-business-search-via-serper-0eaca8c7
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Y7xXW99usgD5O3UueM_lx

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 google-places-local-business-search-via-serper-0eaca8c7 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Find me the top 5 Italian restaurants in Amsterdam — I need their names, addresses, phone numbers, ratings, and websites.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need structured local business data (address, phone, rating, coordinates) from a Google Places-quality source without needing a Google API key or account. It is ideal for agents that need to find and compare local service providers, restaurants, or businesses by query and location. Prefer it over generic web search when the output must be structured place data rather than web page snippets.

## Known failure modes

- No results found for query (valid empty response returned)
- Invalid country or language code causes unexpected filtering
- Query too vague returns irrelevant or geographically mismatched results
- Payment failure if USDC balance on Base is insufficient
- Rate limiting or upstream Serper.dev outage causing error response

## How this service works

Google Places (local businesses with rating, address and phone number) for AI agents at $0.004 per call, from the same Serper.dev source as /web/search. Send a query, get back compact JSON: top places with position, title, address, coordinates, rating, rating count, category, phone and website. Tune with num (1-10 results), country and language (2-letter codes). Zero results is a valid, honest answer. Pay per call in USDC on Base, no account, no API key.

## Output

A compact JSON array of up to 10 local business listings, each containing: position, title, address, latitude/longitude coordinates, star rating, rating count, business category, phone number, and website URL. Zero results is a valid response if no matches are found.

## 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",
    "bodyType",
    "body"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "body": {
     "type": "object"
    },
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "POST",
      "PUT",
      "PATCH"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "headers": {
     "type": "object",
     "additionalProperties": {
      "type": "string"
     }
    },
    "bodyType": {
     "enum": [
      "json",
      "form-data",
      "text"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "additionalProperties": {
      "type": "string"
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/google-places-local-business-search-via-serper-0eaca8c7/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from agentdata-api.sander-van-aard.workers.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/agentdata-api.sander-van-aard.workers.dev/llms.txt)