# Local Business Directory Search

> Local Business Directory Search is a paid API for AI agents from places.openverbs.com, paid per call via x402, $0.03/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Search Google Business profiles by name, category, and location radius, returning ratings, hours, coordinates, and contact details.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://places.openverbs.com/v1/business-search
- Price: $0.03/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/local-business-directory-search-1b18b485
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_tU9EOFDu8XJSU2s3dv2dJ

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 local-business-directory-search-1b18b485 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Find me up to 10 coffee shops within 5km of 37.7749,-122.4194 on Google Business — I need their names, ratings, phone numbers, and addresses.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need structured Google Business data (ratings, coordinates, categories, place_id) for local businesses searched by name or category within a geographic radius. Prefer this over generic web search when you need machine-readable business profiles with consistent fields. Ideal for building local business finders, competitor research tools, or enriching location-based datasets with authoritative Google Business metadata.

## Known failure modes

- Missing both query and categories — at least one must be provided
- Invalid locationCoordinate format — must be 'lat,lng,radiusKm' with valid numeric ranges
- No results found for the given query/location combination — returns empty results array
- Rate limiting or payment failure via x402 protocol — results in 402 Payment Required
- Query string too long (over 200 chars) or too many categories (over 10) — schema validation error

## How this service works

Search Google's local business directory within a radius of a coordinate, filtered by category and/or a name query. Returns ranked businesses with name, category, star rating and review count, address, phone, website domain, place_id/CID and coordinates. Richer than a SERP local pack. No match → empty results.

## Output

Returns a paginated list of matching business profiles, each including the business name, CID, place_id, address, latitude/longitude, phone number, website domain, Google rating, review count, primary category, and whether the listing is claimed. Also includes total count of matches and result rank.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method",
    "bodyType",
    "body"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "body": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "limit": {
       "type": "integer",
       "maximum": 100,
       "minimum": 1,
       "description": "Maximum results. Defaults to 10."
      },
      "query": {
       "type": "string",
       "maxLength": 200,
       "minLength": 1,
       "description": "Name text to match, e.g. \"coffee\". Provide categories and/or query."
      },
      "categories": {
       "type": "array",
       "items": {
        "type": "string",
        "maxLength": 80,
        "minLength": 1
       },
       "maxItems": 10,
       "minItems": 1,
       "description": "Google business categories to match, e.g. [\"coffee_shop\"]. Provide categories and/or query."
      },
      "locationCoordinate": {
       "type": "string",
       "pattern": "^-?\\d{1,2}(\\.\\d+)?,-?\\d{1,3}(\\.\\d+)?,\\d{1,4}(\\.\\d+)?$",
       "description": "\"lat,lng,radiusKm\", e.g. \"37.7749,-122.4194,10\". Use the geocode verb to turn a place name into coordinates."
      }
     },
     "additionalProperties": false
    },
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "POST"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "bodyType": {
     "enum": [
      "json",
      "form-data",
      "text"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "count": 1,
  "total": 128,
  "results": [
   {
    "cid": "1958883682639164205",
    "name": "Bello Coffee & Tea",
    "rank": 1,
    "phone": "+1 415-585-3457",
    "domain": "bello.coffee",
    "rating": 4.4,
    "address": "2885 Diamond St, San Francisco, CA 94131",
    "claimed": true,
    "placeId": "ChIJ0aQ0Vl2AhYARabc123",
    "website": "https://bello.coffee",
    "category": "Coffee shop",
    "latitude": 37.7421,
    "longitude": -122.4335,
    "reviewsCount": 326
   }
  ]
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/local-business-directory-search-1b18b485/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from places.openverbs.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/places.openverbs.com/llms.txt)