The 200-result ceiling that forced a tiled crawler

One Google Maps query stops at roughly 200 results. Every other decision in this pipeline falls out of that single number.

I live in Dubai. Google Maps knows every plumber, nursery and blood-test lab in the city. No tool lets me browse that, filter it, or ask a structural question of it.

So I built one. Business Directory Toolkit is MIT-licensed and turns a city into a browsable business directory. directory.pooyagolchian.com is a live Dubai deployment standing on 1,400 requests to SearchApi's Google Maps engine. I am writing it up as part of their developer ambassador programme. That programme backs developers who ship something real on their APIs and leaves the work in your name.

1,400 SearchApi requests returned 15,246 unique businesses. That is 10.9 new businesses per request.

Most articles about scraping Google Maps stop at one API call and a console.log. That part already works. Everything expensive happens after it.