Google Places

🔑 BYO Key — Data & Enrichment

Enrich business data with Google Places. Strict name matching (Jaccard ≥ 0.85) prevents false positives. Returns phone, website, rating, reviews, and opening hours.

🔑 Setup Required — Bring Your Own Key This integration requires API credentials. Store them once via setup_integration or the Dashboard Vault — they're encrypted with AES-256-GCM and never exposed.

Required Credentials

google_places_api_key

Google Places API Key

Create an API key at console.cloud.google.com → APIs & Services → Credentials. Enable "Places API (New)" and "Geocoding API".

Get your API key at developers.google.com →

Try it with your AI assistant

Once WebsitePublisher is connected to your AI assistant, paste one of these into the chat. Replace the parts in [brackets] with your own details.

ChatGPT Claude Other assistants

@WebsitePublisher look up the phone number, website and opening hours of [business name] in [city]

With WebsitePublisher, look up the phone number, website and opening hours of [business name] in [city]

Endpoints (3)

POST enrich

Find a business on Google Places by name + city, apply strict Jaccard name matching (≥ 0.85), and return enrichment data. Prevents false positives like matching "Bakkerij Jansen" to "Slagerij Jansen". Returns phone, website, rating, reviews count, and match metadata.

Field	Type	Required	Description
`handelsnaam`	string	✓ Yes	Business name to search for (e.g. "Bakkerij Het Broodje").
`plaats`	string	✓ Yes	City name (e.g. "Den Haag"). Used to scope the search.
`jaccard_threshold`	number	No	Minimum Jaccard similarity for a match. Default: 0.85. Lower = more matches but more false positives.
`max_candidates`	integer	No	Number of Google results to evaluate. Default: 5. Max: 10.

POST geocode

Convert a Dutch address to lat/lng coordinates using Google Geocoding API. Used for radius-based company searches.

Field	Type	Required	Description
`address`	string	✓ Yes	Full address (e.g. "Hoofdstraat 1, 2511 AA Den Haag") or partial (e.g. "Den Haag centrum").

POST details

Get full details for a Google Place by its place_id. Returns all available fields: phone, website, rating, reviews, opening hours, address components.

Field	Type	Required	Description
`place_id`	string	✓ Yes	Google Place ID (from a previous enrich or search result).

MCP Tool Names

When using this integration through an AI assistant (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, etc.), the endpoints are available as MCP tools:

Endpoint	MCP Tool Name
enrich	`google-places_enrich`
geocode	`google-places_geocode`
details	`google-places_details`

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