INDIVIDUAL MCP TOOL

search_places

Find places by what they are and where they are, such as bakeries in Curitiba.

gmaps.devnone authenticationAvailability not checked

LIVE ENDPOINT

https://api.gmaps.dev/mcp

No auth detected

Connect to this endpoint to inspect the live schema for search_places and invoke it with your own arguments.

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Inferred read-only · medium confidence · heuristic, not a guarantee.

No write-capable action terms were found; this is not proof that invocation has no side effects.

CONNECT WITH APPROVAL

Review this server and its permissions before adding it. Secret placeholders must be set locally.

Codex

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.gmaps-dev]
url = "https://api.gmaps.dev/mcp"
enabled = true

Claude Code

.mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gmaps-dev": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.gmaps.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector

Name: gmaps-dev
Remote MCP URL: https://api.gmaps.dev/mcp

Add this remote URL as a custom connector in Claude Desktop. Availability depends on the user plan and workspace policy.

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gmaps-dev": {
      "url": "https://api.gmaps.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Visual Studio Code

.vscode/mcp.json

Add to Visual Studio Code

{
  "servers": {
    "gmaps-dev": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.gmaps.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Generic MCP

Client-specific MCP configuration

{
  "name": "gmaps-dev",
  "transport": "streamable-http",
  "url": "https://api.gmaps.dev/mcp"
}

MCP Inspector

Run the official MCP Inspector locally and enter the indexed Streamable HTTP endpoint.

get_attributions — List the projects credited by gmaps.
get_place — Read one saved place, by our id, Google's cid, Google's place ID, or a Google Maps link to it.
create_collection — Search a whole area, square by square, and collect up to maxPlaces of the places in it.
list_collections — Your collections, newest first, with the total so you know how many more there are.
get_collection — See where a collection has got to: how much of the area is searched, how many places have arrived, and what it has cost so far.
cancel_collection — Stop a collection you no longer want.
quote_collection — See what collecting an area would cost before you start it: how much of it we have searched recently, how many places we have saved there (those cost nothing), how many searches are left to run, and the most it can cost in credits.
create_export — Get a link to a collection's places as one file: csv, json or xlsx.