businesses_searchSearch Outscraper businesses using structured filters, a natural-language query, or both.
Best for:
- building lead lists from normalized business records
- filtering by country, state, city, type, and other structured business fields
- paginated browsing with cursor when you want repeatable result navigation
Prefer this tool when:
- you already know the geography, categories, or other business filters you want
- you want the normalized /businesses dataset rather than raw Google Maps search behavior
- you need stable field selection and cursor-based pagination
Use this instead of google_maps_search when:
- you want the normalized /businesses API
- you need field selection, filters, or cursor pagination
Note:
- according to the current OpenAPI, /businesses is a synchronous endpoint in this MCP server
- async-style execution controls are intentionally not exposed here
- structured filters are the most reliable input mode
- live Outscraper testing showed that free-form query parsing may fail with "Could not parse query into a valid request format."