I Had an AI Agent Scrape Google Maps Instead of Writing a Scraper. Here's What It Cost.
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Summary: I ran a Claude agent with only browser tools (no pre-written scraper code) against 60 coffee-shop listings on Google Maps across 3 US cities, and compared it to a plain Playwright script on the same pages. The agent got every field right on every checked row, but cost 190k-540k processed t…
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- 2026-09-12 03:16 · DEV Community — AI
I Had an AI Agent Scrape Google Maps Instead of Writing a Scraper. Here's What It Cost.