How to Add Google Maps Search to Claude Code

Claude Code is built for coding tasks, but plenty of coding tasks have a location component — building a restaurant finder, scraping business data, testing a Maps integration. When you need real business listings to work with, Claude Code can now fetch them directly through AgentPatch.

Why This Matters

If you’re building anything location-aware, you eventually need real data to test against. Sample datasets go stale fast, and hardcoding fake businesses wastes time. With Google Maps available as a tool, Claude Code can look up actual businesses and use the results directly in whatever it’s building.

This also helps outside of location-specific projects. If you’re working on a project that needs to verify an address, find a timezone for a city, or look up a business’s details, Claude Code can do that inline without breaking your flow.

Setup

Install the AgentPatch CLI (zero dependencies, Python 3.10+):

pip install agentpatch

Set your API key:

export AGENTPATCH_API_KEY=your_api_key

Then use it:

ap search "web search"
ap run agentpatch google-search --input '{"query": "test"}'

Get your API key from the AgentPatch dashboard.

Run this command to add AgentPatch as an MCP server:

claude mcp add -s user --transport http agentpatch https://agentpatch.ai/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"

Replace YOUR_API_KEY with your actual key from the AgentPatch dashboard. Claude Code discovers all AgentPatch tools automatically.

Example

You’re building a local business directory and need seed data to populate your dev database. You tell Claude Code:

“I need 5 real coffee shops in Seattle for the seed data. Can you grab them from Maps?”

Claude Code searches Maps directly:

Searching Google Maps for "coffee shops Seattle"...

Found several results. Here are 5 to use for seed data:

1. Victrola Coffee Roasters — 310 E Pike St, Seattle, WA 98122 | Rating: 4.6
2. Espresso Vivace — 532 Broadway Ave E, Seattle, WA 98102 | Rating: 4.5
3. Caffe Vita — 1005 E Pike St, Seattle, WA 98122 | Rating: 4.4
4. Lighthouse Roasters — 400 N 43rd St, Seattle, WA 98103 | Rating: 4.7
5. Elm Coffee Roasters — 240 2nd Ave Ext S, Seattle, WA 98104 | Rating: 4.6

Adding these to seed.ts now.

Claude Code fetched the data and moved straight into writing the seed file. No tab-switching, no copy-pasting from a browser.

Wrapping Up

Adding AgentPatch to Claude Code gives it live access to business and place data during any session. Google Maps is one tool — the same config unlocks web search, news, image generation, email, and every other tool on the marketplace. Visit agentpatch.ai to see what’s available.

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