Search Categories - Markifact

Searches Google’s Business Profile categories by name for a country. Use it to find category IDs (name, like ‘categories/gcid:fishing_charter’) before changing a location’s categories with business_profile_update_location.


App	Google Business Profile
Operation ID	`business_profile_search_categories`
Type	Action
Connection	`business_profile` (required)
Credits per run	1
Agent / MCP tool	Yes

Inputs

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
`search`	string	No	-	Text to match in category names, for example ‘fishing’. Leave empty to list all categories.
`region_code`	string	No	`US`	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code of the location, for example ‘US’ or ‘GB’. Categories differ by country.
`language_code`	string	No	`en`	BCP 47 language code for the category names, for example ‘en’
`limit`	integer	No	-	Maximum number of categories to return. Leave empty for no limit.

Output

Type: List[Dict] Returns matching categories with their ID and display name. Fields: name, displayName