First-party app
Google Business Profile

Google Business Profile

Manage Google Business Profile listings: accounts, locations, attributes, Q&A, and place action links.

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About

Google Business Profile ships in the w6w first-party pack. It declares 15 actions, 2 health checks, and the host runs its code in a sandbox that never sees the credential.

App id
io.w6w.google-business-profile
Version
0.1.1
Author
w6w
Licence
MIT
Categories
Marketing · Productivity

Overview

Google Business Profile is how a business’s storefront appears in Google Search and Maps, and this app manages that listing from a workflow: accounts and the locations under them, the attributes that describe a location, the questions and answers customers post on it, and the booking, ordering and reservation links shown alongside it.

Because Google split what used to be one API into several services, each covering a different slice of a listing, this app resolves which one an action needs automatically, so a workflow calling it sees a single consistent surface rather than juggling hostnames itself. Updating a location’s details or its attributes only sends the fields a workflow actually changed, leaving everything else on the listing untouched.

Claiming or removing a location, and asking a question on someone else’s listing, are deliberately left out — those are one-time or consumer-facing actions rather than the recurring management work this app is built for. Reviews aren’t covered either, since Google runs them on a separate, older service outside this app’s current scope.

Build with Google Business Profile

Three routes to the same 15 actions. The Workflow tab is generated from Google Business Profile's own manifest and carries its real ids, so it is copy-pasteable; the Code and CLI examples are the same call for any action on any app, so every app-specific value in them is a blank you fill in.

Create Place Action Link

create-place-action-link

Add a place action link (booking, ordering, reservation URL) to a location.

Delete Answer

delete-answer

Delete the connected user's answer to a question.

Delete Place Action Link

delete-place-action-link

Remove a place action link from a location.

Get Account

get-account

Retrieve a single Business Profile account by ID.

Get Location

get-location

Retrieve a single location by ID.

Get Location Attributes

get-location-attributes

Retrieve the attributes (e.g. amenities, payment options) currently set on a location.

List Accounts

list-accounts

List the Business Profile accounts accessible to the connected user. Returns one page; pass pageToken for the next.

List Attribute Metadata

list-attribute-metadata

List the attributes available to set for a location, category, or the entire catalog — supply exactly one of Location, Category, or Show all.

List Categories

list-categories

List Google's supported business categories, localized to a region and language.

List Locations

list-locations

List the locations owned by an account. For a PERSONAL account, returns only directly owned locations; for other account types (e.g. a location group), returns all accessible locations.

List Place Action Links

list-place-action-links

List the place action links (booking, ordering, reservation URLs) on a location.

List Questions

list-questions

List the questions asked on a location's Business Profile.

Update Location

update-location

Patch fields on an existing location. Only supplied fields are sent; omit a field to leave it untouched.

Update Location Attributes

update-location-attributes

Set, replace, or delete attributes (e.g. amenities) on a location.

Answer Question

upsert-answer

Write or replace the connected user's answer to a question. There can be only one answer per author per question, so calling this again replaces the previous text.

A workflow step names the app and the action, and the editor fills in the connection when you pick one. This is the Step shape from the workflow spec, carrying Google Business Profile's real ids.

{
  "manifestVersion": "2",
  "name": "google-business-profile-example",
  "steps": [
    {
      "id": "create-place-action-link",
      "uses": {
        "app": "io.w6w.google-business-profile",
        "action": "create-place-action-link",
        "connection": "conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID"
      },
      "with": {
        "locationId": "<locationId>",
        "uri": "<uri>",
        "placeActionType": "<placeActionType>"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Here are some of the things you can do

  • Create Place Action Link

    perform
    create-place-action-link
  • Get Account

    read
    get-account
  • Get Location

    read
    get-location
  • Get Location Attributes

    read
    get-location-attributes
  • List Accounts

    read
    list-accounts

+10 more actions available

Every app-specific value here is a blank you have to fill in. An app action is reached through the connection that authenticates it, so the address is a connection id, not the app id — and connections belong to your account, so a public page cannot know yours. Create one for Google Business Profile, then fill in the three blanks: conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID, the action key, and the parameters that action declares. The call itself is real — the shape is transcribed from the studio's own snippet builder, which prints the same kind of blanks — but nothing in it is specific to Google Business Profile. The Workflow tab is where this app's real ids are.

Install
npm install @w6w/sdk
yarn add @w6w/sdk
pnpm add @w6w/sdk
deno add npm:@w6w/sdk
Code
import { W6wClient, isActionRun } from "@w6w/sdk";

// Reads W6W_BASE_URL and W6W_TOKEN from the environment when omitted.
const client = new W6wClient();

const envelope = await client.run({
  urn: "conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID",
  action: "create-place-action-link",
  payload: {
    locationId: "<value>",
    uri: "<value>",
    placeActionType: "<value>",
    // isPreferred: "<value>",
  },
});

if (isActionRun(envelope)) console.log(envelope.value);
Install the CLI
npm install -g @w6w/cli
CLI
w6w run conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID --action create-place-action-link --payload '{"locationId":"<value>","uri":"<value>","placeActionType":"<value>"}'

Give an AI agent Google Business Profile — without giving it Google Business Profile's credentials. One MCP endpoint exposes every app, function and workflow the caller is entitled to, as tools it can discover and run. Access is granted per team while we onboard.

One tool call
{
  "name": "w6w_invoke",
  "arguments": {
    "ref": "app:io.w6w.google-business-profile#create-place-action-link",
    "input": {
      "locationId": "<locationId>",
      "uri": "<uri>",
      "placeActionType": "<placeActionType>"
    }
  }
}

Every tool names its target with a single ref. The app: form above doesn't name a connection at all — the host resolves which of the caller's Google Business Profile connections to sign with, and refuses rather than guesses when the answer is ambiguous.

What the agent gets

Credentials it can't read

The token is attached host-side, at the moment of the call. It is never a tool argument, never in the model's context, and never in a transcript — so a prompt injection has nothing to exfiltrate.

A tool surface scoped to the caller

Tools are derived per end user from what that person has actually connected and is entitled to — not one shared bot identity carrying the union of everyone's access.

A durable workflow in one call

Multi-step work runs on the workflow engine and returns a run handle the agent can poll — retries, branching and state survive the conversation that started them.

Health-aware discovery

Google Business Profile's declared health checks are on the surface too, so an agent can tell "the vendor is down" from "your credential expired" before it burns a retry on either.

The MCP surface is part of the hosted platform. Google Business Profile itself is MIT, and the runtime that executes it is source-available (FSL).

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Health checks

Google Business Profile declares its own checks, so its health is a property of the app rather than something the host guesses at.

service

Business Profile platform status

quota

API quota headroom