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conscious-sapphire
Google Maps Scraper Specific Category Only
Hey i was just wondering if there is anyway i can scrape google maps but only scrape a specific category.
5 Replies
wise-white•3y ago
Hey. I use google maps often but not sure there is a way in the scraper to do that. But I have written a python script that pulls the entire dataset and checks for the category and spits out a csv or json with only those items with the set category.
conscious-sapphire•3y ago
It's not possible, because well - it's not possible on the google maps. You could use category as search term, but google would still show some other categories in accordance with its algorithm.
stormy-gold•3y ago
It is possible to add this feature to the actor so I'm adding it to the TODO feature list
stormy-gold•3y ago
For now, you have to filter it after the run, you can use e.g. https://apify.com/lukaskrivka/dedup-datasets to do that
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dependent-tan•2y ago
Hi, is this feature added? 🙂 currently also looking for an option to add "categoryName" as a filter for my search
Thanks in advance! Keep up the great work 🙂