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adverse-sapphire
Google maps scraping based on search words and multiple city's.
Hello, I'm new to Apify and am looking into the google maps scraper. I do see the option to dearch for different keywords but location wise i can only do one location at a time. In my case i need to scrap maps for different keywords in different locations.
So for example my keywords would be:
- Night shop
- Gas station
- Magazine store
And my locations would be:
- Antwerp
- Brussel
- Gent
The search query's would be the following:
- Night shop Antwerp
- Night shop Brussel
- Night shop Gent
- Gas station Antwerp
- Gas station Brussel
- Gas station Gent
- Magazine store Antwerp
- Magazine store Brussel
- Magazine store Gent
Does anybody now how to achieve this?
Thanks in advance!
4 Replies
Just run actor several times, current input already complex enough and changing any single input to list is pretty big deal because it will cause confusion to users
adverse-sapphireOP•3y ago
The problem is that i have to do this for hundreds of city's and regions regularly so this would be very time intensive
so just create the actor that will cycle through all your cities and regions and call the google maps scraper each time and then aggregate the results
@Pinominator its higher level logic, if you want to use only Apify then create tasks, if you don't mind Automation consider Zapier or Make etc, i.e. table source (Google Sheets or Airtable) and run actor per table row. Point is such logic is out of scraping scope therefore no good reason to add it to actor.