The post asks if there is a way to scrape Google Maps data for a specific category. The comments indicate that while it may not be possible directly through the scraper, community members have developed workarounds. One community member has written a Python script to pull the entire dataset and filter for the desired category. Another community member suggests that it is not possible to filter by category on Google Maps, but that the feature could potentially be added to the scraper. A third community member mentions that for now, the data would need to be filtered after the initial scrape, and provides a link to a tool that could be used for this purpose. The final comment expresses interest in this feature being added and thanks the community for their work.
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.
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.
