equal-aqua•3y ago
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.
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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.
national-gold•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.
It is possible to add this feature to the actor so I'm adding it to the TODO feature list
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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harsh-harlequin•3y 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 🙂