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.

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.

rubber-blue•2/2/23, 6:12 PM

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.

Lukas Krivka•2/6/23, 6:16 PM

It is possible to add this feature to the actor so I'm adding it to the TODO feature list

Lukas Krivka•2/6/23, 6:19 PM

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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ripe-gray•7/19/23, 9:07 PM

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