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How to Use Clay for Scraping Google Maps Local Businesses

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Hi guys! I'm pretty new to Clay and I would love to learn how to use it better My goal is to scape Google Maps Local Businesses and scale in order to cover all the country. As far as I understood it's possible to do something like this using a Serper.dev integration but I'm not skilled enough to understan everything properly. Does anyone have a guide or something similar about this topic? Thank you!

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    kushagra
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    hey so you ll need the following

    • list of cities you can use in your query in serper

    • the category you want to target, i suggest checking this, it will also give you a rough idea of what the volume is like for the category you are targeting

    • then you want to use the places endpoint in serper to find the business by cateogry and city

    • you can do this in clay or outside it

    • once you have the businesses you can import to clay and enrich them further

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    Alberto A.
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    Thanks a lot, I'll give it a look! If you have any other resource I should look at/study feel free to send them to me!

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    Alberto A.
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    Because what happens when I try to run everythins is this:

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    Alberto A.
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    And I don't know what's wrong

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    kushagra
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    Eric Nowoslawski has a great serper template, check here.

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    Alberto A.
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    Thx

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    kushagra
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    regarding the api error are you using the header as is based on the api documentation

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    Alberto A.
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    Yes, this is what I'm using rn

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    kushagra
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    is the key value in the referenced formula column with or without quotes

  • Avatar of Alberto A.
    Alberto A.
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    Whithout

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    kushagra
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    strange, quick huddle?

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    Alberto A.
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    Yeah it would be great

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    Summiya B.
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    Alberto A.
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    Thx a lot