Exploring Google Maps Scraping Techniques: Best Practices and Ideas

Hey Clay experts ! Have you ever tried scrapping Google Maps ? How are you thinking about your requests ? Asking because the "zoom" matters quite a lot and the request as well. So I've been thinking about creating some sort of grids or running queries for ALL cities but wondering if others found more elegant solutions.

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David G.
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We’ve done this quite a bit, what are you looking to achieve specifically?
Pierre L.
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Prospect is asking how to find all restaurants in France, so I started thinking about ways to achieve that. Also thinking about buying databases but Google Maps results look much more "usable". So been thinking about building a lat / lon grid and running hundreds of searches with various zoom levels but I'm a little worried about the complexity.
Andrei B.
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I have a google maps scraper that I built for me a while ago (costs $1.5/1k queries) that solves that problem for you. You can search by city/zipcode etc, everything is mapped to a location code that you use when you make the call. So you can basically go to the location codes list, filter by Country to France, get all the location codes for all the cities, put them in a column in Clay and hit run. Let me know if you want to try it .
Pierre L.
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Yeah I think that would be worth a try 🙂