How to Scrape Local Businesses with Google Maps Lead Export: Finding Flower Shops in LA

Hey guys, how can I scrape all local businesses using Google maps lead export? I need to find all the flower shops in LA and now I am able to pull only 129. There are definitely more. Should I use Clay for that or maybe Apify could be better for that task? Thanks

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Fedor K.
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https://app.clay.com/workspaces/154842/tables/t_YKvKofkXoGPU/views/gv_qPmRhzNes30K
Fedor K.
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I also need to scrape reviews, how can I scrape Google reviews?
Clay Team
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Hey there Fedor, question how big of a search radius did you use when creating this search because that could affect the number of results that are pulled. Also for scraping Google Reviews are you looking for the number of reviews and overall rating? Because this can be accomplished using the "Find Business Reviews Information" integration.
Fedor K.
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I’m looking for the text of reviews, I want to scrape text and then use OpenAI to answer questions about text. As for the radius - I tried almost half of all LA area. Also is there an option to first find just number of business? Like run search for the keyword and see how much businesses there are in total
Clay Team
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Hey Fedor I made a loom to help you pull the text from the reviews. https://www.loom.com/share/2ed450c88f434b289539acd01d7be7deAs for your second question you can't quite do that with clay. You could use keywords through a LinkedIn company search but that requires a shop to have a LinkedIn page. You could also try "Start with a Google Search and enter in "Flower Shops in LA" for your query.
Fedor K.
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thanks a lot for your help!
Tarik Q.
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Hey LuisArturo thanks for the video, can you also fetch the responses to reviews by any chance?
Clay Team
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Hey Tarik thanks for reaching out, you can pull the first response to reviews. Here is a another loom that shows you how to do so. https://www.loom.com/share/8e00aa7f73ff411cb45ea240d80aeb2a