How to get user reviews only by passing the entire URL for the business?

[tomiok]

I am trying to do this programatically using this great scraper. Not sure if I can out-of-the-box.

But I do not want to do actual scrapping, I already have the URL for the business, I want the user reviews.

[dredozubov]

I've submitted a fix for review extraction in PR #207.

For those who need this fix now, you can use my fork:

docker pull ghcr.io/dredozubov/google-maps-scraper:latest
docker run -v $(pwd):/data ghcr.io/dredozubov/google-maps-scraper:latest \
  -input /data/queries.txt -results /data/results.json -json -extra-reviews

Or build from source: https://github.com/dredozubov/google-maps-scraper

[briantist]

@dredozubov I looked at your PR, but not clear to me how that solves the problem in this issue. The point is to be able to provide a direct google place URL and then get the info, without having to do a "search". Does your PR actually provide that?

[dredozubov]

@briantist You're right, I apologize for the confusion. PR #207 fixes review extraction when using -extra-reviews (addresses #205), but doesn't add the ability to pass direct place URLs as input.

Issue #185 is a separate feature request. I'll remove the reference from the PR description.

[gosom]

@dredozubov I looked at your PR, but not clear to me how that solves the problem in this issue. The point is to be able to provide a direct google place URL and then get the info, without having to do a "search". Does your PR actually provide that?

The requirement is to pass as input a URL and this will extract all the data?

[briantist]

The requirement is to pass as input a URL and this will extract all the data?

Yes that's the idea, like if we already have a maps URL, for example:

• https://maps.app.goo.gl/X37fK7kPkmm4b5gn6
• https://www.google.com/maps/place/Santa+Claus+Museum+%26+Village/@38.1179933,-86.9087832,15.63z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x886e583d029f7af5:0xc95f9cb06f1d7b19!8m2!3d38.1151917!4d-86.9096202!16s%2Fm%2F0zdn5bg

Can the data then be extracted, without having to do a "search" for places and returning multiple results.

The use case is when you already have the place URL you want, not looking for a list of places that fit criteria.

[kevin-ryser]

This would be a really great functionnality!