AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'encode'

[Jer0]

After using it for a while, (Win11 Arm Virtualized) the script stops at certain points, giving me the following error

It is seen that if a category comes empty from GoogleMaps, the script crashes and stops processing

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\*\Desktop\google-maps-scraper-pro-master\google-maps-scraper-pro-master\main.py", line 8059, in <module>
    Gmaps.places(queries, scrape_reviews=True, reviews_max=50, reviews_sort=Gmaps.NEWEST, max=500, lang=Gmaps.Lang.Spanish, fields=Gmaps.ALL_FIELDS, category_in=[Gmaps.Category.*, Gmaps.Category.*])
  File "C:\Users\*\Desktop\google-maps-scraper-pro-master\google-maps-scraper-pro-master\src\gmaps.py", line 329, in places
    result_item = process_result(min_reviews, max_reviews, category_in, has_website,can_claim, has_phone, min_rating, max_rating, sort, key, scrape_reviews, reviews_max, reviews_sort, fields, lang, should_scrape_socials, convert_to_english,use_cache,places_obj)
                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\*\Desktop\google-maps-scraper-pro-master\google-maps-scraper-pro-master\src\gmaps.py", line 195, in process_result
    cleaned_places = filter_places(places, filter_data)
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\*\Desktop\google-maps-scraper-pro-master\google-maps-scraper-pro-master\src\sort_filter.py", line 119, in filter_places
    return list(filter(fn, ls))
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\*\Desktop\google-maps-scraper-pro-master\google-maps-scraper-pro-master\src\sort_filter.py", line 81, in fn
    if category_in and (not list_contains_string(category_in, main_category)):
                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\*\Desktop\google-maps-scraper-pro-master\google-maps-scraper-pro-master\src\sort_filter.py", line 55, in list_contains_string
    target_string_lower = kebab_case(unicode_to_ascii(target_string)).lower()  # Convert target string to lowercase
                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\*\Desktop\google-maps-scraper-pro-master\google-maps-scraper-pro-master\src\utils.py", line 10, in unicode_to_ascii
    return unidecode(text).replace("ë", "e")
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\*\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Lib\site-packages\unidecode\__init__.py", line 60, in unidecode_expect_ascii
    bytestring = string.encode('ASCII')
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'encode'

Looking a little to see how to solve it... I have modified the utils.py file

def unicode_to_ascii(text):
    if text is None:
        return ""  # O manejar de otra manera, según sea necesario
    """
    Convert unicode text to ASCII, replacing special characters.
    """
    # Replacing 'ë' with 'e' and return the ASCII text
    return unidecode(text).replace("ë", "e")

And at the moment it seems to work and it doesn't crash

[Chetan11-dev]

I again appreciate your assistance, I have fixed the bug.