You can use four different types of endpoints to call one of the following spiders :
- GooglePlaces
- GooglePlace
- SearchLinks
- SearchBusinesses
This first enpoint will parse comments for a page with multiple businesses (e.g. Maison Chapon).
This endpoint will help parse a single Google place url (e.g. 18 Rue de Poissy, Maison Chapon)
You can either call the spider for a single url for a list of urls that you would like to have the comments for. In the latter case, you file needs to be called google_place_urls.csv and be placed in the /media/ folder of the app. The following example shows how to run this specific spider inline:
instance = GooglePlace(output_folder='my_folder_name')
instance.iterate_urls()If you need to obtain Google Maps links for businesses, you need to first create a file called search_data.csv in which you need at least a column called data and eventually a column called address and/or zip code. A concatenation of these three values will create a search value that we will be using to automate searching Google Maps links for businesses.
Unless the above the automater which only returns links, this automater will return business information provided a given search. The mechanism for retrieving the data works in the same way as the above automater.
To call place or places, do the following:
import subprocess
args = ['python', '-m', 'maps', 'places', 'https://.../google.com/maps/search/...']
subprocess.call(args)or in a terminal:
python -m maps places https://.../google.com/maps/search/...