Google Maps Business Scraper

Overview

This script scrapes business details from Google Maps using Playwright and stores the extracted data in Excel and CSV formats.

Features

• Automates Google Maps search for businesses.
• Extracts details such as name, address, website, phone number, reviews average, and coordinates.
• Saves the data in both Excel and CSV formats.
• Supports batch search via input.txt.

Requirements

• Python 3.7+
• Playwright
• Pandas

Installation

1. Clone the repository or download the script.
2. Install dependencies:

   pip install playwright pandas
   playwright install

Usage

Run the script with a single search term:

python script.py -s "Restaurants in New York" -t 50

Run the script with multiple search terms from input.txt:

1. Create a file named input.txt and list search queries (one per line).
2. Run the script without arguments:

   python script.py

Arguments

• -s, --search: Search query (e.g., "Hotels in Los Angeles").
• -t, --total: Maximum number of results to scrape.

Output

The extracted data is saved in the output directory as:

• google_maps_data_<search_query>.xlsx
• google_maps_data_<search_query>.csv

Error Handling

• If -s is not provided and input.txt is empty, an error message will be displayed.
• If scraping fails for a business, the script continues to the next one.

License

MIT License

Author

andrepradika