How to Scrape Google Maps
We'll take a look at to find businesses through Google Maps search system and how to scrape their details using either Selenium, Playwright or ScrapFly's javascript rendering feature - all of that in Python.
The most popular way to parse HTML content in web scraping are CSS selectors which are the default way to locate elements in Playwright as well. To find elements using CSS selectors we can use page.locator() method. For example:
from playwright.sync_api import sync_playwright
with sync_playwright() as pw:
browser = pw.chromium.launch(headless=False)
context = browser.new_context(viewport={"width": 1920, "height": 1080})
page = context.new_page()
page.goto("https://google.com/")
h2_element = page.locator("h2.some-class")
⚠ It's possible that these commands will try to find elements before the page has fully loaded if it's a dynamic javascript page. For more see How to wait for page to load in Playwright?
Also see: How to find elements by XPath selectors in Playwright?
We'll take a look at to find businesses through Google Maps search system and how to scrape their details using either Selenium, Playwright or ScrapFly's javascript rendering feature - all of that in Python.
Introduction to using web automation tools such as Puppeteer, Playwright, Selenium and ScrapFly to render dynamic websites for web scraping
