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.
CSS selectors are one of the most popular ways to parse HTML pages when web scraping. Using Selenium, to find elements by CSS selectors we can use driver.find_element()
and driver.find_elements()
methods:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("https://httpbin.dev/html")
element = driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, 'p')
# then we can get the element text
print(element.text)
"Availing himself of the mild, summer-cool weather that now reigned in these latitudes..."
# we can also get tag name and attributes:
print(element.tag_name)
print(element.get_attribute("class"))
# for multiple elements we need to iterate
for element in driver.find_elements(By.CSS_SELECTOR, 'p'):
print(element.text)
driver.close()