Scraping reviews from the google maps
Explanation for reviews.py
- Overview
reviews.py is a script that scrape reviews from Google Maps. It uses the Selenium library to automate browser interactions, navigating to the Google Maps website, performing searches, and extracting review data.
- Requirements
This script requires the following Python libraries:
selenium webdriver_manager
You can install these libraries using pip:
pip install selenium
pip install webdriver_manager
- Usage
To use reviews.py, you would typically run it from the command line:
python reviews.py
Ensure that the necessary web driver for Selenium (e.g., ChromeDriver for Google Chrome) is installed and available in your system's PATH.
- Code Explanation
The script starts by importing the necessary modules and then defining a GoogleMapScraper class. The init method initializes the web driver and other settings. Various other methods in the GoogleMapScraper class perform tasks such as navigating to a Google Maps URL(which website or url do you want to scrape, add here), extracting review data, and writing the data to a CSV file.
You can use it and adapt it for your specific needs.