ishijo / Reviews-based-on-place-ids

To scrape and store Google reviews and ratings of a particular place (by using its PlaceID) in an SQLite database.

Overview

To store reviews and rating of a particular place by using its placeid in an sqlite database format.

Tools used

• DB Browser for SQLite

• Google Places API

• Chromedriver

(Make sure to replace the chromeriver executable file with your version)

• Selenium

• Beautiful Soup library

Walkthrough

• Navigate to the Project directory and run the greview.py script.

python greview.py

• Mention the Location of your choice (be mindful of the typos!) when prompted as:
  [Example]

(To exit, Enter 'n')
Enter Location: Mall of India, Noida

• Provided you installed the appropriate chromedriver version, a seperate chrome window should open as follows:

• Scroll through as many reviews as required. (Scrolling is necessary for extraction)
• The 'greviewdb.sqlite' will store all the reviews and corresponding info.

Note: The sqlite file won't retain any reviews after the next run of the script. In order change this, edit (see 'greview.py'):

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS Reviews;
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS places;

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Analysis

• Run the ganalyse.py script.