GMaps Crawler

Table of Contents

• 1. About the Project
• 2. Requirements
• 3. Getting Started
• 4. Basic Usage
• 5. License

1. About the project

The purpose of this project is to deploy a platform to collect data from Google Maps by using code in a easy way. Based on the usage of it, you will be able to execute commands to retrieve search results about locations and places.

Built with

• Python 3.8
• Selenium WebDriver for Python

2. Requirements

• Python 3.8 installed
• Google Chrome Browser installed
• ChromeDriver downloaded (chromedriver.exe available on your computer - see 3. Getting Started)

3. Getting Started

• Downloading Chromedriver and making it visible to this project source code

1. Download the driver chromedriver.exe compatible with the Chrome browser installed on your computer. You can download it here:

2. Setup in your OS an environment variable called CHROMEDRIVER_PATH, containing the path for the driver on your computer (e.g. C:\chromedriver\chromedriver.exe).

• Cloning this project and installing its dependencies

  1. Clone repository:

git clone https://github.com/smurilogs/gmaps-crawler.git

  2. Install dependencies:

python -m pip install --upgrade pip
python -m pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Basic Usage

work in progress...

5. License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.