This Python script uses Google Places API to search for the defined queries and saves them nicely to a CSV file. Useful when searching for a large set of places on Google.
The initial code section is where the query parameters are setup.
GOOGLE_PLACES_API_KEY = '???'
DETAILS_ENABLED = False # Further details API call
LAT = 52.3676 # Lattitude of search area
LNG = 4.9041 # Longitude of search area
LAT_LNG = {'lat': LAT, 'lng': LNG}
LANGUAGE = lang.ENGLISH # Language of results from Google API
RADIUS = 1000 # Radius of search (in meters)Place your Google Places API key within GOOGLE_PLACES_API_KEY. Below this, you will also find other parameters for the search. Note that DETAILS_ENABLED should be set to True if extra details such as address and phone number are needed in the result. (This results in an extra API call!)
Prepare and place your query keywords within a list of strings named queries before the query loop starts.
# Setup the query words here
queries = ["bbq", "grill"] # keywords, type of place etc.After this, the query loop will take care of calling the API and then saving the results in a CSV format file named results.csv
The wrapper python-google-places allows the use of the Google Places API in a simplistic and efficient way. It has other search functions and parameters as well which are not used in this script. For more information about the API (platforms, pricing, requests, terms) see overview of the Places API