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zohaibbashir/Google-Maps-Scrapper
This code is used to perform web scraping and data extraction from Google Maps. It is particularly designed for obtaining information about businesses, including their name, address, website, phone number, reviews, and more.
A single-file Playwright script that scrapes business listings from Google Maps into a CSV. It's a weekend tool for collecting business contact data — names, addresses, phone numbers, hours, review counts. Useful if you need a quick dump of local business data and don't want to pay for the Places API.
Playwright over Selenium is the right call here — better async support and more reliable than the older WebDriver approach. The CLI interface with -s/-t/-o and --append flags is actually well thought out for a one-file script. The branch strategy (main/latest-libs/linux) shows someone is actively maintaining compatibility across environments. Straightforward setup: three commands and you're running.
No headless mode by default, which means you're running a visible Chrome window every time — makes it unusable in any automated or server context without modifying the code. The XPath selectors are hardcoded against Google Maps DOM, and the README itself warns they break when Google updates the page, which happens constantly. Python 3.10+ explicitly unsupported in 2026 is a real liability — you're pinning to a Python version that's approaching end-of-life. The result.csv file is checked into the repo, which is a sign this isn't built for production pipelines.