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Business missing

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LarryN opened this issue
a month ago

Working with a polygon query, I am seeing almost perfect results, but even in a very tight 4 point polygon search, a prominent business is not being scraped.
In the actor url below, both the throwbaxx businesses, a bar and a barber shop are not being returned.

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LarryN

a month ago

attached a google my-maps view of the polygon query, you can see the barber shop business in the visual but nothing in the dataset.

ondrejklinovsky avatar

Hey,

thanks for the report. The all_places_no_search_ocr mode has some limitations and doesn't always get all the places in area. We'll take a look at it and see if we can improve it.

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LarryN

a month ago

Happy to provide any additional info, like I tried with different zoom levels and greatly reduced the query window. If you have any suggestions on alternative approaches, please share. thank you for response.

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LarryN

a month ago

i see the following in the logs several times. Maybe i can do something to help with timeout or factor the query differently?

2024-07-26T20:57:56.404Z WARN Did not get response for allPlacesNoSearchResponse: Timed out after waiting 30000ms 2024-07-26T20:57:56.406Z WARN [PLACE]: Did not catch a valid allPlacesNoSearch response --- https://www.google.com/maps/@40.043431,-75.2268204,21z?hl=en&entry=ttu

ondrejklinovsky avatar

Hey,

we've just released a new version and it should now get more places from your polygon. You can check the results in this run.

About the logs...there's nothing we can do to avoid them - sometimes the browser fails to load the places from the location. However, the new version of the actor will retry to scrape that location, so it shouldn't miss any places.

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LarryN

a month ago

I see the difference! Fantastic. I will give it a try on my run shortly. Thank you for the support and engagement, glad to have identified a problem which produced an improved product. Wish me luck

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