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Extract data from hundreds of Google Maps locations and businesses. Get Google Maps data including reviews, images, contact info, opening hours, location, popular times, prices & more. Export scraped data, run the scraper via API, schedule and monitor runs, or integrate with other tools.
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Hi, this isn't particularly an issue but an enquiry as I wasn't able to find this information elsewhere.
I just scraped some places data and their reviews, and exported the scraped data. There are some columns in the exported data that I don't understand what they do represent. For eg:
popularTimesHistogram/Fr/3/hour
and popularTimesHistogram/Fr/3/occupancyPercent
The name popularTimesHistogram/Fr/3/occupancyPercent
suggests the the percentage of occupancy or how busy the location is at a specific hour on Friday. But what do the values in the column popularTimesHistogram/Fr/3/hour
mean?
Moreover is there a metadata file that goes along with my exported data or a support page that tells me what each column in my data means?
Thanks
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Ondrej Klinovský (ondrejklinovsky)
Hi,
thank you for the question. This is just a flat representation of popularTimesHistogram
. We store it as a JSON (see bellow). When you export the data into a table, we need to flatten all the nested values inside the JSON. For example, a flattened version of the example JSON bellow would be:
popularTimesHistogram/Mo/0/hour
: 6popularTimesHistogram/Mo/0/occupancyPercent
: 0popularTimesHistogram/Mo/1/hour
: 7popularTimesHistogram/Mo/1/occupancyPercent
: 0
1"popularTimesHistogram": { 2 "Mo": [ 3 { 4 "hour": 6, 5 "occupancyPercent": 0 6 }, 7 { 8 "hour": 7, 9 "occupancyPercent": 0 10 }, 11 ....
So the 3
in popularTimesHistogram/Fr/3/occupancyPercent
doesn't represent an hour, it's just an index (3rd entry on Friday). The hour is stored in popularTimesHistogram/Fr/3/hour
column.
At the moment we have only readme with JSON examples. We try to name the fields so that they are self-explanatory. Take a look at those and if anything in the readme is confusing/not clear, please, let us know and we'll update it.
I'm gonna close this now but feel free to reopen in case you have any more questions.
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