Hi! It seems like the issue is in your search query, Google Maps are not able to work with: "apartments in a 20 miles radius" task.

You can try to use the Custom Geolocations parameters, if you are interested in only certain parts of the maps. Hope that helps!

Did that recently change? We have used the radius for past scrapes.

That is interesting so it returned exactly the 20 mile radius, or just an approximate search area?

I am trying it, but I cant replicate it, so that it gives me the right radius.

I put it in as a search because in Google when you search something like apartments within 20 miles of [address] it pulls up a list. And that is what I have in the scraper and we've had numerous runs and while I can't guarantee that it is every apartment in those 20 miles we get a lot of results.

I'm open to adding it a different way. Basically we want to get a list of all of the apartments within about 20 miles of our property.

Hello! Is there any update on this?

Just wanted to see if there is anything we can do to start getting the results we had been getting with this app?

Hi, sorry for the late reply. The most reliable and best solution is to manually specify the geolocation coordinates to create a bounding polygon with your place at the center and a 20‑mile radius. You can use the following input, which I created manually from your coordinates, tailored to your use case. This should help you achieve your desired results, and you can tweak it as needed:

{
  "customGeolocation": {
    "type": "Polygon",
    "coordinates": [
      [
        [
          -96.177641,
          29.561605
        ],
        [
          -95.509841,
          29.561605
        ],
        [
          -95.509841,
          30.141315
        ],
        [
          -96.177641,
          30.141315
        ],
        [
          -96.177641,
          29.561605
        ]
      ]
    ]
  },
  "extractLeadsDetails": false,
  "getLeadsPersonalEmails": false,
  "getLeadsWorkEmails": false,
  "includeWebResults": false,
  "language": "en",
  "maxCrawledPlacesPerSearch": 300,
  "maxImages": 0,
  "maxQuestions": 0,
  "maxReviews": 0,
  "reviewsOrigin": "all",
  "reviewsSort": "newest",
  "scrapeContacts": false,
  "scrapeDirectories": false,
  "scrapeImageAuthors": false,
  "scrapePlaceDetailPage": false,
  "scrapeReviewsPersonalData": true,
  "scrapeTableReservationProvider": false,
  "searchMatching": "all",
  "searchStringsArray": [
    "apartments"
  ],
  "skipClosedPlaces": false,
  "website": "allPlaces",
  "placeMinimumStars": "",
  "reviewsFilterString": "",
  "allPlacesNoSearchAction": ""
}

You can also view and experiment with the polygon using the following GeoJSON, which you can input at https://geojson.io/#map=9.15/29.8698/-95.8772

{
  "type": "FeatureCollection",
  "features": [
    {
      "type": "Feature",
      "properties": {},
      "geometry": {
        "type": "Polygon",
        "coordinates": [
          [
            [
              -96.177641,
              29.561605
            ],
            [
              -95.509841,
              29.561605
            ],
            [
              -95.509841,
              30.141315
            ],
            [
              -96.177641,
              30.141315
            ],
            [
              -96.177641,
              29.561605
            ]
          ]
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}

This manual approach should yield the complete list of apartments within a 20‑mile radius. Hope this helps.

Thank you! Do I add that to this section: Define the search area by other geolocation parameters under the custom area?

Yes, you should write it there with the specifications below:

{
    "type": "Polygon",
    "coordinates": [
      [
        [
          -96.177641,
          29.561605
        ],
        [
          -95.509841,
          29.561605
        ],
        [
          -95.509841,
          30.141315
        ],
        [
          -96.177641,
          30.141315
        ],
        [
          -96.177641,
          29.561605
        ]
      ]
    ]
  }

Hello - I added that in to the run and it didn't return any results. I just want to be able to scrape a radius around an address. It used to be 20 miles but now we would like to be able to scrape 30 miles around the address. And when adding in the above I didn't get any results.

Ultimately we want to be able to pull all businesses in maps that are apartment complexes in a 30 mile radius of our address. So whatever the best way is for that that is what we want to do.

Hello! Just following up on the above.

Hi, sorry for the delayed response. Looks like you managed to make it work for you in this run with ID - DkSRY6gShmXdhmBua, right? The problem was that you used "searchStringsArray" in combination with the polygon. Regarding what is the best way, I think this current approach will yield the best results. If you want to increase the mile radius, just expand the custom polygon coordinates to capture a wider area, following the same logic I described above,

Have a good day.

Feel free to reopen the issue if you need further tips or guidance, or encounter any new problems.

I looked at the other tool and I don't understand how to widen the polygon coordinates.