Sometimes Google adds other categories to your searches. For example, when you search for restaurants, you might see bars, coffee shops, or even hotels. This might lead to irrelevant data, especially when you are using minor categories like swimming pools.

Outscraper provides you with two tools that you can use to eliminate those categories.

1. 

   The landmark category on Google Maps

   Use the “exact match” checkbox. The parameter specifies whether to return only the categories you selected or everything that Google shows. Make sure you are using the right categories by opening similar places on Google and checking the category.

2. 

   Filtering the results

   Filter results by applying Filters to the subtypes column. Such filters can eliminate all the irrelevant data and return only what you need. To avoid empty results, make sure you are familiar with the values of the fields before using the Filters.
   

There are some cases when predefined locations or/and categories aren’t enough. Use “Custom locations” or/and “Custom categories” options to insert the categories or/and locations you need.

There is a limitation in Google Maps that shows only up to 400-500 places per one query search. This may be a problem when there are more companies in one category. For example, for the query “restaurants, Brooklyn”.

To overcome this, we suggest splitting the location into sub-locations. For example, by using postal codes:
”restaurants, Brooklyn 11203”,
”restaurants, Brooklyn 11211”,
”restaurants, Brooklyn 11215”,

…

Or using queries with sub-categories:

“Asian restaurants, Brooklyn”,

“Italian restaurants, Brooklyn”,

“Mexican restaurants, Brooklyn”,

…

Check the “Use queries” switcher and enter the queries.

To force Google to search for particular companies only, enclose the term between quotation marks ” “. Các ” “ operator is typically used around stop words (words that Google would otherwise ignore) or when you want Google to return only those pages that match your search terms exactly.

After clicking the button “Extract data…” you will see the task estimate and the queries.

It’s recommended to click and open a few queries to check how it looks on Google Maps site.

There are two things you should follow to control the expected number of results.

1. Organizations per query limit – the limit of organizations to take from one query.

2. Number of queries – the amount of search queries you’re going to make.

There are 6 queries the bot will make to extract the data from 2 categories and 3 locations.

Therefore, the resulting amount will be no more than 480 organizations (limit of 80 * 6 queries).

You can remove duplicates in one task by selecting the “Drop duplicates” checkbox.

Yes, you can drop duplicates inside one task by using the “Drop duplicates” checkbox (advanced parameters). Alternatively, you can drop it yourself by using the “google_id” or “place_id” fields as unique identifiers for a place.

The exact number of results will be known only after the extraction.

You can use “Total places limit” to limit the final amount of results scraped.

Yes. You can use the following link as a query: “https://www.google.com/maps/search/real+estate+agency/@41.4034,2.1718413,17z” where you can specify a query (real+estate+agency), the coordinates (41.4034,2.1718413) and zoom level (17z). You can find these values while visiting Google Maps.

Alternatively, you can use the “coordinates” parameter if you are using the API.

Đúng vậy. Bạn có thể sử dụng Emails & Contacts Scraper cùng với công cụ trích xuất dữ liệu từ Google Maps để bổ sung thông tin cho dữ liệu từ Google. Để thực hiện điều này, hãy chọn “Emails & Contacts Scraper” trong phần “Enrich by other services” trên trang Google Maps Scraper.

You will pay only for the results you extract, no matter how many queries you make.

No. There is no public information about emails connected with the listing on Google Maps. Outscraper uses external sources to find those emails.

Đúng vậy. Bạn có thể sử dụng các bộ lọc từ các tham số nâng cao cùng với toán tử sau đây.

You can split your tasks by city/state or some other unique attributes. For example, you can extract places from New York in the first task and places from California in the second task.

Đúng vậy. To find businesses without websites, you can use our advanced search filters. Choose the ‘site’ field and set it to ‘is blank’. This will show you businesses that don’t have a website. If you want to see businesses with websites, just set the ‘site’ field to ‘is not blank’ instead.

To learn more about filters, please visit this article: https://outscraper.com/google-maps-data-scraper-filters/