Scrape Reviews from Google Maps (with Octoparse)

[@francoisfromoctoparse]

To get your first 100 B2B leads for free: scrap.id/s/1xY For a Web Scraping request: [e-mail]

[@elly1656]

I think I have a problem with the XPath. The result of the loop does not appear like 4:28. Please help me I need to do my projects ASAP

[@francoisfromoctoparse]

XPaths can change over time. You can send me your web scraping request at [e-mail]

[@johnnyescondido7430]

Has something changed in the last year with G or this software? Everything works great in test mode, but when running the software it isn't clicking "More" when it appears. If I click the 3 dots within the "if long reviews" box it says "text not found, condition is false," which make no sense because I'm looking right at it. Then when selecting click item it does click More. Very puzzling. Shouldn't it use the long reviews branch when more is displayed?

[@Rakhabooks]

Thank you so much!

[@francoisfromoctoparse]

You are welcome.

[@UzaldyDavin-z6c]

Thanks a lot dude. Your content is really helpful and god bless u!

[@francoisfromoctoparse]

You are welcome.

[@salpro22]

Very helpful video. Much appreciated! It worked perfectly.

[@kyo.namtraan]

hello sir, thank you for sharing. it's still work fine for me till 11/11/2023. but I'm struggle in the last step (click button "more" to expand long reviews), the result only scrape the content of shown review plus the word "More". can you please help me with my work?

[@francoisfromoctoparse]

For any web scraping request: [e-mail]

[@johnnyescondido7430]

I have the same issue. It's only scraping the short reviews. Did you find a solution for long reviews using the more button ?

[@tiktashapavaniaadristi895]

hello, do you have any solutions right now? if you do please tell me because its for my thesis thank you

[@kyo.namtraan]

​@@tiktashapavaniaadristi895 im sorry, but the last time I did was for my university project and it was just implemented for few small locations. Then, the long comments weren't actually many so we filtered out those and replaced them manually. As of now, no solution has been found yet :(

[@tiktashapavaniaadristi895]

@@kyo.namtraan so sad.. thank you anyway for your reply, I'm so confused what i to do ahead. maybe i wil using python if i can😭

[@salpro22]

Where there any duplicate entries when you ran the test? I tested this out on a few GMB. First one had 960 reviews. I stopped it when I came back and saw it had parsed over 6k reviews. Tons of duplicate entries, It looks like it parses the same entry twice depending on whether it has to click MORE in the review. Another sample test with only 5 reviews. The output had 25 entries. Same issues though. I thought the branch was supposed to work to do A if xyz, if not do B. Is there something I'm missing?

[@francoisfromoctoparse]

Like that, I cannot really tell what the problem is. It might look like a "loop item" problem to me.

[@salpro22]

@@francoisfromoctoparse I figured it out. Had the loop messed up. Do you have any idea how to get the unix timestamp for the date a review was submitted? I know it's in the code, but I can't figure it out. So instead of getting, "a month ago" you get the exact date?

[@tiktashapavaniaadristi895]

@@salpro22 hello, do you have any solutions right now? if you do please tell me because its for my thesis thank you

[@thienlu7011]

Very helpful video. I'm a beginner in Artificial Intelligence, this video can help me to generate my own dataset to do some small projects 🥰🥰. Thanks for your sharing!

[@francoisfromoctoparse]

I'm glad it has been of some use ;)

[@vaibhavgangurde4038]

Why i got only 8 lines ????

[@francoisfromoctoparse]

Because you have a problem with your loop.

[@femiolawale4057]

too fast and not explanatory

[@francoisfromoctoparse]

I will do better next time.