How do I screen scrape google Maps places?

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Danny picture Danny · Apr 11, 2013 · Viewed 7.2k times · Source

I have this map, https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=211195694269703855460.0004a7072cf25d4660761&ie=UTF8&ll=41.40205,2.157927&spn=0.103847,0.133132&source=embed

I would like to download all the locations and copy them into a db

where can i find the JSON?

does anyone know how to do this?

Answer

Mark Barnes picture Mark Barnes · Nov 14, 2013

You can click the share icon and download the map as a KML file. Then you'll get all the locations in an XML file you can parse and add to a database.

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