Google Reviews Scraper

Fetch reviews and information about local places from Google Maps using Puppeteer.

Installation

npm install google-reviews-scraping

Usage

This package provides two main functions:

• getLocalPlaceReviews: Fetches reviews from a specified local place on Google Maps.
• getLocalPlaceInfo: Retrieves information about a local place based on the provided URL.

Fetching Reviews from a Local Place

import { getLocalPlaceReviews } from 'google-reviews-scraping';

const reviewsData = await getLocalPlaceReviews({
  placeUrl: 'https://www.google.com.br/maps/place/Starbucks/[...]',
  options: {
    navigationTimeout: 7000, // Optional
    lastCursor: '[CURSOR]', // Optional
  },
});

console.log(reviewsData);

Fetching Information About a Local Place

import { getLocalPlaceInfo } from 'google-reviews-scraping';

const placeInfo = await getLocalPlaceInfo({
  placeUrl: 'https://www.google.com.br/maps/place/Starbucks/[...]',
  options: {
    navigationTimeout: 7000, // Optional
  },
});

console.log(placeInfo);

API

getLocalPlaceReviews

Parameters

• placeUrl: The URL of the reviews page for the local place on Google Maps.
• options:
  • navigationTimeout (optional): The maximum time to wait for navigation, in milliseconds. Default is 6000.
  • lastCursor (optional): A string representing the cursor position for paginated reviews fetching.

Returns An object containing the reviews, the count of reviews, and a cursor to the last review.

{
    reviews: {
        date: string;
        userName: string;
        userAvatarUrl: string | null;
        rating: number;
        images: string[];
        reviewId: string;
        comment?: string | undefined;
    }[];
    lastCursor?: string | undefined;
}

getLocalPlaceInfo

Parameters

• placeUrl: The URL of the local place on Google Maps.
• options:
  • navigationTimeout (optional): The maximum time to wait for navigation, in milliseconds. Default is 6000.

Returns An object containing the local place information.

{
    rating: Record<string, number>;
    placeName: string;
    averageRating: number;
    totalReviews: number;
}

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

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