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Not receiving crawling information from Google maps list

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ec1905 opened this issue
2 months ago
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lilyrec

2 months ago

I'm having this issue with my Google Maps lists too. When I tried to scrape that Google Maps list, I saw these errors in the logs:

Errors: 2024-08-27T12:08:08.389Z WARN PuppeteerCrawler: Reclaiming failed request back to the list or queue. Operation failed. Error detail: Failed to extract public places list data: SyntaxError: Unexpected token u in JSON at position 0 2024-08-27T12:08:08.390Z at extractPublicPlacesListData (file:///home/myuser/dist/src/crawlers/utils.js:92:15) {"id":"BJBBUHdrJoT40dn","url":"https://www.google.com/maps/@38.8827376,19.8323117,3z/data=!4m6!1m2!10m1!1e1!11m2!2sXvdvME6wRfWDB3kQnXFOLw!3e3?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MDgyMS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D&hl=en","retryCount":1} 2024-08-27T12:08:14.766Z INFO [Status message]: You can check all currently scraped places laid out on a map on: https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/Dw4dd0hgXjZnJ1iN8/records/results-map

2024-08-27T12:09:51.817Z ERROR PuppeteerCrawler: Request failed and reached maximum retries. Error: Operation failed. Error detail: Failed to extract public places list data: SyntaxError: Unexpected token u in JSON at position 0 2024-08-27T12:09:51.818Z at extractPublicPlacesListData (file:///home/myuser/dist/src/crawlers/utils.js:92:15) 2024-08-27T12:09:51.818Z at enqueueAllPlaceDetails (file:///home/myuser/dist/src/enqueue_places.js:228:26) 2024-08-27T12:09:51.819Z at async ErrorSnapshotter.tryWithSnapshot (file:///home/myuser/dist/src/helper-classes/error-snapshotter.js:39:20) 2024-08-27T12:09:51.820Z at async file:///home/myuser/dist/src/places_crawler.js:31:9 2024-08-27T12:09:51.820Z at async wrap (/home/myuser/node_modules/@apify/timeout/index.js:52:21) {"id":"BJBBUHdrJoT40dn","url":"https://www.google.com/maps/@38.8827376,19.8323117,3z/data=!

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milunnn avatar

Hi,

We apologize for the inconvenience. There seems to be an issue with the URL being in a slightly different format than we expect, resulting in this error. We are working on a fix.

In the meantime, you should be able to use this modified URL for your run:

https://www.google.com/maps/@38.8827376,19.8323117,3z/data=!4m3!11m2!2sXvdvME6wRfWDB3kQnXFOLw!3e3?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MDgyMS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

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ec1905-owner

2 months ago

Thanks! In the future, if there's another issue with the URL how can I modify it to run?

milunnn avatar

Hey,

That is sadly not that easily answerable question since there are many edge cases. But for this particular case, I replaced the !4m6!1m2!10m1!1e1!11m2 part with !4m3!11m2.

Hope that helps.

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lilyrec

2 months ago

Thank you! Could you also help with modify this url as well?

Seems to having some trouble crawling the information.

https://www.google.com/maps/@24.0814236,119.7529974,8z/data=!4m6!1m2!10m1!1e1!11m2!2sSxCy7qp9mlbAYQ0BYx7IRQgvebqvtA!3e1?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MDgyMS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

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lilyrec

2 months ago

I see that you reply in a separate message, thank you for the assistant!

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