lpads

Many tools to work with Google Maps Location Ads (Norries not included.)

Maps PassiveAssist tools were now available. Click here

How it works

In Google Maps, square pins are typically adverts.
Advertisers pay Google to promote these locations.
Without this feature, the project wouldn't exist.

They have 2 types of ads:

With Promo

Without Promo

LPAds command-line arguments

Argument | Purpose :-----------------:|:----------------------------------------------------------:s outp | Change output file/folder noadsfail | Fail when no ads found proxy | Enabling use of proxies keepsearch | Don't fail when no ads found (for Smarty Ads and Line Ads)

Browser Support

We also ported LPAds to JavaScript! To include in your site, add in your html file:

<script src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Crawlerop/lpads/main/lpadsjs/mapads.js" crossorigin=""></script>

If you want the examples, please click here
We also have included the editor, please click the pencil button to start editing the ads. For advanced features, append &init=base64(script) and &event=base64(script). Where init script parameter is run on startup, and event script parameter is run on ad parsing. The typical script looks something like:

function (ad) {
    if (ad.adName.search("eggs") != -1) {
        ad.adName = "spam"
    }
    return ad
}

It only override the ad if the resulting event function is NOT null.

Geocoder-specific features

Nominatim only: ability to parse location insertion template embedded on locational ads, enabled by appending parsetemplate=true to the navigation bar.

Tracking

the example LPAds doesn't use any cookies that was passed into the Maps' LPAds requests, so no personalized ads will appear in this app.