Populartimes available for location but unable

[andreian02]

Not sure why there was no populartimes available.

[mick-net]

I'm having similar issues with a lot of places. I'm getting a respone with the correct place_id and address but the popular time data is missing.

[mick-net]

I did some further research. I checked the 'Upper Changi MRT station' on Google maps through my browser. I noticed that the Popular Time was not available. When I use my VPN through Singapore the Popular time data IS available. After that I played a bit with proxies and VPN's for the popular times request. I was able to get popular time data for this station in Singapore, but not consistent....

To be updated

[lfvd]

Same issue here. In my case, I've collected hundreds of Place ID's, all of which had Popular Times data in Google Maps, but many of them didn't return this data when using the command. All of them are at the same country, so as my connection. Is there any explanation or procedure to get this data through the command?

Now the other way around: if popular times is not available on Google Maps, does it mean that it may be available through the command?

[m-wrzr]

Hey @lfvd

can you send me some of the place IDs where the data was available via Google Maps but not the library? If the data isn't available on Google Maps you also can't get it via the command.

[andreian02]

Hello Vermaat,

No VPN on my end, I am able to retrieve the populartimes on 'Upper Changi MRT station', just tested it.

Hello m-wrzr, Could i share a couple place ids where data is available on google maps but cant retrieve using library?

Do try these 2 for an example, "ChIJ3R4LA4oQ2jERNSHfbiszO48" , "ChIJPYxKUwQZ2jER7KUuPbBTsUQ" which is beauty world mrt station singapore and bayfront mrt station singapore.

Thank you!

[m-wrzr]

Hey @andreian02

so it seems like both examples don't have a proper address on Google Maps (only Singapore, no streets etc.) which is used to construct the /search request using a formatted address. Maps uses a different endpoint insead for this edgecase: /maps/preview/place?....&q=beauty world singapore - at least according to the network requests.

I'll try to add this as a fallback option for cases like the one you described. Thanks for your quick reply! Sry for my late one!

[m-wrzr]

100

[lfvd]

Hello, @m-wrzr I was on summer holidays so couldn't reply promptly =)

Attached I send a spreadsheet where all the places which have popular times data on Maps weren't retrievable by the tool. If you could take a look and give some help, I'd appreciate.

Places not found.xlsx

If you'd like any further info, just ask. Thanks a lot!

Luiz

[andreian02]

Hello @m-wrzr ,

Sorry, could I ask what you mean is that because those locations do not have a proper address listed on Google Maps hence even though there is data available, we are unable to query the results?

Thank you!