[Google Maps API] Results Not Scraped

[schaferyan]

Two users reported our Google Maps API is currently returning the "Google hasn't returned any results for this query," error for searches where results are visible in the HTML.

After investigating, it appears all Google Maps API searches with type=search are currently returning a "fully empty" response. Searches with type=place appear to work as expected.

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[NateSkiles]

I found adding the start=0 parameter seems to be a workaround to this at the moment.

Example: Without start (returns "local_results_state": "Fully empty"): link

With start: link

[schaferyan]

Another user reported this. In their case using start=0 isn't an option, as this requires the ll parameter. They don't have the GPS coordinates as they are using our Google Maps API to get those:

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[dragonkhoi]

The start=0 helped with some of our queries, but it still is not working for some other queries. It is not returning anything.

Notably, the lat long ll query I gave was in the US and it says Serbia on the bottom right of this HTML prettify link.

[schaferyan]

Thank you @dragonkhoi!

It's possible this is a separate issue, since this is a slightly different behavior than described above.

Here is the Search Inspector link for that search:

Inspector

[hilmanski]

Additional sample from the user: Inspect

[schaferyan]

Freezing this for now, since Google rolled back to the old layout. It looks like @zyc9012 has a fix ready to go should Google re-deploy the new layout.

[zyc9012]

We've released a fix for this. Though Google has rolled back the layout, this fix ensures that Google Maps API will still work if Google brings the new layout back.