[Google Local Services API] Scrape bookings nearby

[NateSkiles]

A user requested we add the "x bookings nearby" text from Google Local Services.

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[ocvit]

Playground and Google links do not return any results. Any other search that can be used as an example?

[NateSkiles]

@ocvit I'm seeing this in the Google link still:

Additionally, I'm still seeing results for the query in the playground link:

I'm not sure if the link provided in the response for Google services should work, but running the query I get the following returned:

"google_local_services_url": "https://www.google.com/_/AdsHomeservicesConsumerUi/data/batchexecute?hl=en"

But navigating to that link returns:

I thought this might be expected due to how we scrape the Google Local Services page, but please let me know if not and I can create a separate issue for that.

[ocvit]

I found that Local Services API is very sensitive to IP from which you access the page.

Results for U.S.-based data_cid:

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Results for Canada-based data_cid:

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We do not match data_cid to proxy location, so we can get empty results pretty easily:

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Talking about X bookings nearby - I couldn't generate a page with this field even once:

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There are too many variables here. Basically, with current approach we can't guarantee that data we fetch is valid, i.e. it's not just hidden by incorrect proxy that we use. X bookings nearby is a whole another layer of randomness.

I'm curious is there a way to override country-by-IP detection with some additional search param.

[NateSkiles]

@ocvit Thanks for looking into this! I will add the freezer tag on this for now, as this appears to be much more complicated than I initially assumed.

[ocvit]

Feature has been released.

bookings_nearby field is fetched now + it is correctly rendered in Playground preview.