Locations from Google Map
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This question on Stack Overflow was a fun challenge: extract the markers off an embedded Google Map.
This is what the original map looks like:
Delving into the API calls behind the site I found a GET
request to https://cdn.storelocatorwidgets.com/ that retrieved the required data. A quick Python script retrieved the data.
import json import requests import re UA = "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/125.0" headers = { "User-Agent": "", "Accept": "*/*", "Accept-Language": "en-US,en;q=0.5", "Connection": "keep-alive", "Referer": "https://silkroadmed.com/", "Sec-Fetch-Dest": "script", "Sec-Fetch-Mode": "no-cors", "Sec-Fetch-Site": "cross-site", } params = { "callback": "slw", "_": "1716699895443", } response = requests.get( "https://cdn.storelocatorwidgets.com/json/AJ587baQBwcvO8ZBAoQKFx0r5DhPhcub", params=params, headers=headers, ) data = response.text # The JSON is wrapped in "slw(...)". # data = re.sub("^slw\(|\)$", "", data) data = json.loads(data) with open("hospital-locations.json", "wt") as file: json.dump(data, file, indent=2) with open("hospital-locations.csv", "wt") as file: file.write("name,lat,lon\n") for location in data["stores"]: file.write('"%s", %f, %f\n' % ( location["name"], location["data"]["map_lat"], location["data"]["map_lng"] ) )
I dumped it to both JSON (including some metadata) and CSV (just the names and locations).
To validate the data I loaded it into R.
library(readr) locations <- read_csv("hospital-locations.csv")
Checked the first few records.
head(locations)
# A tibble: 6 × 3 name lat lon <chr> <dbl> <dbl> 1 Aashish P Gupta, MD 28.1 -80.6 2 Abdallah Naddaf, MD 40.9 -79.9 3 Abindra Sigdel, MD 38.2 -85.8 4 Adam D. Levitt, MD 28.5 -81.4 5 Adam Keefer, MD 32.8 -79.9 6 Adam Ring, MD 37.5 -122.
And plotted.
library(leaflet) leaflet(locations) |> addTiles() |> addCircleMarkers(popup = ~name) |> setView( lng = -96, lat = 37, zoom = 3.5 )
Looks good.
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