I've written a script in python with selenium to scrape the city & zip from google maps using reverse lookup. It is working good so far. The only requirement I can't get fulfilled is: after putting an address in the search box sometimes few suggestions come up like a drop-down to choose. It by default chooses the first one. If I wish to go for the second one from the suggestion, I get stuck.
Here is the script I'm trying with:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
search_street = ['10123 HARDISON','1006 ELEANOR ST']
def find_address(driver, wait):
for item in range(0,2):
driver.get("https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Houston")
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)
input_val = wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.NAME, "q")))
input_val.clear()
input_val.send_keys(search_street[item])
driver.find_element_by_id('searchbox-searchbutton').click()
# wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//div[@id='sbse6']")))
# driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//div[@id='sbse6']")[2].click()
wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//div[@class='section-hero-header-description']")))
element = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@class='section-hero-header-description']")
name = driver.execute_script("return arguments[0].childNodes[3].textContent", element).strip()
print(name)
if __name__ == '__main__':
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)
try:
find_address(driver, wait)
finally:
driver.quit()
Html element for the suggestion drop-down:
<div class="sbdd_b" style=""><div class="suggestions"><ul class="sbsb_b" role="listbox"><li role="presentation" class="sbsb_c " dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><div role="option" id="sbse5"><div class="sbqs_a"></div><div class="sbqs_c"><div jstcache="746" class="suggest" jsan="7.suggest"><div jstcache="747" jsinstance="*0" class="suggest-text-layout"><div jstcache="748" class="suggest-left-cell"><div role="presentation" jstcache="749" class="suggest-icon-container maps-sprite-suggest-place-pin" jsan="7.suggest-icon-container,7.maps-sprite-suggest-place-pin,0.role"></div><img role="presentation" jstcache="750" class="suggest-activity" style="display:none"><span jstcache="751" style="display:none"><span jstcache="752" class="suggest-query" jsan="7.suggest-query"></span> nearby</span><span jstcache="753" class="suggest-query" jsan="7.suggest-query,t-fmS2vATOQZY"><span jstcache="764" jsinstance="0" class=" suggest-bold" jsan="7.suggest-bold">10123 Valley Park Dr</span><span jstcache="764" jsinstance="*1" class="">ive</span></span> <span jstcache="754"><span jstcache="764" jsinstance="*0">Houston, TX</span></span></div><div class="suggest-right-cell"><button jstcache="755" jsaction="omnibox.editAlias" class="blue-button-text suggest-edit-link" style="display:none">set location</button><button jstcache="756" jsaction="omnibox.editAlias" class="blue-button-text suggest-edit-link" style="display:none">edit</button><span jstcache="757" style="display:none"><div class="suggest-ad-creative-annotation">Ad</div><span jstcache="758"></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></li><li role="presentation" class="sbsb_c " dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><div role="option" id="sbse6"><div class="sbqs_a"></div><div class="sbqs_c"><div jstcache="746" class="suggest" jsan="7.suggest"><div jstcache="747" jsinstance="*0" class="suggest-text-layout"><div jstcache="748" class="suggest-left-cell"><div role="presentation" jstcache="749" class="suggest-icon-container maps-sprite-suggest-place-pin" jsan="7.suggest-icon-container,7.maps-sprite-suggest-place-pin,0.role"></div><img role="presentation" jstcache="750" class="suggest-activity" style="display:none"><span jstcache="751" style="display:none"><span jstcache="752" class="suggest-query" jsan="7.suggest-query"></span> nearby</span><span jstcache="753" class="suggest-query" jsan="7.suggest-query,t-fmS2vATOQZY"><span jstcache="764" jsinstance="0" class=" suggest-bold" jsan="7.suggest-bold">10123 Valley Park Dr</span><span jstcache="764" jsinstance="*1" class="">ive</span></span> <span jstcache="754"><span jstcache="764" jsinstance="*0">Garland, TX</span></span></div><div class="suggest-right-cell"><button jstcache="755" jsaction="omnibox.editAlias" class="blue-button-text suggest-edit-link" style="display:none">set location</button><button jstcache="756" jsaction="omnibox.editAlias" class="blue-button-text suggest-edit-link" style="display:none">edit</button><span jstcache="757" style="display:none"><div class="suggest-ad-creative-annotation">Ad</div><span jstcache="758"></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></li><li role="presentation" class="sbsb_c " dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><div role="option" id="sbse7"><div class="sbqs_a"></div><div class="sbqs_c"><div jstcache="746" class="suggest" jsan="7.suggest"><div jstcache="747" jsinstance="*0" class="suggest-text-layout"><div jstcache="748" class="suggest-left-cell"><div role="presentation" jstcache="749" class="suggest-icon-container maps-sprite-suggest-place-pin" jsan="7.suggest-icon-container,7.maps-sprite-suggest-place-pin,0.role"></div><img role="presentation" jstcache="750" class="suggest-activity" style="display:none"><span jstcache="751" style="display:none"><span jstcache="752" class="suggest-query" jsan="7.suggest-query"></span> nearby</span><span jstcache="753" class="suggest-query" jsan="7.suggest-query,t-fmS2vATOQZY"><span jstcache="764" jsinstance="0" class=" suggest-bold" jsan="7.suggest-bold">10123 Valley Park Dr</span><span jstcache="764" jsinstance="*1" class="">ive</span></span> <span jstcache="754"><span jstcache="764" jsinstance="*0">Garden Ridge, TX</span></span></div><div class="suggest-right-cell"><button jstcache="755" jsaction="omnibox.editAlias" class="blue-button-text suggest-edit-link" style="display:none">set location</button><button jstcache="756" jsaction="omnibox.editAlias" class="blue-button-text suggest-edit-link" style="display:none">edit</button><span jstcache="757" style="display:none"><div class="suggest-ad-creative-annotation">Ad</div><span jstcache="758"></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></li><li role="presentation" class="sbsb_c " dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><div role="option" id="sbse8"><div class="sbqs_a"></div><div class="sbqs_c"><div jstcache="746" class="suggest" jsan="7.suggest"><div jstcache="747" jsinstance="*0" class="suggest-text-layout"><div jstcache="748" class="suggest-left-cell"><div role="presentation" jstcache="749" class="suggest-icon-container maps-sprite-suggest-place-pin" jsan="7.suggest-icon-container,7.maps-sprite-suggest-place-pin,0.role"></div><img role="presentation" jstcache="750" class="suggest-activity" style="display:none"><span jstcache="751" style="display:none"><span jstcache="752" class="suggest-query" jsan="7.suggest-query"></span> nearby</span><span jstcache="753" class="suggest-query" jsan="7.suggest-query,t-fmS2vATOQZY"><span jstcache="764" jsinstance="0" class=" suggest-bold" jsan="7.suggest-bold">10123 Valley Park Dr</span><span jstcache="764" jsinstance="*1" class="">ive</span></span> <span jstcache="754"><span jstcache="764" jsinstance="*0">San Antonio, TX</span></span></div><div class="suggest-right-cell"><button jstcache="755" jsaction="omnibox.editAlias" class="blue-button-text suggest-edit-link" style="display:none">set location</button><button jstcache="756" jsaction="omnibox.editAlias" class="blue-button-text suggest-edit-link" style="display:none">edit</button><span jstcache="757" style="display:none"><div class="suggest-ad-creative-annotation">Ad</div><span jstcache="758"></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></li><li role="presentation" class="sbsb_c " dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><div role="option" id="sbse9"><div class="sbqs_a"></div><div class="sbqs_c"><div jstcache="746" class="suggest" jsan="7.suggest"><div jstcache="747" jsinstance="*0" class="suggest-text-layout"><div jstcache="748" class="suggest-left-cell"><div role="presentation" jstcache="749" class="suggest-icon-container maps-sprite-suggest-place-pin" jsan="7.suggest-icon-container,7.maps-sprite-suggest-place-pin,0.role"></div><img role="presentation" jstcache="750" class="suggest-activity" style="display:none"><span jstcache="751" style="display:none"><span jstcache="752" class="suggest-query" jsan="7.suggest-query"></span> nearby</span><span jstcache="753" class="suggest-query" jsan="7.suggest-query,t-fmS2vATOQZY"><span jstcache="764" jsinstance="0" class=" suggest-bold" jsan="7.suggest-bold">10123 Valley Park Dr</span><span jstcache="764" jsinstance="*1" class="">ive</span></span> <span jstcache="754"><span jstcache="764" jsinstance="*0">Temple, TX</span></span></div><div class="suggest-right-cell"><button jstcache="755" jsaction="omnibox.editAlias" class="blue-button-text suggest-edit-link" style="display:none">set location</button><button jstcache="756" jsaction="omnibox.editAlias" class="blue-button-text suggest-edit-link" style="display:none">edit</button><span jstcache="757" style="display:none"><div class="suggest-ad-creative-annotation">Ad</div><span jstcache="758"></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></li></ul></div></div>
The suggestion drop-down I'm talking about is this: image_link
Btw, the xpath with which I was trying to select the second option from suggestion drop-down is also given in my script which is grayed out at this moment.