Show HN: Discover most reviewed places on Google Maps
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Show HN: Discover most reviewed places on Google Maps
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Re: Show HN: Discover most reviewed places on Google Maps
#2Hi HN,
OP here
As a digital nomad I travel different cities a lot. However, it is difficult to find the best places and there were numerous of times where the the food in restaurants was just awful.
This is how the idea for this small project came. Although, the reviews and review count may not always show that the place is best, it helped me to find some great places without putting too much effort.
I also added feature to see "hidden gems", small places that have very high rating but not too many reviews. These I like most as the places are usually new, cheap and focus highly on quality.
Re: Show HN: Discover most reviewed places on Google Maps
#3Hi HN, OP here As a digital nomad I travel different cities a lot. However, it is difficult to find the best places and there were numerous of times where the the food in restaurants was just awful. This is how the idea for this small project came. Although, the reviews and review count may not always show that the place is best, it helped me to find some great places without putting too much effort. I also added fea…
Interesting. How did you get that data?
Re: Show HN: Discover most reviewed places on Google Maps
#4Hi HN, OP here As a digital nomad I travel different cities a lot. However, it is difficult to find the best places and there were numerous of times where the the food in restaurants was just awful. This is how the idea for this small project came. Although, the reviews and review count may not always show that the place is best, it helped me to find some great places without putting too much effort. I also added fea…
Interesting. How did you get that data?
By crawling Google Maps, extracted the publicly displayed review counts.
Re: Show HN: Discover most reviewed places on Google Maps
#5Re: Show HN: Discover most reviewed places on Google Maps
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
By crawling Google Maps, extracted the publicly displayed review counts.
Did you do some research of the legality of this?
I did some research, but did not found enough conclusive evidence whether it is legal or not.
So if I receive a claim from Google legal team, I will take the site down.
Re: Show HN: Discover most reviewed places on Google Maps
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did you do some research of the legality of this?
I did some research, but did not found enough conclusive evidence whether it is legal or not. So if I receive a claim from Google legal team, I will take the site down.
Yes, crawling and publishing crawled data seems to be a very complicated, grey area.
Re: Show HN: Discover most reviewed places on Google Maps
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did you do some research of the legality of this?
I did some research, but did not found enough conclusive evidence whether it is legal or not. So if I receive a claim from Google legal team, I will take the site down.
Could you please point out the exact URL you are crawling? Love to match that with robots.txt file. I'm all for improving publicly available data.
Re: Show HN: Discover most reviewed places on Google Maps
#9This is awesome! Bookmarked for the next time I'll need a new place to eat :)
A nice feature would be a map view of those places.