I am trying to crate a program (in python) that will output query Google’s Local Search and print results to the console. I want to be able to search for “café in London” and get the company names addresses and phone number printed on screen. I found an easy-to-use Python wrapper for the Google Maps and Local Search APIs on available at:
http://py-googlemaps.sourceforge.net/#googlemaps-methods
The wrapper essentialy returns data in JSON format but it only seems to return 32 results out of the available thousands. My question is how do I access more?
The code does something like this:
url = query_url + encoded_params
request = urllib2.Request(url, headers=headers)
response = urllib2.urlopen(request)
return (url, json.load(response))
That results in urls:
/local?q=cafe+near+London&start=0&rsz=large&v=1.0
/local?q=cafe+near+London&start=8&rsz=large&v=1.0
/local?q=cafe+near+London&start=16&rsz=large&v=1.0
/local?q=cafe+near+London&start=24&rsz=large&v=1.0
..and JSON formated data The difference in the urls is the 'start=' value that increments by 8. However when substituting start= 32 I get an error. The maximum number of results seems locked at 32 in total. How do I go beyond that?
Thanks in advance for all your help
