Get city name from a list of raw address with selenium

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I have a list of address
list_x = ['A', 'B', 'C', 'D'] and i want to send these value into google map search one by one.

My code here:

from selenium import webdriver
import time
from time import sleep
path = r"C:/Users/admin/chromium-browser/chromedriver.exe"
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.binary_location = r"C:Userssonpn.vbiAppDataLocalGoogleChromeApplicationchrome.exe"
driver = webdriver.Chrome(path, chrome_options=options)
driver.get("https://www.google.co.in/maps/@10.8091781,78.2885026,7z")
sleep(2)
for index, item in enumerate(list_x, start=0):  
    Place = driver.find_element("class name", "tactile-searchbox-input").send_keys(item)
    Submit = driver.find_element("xpath", "//*[@id='searchbox-searchbutton']").click()
    result = driver.find_elements("xpath", '//*[@id="QA0Szd"]/div/div/div[1]/div[2]/div/div[1]/div/div/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]')
    convert1 = [el.text for el in result]
    convert.extend(convert1)
    time.sleep(3)
    close = driver.find_element('xpath', '//*[@id="sb_cb50"]').click()

and the error is

WebDriverException: Message: chrome not reachable
(Session info: chrome=97.0.4692.71)

Please help me with this error. Thank you

Asked By: Son Pham

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Answer 1

This error message…

WebDriverException: Message: chrome not reachable (Session info: chrome=97.0.4692.71)

…implies that the ChromeDriver was unable to initiate/spawn a new Browsing Context i.e. google-chrome session.

Your main issue is the incompatibility between the version of the binaries you are using as follows:

Possibly you are using the latest chrome=104.0
But you are using chromedriver=97.0

So there is a clear mismatch between chromedriver=97.0 and the chrome=104.0

Solution

Ensure that:

Selenium is upgraded to current released Version 4.4.0.
ChromeDriver is updated to current ChromeDriver v104.0 level.
Chrome Browser is updated to current chrome=104.0 (as per chromedriver=104.0 release notes).

Answered By: undetected Selenium

Answer 2

As an alternative solution, you can use API, such as Google Maps Place Results API from SerpApi (paid API with a free plan that handles blocks and parsing on their backend).

To begin with, we create a list of the necessary addresses and a list with coordinates to them (the coordinates can be found in the URL of the address we need):

# addresses from which we want to extract the name of the cities
addresses = [
    'Bälliz 22, Switzerland',
    'Blümlisalpstrasse 36, Switzerland',
    'Stauffacherstrasse 105, Switzerland',
    'Am Wasser 3, Switzerland',
    'Ringstrasse 18, Switzerland'
]

# GPS coordinates of location where you want your q (query) to be applied
# those coordinates are taken from the Google Maps URL
geo_coordinates = [
    '@46.7600484,7.6155472,14.08z',
    '@46.7810488,7.574276,14z',
    '@47.3792421,8.5218228,16z',
    '@47.4039247,8.5970111,16z',
    '@47.4139972,9.190949,13z'
]

Next, we loop through the lists using zip(), get the full address from API response and use regular expression to extract the name of the city:

city_name = re.search(r'd+s(w+),', results['place_results']['address']).group(1)

Check full code in online IDE.

from serpapi import GoogleSearch
import json, re, os

# addresses from which we want to extract the name of the cities
addresses = [
    'Bälliz 22, Switzerland',
    'Blümlisalpstrasse 36, Switzerland',
    'Stauffacherstrasse 105, Switzerland',
    'Am Wasser 3, Switzerland',
    'Ringstrasse 18, Switzerland'
]

# GPS coordinates of location where you want your q (query) to be applied
geo_coordinates = [
    '@46.7600484,7.6155472,14.08z',
    '@46.7810488,7.574276,14z',
    '@47.3792421,8.5218228,16z',
    '@47.4039247,8.5970111,16z',
    '@47.4139972,9.190949,13z'
]

for address, coordinates in zip(addresses, geo_coordinates):
    params = {
      "api_key": "...",               # serpapi key, https://serpapi.com/manage-api-key
      "engine": "google_maps",        # SerpApi search engine
      "type": "search",               # list of results for the query
      "google_domain": "google.com",  # google domain
      "q": address,                   # query
      "hl": "en",                     # language
      "ll": coordinates               # GPS coordinates
    }
    
    search = GoogleSearch(params)     # where data extraction happens on the backend
    results = search.get_dict()       # JSON -> Python dict
    
    city_name = re.search(r'd+s(w+),', results['place_results']['address']).group(1)
    print(f'City name: {city_name}')

Example output:

City name: Thun
City name: Heimberg
City name: Zürich
City name: Dübendorf
City name: Neuenhof

There’s a Using Google Maps Place Results API from SerpApi using Python blog post if you need a little bit more code explanation and how to extract other data.

Disclaimer, I work for SerpApi.

Answered By: Denis Skopa

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