Google Maps Geocoder API returns only 1 result for "StarBucks" - google-geocoder
I was working with Google Maps Geocoder API for a while, and today I found a abnormal behavior of the server.
This is my url for the request:
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=starbucks
But I unexpectedly received only 1 result from the response, which was "Starbucks, 11 Clair Rd W, Guelph, ON N1L 0A6, Canada", even I was in the USA.
I already tried with different API_KEY but still got the same result everytime.
Did any body suffer the same issue?
From the google geocoder help files
Geocoding is the process of converting addresses (like "1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA") into geographic coordinates (like latitude 37.423021 and longitude -122.083739), which you can use to place markers on a map, or position the map.
In this case, you're using the process a bit differently than how it was designed. You need to provide it with an address or something resembling an address before it returns the lat/long coordinates of a given location.
At the same time, you can reverse geocode and feed it a lat/long and have the api provide you with the businesses at a given location.
From your query, it looks like you're trying to get the location of every starbucks (lat/long) which is more something that you should get off the starbucks website store locator before feeding this into your Geocoder API calls to get lats/longs.
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How to filter data from google analytics using client id in the real time?
I'm trying to get data about visitors of my site and filter it by client id(_gid or ClientId) in the real time. Example of id: 875500683.1564061354
Firstly I tried to use the GA Reporting API to get and filter data(check code below). It works good and I receive data only for necessary visitor but it has some delay before it can be possible to get info from the Analytics(7-15 min after visitor arrives site) and it is not good for me. So next I tried to use realtime reporting API, but I didn't find something like ga:clientId in the API parametrs to filter data. I serched in the Google Analytics documentation but didn't find way to filter data by visitors in the Realtime Reporting API. Is there any way to get data in realtime and filter it by client id?
//using Reporing API
analytics.data().ga()
.get("ga:" + viewId, "30daysAgo", "today",
"ga:pageValue, ga:sessions")
.setDimensions("ga:browser, ga:campaign")
.setStartIndex(1)
.setFilters("ga:clientId==" + clientId)
.setMaxResults(10000)
.execute();
Can I reduce my amount of requests in Google Maps JavaScript API v3?
I call 2 locations. From an xml file I get the longtitude and the langtitude of a location. First the closest cafe, then the closest school.
$.get('https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/nearbysearch/xml?
location='+home_latitude+','+home_longtitude+'&rankby=distance&types=cafe&sensor=false&key=X',function(xml)
{
verander($(xml).find("result:first").find("geometry:first").find("location:first").find("lat").text(),$(xml).find("result:first").find("geometry:first").find("location:first").find("lng").text());
}
);
$.get('https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/nearbysearch/xml?
location='+home_latitude+','+home_longtitude+'&rankby=distance&types=school&sensor=false&key=X',function(xml)
{
verander($(xml).find("result:first").find("geometry:first").find("location:first").find("lat").text(),$(xml).find("result:first").find("geometry:first").find("location:first").find("lng").text());
}
);
But as you can see, I do the function verander(latitude,longtitude) twice.
function verander(google_lat, google_lng)
{
var bryantPark = new google.maps.LatLng(google_lat, google_lng);
var panoramaOptions =
{
position:bryantPark,
pov:
{
heading: 185,
pitch:0,
zoom:1,
},
panControl : false,
streetViewControl : false,
mapTypeControl: false,
overviewMapControl: false ,
linksControl: false,
addressControl:false,
zoomControl : false,
}
map = new google.maps.StreetViewPanorama(document.getElementById("map_canvas"), panoramaOptions);
map.setVisible(true);
}
Would it be possible to push these 2 locations in only one request(perhaps via an array)? I know it sounds silly but I really want to know if their isn't a backdoor to reduce these google maps requests.
FTR: This is what a request is for Google:
What constitutes a 'map load' in the context of the usage limits that apply to the Maps API? A single map load occurs when:
a. a map is displayed using the Maps JavaScript API (V2 or V3) when loaded by a web page or application;
b. a Street View panorama is displayed using the Maps JavaScript API (V2 or V3) by a web page or application that has not also displayed a map;
c. a SWF that loads the Maps API for Flash is loaded by a web page or application;
d. a single request is made for a map image from the Static Maps API.
e. a single request is made for a panorama image from the Street View Image API.
So I'm afraid it isn't possible, but hey, suggestions are always welcome!
Your calling places api twice and loading streetview twice. So that's four calls but I think they only count those two streetviews as once if your loading it on one page. And also your places calls will be client side so they won't count towards your limits.
But to answer your question there's no loop hole to get around the double load since you want to show the users two streetviews.
What I would do is not load anything until the client asks. Instead have a couple of call to action type buttons like <button onclick="loadStreetView('cafe')">Click here to see Nearby Cafe</button> and when clicked they will call the nearby search and load the streetview. And since it is only on client request your page loads will never increment the usage counts like when your site get's crawled by search engines.
More on those usage limits
The Google Places API has different usages then the maps. https://developers.google.com/places/policies#usage_limits
Users with an API key are allowed 1 000 requests per 24 hour period
Users who have verified their identity through the APIs console are allowed 100 000 requests per 24 hour period. A credit card is required for verification, by enabling billing in the console. We ask for your credit card purely to validate your identity. Your card will not be charged for use of the Places API.
100,000 requests a day if you verify yourself. That's pretty decent.
As for Google Maps, https://developers.google.com/maps/faq#usagelimits
You get 25,000 map loads per day and it says.
In order to accommodate sites that experience short term spikes in usage, the usage limits will only take effect for a given site once that site has exceeded the limits for more than 90 consecutive days.
So if you go over a bit not and then it seems like they won't mind.
p.s. you have an extra comma after zoom:1 and zoomControl : false and they shouldn't be there. Will cause errors in some browsers like IE. You also are missing a semicolon after var panoramaOptions = { ... } and before map = new
Scraping Real Time Visitors from Google Analytics
I have a lot of sites and want to build a dashboard showing the number of real time visitors on each of them on a single page. (would anyone else want this?) Right now the only way to view this information is to open a new tab for each site.
Google doesn't have a real-time API, so I'm wondering if it is possible to scrape this data. Eduardo Cereto found out that Google transfers the real-time data over the realtime/bind network request. Anyone more savvy have an idea of how I should start? Here's what I'm thinking:
Figure out how to authenticate programmatically
Inspect all of the realtime/bind requests to see how they change. Does each request have a unique key? Where does that come from? Below is my breakdown of the request:
https://www.google.com/analytics/realtime/bind?VER=8
&key= [What is this? Where does it come from? 21 character lowercase alphanumeric, stays the same each request]
&ds= [What is this? Where does it come from? 21 character lowercase alphanumeric, stays the same each request]
&pageId=rt-standard%2Frt-overview
&q=t%3A0%7C%3A1%3A0%3A%2Ct%3A11%7C%3A1%3A5%3A%2Cot%3A0%3A0%3A4%2Cot%3A0%3A0%3A3%2Ct%3A7%7C%3A1%3A10%3A6%3D%3DREFERRAL%3B%2Ct%3A10%7C%3A1%3A10%3A%2Ct%3A18%7C%3A1%3A10%3A%2Ct%3A4%7C5%7C2%7C%3A1%3A10%3A2!%3Dzz%3B%2C&f
The q variable URI decodes to this (what the?):
t:0|:1:0:,t:11|:1:5:,ot:0:0:4,ot:0:0:3,t:7|:1:10:6==REFERRAL;,t:10|:1:10:,t:18|:1:10:,t:4|5|2|:1:10:2!=zz;,&f
&RID=rpc
&SID= [What is this? Where does it come from? 16 character uppercase alphanumeric, stays the same each request]
&CI=0
&AID= [What is this? Where does it come from? integer, starts at 1, increments weirdly to 150 and then 298]
&TYPE=xmlhttp
&zx= [What is this? Where does it come from? 12 character lowercase alphanumeric, changes each request]
&t=1
Inspect all of the realtime/bind responses to see how they change. How does the data come in? It looks like some altered JSON. How many times do I need to connect to get the data? Where is the active visitors on site number in there? Here is a dump of sample data:
19
[[151,["noop"]
]
]
388
[[152,["rt",[{"ot:0:0:4":{"timeUnit":"MINUTES","overTimeData":[{"values":[49,53,52,40,42,55,49,41,51,52,47,42,62,82,76,71,81,66,81,86,71,66,65,65,55,51,53,73,71,81],"name":"Total"}]},"ot:0:0:3":{"timeUnit":"SECONDS","overTimeData":[{"values":[0,1,1,1,1,0,1,0,1,1,1,0,2,0,2,2,1,0,0,0,0,0,2,1,1,2,1,2,0,5,1,0,2,1,1,1,2,0,2,1,0,5,1,1,2,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,3,2,0],"name":"Total"}]}}]]]
]
388
[[153,["rt",[{"ot:0:0:4":{"timeUnit":"MINUTES","overTimeData":[{"values":[52,53,52,40,42,55,49,41,51,52,47,42,62,82,76,71,81,66,81,86,71,66,65,65,55,51,53,73,71,81],"name":"Total"}]},"ot:0:0:3":{"timeUnit":"SECONDS","overTimeData":[{"values":[2,1,1,1,1,1,0,1,0,1,1,1,0,2,0,2,2,1,0,0,0,0,0,2,1,1,2,1,2,0,5,1,0,2,1,1,1,2,0,2,1,0,5,1,1,2,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,3,2],"name":"Total"}]}}]]]
]
388
[[154,["rt",[{"ot:0:0:4":{"timeUnit":"MINUTES","overTimeData":[{"values":[53,53,52,40,42,55,49,41,51,52,47,42,62,82,76,71,81,66,81,86,71,66,65,65,55,51,53,73,71,81],"name":"Total"}]},"ot:0:0:3":{"timeUnit":"SECONDS","overTimeData":[{"values":[0,3,1,1,1,1,1,0,1,0,1,1,1,0,2,0,2,2,1,0,0,0,0,0,2,1,1,2,1,2,0,5,1,0,2,1,1,1,2,0,2,1,0,5,1,1,2,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,3],"name":"Total"}]}}]]]
]
Let me know if you can help with any of the items above!
To get the same, Google has launched new Real Time API. With this API you can easily retrieve real time online visitors as well as several Google Analytics with following dimensions and metrics. https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/reporting/realtime/dimsmets/ This is quite similar to Google Analytics API. To start development on this, https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/reporting/realtime/v3/devguide
With Google Chrome I can see the data on the Network Panel. The request endpoint is https://www.google.com/analytics/realtime/bind Seems like the connection stays open for 2.5 minutes, and during this time it just keeps getting more and more data. After about 2.5 minutes the connection is closed and a new one is open. On the Network panel you can only see the data for the connections that are terminated. So leave it open for 5 minutes or so and you can start to see the data. I hope that can give you a place to start.
Having google in the loop seems pretty redundant. Suggest you use a common element delivered on demand from the dashboard server and include this item by absolute URL on all pages to be monitored for a given site. The script outputting the item can read the IP of the browser asking and these can all be logged into a database and filtered for uniqueness giving a real time head count.
<?php
$user_ip = $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"];
/// Some MySQL to insert $user_ip to the database table for website XXX goes here
$file = 'tracking_image.gif';
$type = 'image/gif';
header('Content-Type:'.$type);
header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file));
readfile($file);
?>
Ammendum:
A database can also add a timestamp to every row of data it stores. This can be used to further filter results and provide the number of visitors in the last hour or minute.
Client side Javascript with AJAX for fine tuning or overkill
The onblur and onfocus javascript commands can be used to tell if the the page is visible, pass the data back to the dashboard server via Ajax. http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com/demo/2007-05-16-detect-browser-window-focus/
When a visitor closes a page this can also be detected by the javascript onunload function in the body tag and Ajax can be used to send data back to the server one last time before the browser finally closes the page.
As you may also wish to collect some information about the visitor like Google analytics does this page https://panopticlick.eff.org/ has a lot of javascript that can be examined and adapted.
I needed/wanted realtime data for personal use so I reverse-engineered their system a little bit.
Instead of binding to /bind I get data from /getData (no pun intended).
At /getData the minimum request is apparently: https://www.google.com/analytics/realtime/realtime/getData?pageId&key={{propertyID}}&q=t:0|:1
Here's a short explanation of the possible query parameters and syntax, please remember that these are all guesses and I don't know all of them:
Query Syntax: pageId&key=propertyID&q=dataType:dimensions|:page|:limit:filters
Values:
pageID: Required but seems to only be used for internal analytics.
propertyID: a{{accountID}}w{{webPropertyID}}p{{profileID}}, as specified at the Documentation link below. You can also find this in the URL of all analytics pages in the UI.
dataType:
t: Current data
ot: Overtime/Past
c: Unknown, returns only a "count" value
dimensions (| separated or alone), most values are only applicable for t:
1: Country
2: City
3: Location code?
4: Latitude
5: Longitude
6: Traffic source type (Social, Referral, etc.)
7: Source
8: ?? Returns (not set)
9: Another location code? longer.
10: Page URL
11: Visitor Type (new/returning)
12: ?? Returns (not set)
13: ?? Returns (not set)
14: Medium
15: ?? Returns "1"
page:
At first this seems to work for pagination but after further analysis it looks like it's also used to specify which of the 6 pages (Overview, Locations, Traffic Sources, Content, Events and Conversions) to return data for.
For some reason 0 returns an impossibly high metrictotal
limit: Result limit per page, maximum of 50
filters:
Syntax is as specified at the Documentation 2 link below except the OR is specified using | instead of a comma.6==CUSTOM;1==United%20States
You can also combine multiple queries in one request by comma separating them (i.e. q=t:1|2|:1|:10,t:6|:1|:10).
Following the above "documentation", if you wanted to build a query that requests the page URL and city of the top 10 active visitors with a traffic source type of CUSTOM located in the US you would use this URL: https://www.google.com/analytics/realtime/realtime/getData?key={{propertyID}}&pageId&q=t:10|2|:1|:10:6==CUSTOM;1==United%20States
Documentation
Documentation 2
I hope that my answer is readable and (although it's a little late) sufficiently answers your question and helps others in the future.
Google Places API does not return gym info
I could not get Google Places API to return gym info. Below is an example request api. https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/search/json?location=33.347075,-111.96318&radius=100&types=gym&sensor=false&key=AIzaSyBg8HI6sH1Rxyhn1Mno_hhgDawuF1KAfq0 (Open URL) I know the lat/lon in the link is valid. If I remove the "types=gym" (see below link" it returns some places info but none of type gym. https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/search/json?location=33.347075,-111.96318&radius=100&sensor=false&key=AIzaSyBg8HI6sH1Rxyhn1Mno_hhgDawuF1KAfq0 (Open URL) Is there a limitation on the api? Also, could I have the api to return an uri which takes me directly to the location?
You just need to increase your search radius a bit - you're looking for results within a 100m circle. Try this: https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/search/json?location=33.347075,-111.96318&radius=200&types=gym&sensor=false&key=AIzaSyBg8HI6sH1Rxyhn1Mno_hhgDawuF1KAfq0 Increasing the radius to just 200m returns a result; at 1000m you get four results. You can then pass the reference value to a Places Details search to get the url value, as follows: https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/details/json?reference=CnRnAAAA99xxsFT0V-FNigzMi7GEnmkqWRYCOZG-lrQH0fpw9iI_JUp5WHrYOCcTGpeyzVdHrtk3rE2zrHleBxRw4i67K0sT_fhsSQufaAHN80Oi4OvxR-amG_W4plz5Mr8a-512584oHpfUpV87jMqyF2R8cRIQpqTgOCgZtZF0hYR4R_ZVRRoUEIS-oN1fcyVQcN5nj7DxaNK-e8o&sensor=false&key=AIzaSyBg8HI6sH1Rxyhn1Mno_hhgDawuF1KAfq0 The url links to the Google Maps Place page: http://maps.google.com/maps/place?cid=2681829493569576902 See the docs here: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/places/#PlaceDetailsRequests
also there is a limit of the no. requests on this particular api. 2500 IIRC -- but you can read it in the docs
Are there 20 coming back with the "types=gym" call? If so then you are hitting the limitation of the api and it just so happens the 20 returned are not a gym: The Places API returns up to 20 establishment results. Additionally, political results may be returned which serve to identify the area of the request
Google Reader API choose to get only elements from x position to n position
I use this request http://www.google.com/reader/atom/%#?trans=true&n=20 Note: %# is the URL of a feed source to get the first 20 entries from that source (%#). My question is this... is it possible to get only feeds from 10 to 20 for example? If it is possible which is the query?
There is no mechanism for using offsets (10 to 20 in your example) in Google Reader feed response. Instead you'll need to use continuation tokens as described in this answer.