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  1. ByteSizedMarius revised this gist Jul 22, 2022. 1 changed file with 2 additions and 0 deletions.
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    > Edit: This doesn't work for lists > 20 items, because pagination does not work. Please see [here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50964713/obtain-list-of-my-places-from-google-maps/73085314#73085314)
    This script allows extracting name and coordinates for gmaps shared lists. It is incredibly unstable and may break anytime. Good luck figuring out why, because the syntax is extremely confusing and basically makes no sense at all. Thanks to google for not providing an api for this after [LITERALLY 12 YEARS](https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/35820262)

    **How to use this script:**
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    import re
    import requests

    s = requests.Session

    x: requests.Response = requests.get(PASTE LINK HERE)
    txt = x.text.split(r")]}'\n")[2].split("]]\"],")[0] + "]]"
    txt = html.unescape(txt)
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    This script allows extracting name and coordinates for gmaps shared lists. It is incredibly unstable and may break anytime. Good luck figuring out why, because the syntax is extremely confusing and basically makes no sense at all. Thanks to google for not providing an api for this after [LITERALLY 12 YEARS](https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/35820262)

    **How to use this script:**

    1. Share a list and open the link in a browser window. It will redirect. The new link will look like this:
    `google.com/maps/@<your coords>/data=....`
    2. Take the `data`-portion and paste it into the following link:
    `https://google.com/maps/@/data=<data>?ucbcb=1`
    3. Take this link and paste it into the py-script below.
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    import html
    import re
    import requests

    s = requests.Session

    x: requests.Response = requests.get(PASTE LINK HERE)
    txt = x.text.split(r")]}'\n")[2].split("]]\"],")[0] + "]]"
    txt = html.unescape(txt)

    results = re.findall(r"\[null,null,[0-9]{1,2}\.[0-9]{4,15},[0-9]{1,2}\.[0-9]{4,15}]", txt)

    for cord in results:
    curr = txt.split(cord)[1].split("\\\"]]")[0]
    curr = curr[curr.rindex("\\\"") + 2:]

    cords = str(cord).split(",")
    lat = cords[2]
    lon = cords[3][:-1]

    print("Name: " + curr)
    print("Coords: " + lat + ", " + lon + "\n")