[Google Local Results API] Scrape reviews for Google Local Results

[NateSkiles]

A customer reached out with confusion around the place_id returned form The Google Local Results API and why they weren't able to return reviews from the Google Reviews API using the place_id. As mentioned in #709, this is very confusing for users as the place_id returned from the Google Local Results API is actually the data_cid attribute in the Google Maps API.

Currently, users have no way of returning reviews for a location found through the Google Local Results API.

Reviews appear to be fairly accessible through the Google Local Results page:

https://serpapi.com/playground?engine=google_local&q=Thai+Food&location=Portland%2C+Oregon%2C+United+States&gl=us&hl=en&start=0&device=desktop&no_cache=true

Returns the following for google_local_url:

https://www.google.com/search?q=Thai+Food&uule=w+CAIQICIdUG9ydGxhbmQsT3JlZ29uLFVuaXRlZCBTdGF0ZXM&hl=en&gl=us&start=0&tbm=lcl

From this page, you can select a location and then the review tabs to view reviews for a given location

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I'm not sure if it would it would be easier to surface a shared ID between local results and maps reviews, similar to #1127, or scrape the reviews directly from the local results page. I believe either would be sufficient, with the goal being to allow users to scrape reviews returned from local results.

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[schaferyan]

Thanks for opening this @NateSkiles! Just to clarify #1127 is for the Google Local Services API and the Google Maps API, but a similar approach could be taken to connect the Google Local API and the Google Maps API.

[NateSkiles]

@schaferyan Yes, correct, thank you for pointing that out.

I've updated the issue to be more clear.

[alexbarron]

Another request:

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