Is it possible to get the “Popular times” information through the Google Places API

Question

Is it possible to get the \"Popular times\" information through the Google Places API or any other API? I need this information to be displayed in my application for a particula

Answer 1

It's possible to scrape it, but it violates the Google ToS.

Answer 2

I haven't managed to test it myself but this is what populartimes offers to do in Python:

import populartimes
populartimes.get("your-api-key", ["bar"], (48.132986, 11.566126), (48.142199, 11.580047))

More info on developer's github.

Answer 3

yes its possible but as said it violates googles ToS , i have used npm package busy-hours but it's not working so i have modified their code and here is new npm package https://www.npmjs.com/package/google-busy-hours

Answer 4

This is one of the top feature requests in Google issue tracker (more than 500 stars):

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/35827350

Currently, the state is Assigned, however, no any ETA provided by Google. Please star it to get further updates.