HTTP Error 403 with api_id in accessing Google Maps

Question

I am planning to use the package \"googlemaps\" in Python and had trouble with the api_id.

The following codes:

from googlemaps import GoogleMaps
gma         


        

Answer 1

Api v2 was closed down on sept 13, 2013. Your question was asked on 14th - so that migh be a clue :) . What I managed to do is simply modify URLs in googlemaps.py and now it's working OK for routing.

I changed _DIRECTIONS_QUERY_URL (line 165 of googlemaps.py) to:

_DIRECTIONS_QUERY_URL = 'http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/directions/output?'

And it worked fine. Also I tried modiying line 164: _GEOCODE_QUERY_URL = 'http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/output?' as suggested here but there's some error, and a) I don't need it anyway b) it's already covered by pygeocoder which is a bit more advanced that googlemaps.py

Answer 2

You can try using geoPy package in python. Sample code is as below:

from geopy.geocoders import Nominatim
geolocator = Nominatim()
location = geolocator.geocode("Ratainda")
print((location.latitude, location.longitude))

Answer 3

I faced the same error as you, and didn't find a satisfying answer, so I changed my script following this method found on this site to create the script I needed (http://www.portailsig.org/content/python-geocodage-geolocalisation -- However written in french)

import urllib, json, csv

def geocode(addr):
    url = "http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=%s&sensor=false" %   (urllib.quote(addr.replace(' ', '+')))
    data = urllib.urlopen(url).read()
    info = json.loads(data).get("results")[0].get("geometry").get("location")  
    #A little ugly I concede, but I am open to all advices :) '''
    return info

#Open the List file of adresses to look for corresponding lat and lng. 
f = open('list', 'rb')
addresses = f.readlines()
f.close()

#Loop to feed the func with adresses and output the lat & lng.
for a in addresses:
    r = geocode(a)
    print "%s %s" % (r['lat'], r['lng'])

It works fine for me, except index bug sometimes that I have to fix.