Google Places API to find all restaurants in UK

Question

Google APis support specifying the type to search for - https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/supported_types

Using Python or any other programatic language, is it possible to enumerate all the restaurants in entire UK? What kind of pricing costs will be incurred for using Google Places API to do this?

Thanks

Answer 1

Having to go down to a very fine zoom level in order approximately get most restaurants, you'd have two problems:

1. it's going to be HUGELY expensive
2. and more importantly: it's against their policies (https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/policies):

Pre-Fetching, Caching, or Storage of Content Applications using the Places API are bound by the Google Maps Platform Terms of Service. Section 3.2.3(a) and (b) of the terms states that you must not pre-fetch, index, store, or cache any Content except under the limited conditions stated in the terms.