Nov. 27, 2023, 10:41 p.m.
Legally Scrape Businesses from Google Maps by Category Nearly every business is on Google Maps these days, and anyone can legally scrape this data using the Official Google Maps API. There are two main ways we can query the API to return businesses matching a given category, either by specifying an exact type of business or by using free text. Weâll discuss how to scrape business using each approach. Places API Text Search Both approaches for scraping rely on using the Google Plac...
June 20, 2023, 7:53 p.m.
Google My Maps for Local Content Marketing If you havenât heard of them yet, Google My Maps allow you to build and share custom maps and point out specific businesses, addresses & locations that are important to you. While this is typically geared towards consumers (e.g. planning a road trip), these shareable maps can be incredibly useful for local businesses as well. Also see this video on [How Realtors Can Use Google Maps To Create Custom Client Maps for......
June 20, 2023, 6:48 p.m.
Get Unlimited Clients for Your Freelance Web Development Business Google Maps offers an unlimited source of small businesses who need web development services to improve their SEO rankings & visibility within the Google Maps search rankings. Check out this video to see how you can target & reach out to these businesses as an independent freelancer or web development agency: A Numbers Game If youâre just getting started and only want to try a few outreach emails, you can follow the steps in......
June 20, 2023, 5:01 p.m.
Legally Scrape Unclaimed Businesses Listings from Google Maps Finding leads for your SEO marketing agency can be difficult at first, but thereâs a very easy way to find and approach local businesses with a highly relevant & targeted offer: help businesses claim their Google My Business profiles & drastically improve their SEO. Plenty of YouTube influencers and marketers advocate this method for finding new clients for their marketing agency or business, just check out our video: Automatically......
June 16, 2023, 7:18 p.m.
Google Maps Lead Generation for Marketing Agencies Every local small business is on Google Maps (whether they like it or not), and this can be a goldmine for anyone looking to do outreach to these local businesses. This is especially true for marketing agencies looking to pitch their services to relevant businesses within their target market. E.g. many older⌠er⌠more established⌠businesses donât even have a Google My Business profile set up - and they are not being found in local searches.......
June 16, 2023, 6:46 p.m.
Get New Clients for Your Facebook Ads Agency If you run a Facebook Ads agency, thereâs no better way to generate new clients for your SMMA than to look for people who are already running Facebook Ads. And good news - thereâs a centralized database you can use for free to see whoâs running Facebook ads in any niche anywhere in the world with the Facebook Ads Library! Type in any keyword that your SMMA specializes in, like âused car,â and select your target location (e.g. the United States) and......
June 16, 2023, 5:26 p.m.
Why Every YouTube Advertiser Needs Video Placement Targeting Although Google removed the ability to target specific YouTube placements in conversion-based Video Ad Campaigns (e.g. Video Action Campaigns with Smart Bidding), itâs still possible to run placement targeting on both Manual CPV and Target CPM based campaigns. Although these 2 campaign types may not be âsmart,â they can make your business much âsmarterâ by exposing video-level performance insights that you simply cannot get with......
Sept. 1, 2022, 6:45 p.m.
Spotify Client ID, Client Secret & API Token In order to use many of the Spotify API Endpoints for scraping data, youâll need to provide an API (or âAuthâ) Token. And in order to get a Spotify API Token, youâll need your Client ID and Client Secret. In this article, weâll show you how to obtain these values and then exchange them for an API Token. 1. Log in to Spotifyâs Developer Dashboard Simply head to the Spotify Developer Dashboard and click the âLoginâ button on the bottom of the screen...
Feb. 25, 2022, 3:10 p.m.
Google Ads Performance Max has been a great addition to our marketing strategy at Stevesie Data, especially for capturing new leads from search ads. The performance so far has exceeded anything weâve previously seen possible on Google Ads for a cold audience, after spending years testing Search Ads, YouTube Ads & Display Ads. Oh, and Performance Max completely blows away anything weâve ever seen while using Facebook Ads (weâve completely removed our ad spend efforts there as they never worked......
Nov. 22, 2021, 6:47 p.m.
UPDATE: Just scroll to the bottom of the Netflix Top 10 Page and you can download the raw data. Thereâs no need to do all of this! On November 16, 2021 Netflix launched a new website reporting its top 10 titles that you can access at Netflix Top 10 Page. This is big news - as many people wish that Netflix would restore its official Data API to scrape popular movies, shows, trends and related viewership data from. Netflix thus far has refu...
Nov. 17, 2021, 5:45 p.m.
For many years the Twitter API remained âapproval-onlyâ where developers had to apply for access to obtain a Twitter API Key, then wait a few days (or weeks) and hope Twitter would approve them. But on November 15th, 2021 this all changed for the better with Twitter Ushering in a new era for the Twitter Developer Platform and launching âEssentialâ access to their API with no approval needed. Weâll show you how...
May 1, 2021, 11:48 a.m.
Twitter is working on an absolutely amazing & delightful update to its official API in the form of Twitter API V2. The new API is more streamlined and combined previous APIs together into a uniform one. They have also modified how they return data back, returning fully hydrated related objects (such as users) adjacent to the objects youâre querying. E.g. if youâre searching for Tweets with #beer, the new API will not only return the Tweets, but also the userâs who posted these Tweets as fully......
March 20, 2020, 1:11 p.m.
UPDATE: As of 9/21/2022, Guidebox appears to no longer be in service, so we are leaving this article here as-is for historical reference. This article will walk you through how to visualize data from the Guidebox Data API. Data Visualization Letâs start with visualizing the movies - youâll first want to read all Netflix movies into a Pandas dataframe for analysis. import pandas as pd import numpy as np movies_df = pd.read_csv('~/Desktop/all_netflix_movies.csv') Now letâs see how the release......
March 17, 2020, 10:24 p.m.
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer - I just know a lot about data scraping after onboarding hundreds of clients onto Stevesie Data as the founder. The following are general guidelines Iâve seen in industry for what constitutes responsible data scraping practices. Nothing in this article guarantees that what you are doing is legal nor illegal to any extent. This is not legal advice! Data Scraping in Industry If data scraping were illegal, we would not have Google. Search engines like Google, Bing &......
July 30, 2019, 12:49 a.m.
When using the YouTube Data API to scrape non-public YouTube data (like subscribers), youâll be prompted for a YouTube Access Token to verify that you are who you say you are - and have the right to access the data youâre requesting (e.g. a subscriber list that is only available to the YouTube channel owner). While youâre welcome to spend 9 hours reading up on Google APIs OAuth 2.0 protocols, scopes, grants, and oh so much more - if you simply need to use the YouTube Data API to downlo...
July 30, 2019, 12:27 a.m.
If youâre using the YouTube Data API to scrape public YouTube data (like comments, video statistics, search results, etcâŚ), then youâll need a YouTube API Key in order to access the API and scrape the YouTube data you need. Weâll walk you through how to create a new YouTube API Key (all you need is a Google Account), how to secure it, and how to access it in the future. Just follow these steps to get started, or skip to section II to find your existing YouTube API Key. I - Create a New......
Feb. 6, 2019, 5:48 a.m.
What makes people click, like & share online images? Is it the colors, composition, contrast, tones or something else? In this post, weâll walk through developing an algorithm to predict whether or not an image is popular on GrubHub with 65% accuracy. Part 1 - Getting Training Image Data In this exercise, weâll keep things simple and focus on predicting whether or not an imageâs click through rate will exceed a certain percent or not. Ideally, weâd like to train our system on images with a......