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So I am trying to write a script that will allow to search for a certain place and get the coordinates. I am very limited with the packages because I'm not allow download any packages that does not already comes with python 2.7.

import webbrowser

location = input('Enter your location: ')

webbrowser.open('https://www.google.com/maps/place/'+location)

My browser opens and the url changes to

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Washington+Monument/@38.8894838,-77.0374678,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x89b7b7a1be0c2e7f:0xe97346828ed0bfb8

From there, I want to get the new url so I can strip it to just have the coordinates. Anyone one know how to get the new url the browser creates?

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  • If the user is entering the location information, why not just strip the coordinates from there? Why bother with a browser at all? Commented Nov 2, 2015 at 21:06
  • @JohnGordon the user will enter something like Washington. Commented Nov 2, 2015 at 21:06

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>>> import urllib
>>> text = urllib.urlopen('https://www.google.com/maps/place/washington').read()
>>> p = text.find('cacheResponse([[[')
>>> p
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>>> text[228: 300]
'cacheResponse([[[26081602.52827102,-95.67706800000001,37.06250000000001]'
>>>
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You could use Selenium's Python library:

>>> from selenium import webdriver
>>> driver = webdriver.Firefox()
>>> driver.get('https://www.google.com/maps/place/Washington')
>>> driver.current_url
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Washington,+DC/@38.8992651,-77.1546507,11z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x89b7c6de5af6e45b:0xc2524522d4885d2a
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OP says he is not allowed to install any packages. However good approach nonetheless

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