pyGTrends doesn't seem to work. Giving errors in Python.
pyGoogleTrendsCsvDownloader seems to be working, logging in, but after receiving 1-3 requests (per day!) it complains about the exhausted quota, even if manual download using the same login / IP works flawlessly.
Bottom line: not working. Search through stackoverflow: a lot of questions from people trying to pull csv from google, but not a suitable solution that I could find ...
Thank you in advance: who can help. How to change the code? Are you aware of another solution that works?
Here is the pyGoogleTrendsCsvDownloader.py code
import httplib
import urllib
import urllib2
import re
import csv
import lxml.etree as etree
import lxml.html as html
import traceback
import gzip
import random
import time
import sys
from cookielib import Cookie, CookieJar
from StringIO import StringIO
class pyGoogleTrendsCsvDownloader(object):
'''
Google Trends Downloader
Recommended usage:
from pyGoogleTrendsCsvDownloader import pyGoogleTrendsCsvDownloader
r = pyGoogleTrendsCsvDownloader(username, password)
r.get_csv(cat='0-958', geo='US-ME-500')
'''
def __init__(self, username, password):
'''
Provide login and password to be used to connect to Google Trends
All immutable system variables are also defined here
'''
self.download_delay = 0.25
self.service = "trendspro"
self.url_service = "http://www.google.com/trends/"
self.url_download = self.url_service + "trendsReport?"
self.login_params = {}
self.headers = [('User-Agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0'),
("Accept", "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8"),
("Accept-Language", "en-gb,en;q=0.5"),
("Accept-Encoding", "gzip, deflate"),
("Connection", "keep-alive")]
self.url_login = 'https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?service='+self.service+'&passive=1209600&continue='+self.url_service+'&followup='+self.url_service
self.url_authenticate = 'https://accounts.google.com/accounts/ServiceLoginAuth'
self.header_dictionary = {}
self._authenticate(username, password)
def _authenticate(self, username, password):
'''
Authenticate to Google:
1 - make a GET request to the Login webpage so we can get the login form
2 - make a POST request with email, password and login form input values
'''
ck = Cookie(version=0, name='I4SUserLocale', value='en_US', port=None, port_specified=False, domain='www.google.com', domain_specified=False,domain_initial_dot=False, path='/trends', path_specified=True, secure=False, expires=None, discard=False, comment=None, comment_url=None, rest=None)
self.cj = CookieJar()
self.cj.set_cookie(ck)
self.opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(self.cj))
self.opener.addheaders = self.headers
find_inputs = etree.XPath("//form[@id='gaia_loginform']//input")
try:
resp = self.opener.open(self.url_login)
if resp.info().get('Content-Encoding') == 'gzip':
buf = StringIO( resp.read())
f = gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=buf)
data = f.read()
else:
data = resp.read()
xmlTree = etree.fromstring(data, parser=html.HTMLParser(recover=True, remove_comments=True))
for input in find_inputs(xmlTree):
name = input.get('name')
if name:
name = name.encode('utf8')
value = input.get('value', '').encode('utf8')
self.login_params[name] = value
except:
print("Exception while parsing: %s\n" % traceback.format_exc())
self.login_params["Email"] = username
self.login_params["Passwd"] = password
params = urllib.urlencode(self.login_params)
self.opener.open(self.url_authenticate, params)
def get_csv(self, throttle=False, **kwargs):
'''
Download CSV reports
'''
if throttle:
r = random.uniform(0.5 * self.download_delay, 1.5 * self.download_delay)
time.sleep(r)
params = {
'export': 1
}
params.update(kwargs)
params = urllib.urlencode(params)
r = self.opener.open(self.url_download + params)
if not r.info().has_key('Content-Disposition'):
print "You've exceeded your quota. Continue tomorrow..."
sys.exit(0)
if r.info().get('Content-Encoding') == 'gzip':
buf = StringIO( r.read())
f = gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=buf)
data = f.read()
else:
data = r.read()
myFile = open('trends_%s.csv' % '_'.join(['%s-%s' % (key, value) for (key, value) in kwargs.items()]), 'w')
myFile.write(data)
myFile.close()