Waze Police Scraper will scrape the police locations and display them in map as pins. You'll be able to see more information about every cop vehicle/trap and also download the scraped data.
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Prefferably not bad connection to avoid timeout.
Firefox browser installed.
Tested in Windows 10, Python 3.7.4 if you have any problems or notice any unwanted and bad behavior, please open an issue.
For it to work, we need to use browser-mob-proxy, so:
pip install -r requirements.txt
and install browser-mob-proxy by going to here, and click download as zip.
Extract the archive and in Waze_Police_Scraper.py, in line 65, replace ... with the path of the executable browsermob-proxy in the folder bin
in the newly extracted folder, for example the path will be:
path_to_folder\\browsermob-proxy-2.1.4-bin\\browsermob-proxy-2.1.4\\bin\browsermob-proxy
Do not forget to replace every backslash \ with double-backslash \\.
If you downloded and extracted the folder in the downloads folder and you're on drive C:
C:\\Users\\your_name\\Downloads\\browsermob-proxy-2.1.4-bin\\browsermob-proxy-2.1.4\\bin\\browsermob-proxy
Download geckodriver for Selenium by going here here
and and in Waze_Police_Scraper.py, in line 74, replace ... with the path to the exe geckodriver file
Again, do not forget to replace every backslash \ with double-backslash \\.
That's it!
Now run Waze_Police_Scraper.py:
python3 App.py
In the first input type 'a' or 'A' for Automatic scraping.
In the second choose how often do you want the program to scrape. (Numbers only (Integers))
Notice: The recommended value is 5 seconds,
but if you're scraping in other countries it will take time to get there with the mouse,
so prefferbly select 10 seconds.
That time is for the user to move to another location, to scrape police vehicles / Traps reported by Waze's users.
If you press Enter, without entering any number, the number will be the default, 5 seconds, which is also the recommended value.
After the Firebox browser launched and you're done scraping, just close the browser, and wait 5 seconds.
After that, go to localhost:5000 or 127.0.0.1:5000.
If you go to localhost:5000,
In the map, by clicking on the pins you'll be able to see more information on them like coordinates,
type of police (vehicle or trap), speed, number of up votes by Waze's users, and confidence and reliability estimated by Waze.
Also, you can download the scraped data as JSON, XLS (Excel), and CSV by clicking on the buttons.
- MIT license
- Copyright 2020 © Yahav Bahat.