BEAT

Business Extraction via Automation Tool

• Using Selenium and pyvirtualdisplay, BEAT:
  • crawls G Maps headlessly via XVFB (X Virtual Frame Buffer)
  • searches for a subject near each city within a state (searches cities alphabetically)
  • collects name, URL, phone, city, state from results
• Stores information from each city in a CSV
• Runs in a Docker container for portability and dependency management
• Takes positional and optional arguments in docker run command
  • Can start searches at a particular city with optional

Docker

Build

cd /BEAT/

docker build -t <image>:<tag> .

Run

$ docker run --rm \
             --shm-size=2g \
             -v $(pwd)/results:/results/ \
             --name <container name> \
             <image>:<tag> <subject> <state> [--city <city> | -c <city>]