Feature Request: Local Targeting Search - Geo Location

[Biztactix-Ryan]

I'd love to see it able to provide GeoTargeting on both Mobile and Desktop.... That would make it useful for brick and mortar shops, not just online companies

Just down to a Town Level would be fine.... But some companies provide Lat/Long to test mobile search.

[b6user]

Agree, be a great feature.

[jkdn0921s]

I'd love as well to see this feature, using now Scraping Robot.

It'd be great to see city in addition to just the country:

Thank you!

[wrtz008]

Agree too, it'd be awesome to see this feature, thank you so much!

[s3w47m88]

I agree. I am going to have my programming staff look into developing a patch for this.

[towfiqi]

@s3w47m88 I will actually start working on it myself within the next few days.

[s3w47m88]

Thank you @towfiqi - I will stand by then. But let me know if you'd like us to assist.

[jkdn0921s]

you guys rock, thanks for working on this, super appreciated!

[towfiqi]

This has been added in v1.0.0 which has just been released. You can now scrape city-level Google search results with the following scrapers:

searchapi.io
serpapi.com
serper.dev
spaceserp.com
valueserp.com

[Ryan12439]

Hi! I appreciate this addition, and wanted to add in my two cents. Google has a UULE perimeter on the URL you can add, which allows you to specify a location (city, coordinates, etc). This could be used on the scrapers that do not natively have the functionality built in. I have included JS code on how I implemented this in my own app, I do not have any experience with TS or this codebase unfortunately, but it is relatively simple:

<script>
        function lengthBit(n) {
            var bits = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789-_";
            return bits[n % 64];
        }

        function encode(loc) {
            var lenBit = lengthBit(loc.length);
            return 'w+CAIQICI' + lenBit + btoa(loc);
        }

        function createSearchURL(query, loc) {
            var encodedLoc = encode(loc);
            return 'https://www.google.com/search?q=' + encodeURIComponent(query) + '&uule=' + encodedLoc;
        }

        function generateURL() {
            var query = document.getElementById('query').value;
            var loc = document.getElementById('loc').value;
            var url = createSearchURL(query, loc);
            
            document.getElementById('result').innerHTML = 'Generated URL: <a href="' + url + '" target="_blank">' + url + '</a>';
            return false; // Prevent form submission
        }
    </script>

[s3w47m88]

Where does this new setting appear? I pulled the latest via Docker and I don't see any options, I also don't see ValueSERP listed in the drop down.

[towfiqi]

Where does this new setting appear? I pulled the latest via Docker and I don't see any options, I also don't see ValueSERP listed in the drop down.

Did you update your serpbear instance? How are you running the app via docker or running locally without docker?

[d363f86b]

Docker. Yeah I am on Windows and opened PowerShell ans pulled the latest successfully.

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[towfiqi]

What command did you use to pull the latest release? Did you try restarting your container?

[d363f86b]

Yep. `docker pull towfiqi/serpbear:latest`

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[d363f86b]

Any thoughts? Could you share a screenshot of what users should see to choose a location?

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Yep. `docker pull towfiqi/serpbear:latest` -- [image: logo] <http://www.theportlandcompany.com/> Spencer Hill Principal • The Portland Company mobile: (503) 610-8759 • office: (503) 567-9561 www.ThePortlandCompany.com <http://www.theportlandcompany.com/> Advertising | Search | Social | Websites | Integrations | Apps | Photography | Film | Multimedia On Fri, Feb 9, 2024 at 8:41 PM Towfiq I. ***@***.***> wrote: > What command did you use to pull the latest release? Did you try > restarting your container? > > — > Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub > <#139 (comment)>, > or unsubscribe > <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AT6ZQKHX2GC2IVK2QBG5EX3YS325VAVCNFSM6AAAAABANDSF3KVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMYTSMZWHA3DANZZHE> > . > You are receiving this because you commented.Message ID: > ***@***.***> >

[towfiqi]

You should see a new City field in the Add Keyword Modal.

After pulling the latest docker image, did you run the container from the latest image?

[s3w47m88]

Thank you. You can close this Ticke now. For those who might experience this issue as well: It was my mistake (I'm new to Docker). I had three Images, two were "Dangling" (not associated with a Container) So when I ran the Pull command in PowerShell, to update SERPBear, it was updating one of the Dangling ones instead of the one associated with the Container. I used ChatGPT to help me debug this. Sent with [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/) secure email.

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