Re: [R] Extracting results from Google Search

Hi Eduardo Scraping the coordinates from the HTML page can be a little tricky in this case. Also, Google may not want you using their search engine for that. Instead, you might use their Geocoding API (https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding), but do ensure that this fits wit

[R] Extracting results from Google Search

Dear list, I have a long list of towns in Africa and would need to get their geographical coordinates. The Google query [/TownName Country coordinates/] works for most of the TownNames I have and give a nicely formatted Google output (try Ingall Niger coordinates for an example). I would like to l