Accessing Google's 'Popular Times' Data For Businesses.

skillz22 · September 4, 2021

When you search on google for a physical store, it shows a graph of how busy the store is currently, in comparison to how busy it is normally, and how the busyness varies over the course of a day.

I was wondering whether Google offered an API or something of that sort that I could use to directly access the live 'busy' amount of a local store. As it stands, the 'Popular Times' section doesn't actually provide any hard numbers, it just shows how busy the store is relative to other times of the day.

If possible I would like to integrate this data into Home Assistant.

Nayr438 · September 4, 2021

Googles API does not expose this data, There has been a open issue for this since 2015 and nothing has been done to implement it.

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/35827350?pli=1

Looking through projects however, I did come across this, which may offer what you want. It does however use one of Googles Paid API Services to generate the data.

https://github.com/m-wrzr/populartimes