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How to access Google search right hand side data programmatically?

Is there a way to access data on the right hand side of Google results programmatically?

Are there similar services around? Specifically for location data

Access = No html scraping

Here is an example: enter image description here

Solution

  • 2018 Update - Knowledge Panels

    When people search for a business on Google, they may see information about that business in a box that appears to the right of their search results. The information in the box, called the knowledge panel, can help customers discover and contact your business.

    Knowledge Panel Example

    Knowledge panels are powered by information in the Knowledge Graph.

    Google's Knowledge Graph

    The example in your question comes from Google's Knowledge Graph.

    The Short Life of the Open Knowledge Graph provides a good explanation why Google's Knowledge Graph data is not publicly available and why the project is shutting down.

    [Jack Menzel, a Product Management Director at Google,] explained that there was a couple of specific reasons why Google couldn’t “participate” in the Open Knowledge Graph project. First, some of the data in the Google Knowledge Graph are from closed datasets acquired from sources that did not granted Google the rights to redistribute them. Some other datasets have more open licenses, but still have share-alike or attribution constraints. Second, he reminded that – by principle – Google was blocking any kind of automatic extraction allowing to collect information about its search and ranking technologies because “they were the proprietary cores of what Google provides”.

    Alternative Solutions

    I tried to list in order of your preference for location data.