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Richard Penman
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Richard Lawson is from Australia and studied Computer Science at the University of Melbourne. Since graduating, he built a business specializing in web scraping while travelling the world, working remotely from over 50 countries. He is a fluent Esperanto speaker, conversational in Mandarin and Korean, and active in contributing to and translating open source software. He is currently undertaking postgraduate studies at Oxford University and in his spare time enjoys developing autonomous drones.
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The BMW website has a search tool to find local dealerships, available at https://www.bmw.de/de/home.html?entryType=dlo:

This tool takes a location, and then displays the points near it on a map, such as this search for Berlin:

Using Firebug, we find that the search triggers this AJAX request:

https://c2b-services.bmw.com/c2b-localsearch/services/api/v3/
    clients/BMWDIGITAL_DLO/DE/
        pois?country=DE&category=BM&maxResults=99&language=en&
            lat=52.507537768880056&lng=13.425269635701511

Here, the maxResults parameter is set to 99. However, we can increase this to download all locations in a single query, a technique covered in Chapter 1, Introduction to Web Scraping. Here is the result when maxResults is increased to 1000:

>>> url = 'https://c2b-services.bmw.com/c2b-localsearch/services/api/v3/clients/BMWDIGITAL_DLO/DE/pois?country=DE&category=BM&maxResults=%d&language=en&lat=52.507537768880056&lng=13.425269635701511'
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Richard Penman

Richard Lawson is from Australia and studied Computer Science at the University of Melbourne. Since graduating, he built a business specializing in web scraping while travelling the world, working remotely from over 50 countries. He is a fluent Esperanto speaker, conversational in Mandarin and Korean, and active in contributing to and translating open source software. He is currently undertaking postgraduate studies at Oxford University and in his spare time enjoys developing autonomous drones.
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