Google Maps - "Popular Times" and "Live" Graphs/Stats

I’ve found Google Maps “Popular Times” feature to be enormously useful for certain places like the gym, restaurants, etc. and would love to have a couple of the most used ones embedded into my HA instance.

As far as I know, this feature does not yet have an official API, but I have linked some info on the feature and an active GitHub project below:

https://support.google.com/business/answer/6263531?hl=en

There’s a couple new projects on GitHub if a more programing-minded person could look into possible integration.

https://github.com/github-armin/nodejs-popular-times

Check out this custom component.

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I’ve posted the following as well in another post, mentioned by freakshock, but maybe worth placing here as well:

I’ve looked into using the Google popular times data as well, but Google blocks the data after a while. Maybe you all could try an alternative data-source https://BestTime.app . They provide foot-traffic data that comes closes to Google but with an easier software API. You can start with a free test account, but unfortunately, it is paid for higher usage. Anyway, this works for me to track the popularity for several places every hour.