Is it possible to show the hours from google maps on a website, so that the website hours updates when we update google maps?

Question

I was hoping to be pointed in the right direction for this, my boss wants to have the store hours on website linked to the hours on Google Maps/places, that way he can just update the hours and times on google and not have to worry about the site. I am not familiar with google api, so I don't know where to begin for that.

I've tried embedding google maps, but it doesn't include hours, just the address

The website's hosted on github,

Answer 1

Google does not make this easy, however you can scrape it with the following php code. First you need the "place id", you can get this using this tool: https://developers.google.com/places/place-id

Start typing the business name and once google finds it, you can copy the place ID from the popup.

Here's the PHP - replace ENTER_PLACE_ID_HERE with the place id you got in the previous step:

<?
    $curlURL = 'https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=Google&query_place_id=ENTER_PLACE_ID_HERE';
    $curl = curl_init($curlURL);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1 );
    $response=curl_exec( $curl );
    for($i=0;$i<7;$i++){
        $day = jddayofweek($i,1);
        $start=stripos($response,'[\"'.$day.'\",')+strlen($day)+9;
        echo($day.": ".substr($response,$start,stripos($response,'\"]',$start)-$start)."<br />");
    }
?>

Answer 2

If you have a Google Places place_id and API key, the following URL will return the hours as a JSON object.

Just be sure to replace "YOUR_PLACE_ID" with your actual Google Places place_id and "YOUR_API_KEY" with your Google Places API key.

https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/details/json?placeid=YOUR_PLACE_ID&fields=opening_hours&key=YOUR_API_KEY

You will get hours for each day as both day-of-week-number, from 0 to 6, where Sunday = 0, as well as a standard language array. The numbered days are found in result.opening_hours.periods and the standard language array is result.opening_hours.weekday_text

weekday_text is simpler to use while periods will enable you to do things like display the results in different languages.

Here is how it might look in PHP:

$url = 'https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/details/json?placeid=YOUR_PLACE_ID&fields=opening_hours&key=YOUR_API_KEY';

$hours_raw = @file_get_contents($url);
if (!empty($hours_raw)) {
  $hours_json = json_decode($hours_raw, true);
  if (!empty($hours_json['result']['opening_hours'])) {
    $business_hours = $hours_json['result']['opening_hours']['weekday_text'];
  }
}

// $business_hours is an array you can use however you like e.g.
echo '<ul>';
foreach ($business_hours as $weekday) {
  echo '<li>' . $weekday . '</li>';
}
echo '</ul>';

Answer 3

This may be migrated, if not, find your answer here

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20735016/how-to-get-opening-hours-from-google-places-api