Guide to Running Web Interface on AWS EC2

I managed to get this thing working via AWS EC2! YAY! I decided to write a little guide on it.

First thing is you launch an Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS instance, I use a t2.xlarge ($0.18 per hour) (you can turn it off when you're not using it to save money) with 25 GB of storage.

Then you connect to the instance. Using EC2 Instance Connect with default username is fine.

Here are the commands you have to run:

`git clone https://github.com/gosom/google-maps-scraper.git`

`sudo apt install golang-go`

`sudo apt-get update`

`sudo apt install golang-go`

`sudo apt-get install libatk1.0-0 libatk-bridge2.0-0 libcups2 libatspi2.0-0 libxcomposite1 libxdamage1 libxfixes3 libxrandr2 libgbm1 libpango-1.0-0 libcairo2 liboss4-salsa-asound2`

`sudo apt-get install liboss4-salsa-asound2`

`sudo apt-get update`

`sudo apt-get upgrade`

`sudo apt install nodejs npm`

`sudo npm install -g playwright`

`sudo apt-get install libasound2 libasound2-plugins`

`rm -rf ~/.cache/ms-playwright`

`playwright install`

`sudo npx playwright install-deps`

`uname -m`

`npx playwright install firefox`

`npx playwright install webkit`

`cd google-maps-scraper`

`go mod download`

`go build`

(Adjust the number after -c depending on the number of cores your EC2 instance has, 1 less than the number of cores you have, the EC2 Instance I chose has 4 cores)

`./google-maps-scraper -web -c 3`

Edit inbound security group rules of the EC2 Instance to allow 8080 port range from anywhere


Visit the port 8080 of the public IP address of the EC2, like 54.147.206.100:8080 , be sure to use HTTP instead of HTTPS or it won't connect


Above is what the scraper looks like in action.

THANK YOU @gosom FOR YOUR WONDERFUL TOOL!