direction.py

import urllib.request
import json
from pprint import pprint

urlRequest = "https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/textsearch/json?"
apiKey = "AIzaSyD1pMiJyDTK5V-ayhWnpNm5FHSXly4TeLk"
finalPoint = "https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/directions/json?"

place= input("what place are you looking for? ").replace(",", " in " )
# this function finds the place in specific area 
def placesFound(place):
    place = place.replace(" ","+")
    parameters = "key={}&query={}".format ( apiKey, place )

    dest=[]
    request = urlRequest + parameters

    response = urllib.request.urlopen(request).read()

    places = json.loads(response)
    
    for i in range(0,len(places["results"])):
        results = places["results"][i]['formatted_address']
        dest.append(results)
    return dest
# ToDO: chech for empty list 

for item in placesFound(place) :
    print(item +"\n")

num = input("which one of the following addresses is the best for you, select the address with number from 1 to 5? ?>>>  " )
def indexNumber(num):
    num = int(num)
    num -=1
    return num

destination= placesFound(place)[indexNumber(num)]

origin = input("where are you ? >>> ")

def directions(origin, destination):
    origin=origin.replace(' ','')
    destination=destination.replace(' ','')
    stepSummary=[]
    navRequest = "origin={}&destination={}&key={}" . format ( origin, destination , apiKey)

    request = finalPoint + navRequest
    
    response = urllib.request.urlopen(request).read()

    directions = json.loads(response)

    # ToDO: chech for empty list 

    legs = directions["routes"][0]["legs"]
     
    for leg in legs :
        steps = leg["steps"]
        
        for step in steps:
            stepSummaryary=(step['html_instructions'].replace("0.9em","").replace("style","").replace(":","").replace("div","").replace("font-size","").replace('"',"").replace("</b>","").replace("<b>"," ").replace("</div >"," ").replace("<div  >"," ").replace("="," ").replace('<div style"font-size:0.9em">'," "))
            stepSummary.append(stepSummaryary)
    return stepSummary

route=(directions(origin,destination))

def cleanText(route):
    steps=[]
    for step in route:
        for letter in step:
            letter=letter.replace('<','')
            letter=letter.replace('>','')
        steps.append(step)
    return steps

for item in cleanText(route):
    print(item +"\n")