📅 2025-08-25 — Session: Enhanced Lead Qualification and API Handling

🕒 22:55–23:20
🏷️ Labels: Lead Qualification, Api Handling, Google Places Api, Pagination, Data Structuring
📂 Project: Business
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal

The session aimed to enhance lead qualification processes and improve API handling techniques for digital revamp projects.

Key Activities

  • Developed a structured approach for assessing leads, focusing on essential data fields and enrichment options.
  • Extended the DEFAULT_FIELDS variable to gather comprehensive data from APIs, considering billing implications.
  • Refactored Python functions to handle Google Places API responses, ensuring compatibility with CSV/JSON formats.
  • Explored Google Maps Places API documentation for text search and implemented pagination to handle large datasets.

Achievements

  • Successfully outlined a lead qualification strategy for digital revamp projects.
  • Improved data gathering by extending DEFAULT_FIELDS in API requests.
  • Enhanced API response handling for Google Places, ensuring data compatibility.
  • Implemented effective pagination in Google Places API, addressing deduplication and scaling issues.

Pending Tasks

  • Further testing of the pagination implementation to ensure robustness in various scenarios.
  • Review and optimize billing strategies associated with extended data fields in API requests.