Add function to fetch distance from Google Maps directions URL

new.py

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+import re
+import requests
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+
+def get_distance_from_google_maps(url):
+    """
+    Fetches the HTML content of a Google Maps directions URL and extracts the distance dynamically.
+
+    Args:
+        url (str): The Google Maps directions URL.
+
+    Returns:
+        str: The distance in miles if found, otherwise None.
+    """
+    headers = {
+        'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.3'
+    }
+    try:
+        response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
+        response.raise_for_status()  # Raise an exception for HTTP errors
+
+        html_content = response.text
+
+        # Use regex to find the distance string (e.g., "4.6 miles", "5.0 miles", etc.)
+        distance_match = re.search(r'([0-9.]+ miles?)', html_content)  # Removed surrounding quotes
+
+        if distance_match:
+            distance_text = distance_match.group(1)
+            return distance_text
+        else:
+            return None
+
+    except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:
+        print(f"Error fetching URL: {e}")
+        return None
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    url = 'https://www.google.com/maps/search/2782+McKee+Rd%2C+San+Jose%2C+CA+to+1380+Blossom+Hill+Rd%2C+San+Jose%2C+CA'
+    distance_text = get_distance_from_google_maps(url)
+
+    if distance_text:
+        print(f"Distance found: {distance_text}")
+    else:
+        print("Distance not found on the page.")