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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.")