Currently, I'm scraping entire cities by selecting one category at a time, parsing the results, and inserting the data into our system. I came across this [thread](https://apify.com/compass/crawler-google-places/issues/get-500-results-in-o-tyA7FzCJxho8GQ9Il), where someone suggests scraping smaller areas with multiple categories instead to reduce duplicates and cost. Does this approach scale better in practice? Also, is there a way to avoid retrieving places I’ve already scraped, maybe by providing known placeIds to skip or filter them out?

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Responding to you last question: no, there is no feature like that. But, the approach suggested in the thread is exactly what you need to overcome it. By doing smaller searches with defined boundaries you have full control on the results, granted it will take some time to set up on your side.