Place Text Search

  • The sample demonstrates using the searchByText function to find taco restaurants near Mountain View, California.

  • It displays the search results as markers on a map, automatically adjusting the map's view to encompass all found locations.

  • The sample code is provided in both TypeScript and JavaScript, showcasing how to integrate Google Maps Platform functionalities into your web application.

  • Users can further explore the functionality by cloning the sample code and running it locally using Git and Node.js or by trying it on JSFiddle or Google Cloud Shell.

  • As an alternative, consider utilizing the Place Overview component from the Extended Component Library for a pre-built user interface to display detailed place information.

This example uses searchByText to query for taco restaurants in the Mountain View vicinity, and populates a map with markers to show the results.

Read the documentation.

TypeScript

let map;
let center;

async function initMap() {
    const { Map } = await google.maps.importLibrary("maps") as google.maps.MapsLibrary;

    center = { lat: 37.4161493, lng: -122.0812166 };
    map = new Map(document.getElementById('map') as HTMLElement, {
        center: center,
        zoom: 11,
        mapId: 'DEMO_MAP_ID',
    });

    findPlaces();
}

async function findPlaces() {
    const { Place } = await google.maps.importLibrary("places") as google.maps.PlacesLibrary;
    const { AdvancedMarkerElement } = await google.maps.importLibrary("marker") as google.maps.MarkerLibrary;
    const request = {
        textQuery: 'Tacos in Mountain View',
        fields: ['displayName', 'location', 'businessStatus'],
        includedType: 'restaurant',
        locationBias: { lat: 37.4161493, lng: -122.0812166 },
        isOpenNow: true,
        language: 'en-US',
        maxResultCount: 8,
        minRating: 3.2,
        region: 'us',
        useStrictTypeFiltering: false,
    };

    //@ts-ignore
    const { places } = await Place.searchByText(request);

    if (places.length) {
        console.log(places);

        const { LatLngBounds } = await google.maps.importLibrary("core") as google.maps.CoreLibrary;
        const bounds = new LatLngBounds();

        // Loop through and get all the results.
        places.forEach((place) => {
            const markerView = new AdvancedMarkerElement({
                map,
                position: place.location,
                title: place.displayName,
            });

            bounds.extend(place.location as google.maps.LatLng);
            console.log(place);
        });

        map.fitBounds(bounds);

    } else {
        console.log('No results');
    }
}

initMap();
index.ts

JavaScript

let map;
let center;

async function initMap() {
  const { Map } = await google.maps.importLibrary("maps");

  center = { lat: 37.4161493, lng: -122.0812166 };
  map = new Map(document.getElementById("map"), {
    center: center,
    zoom: 11,
    mapId: "DEMO_MAP_ID",
  });
  findPlaces();
}

async function findPlaces() {
  const { Place } = await google.maps.importLibrary("places");
  const { AdvancedMarkerElement } = await google.maps.importLibrary("marker");
  const request = {
    textQuery: "Tacos in Mountain View",
    fields: ["displayName", "location", "businessStatus"],
    includedType: "restaurant",
    locationBias: { lat: 37.4161493, lng: -122.0812166 },
    isOpenNow: true,
    language: "en-US",
    maxResultCount: 8,
    minRating: 3.2,
    region: "us",
    useStrictTypeFiltering: false,
  };
  //@ts-ignore
  const { places } = await Place.searchByText(request);

  if (places.length) {
    console.log(places);

    const { LatLngBounds } = await google.maps.importLibrary("core");
    const bounds = new LatLngBounds();

    // Loop through and get all the results.
    places.forEach((place) => {
      const markerView = new AdvancedMarkerElement({
        map,
        position: place.location,
        title: place.displayName,
      });

      bounds.extend(place.location);
      console.log(place);
    });
    map.fitBounds(bounds);
  } else {
    console.log("No results");
  }
}

initMap();
index.js

CSS

/* 
 * Always set the map height explicitly to define the size of the div element
 * that contains the map. 
 */
#map {
  height: 100%;
}

/* 
 * Optional: Makes the sample page fill the window. 
 */
html,
body {
  height: 100%;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}

style.css

HTML

<html>
  <head>
    <title>Text Search</title>

    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./style.css" />
    <script type="module" src="./index.js"></script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="map"></div>

    <!-- prettier-ignore -->
    <script>(g=>{var h,a,k,p="The Google Maps JavaScript API",c="google",l="importLibrary",q="__ib__",m=document,b=window;b=b[c]||(b[c]={});var d=b.maps||(b.maps={}),r=new Set,e=new URLSearchParams,u=()=>h||(h=new Promise(async(f,n)=>{await (a=m.createElement("script"));e.set("libraries",[...r]+"");for(k in g)e.set(k.replace(/[A-Z]/g,t=>"_"+t[0].toLowerCase()),g[k]);e.set("callback",c+".maps."+q);a.src=`https://maps.${c}apis.com/maps/api/js?`+e;d[q]=f;a.onerror=()=>h=n(Error(p+" could not load."));a.nonce=m.querySelector("script[nonce]")?.nonce||"";m.head.append(a)}));d[l]?console.warn(p+" only loads once. Ignoring:",g):d[l]=(f,...n)=>r.add(f)&&u().then(()=>d[l](f,...n))})
        ({key: "AIzaSyB41DRUbKWJHPxaFjMAwdrzWzbVKartNGg", v: "weekly"});</script>
  </body>
</html>
index.html

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Clone Sample

Git and Node.js are required to run this sample locally. Follow these instructions to install Node.js and NPM. The following commands clone, install dependencies and start the sample application. 

  git clone -b sample-place-text-search https://github.com/googlemaps/js-samples.git
  cd js-samples
  npm i
  npm start

Other samples can be tried by switching to any branch beginning with sample-SAMPLE_NAME. 

  git checkout sample-SAMPLE_NAME
  npm i
  npm start