Migrate to Place Details (New)

European Economic Area (EEA) developers

Introduction

Places API supports Place Details (Legacy). If you are familiar with Places API (Legacy), Place Details (New) makes the following changes:

  • Field masking is required. You must specify which fields you want returned in the response. There is no default list of returned fields. If you omit this list, the methods return an error. For more information, see FieldMask.
  • Place Details (New) supports both API keys and OAuth tokens as the authentication mechanism.
  • Only JSON is supported as a response format in Place Details (New).
  • The JSON response format for Places API (New) has changed from the format of the legacy APIs. For more details, see Migrate the Places API response.

The following table lists parameters in Place Details (Legacy) that have been renamed or modified for Place Details (New), or parameters that are no longer supported.

Current parameter New parameter Notes
place_id places/PLACE_ID The string places/PLACE_ID is also called the place resource name. In the response from a Place Details (New), Nearby Search (New), and Text Search (New) request, this string is contained in the name field of the response. The standalone place ID is contained in the id field of the response.
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Example request

The following example GET request uses the Place Details (Legacy). In this example, you request a JSON response containing information about a place ID and pass all parameters as URL parameters. This example also uses fields so the response only includes the display name and formatted address of the place:

curl -L -X GET \
'https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/details/json?place_id=ChIJj61dQgK6j4AR4GeTYWZsKWw&fields=name%2Cformatted_address&key=API_KEY'

With Place Details (New), you make a GET request and pass all parameters in URL parameters and headers as part of the request. This example also uses a field mask so the response only includes the display name and formatted address of the place:

curl -X GET -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-H "X-Goog-Api-Key: API_KEY" \
-H "X-Goog-FieldMask: displayName,formattedAddress" \
https://places.googleapis.com/v1/places/ChIJj61dQgK6j4AR4GeTYWZsKWw

The string places/PLACE_ID is also called the place resource name. In the response from a Place Details (New), Nearby Search (New), and Text Search (New) request, this string is contained in the name field of the response. The standalone place ID is contained in the id field of the response.