Places API (New)

  • The Places API gives developers access to search and retrieval endpoints for places data.

  • The API offers functionalities such as place autocomplete, details retrieval, nearby search, and text-based search.

  • Developers can retrieve photos associated with places using the places.photos resource.

  • The service endpoint for the Places API is https://places.googleapis.com.

  • Google-provided client libraries are recommended for interacting with the API.

The Places API allows developers to access a variety of search and retrieval endpoints for a Place.

Service: places.googleapis.com

To call this service, we recommend that you use the Google-provided client libraries. If your application needs to use your own libraries to call this service, use the following information when you make the API requests.

Discovery document

A Discovery Document is a machine-readable specification for describing and consuming REST APIs. It is used to build client libraries, IDE plugins, and other tools that interact with Google APIs. One service may provide multiple discovery documents. This service provides the following discovery document:

Service endpoint

A service endpoint is a base URL that specifies the network address of an API service. One service might have multiple service endpoints. This service has the following service endpoint and all URIs below are relative to this service endpoint:

  • https://places.googleapis.com

REST Resource: v1.places

Methods
autocomplete POST /v1/places:autocomplete
Returns predictions for the given input.
get GET /v1/{name=places/*}
Get the details of a place based on its resource name, which is a string in the places/{place_id} format.
searchNearby POST /v1/places:searchNearby
Search for places near locations.
searchText POST /v1/places:searchText
Text query based place search.

REST Resource: v1.places.photos

Methods
getMedia GET /v1/{name=places/*/photos/*/media}
Get a photo media with a photo reference string.