Places API

Get location data for over 200 million places, and add place details, search, and autocomplete to your apps.

Get Started

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Start building with the Places API.
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Places supports two API versions: Places API and Places API (New), the next generation version of the APIs. Learn how to choose the version that is right for you.
Place IDs uniquely identify a place in the Google Places database and on Google Maps.

Make your first Text Search (New) request

Return a place information based on text input, such as a name, address, or phone number.
Add place search and autocomplete functionality to your applications, letting users find places based on a text query or phone number.
Request and display icons for various types of places.

Features for Places API (New)

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Learn about core features of the Places API (New).
Search for matching place types within the specified area.

Text Search (New)

Search for place information based on a text search string.
Get details about a particular establishment or point of interest.
Add high-quality photos of places to your application.
Get place predictions and query predictions in response to an input string.

Example apps

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Use the findPlaceFromQuery() method to locate a place, and add a marker to the map.
Use the getDetails() method to retrieve Place Details for a particular place.
Fetch additional pages of place search results.
Return place predictions in response to text searches.
Capture selected address components for a place, and use them to populate an address form.
Show all of the hotels in a specified place on a map, with on-click details for each hotel.

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