Places API (New): Node.js Client

Places API (New) client for Node.js

A comprehensive list of changes in each version may be found in the CHANGELOG.

Read more about the client libraries for Cloud APIs, including the older Google APIs Client Libraries, in Client Libraries Explained.

Table of contents:

Quickstart
Samples
Versioning
Contributing
License

Quickstart

Before you begin

Select or create a Cloud Platform project.
Enable billing for your project.
Enable the Places API (New) API.
Set up authentication so you can access the API from your local workstation.

Installing the client library

npm install @googlemaps/places

Using the client library


// Imports the Places library
const {PlacesClient} = require('@googlemaps/places').v1;

// Instantiates a client
const placesClient = new PlacesClient();

async function callSearchText() {
  // Construct request
  const request = {
    textQuery,
  };

  // Run request
  const response = await placesClient.searchText(request, {
    otherArgs: {
      headers: {
        'X-Goog-FieldMask': 'places.displayName',
      },
    },
  });
  console.log(response);
}

callSearchText();

Samples

Samples are in the samples/ directory. Each sample's README.md has instructions for running its sample.

Sample	Source Code	Try it
Places.autocomplete_places	source code
Places.get_photo_media	source code
Places.get_place	source code
Places.search_nearby	source code
Places.search_text	source code
Quickstart	source code

The Places API (New) Node.js Client API Reference documentation also contains samples.

Supported Node.js Versions

Our client libraries follow the Node.js release schedule. Libraries are compatible with all current active and maintenance versions of Node.js. If you are using an end-of-life version of Node.js, we recommend that you update as soon as possible to an actively supported LTS version.

Google's client libraries support legacy versions of Node.js runtimes on a best-efforts basis with the following warnings:

Legacy versions are not tested in continuous integration.
Some security patches and features cannot be backported.
Dependencies cannot be kept up-to-date.

Client libraries targeting some end-of-life versions of Node.js are available, and can be installed through npm dist-tags. The dist-tags follow the naming convention legacy-(version). For example, npm install @googlemaps/places@legacy-8 installs client libraries for versions compatible with Node.js 8.

Versioning

This library follows Semantic Versioning.

This library is considered to be in preview. This means it is still a work-in-progress and under active development. Any release is subject to backwards-incompatible changes at any time.

More Information: Google Cloud Platform Launch Stages

Contributing

Contributions welcome! See the Contributing Guide.

Please note that this README.md, the samples/README.md, and a variety of configuration files in this repository (including .nycrc and tsconfig.json) are generated from a central template. To edit one of these files, make an edit to its templates in directory.

License

Apache Version 2.0

See LICENSE