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Text Search (New) takes a text query and returns a list of matching places.
Text Search (New) returns information about a set of places based on a string — for example "pizza in New York" or "shoe stores near Ottawa" or "123 Main Street". The service responds with a list of places matching the text string and any location bias that has been set. Text Search (New) lets you search for places by type, filter using criteria such as business hours and rating, and restrict or bias results to a specific location.
To use Text Search (New), you must enable "Places API (New)" on your Google Cloud project. See Get started for details.
Find places by text queryCall searchByText to return a list of places from a text query or phone number. Specify search parameters using a request, and then call searchByText(). Results are returned as a list of Place objects, from which you can get place details. The following snippet shows an example of a request and call to searchByText:
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);Note: Read the guide on using TypeScript and Google Maps. JavaScript
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);
textQuery parameter.fields parameter (required) to specify a comma-separated list of one or more data fields in camel case.includedType parameter to return only results of the specified type.locationBias or locationRestriction to bias or restrict your text search results to a specific region.If the query contains a phone number, the region parameter should be set. For example, if you use a phone number to search for a place in Japan, and the requesting domain is jp, you must set the region parameter to 'jp'. If region is omitted from the request, the API will default to the United States ('us') region.
Results are returned as a list of
Place
objects, from which you can get
place details.
ExampleThe following example uses searchByText to query for taco restaurants in the Mountain View vicinity, and populates a map with markers to show the results.
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();Note: Read the guide on using TypeScript and Google Maps. 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();Note: The JavaScript is compiled from the TypeScript snippet. 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;
}
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))})
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</body>
</html> Try Sample
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