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IntroductionWhen you call the Place Details (New), Nearby Search (New), or Text Search (New) methods, 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.
A full list of supported data fields and their corresponding SKUs can be found in Place Data Fields (New). For information on fields specific to each API, see the following:
You specify the field list by creating a response field mask. You then pass the response field mask to either method by using the parameter $fields
or fields
, or by using the HTTP or gRPC header X-Goog-FieldMask
.
Field masking is a good design practice to ensure that you don't request unnecessary data, which helps to avoid unnecessary processing time and billing charges.
Define a response field maskThe response field mask is a comma-separated list of paths, where each path specifies a unique field in the response body. The path starts from the top-level response message and uses a dot-separated path to the specified field.
Construct a field path as follows:
topLevelField[.secondLevelField][.thirdLevelField][...]Note: Don't use spaces anywhere in the list of field paths.
You can request all fields by using a field mask of *
.
For more information about how to construct field masks, see the field_mask.proto.
Determine what field masks to useHere's how you can determine which field masks you want to use:
*
.Nearby Search (New) and Text Search (New) return an array of Place objects in the places
field of the response. For these APIs, places
is the top-level field of the response.
For example, to see the complete response object from a Text Search (New):
curl -X POST -d '{ "textQuery" : "Spicy Vegetarian Food in Sydney, Australia" }' \ -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H 'X-Goog-Api-Key: API_KEY' \ -H 'X-Goog-FieldMask: *' \ 'https://places.googleapis.com/v1/places:searchText'
The complete response object from a Text Search (New) call is in the form:
{ "places": [ { "name": "places/ChIJs5ydyTiuEmsR0fRSlU0C7k0", "id": "ChIJs5ydyTiuEmsR0fRSlU0C7k0", "types": [ "vegetarian_restaurant", "vegan_restaurant", "meal_takeaway", "restaurant", "food", "point_of_interest", "establishment" ], "nationalPhoneNumber": "0433 479 794", "internationalPhoneNumber": "+61 433 479 794", "formattedAddress": "29 King St, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia", "displayName": { "text": "Spiced @ Barangaroo", "languageCode": "en" }, ... }, ... ] }
Therefore, you specify a field mask for these APIs in the form:
places[.secondLevelField][.thirdLevelField][...]
If you want to return only the formattedAddress
and displayName
fields, set your field mask to:
places.formattedAddress,places.displayName
Specifying displayName
includes both the text
and language
fields of displayName
. If you only want the text
field, set the field mask as:
places.formattedAddress,places.displayName.textDefine a response field mask for Place Details (New)
Place Details (New) returns a single Place object in the form:
{ "name": "places/ChIJkR8FdQNB0VQRm64T_lv1g1g", "id": "ChIJkR8FdQNB0VQRm64T_lv1g1g", "types": [ "locality", "political" ], "formattedAddress": "Trinidad, CA 95570, USA", "displayName": { "text": "Trinidad", "languageCode": "en" } ... }
Therefore, you specify a field mask for this API by specifying the fields of the Place object that you want to return:
curl -X GET -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \ -H "X-Goog-Api-Key: API_KEY" \ -H "X-Goog-FieldMask: formattedAddress,displayName" \ https://places.googleapis.com/v1/places/ChIJj61dQgK6j4AR4GeTYWZsKWwgRPC call
For gRPC, set a variable containing the response field mask. You can then pass that variable to the request.
const ( fieldMask = "places.formattedAddress,places.displayName" )Field path considerations
Include only the fields that you require in the response. Returning just the fields that you need:
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Last updated 2025-08-14 UTC.
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