Home Products Google Maps Platform Documentation Web Services Places API Guides Send feedback Stay organized with collections Save and categorize content based on your preferences. Places API Get location data for over 200 million places, and add place details, search, and autocomplete to your apps. Get Started Start building with the Places API. explore Get started with Google Maps Platform Create an account, generate an API key, and start building. quiz Choose your API version 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. pin_drop Learn about place IDs Place IDs uniquely identify a place in the Google Places database and on Google Maps. travel_explore Make your first Text Search (New) request Return a place information based on text input, such as a name, address, or phone number. code Places Library in Maps JavaScript API Add place search and autocomplete functionality to your applications, letting users find places based on a text query or phone number. storefront Learn about place icons Request and display icons for various types of places. Features for Places API (New) Learn about core features of the Places API (New). Nearby Search (New) Search for matching place types within the specified area. Text Search (New) Search for place information based on a text search string. Place Details (New) Get details about a particular establishment or point of interest. Place Photos (New) Add high-quality photos of places to your application. Autocomplete (New) Get place predictions and query predictions in response to an input string. Features of Places API Learn about core features of the Places API. Place Search Search for place information about establishments, prominent points of interest, and geographic locations. Place Details Get details about a particular establishment or point of interest. Place Photos Add high-quality photos of places to your application. Place Autocomplete Add type-ahead autocomplete functionality to your application (search by place name, address, or plus code). Query Autocomplete Add on-the-fly geographic query predictions to your application (search by text query, for example "pizza near me"). Example apps Run live code samples on your local machine and favorite code playgrounds with the Maps JavaScript API. travel_explore Place search Use the findPlaceFromQuery() method to locate a place, and add a marker to the map. business Place details Use the getDetails() method to retrieve Place Details for a particular place. description Place search pagination Fetch additional pages of place search results. input Place autocomplete Return place predictions in response to text searches. dynamic_form Place autocomplete address form Capture selected address components for a place, and use them to populate an address form. hotel Place autocomplete hotel search Show all of the hotels in a specified place on a map, with on-click details for each hotel. Help & support Get help. Give help. Join the community. Stack Overflow Get help. Give Help. Build Maps karma. Issue Tracker Report a bug or open a feature request. Platform status Find out about platform incidents and outages. Support Get help from the Google Maps Platform team.