How To Use Google Places API In Python

With the Google Places API, we can query information on different places from the Google Maps platform. In this video, we will explore how to search for locations in Google Maps & retrieve place details from Google Maps while only using Python.
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[@william.darrigo]

Wow. Thank you! I've been scavenging the internet for a week now and this tutorial solved my problem.

[@SigmaCoding]

You're welcome!

[@twitch-clipz]

This is the best video tutorial ever!

[@mwasimmit]

Great work, you got a new subscriber.

[@jonathanwitkowski1071]

Great Video

[@czagazeta]

Thanks for the video. Subbed!

[@SigmaCoding]

Glad you liked Christian, and thanks for subscribing!

[@milehighhub1431]

Thank you!

[@tonrojradtanasiri1883]

Great video! Thank you very much! I just have a question for the next step, If I want to export all the results into a .csv file how would I do that? I know it could be very simple, I am a beginner here.

[@alhdlakhfdqw]

thank you so much for your great video! :) subed

[@SigmaCoding]

Thanks for the sub!

[@rockyard100]

Are the requests to be paid at every request paid?

[@guangshuozang2555]

Thanks for the video, question, I used find_place with address to find a place id and then use place() to find place details, however, the response doesn't have photo even though I can see photo when I search for the address in google map. Any idea?

[@shanmugavelu953]

Thanks for posting a tutorial. I was able to follow your guidelines. My query is that everytime i only get 20 business and the program does not move to next page.

[@purplespecter]

same issue !!!

[@philipegunawan9857]

Hi, do you need to pay for the search nearby request? I wanna play around with this API and I am quite afraid to be charged.

[@karakol86]

Can we make a map with the outputs? Or does this have to be done with geopandas in addition to using the API?

[@ezequiasrocha3037]

Could you tell me if nearby is able to work with **basic data**? I just need to know if a point and a radius has a place of a type. What would you recommend?

[@clippysnips]

Hi! Would it be possible to list down all the existing branches of a certain establishment using this procedure? If not, what method would you recommend? Solid tutorial btw!

[@SigmaCoding]

That's a little challenging because there is no "real way" to list all the existing branches of an existing establishment using this API. You're best bet is to just do a general search of the establishment over a large area. For example search for "McDonalds" in a particular geographic location. The drawback is you might be required to do multiple requests depending on the number of establishments that might exist. Also, I've seen issues related to naming conventions. For example, I'm not sure if "CVS", and "CVS Pharamcy" would necessarily be returned in a search for "CVS".

[@sanusiyunusa4470]

@@SigmaCoding please I'm having problems making requests. I get ssl certificate verification failed.

[@theinfoprime1922]

In which framework are you coding is it flask or django or pure python file. please reply Thanks in advance 👍👍👍

[@Sanchitgoel10]

Great video. I have a question though, how to pass my current location of the device(basically letting the code detect my location automatically) instead of the exact coordinates?

[@prashantbhandari9499]

same question i have

[@BiancaAguglia]

It's probably a two step process involving two different APIs: 1. use the Geolocation API to get your current location 2. pass the current location to the Places API. I might be wrong though. I'm new to the whole API process. 🙃Maybe there's a more direct way of accessing your current location and using it in your Places call.

[@aryaanand759]

amazing tutorial! great explanation!

[@SigmaCoding]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@aryaanand759]

@@SigmaCoding it was working great until i added place details, after that it became really slow and results in a timeout after one or two details what might be the problem??

[@aryaanand759]

@@SigmaCoding is there any other way i can parse the details

[@SigmaCoding]

@@aryaanand759 You might have to add a pause between each request. If you hit the server with too many requests it'll kick you out. Usually, I just need to do a 1 to 2 second pause and it's fine.

[@aryaanand759]

@@SigmaCoding it is still really slow can I parse it through as an json object (i only neeed the name)

[@jonbobb88]

First, I love this code! Thank you so much for the video! I have lat/long strings; however, I keep getting error: places_nearby() missing 1 required positional argument: 'location' Any help is greatly appreciated!

[@andreascalco7115]

Great tutorial, I found it very easy to get started. I have a question related to the Google APIs Terms of Service. Under paragraph 3.2.4 (a) it states "No Scraping. Customer will not extract, export, or otherwise scrape Google Maps Content for use outside the Services." If I store the information in a variable, is this considered against the ToS? Thanks!

[@SigmaCoding]

More than likely you should be fine, from what I've seen as long as you're not making a product with this data, then usually you're fine. Additionally, as long as you're not taking their dataset and making it public, you'll be fine. For example, if I scrape all the data and put it on my GitHub, I could get in trouble. Additionally, if I go an create a GoogleMap competitor with their data, then I would get in trouble. From my experience, Google cares once you get into the commercial aspect of it.

[@andreascalco7115]

@@SigmaCoding thanks a lot for your response! Great content, I subscribed to the channel!

[@philbolton2782]

Great video. How would you iterate over a range of logitudes at a certain latitude then display only the name from the results??

[@SigmaCoding]

You have a couple of options for looping through lat/lng coordinates. Option 1: Giant String, separated by a " | " (Pipe Character) Example 1: '60.170880,24.942795|60.170879,24.942796|60.170877,24.942796' Option 2: List of Strings of Coordinates separated by a " , " (Comma Character) Example 2: [ '60.170880,24.942795', '60.170879,24.942796', '60.170877,24.942796' ] Option 3: List of Tuples of Coordinates separated by a " , " (Comma Character) Example 3: [ ('60.170880' , '24.942795') , ('60.170879' , '24.942796') ] Option 4: List of Dictionaries of Coordinates where you specify the "lat" and "lng" key. Example 4: [ {"lat": 60.170880, "lng": 24.942795} , {"lat": 60.170879, "lng": 24.942796} ]

[@Sagar11447]

@@SigmaCoding Hiii i m am pretty new to python can please give a code for this? please its a request

[@GeoAI5]

The documentation is very nice however the python client have no or very less documentation. Can you please provide if you have any?

[@mattiafanti9751]

Is it possible to print out how much time was spent in a particular location?

[@alikurtulus2688]

It is great tutorial! I just wonder , Can i use places api for finding nightlife(bar,nightclub) details for my project?

[@SigmaCoding]

Yes, you can! Google provides a list of categories that they cover and it can be found here: developers.google.com/places/supported_types. In your case, you would want ['night_club', 'bar'].

[@annship1427]

@@SigmaCoding Is there a way to find business types? Such as 'E-commerce service' ?

[@AshishRaj-zv8nc]

Great Tutorial. I have a small question, how do you convert places_result, a dict type, to dataframe ?

[@SigmaCoding]

It really depends on the data you have. For example, if you're pulling everything, including photos, reviews, and other information that could have multiple values, then do not put it in a data frame as one big blob. Trying to "flatten" that dictionary and make it a normalized data set that fits into a data frame will give you millions upon millions of rows. The only reason I know this is because I did it once in PowerQuery and was blown away on how many rows there were. What I recommend you do is split the information into different tables. For example, hours go in one table, photos in one table, reviews in another table. Again it really depends on what data you're trying to store in a data frame.

[@Sagar11447]

@@SigmaCoding Hello I am facing the same issue. As i am going as per your codes the generated dictionary has "results" as a key and value is the entire request so not able to flatten or open that part please help with this

[@DAngeloIzquierdo]

This works great however it only outputs 21 rows of content is there any way to increase the amount to 100 for example? increasing the radius doesnt fix the problem either

[@sounakghosh1410]

Thanks, Great Video ! But is this service free or I will be charged in my GCP account?

[@winu118]

hi, would it be possible to include such an api script within a python code, so it would label gps locations with the type matched to the closest building found in this API?

[@SigmaCoding]

There are multiple ways to approach this problem, but I'll explain what I think will be the most straightforward approach. It sounds like you already have a latitude and longitude coordinate you want to search. That's good because what that means is you can use the "Nearby Search" endpoint to conduct your search. *HOWEVER, KEEP IN MIND THIS IS NOT A FREE API!* Google seems to have now made this a paid API, so you'll want to keep that in mind when you make requests. All you need to do is request the endpoint, specify the location parameter (the lat/long coordinates), and the radius parameter (max is 5000 meters). The response will give you a list of places and their coordinates. Now you have the location you searched and all the nearby places with their coordinates. The rest is just math. You can calculate the distance from the origin to the destination using the distance formula or use another API to do it for you. The API results will probably be more accurate, so I would try to find a free one that can offer you that service. You could use the Google Distance Matrix API, but this also not a free API so you'll need to keep that in mind.

[@atiqulislam4783]

Hi, I have a question. I want to be able to find the distance to the closest point of interest. For example, if i have a dataset on a group of houses and I want to find the distance to its nearest train station, how would i go about solving this? I have used Googles Distance Matrix API, however, this only allows me to do point to point distance unless if i have completely missed something. Any ideas or help would be much appreciated. Thanks.

[@SigmaCoding]

From what I've read the distance matrix API should take either a pair of coordinates or an address either one should work fine. All it's supposed to do is convert a raw address string into a pair of lon/lat coordinates. What exactly are you passing through to the distance matrix API?

[@atiqulislam4783]

@@SigmaCoding I am passing through the starting position which is a list of postcodes that I am running through, the destination which is a fixed train station (this is what I want to change so that instead of it being a fixed station, it becomes to nearest station with respect to the starting positions postcode) and the mode of transport which I have set to walking. I have got it to return the distance in Kilometres.

[@SigmaCoding]

It's probably the zip codes if I have to guess. I don't believe you can pass through a zip code as an a point of origin, it has to be an address or lat/lon coordinate. If I was in your position do a Google place query where you search for train stations based on the origin address. Once you have that data set, measure the distance using the address for each train station relative to each origin address and then just rank them. Hopefully that makes sense.

[@leandroranggel]

Great example! do you know any google api that returns music events?

[@SigmaCoding]

I didn't see any category that would be that specific in the documentation. developers.google.com/places/web-service/supported_types If I were you, I would do a text search since it's a little more flexible. You could just do something like "Music Events in New York" for example. developers.google.com/places/web-service/search

[@kevinshiflett4449]

I would utilize the songkick api

[@mehakmadaan1747]

How can we post/add the photos on any specific location with api?

[@SigmaCoding]

I'm sort of confused with what you're asking. Are you asking if it's possible to return photos from a specific location?

[@karanr1606]

Hi, I want to make a code where is searches for hospitals and pharmacies near a person. How would i do that?

[@HarishKumar-bm5mr]

please do video on the Road API

[@Hobbzy4]

Would you be able to take a dataset that has address, city and business name, find the Place ID and then use that to get more info on the business, like hours, reviews, etc..?

[@SigmaCoding]

100%, but I will warn you that you'll have to use multiple endpoints to achieve this. The Google Places API will allow you "search" for a business with the information you have. In your case, I would start with the "TextSearch" endpoint and see how accurate the results are. The "TextSearch" query will return the "PlaceID," which is what you want. With the "PlaceID," you can make your second request to the "PlaceDetails" endpoint and get further details on the place. BE WARNED, the Places API is now charging for most of the details related to a place. For example, you said you want hours and reviews, all of that is now no longer free, so you would have to pay to get it.

[@BiancaAguglia]

​@@SigmaCoding I believe we get a $200 monthly credit towards the cost of different calls we make through the Places API. That's on top of the one time $300 credit we get when we first sign up for a google developer account. I might be wrong though. I'm new to the whole API process and I'm still struggling with making a simple call. 🙃Great video, by the way. Very nice teaching style.

[@SigmaCoding]

@@BiancaAguglia Hey Bianca, you're absolutely correct individuals who are a first time sign up get access to free credits they can use. For most projects it more than enough. It's usually if you want to make this a recurring process is where things usually can cost some money. In the bigger scope of it all, it's honestly not that bad, but it's still a cost. Glad you liked the video! :)

[@maxhartmann8993]

Hello and thank you for this great video. Could you please help me out a bit? I am trying to get the results into a Excelfile. So I would like each search result(for example the data like name, rating, phone_number, website of restaurants) in an extra row. Do you have tip how to accomplish this?

[@SigmaCoding]

Hi Max, this is really easy to do thankfully. The only thing I want to make you aware of is that sometimes the JSON results can have missing keys. In other words, you go and fetch the details, and for whatever reason, that particular business may not have a phone number, so just keep that in mind. I have a file on GitHub, that will walk you through how to dump the results into an Excel file. Here is the link: github.com/areed1192/sigma_coding_youtube/tree/master/python/python-api You'll want the Google Maps API - Places API file and once inside go to the "Dumping Values in Excel" section

[@maxhartmann8993]

@@SigmaCoding Wow, thank you once again for this simpke but very helpful code!!! I don't get the keyword-search entirely. It seems, that if I search for a keyword, it does not show the same results (less) as when I search for something in google maps manually. An example keyword-phrase would be "architect Berlin" (Germany). Am I using the wrong api function? Is there something better than keyword?

[@SigmaCoding]

@@maxhartmann8993 You might want to look into the Query Autocomplete endpoint, as this one will take phrases and do a best-guess query. Here is the link to the documentation: developers.google.com/places/web-service/query. Also, it's prevalent to get different/fewer results when doing keyword-phrase searches as this is something Google does this intentionally to make sure different businesses get an equal footing in the search query.

[@maxhartmann8993]

@@SigmaCoding Thank you once again for your help! I will check your other videos. You have great stuff here!

[@eborne66]

Great Video: How does "get_my_key()" work?

[@filippomarcon2786]

He imports a python file that he made as a module, in that file he saved the key. The file has a function called get_my_key that returns the key

[@bhuvaneshs.k638]

Hello Sigma Coding can we get text or audio guide for Google Maps with Google Maps API ?

[@SigmaCoding]

You mean like an audio guide of the area? I don't think Google offers anything like that.

[@ShnauzerR]

How do you do a text search? I couldn't find the proper gmaps.argument for that one. For ex in this case for nearby search it is places_search. Thanks!

[@SigmaCoding]

Are you using the "TextSearch" endpoint? Here is an example of the URL you need to build: "maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/textsearch/json?query=pizza+in+san+diego"

[@ShnauzerR]

@@SigmaCoding Thanks! I was able to solve that error! You da man!

[@ShnauzerR]

@@SigmaCoding Hey I have another question; is there a limit of 3 tokens for up to 60 results? i couldnt seem to get more than 60 results at a time. Thanks!

[@SigmaCoding]

@@ShnauzerR Are you trying to use 3 different API tokens in the same script? Be careful Google might not allow that type of behavior with their API. I'm not sure though.

[@anirudhduvvuri6232]

Hi, I'm getting list of only 8 restaurants and this error pops up _OverQueryLimit Traceback (most recent call last) ~\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\googlemaps\client.py in _request(self, url, params, first_request_time, retry_counter, base_url, accepts_clientid, extract_body, requests_kwargs, post_json)

[@SigmaCoding]

You made too many requests for the day. You can only make so many requests per day, so you have to wait till it resets or provide your credit card info to Google to get more free requests.

[@harsitgupta6050]

This API returns only 10 photos. If we want all the photos of that place using placeId then how can we achieve that?

[@chickaberga2]

I installed googlemaps and pprint why do I not have the GoogleMapsAPIKey module?

[@SigmaCoding]

That's because the GoogleMapsAPIKey module is a separate Python Script, that I created to store my credentials. All you need to do is put your credentials in the Script instead of importing them.

[@wujia-ling9783]

Did you know how to get the popular times in google map?

[@samnehful]

I've got this error "ImportError: No module named googlemaps". I installed this module via "pip install googlemaps". What can be the problem ? Thank you.

[@SigmaCoding]

That's a very interesting question did you install this in the environment that your running the Python Script from?

[@maxhartmann8993]

A little update on the program I am currently writing. The only thing regarding the next_page_token that worked for me was the following... #if 'next_page_token' in places_result: page_token = places_result['next_page_token'] time.sleep(2) places_result2 = gmaps.places_nearby(location='48.9471455, 9.4341813', radius = 8000, open_now = False , keyword = 'Anwalt', page_token=page_token) also I needed a for loop for the places_result2..... Is there a better way to accomplish this? Sorry I am such a noob. Just starting out with python an google API's.

[@SigmaCoding]

You pretty much have it. Here is how I would approach it: # create a list to help with pagnation place_result_list = [] # Do a simple nearby search where we specify the location # in lat/lon format, along with a radius measured in meters places_result = gmaps.places_nearby(location='-33.8670522,151.1957362', radius = 40000, open_now =False , type = 'pet_store') # append the results to the master list. place_result_list.append(places_result) # as long as there is a next page token keep making requests. # make sure to pause it, and append the results to the master list. while 'next_page_token' in places_result.keys(): time.sleep(3) places_result = gmaps.places_nearby(page_token = places_result['next_page_token']) place_result_list.append(places_result) pprint.pprint(places_result)

[@passionpeace2487]

How to choose certain place number in google map and send mesaage Please explain sir its urgent

[@passionpeace2487]

With the help gsm gps system

[@SigmaCoding]

What do you mean by sending a message?

[@talhaseeb1947]

googlemaps.exceptions.ApiError: REQUEST_DENIED (You must enable Billing on the Google Cloud Project at console.cloud.google.com/project/_/billing/enable Learn more at developers.google.com/maps/gmp-get-started) getting this error ! Can anyone help me?

[@bharatrajsingh2182]

Don't know why am i getting this error : You have exceeded your daily request quota for this API but i have made only single call yet..why is it so? can you plz help sir?

[@SigmaCoding]

The daily quote resets every 24 hours, so it's based on the last request you made. It sounds like you've made too many requests and Google is basically cutting you off until the next pull. If you want more requests, you'll have to add a Credit Card on file so that you can make more requests.

[@bharatrajsingh2182]

@@SigmaCoding No sir..i just made only one request ...after that it was showing me this error

[@SigmaCoding]

@@bharatrajsingh2182 What does your request look like? Do you have the code?

[@bharatrajsingh2182]

@@SigmaCoding yes import googlemaps import json import pprint import xlsxwriter import time # Define the API Key. API_KEY = 'my_key' # Define the Client gmaps = googlemaps.Client(key = API_KEY) # Do a simple nearby search where we specify the location # in lat/lon format, along with a radius measured in meters places_result = gmaps.places_nearby(location='27.2038,77.5011', radius = 40000, open_now =False , type = 'restaurant') pprint.pprint(places_result)

[@vend57]

@@bharatrajsingh2182 same problem. It doesn't provide above 1 request.

[@dennisdeberry2582]

Nice tutorial BUT you did not actually run the program so people could see that it actually worked

[@SigmaCoding]

Thanks for the feedback, I'll try to run the script during the video more frequently.

[@MuhammadBilal-ry5rb]

how to import GoogleMapsAPIKey package i'm getting error here please guide me.Thanks

[@SigmaCoding]

Keep in mind that it is a personal python file I wrote, all it does is import a function that grabs my API key. In your case, you can just put your API key in the main python file unless you plan to share it with someone. In that case, you need to store it in a secure source and import it from that source.

[@nassehk]

Great video but why is the resolution so low? Makes reading the text difficult.

[@ManikandanSathiyanarayanan]

hi how to use find place from text through gmaps client .. i use gmaps.places_findplacefrom text but it throw me an error client has no attribute 'places_findplacefromtext'