--- title: "Look up a place" method: GET path: "/places/{place}" tags: ["Places"] --- # Look up a place `GET /places/{place}` ## Request - Base URL: `https://api.gmaps.dev/v1` - URL: `https://api.gmaps.dev/v1/places/{place}` - Auth: HTTP bearer Read one saved place, by our id, Google's cid, Google's place ID, or a Google Maps link to it. It never searches: a place we have not saved answers 404, and searching its area with search_places brings it in. Needs an API key. Costs no credits. ## Path parameters - `place` string, required: Our id for the place, Google's cid, Google's place ID, or a Google Maps link to it. ## Response `200` Look up a place - object - `data` object, required - `id` string, uuid, required: Our id for the place. It never changes, and get_place takes it. Google's own id is `identity.cid`. - `identity` object, required: Who the place is: its name, category and ids. - `cid` string, nullable, required: Google's id for the place: up to 25 digits, always as a string. It does not fit in a JavaScript number, so reading it as one loses the last digits. Null when Maps didn't give one. - `placeId` string, nullable, required: Google's place ID. Null when Maps didn't give one. - `dataId` string, nullable, required: Google Maps' own id for the listing: two hexadecimal numbers joined by a colon. Null when Maps didn't give one. - `name` string, required: The business's name, as Maps shows it. - `category` string, nullable, required: The kind of business, in the language of the last search that collected it: "Bakery", "Padaria". - `mapsUrl` string, uri, required: The place's page on Google Maps. - `description` string, nullable, required: What the business wrote about itself on Maps. Null when it wrote nothing. - `status` string, nullable, required: What its Maps listing said when we collected it (`meta.scrapedAt`), such as "Permanently closed". - `contact` object, required: How to reach the business. - `phones` string[], required: Phone numbers, as Maps shows them. Empty when it lists none. - `website` string, uri, nullable, required: The business's own website. Null when Maps lists none. - `emails` string[]: Email addresses we found for the place. Sent only on a plan with emails, after you accept the acceptable use policy, and only when we have at least one. So if you have access and `emails` is missing, we have none. - `location` object, required: Where the place is. - `address` string, nullable, required: The whole address on one line, as Maps writes it. - `completeAddress` object, nullable, required: The same address in parts. Null when Maps didn't split it. - `borough` string, nullable, required: The neighborhood: the bairro, in Brazil. - `street` string, nullable, required - `city` string, nullable, required - `postalCode` string, nullable, required: The postal code: the CEP, in Brazil. - `state` string, nullable, required - `country` string, nullable, required - `city` string, nullable, required: The city, taken from `completeAddress`. - `state` string, nullable, required: The state, taken from `completeAddress`. - `country` string, nullable, required: The country, taken from `completeAddress`. - `lat` number, nullable, required: Latitude in degrees. Null when we have no coordinates, and then `lng` is null too. - `lng` number, nullable, required: Longitude in degrees. Null exactly when `lat` is. - `plusCode` string, nullable, required: Google's Plus Code for the spot, a short code that works like an address. - `ratings` object, required: The star rating and its reviews. - `rating` number, nullable, required: The average star rating, 0 to 5. Null when nobody has rated it. - `reviewCount` integer, nullable, required: How many reviews it has. Null when Maps didn't say. - `reviewsPerRating` object, nullable, required: How many reviews gave each star count. Stars Google left out are missing here too. - `hours` object, required: When it opens and how busy it gets. - `timezone` string, nullable, required: The place's time zone, such as America/Sao_Paulo. - `openHours` object, nullable, required: Day name to the hours it is open, both in the language of the last search that collected the place. Null when Maps shows no hours. - `popularTimes` object, nullable, required: Day name to hour ("0" to "23") to how busy it usually is, from 0 to 100. Null when Maps shows none. - `commerce` object, required: Prices, amenities, payments, and links to order or book. - `priceRange` string, nullable, required: The price band Maps shows, such as "$$". Null when it shows none. - `about` object[], required: What the place says about itself on Maps, in groups such as accessibility or payments. - `id` string, required - `name` string, required - `options` object[], required: What Maps lists in this group, such as a wheelchair-accessible entrance. - `name` string, required - `enabled` boolean, required: True when the place has it, false when Maps says it doesn't. - `values` string[] - `creditCardsAccepted` string[], required: The cards it takes, as Maps lists them. Empty when Maps doesn't say. - `menu` object, nullable, required: A link to its menu. Null when it has none. - `link` string, uri, required: The link to open. - `source` string, required: Who offers it: "Google", the business's own site, a delivery app. - `orderOnline` object[], required: Where to order from it online. Empty when Maps lists none. - `link` string, uri, required: The link to open. - `source` string, required: Who offers it: "Google", the business's own site, a delivery app. - `reservations` object[], required: Where to book with it. Empty when Maps lists none. - `link` string, uri, required: The link to open. - `source` string, required: Who offers it: "Google", the business's own site, a delivery app. - `meta` object, required: When we collected the place, and whether it cost you a credit. - `scrapedAt` string, date-time, required: When we last collected this place. - `firstSeenAt` string, date-time, required: When we first collected this place. - `cached` boolean, required: True when this came from what we already had, which costs nothing. - `meta` union - object - `total` integer, required: Every item that matches, not just this page. - `limit` integer, required: The most items a page holds. - `offset` integer, required: How many items came before this page. - `hasMore` boolean, required: True when another page follows. - object - `cost` integer, required: Credits this call took. - `creditsRemaining` integer, required: Credits left after this call, this month's and bought ones together. - `requestId` string, required: This call's id. Send it to support if something went wrong. - `cached` boolean: True when this response used only saved results. ## Other responses - `default`: Any other failure. --- [API](https://skmtc.dev/gmaps/apis/gmaps-dev.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/gmaps/apis/gmaps-dev/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/gmaps/apis/gmaps-dev/revisions/0b3459aaf802?raw)