Multiple names in Google Places - google-places-api

Basically, my problem is the same as here: Google Places API: Searching for names containing spaces
If you use %20, it works for the one name containing it, but ignores the rest.
I have a need to find restaurants near by, but only restaurants I've got additional information on, so I've got a list of 10 restaurants, I want to show the closest restaurants of the 10, it appears as though google places may not support this (spaces in names of restaurants), is there another API I should be looking at?

Are you storing these restaurants in your own database?
If you are, you need to do proximity search. MySql & Postgres has GIS plugins that support this given a lat/long.

Performing a Places Search Request with multiple keywords or names is not officially supported by the Places API therefore is not guaranteed to return accurate results.
Google Places API: Searching for names containing spaces

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Optimize Google Places API Query for Prominent Parks, Mountains, Conservation Areas

First post on Stackoverflow.
I am using the Google API to sort images taken while traveling into organized folders, append tags and rename files with relevant information. I have my code working well but am not always happy with the results. I want to be able to focus my query results on major tourist attractions such as National Parks, Ski Resorts, Beaches, etc. The problem I am finding is that the prominence "rankby" variable and the "radius" are not giving satisfactory results. Here is a typical query for Zion National Park.
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/nearbysearch/json?location=37.269486111111,-112.948141666667&rankby=prominence&radius=50000&type=natural_feature,tourist_attraction,point_of_interest&keyword=&key=MYAPIKEY
The most prominent result is Springdale which is the town where you enter the part. Zion National Park is listed much further down in the results. What my code does is use the LAT and LON extracted using EXIF and does a Google API nearby search request to find the Place ID for where the photo was taken. It then does another API request for Place Details using the place_id provided by the previous step to cut down on the information I need to parse.
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/details/json?place_id=ChIJ8R5RCzaNyoARegi3rqVkstk&fields=name,address_component&key=MYAPIKEY
I can force the nearby search to return a National Park by searching against "National Park" in the keywords variable but that limits my project to only being able to provide National Park results since the keywords field can only accept one string.
I would like a park of my query to be able to return the most prominent tourist attraction at the general level, i.e. Zion National Park, Yosemite National Park, etc. so I can sort images into the general name folders and another part of the query provides the exact location. i.e. I am on this trail or at this lookout. The problem is the Google API sees these specific locations "Trail, Lookout" as tourist attractions, parks, establishments, etc. as well so it chooses those first.
What I need help with is trying to figure out if there is a better way to structure my query to return the high-level / name of the major park. From my understanding, the types field only searches on the first type even if there is more in the list and the keywords field can only accept one string as well making it impossible for one phase to capture all major destinations at a high level.
Perhaps it needs to be done with more queries but I am trying to limit the number of queries to stay inside the free quota. Maybe it will just take a long time to fully sort my files.
Read through and implemented Google API structure. I hoping someone can provide a more detailed query structure or method to parse out truly prominent locations rather than googles interpretation of prominence as it can be affected by user ratings, etc. It is not always accurate.

GoogleMaps Autocomplete (Places API)

I am trying to fetch airports using the Places API autocomplete feature.
Looking at the types parameter, if this is an airport I display the result or else show it as no airports found.
I want to enhance this app, I want to show terminals within each Airport object that I display on the front end.
I have found the nearby search within places API but it is difficult to create a search query using keyword, and type to get exact results for all the airports around the world.
Does anyone have any idea as to what would be the best way to get airports and their terminals using the Places API?
Well I'm not sure if this is really your expected result but here's what I tried:
Get the placeId of an airport using Place Autocomplete.
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/autocomplete/json?input=dublin&radius=500&types=airport&key=API_KEY
Then use that placeId to do a Place Details request and get the coordinates of the airport.
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/details/json?place_id=ChIJLxmTab4RZ0gRVfMlt7UbElU&key=API_KEY
This also returns an overview of the airport wherein in this case the result says: "
"Airport with 2 runways, a 2nd terminal opened in 2010 plus buses into Dublin & other towns/cities."
Then after having the coordinates, I use that to do a Nearby Search request.
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/nearbysearch/json?keyword=terminal&location=53.42644809999999,-6.249909799999999&radius=10000&key=API_KEY
This managed to get the terminals around it, I just threw in some radius but I guess it should be different on other locations. I also tried this with other Airports and it somehow worked.
If this won't work for your use case. Another thing I think you could do is to store the coordinates of known airports (Please note that coordinates/placeID are the only thing that is allowed for us to store/cache. Please see Specific Terms). And create an object which also stores the coordinate of their corresponding terminals. This would be an extensive work if you want to do this with airports all around the world.
Hope this helps.

Places API locatiobias is ignored

When searching for a specific place in the Google Places API I found out that Google delivers results far away from the restriction I sent with.
For example:
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/findplacefromtext/json?key=<mykey>&inputtype=textquery&input=<PlaceQuery>&fields=name,geometry&locationbias=circle:200#<lat>,<lng>
In this query above I tried to find a place in a specific circle (200 metres) around a point lat lng. (Removed for this post)
Google does it's work but when I enter a place to search for which is definitely not in the region I specified it still finds the place.
Did I misunderstood something with this type of search query? Or is it a mistake at googles end?

How does Market Samurai and Long Tail Pro handle retrieving the top 10 Google search results for a keyword?

I'm curious to know how Market Samurai, Long Tail Pro and other software handle retrieving the top 10 Google search results and not running into limits. It appears that these software packages use the users own Google account. Google Custom Search limits users to 100 queries per day (the free limit) but people tend to do keyword research on hundreds or even thousands of keywords per day and don't pay any additional amounts to Google.
Are they paying extra for this service, are they using a different API (perhaps the Adwords API?) or are they scraping the Google search results page (violation of TOS)? Really would like to know! Thanks.
i have done this in one of my project (in java).
this is very simple, in java there is one library call JSoup by using this library you can send get request to google, for example:
https://www.google.co.in/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=<your url encoded search term>
this will return you an HTML code of google search result with your own term.
using Jsoup u can find specific HTML tag with specific class or id. this concept helps you to extract url link, title and description from google search result.
for working example check here, in that example you can extract google serach result links with custom search term.
i hope this will help you.

Google places types to find Xtreme sports

Why the google places types are so limited?, I looking places where to practice extreme sports(i.e. rafting,paragliding,surf) and are not show in the two permitted Lists, and also I can not add this to the lists, somebody could help me?, thanks
You could try performing a Places API Search Request with the keyword parameter instead of types parameter. This is often successful when searching for types of places that are not in the types list.
e.g.
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/search/json?key=YOUR_API_KEY_HERE&sensor=false&keyword=paragliding&location=37.3943,-122.151&radius=50000
As per the documentation:
The keyword parameter is matched against all content that Google has
indexed for this Place, including but not limited to name, type, and
address, as well as customer reviews and other third-party content.

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