Is it possible to get around the Cross-Origin limitation when calling the Google Places API Web service? - google-places-api

Question

Is it possible enable the Google Placess API WebService to allow cross-origin requests from my domain so that I can access the service directly from the browser? I'v been experimenting with the API-keys by creating a Browser API key and then adding my domain to the referers list, but to no avail. Not sure if that is what the refeferer property is for anyway.
Is this limitation by design, or am I missing something here?
Google Places API WebService is the service that I want to use. Neither the Places Autocomplete or Places Search in the Places Library are suitable for my particular requirement.
Cheers
Stian

Answer 1

This is a client-side based limitation, so the short answer is: no.
However there are websites and services that try to surmount this problem by using scripts (loading them on the fly).
Have a look here and here (these articles are about generic cross-domain AJAX requests)

Answer 2

The Places-API is also available inside the Maps-Javascript-API, you don't need to struggle with cross-origins there.

Answer 3

Let me say its impossible to get around .I tried using java instead the code just works for http request(i used here is for graph.facebook.com):
public class search {
private static String readAll(Reader rd) throws IOException {
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
int cp;
while ((cp = rd.read()) != -1) {
sb.append((char) cp);
}
return sb.toString();
}
public static JSONObject readJsonFromUrl(String url) throws IOException, JSONException {
InputStream is = new URL(url).openStream();
try {
BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is, Charset.forName("UTF-8")));
String jsonText = readAll(rd);
JSONObject json = new JSONObject(jsonText);
return json;
} finally {
is.close();
}
}
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception{
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
System.getProperties().put("http.proxyHost", "172.16.0.2");
System.getProperties().put("http.proxyPort", "8080");
JSONObject json = readJsonFromUrl("http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/nearbysearch/json?key=AIzaSyBRlMLIdoTk-j4OZCucR47rVMLhMmvZVRw&type=hospital&location=12.8213125%2C80.0442&radius=500&_=1427359809583");
System.out.println(json.toString());
// System.out.println(json.get("about"));
// System.out.println("hello ");
}
}
If you replace the link with places api web search it will not work,the reason is that google does not give its services on HTTP domain,,, and my code only works on HTTP domain(not HTTPS)