Nearby Search

Select platform: Android iOS JavaScript Web Service

Nearby Search (New) takes one or more place types, and returns a list of matching places.

Nearby Search (New) returns information about a set of places based on the place types that you specify — for example restaurant or book_store or bowling_alley. The service responds with a list of places matching the specified place types within the radius of the specified locationRestriction.

To use Nearby Search (New), you must enable "Places API (New)" on your Google Cloud project. See Get started for details.

Find nearby places

Call searchNearby() to return a list of places based on the specified place types, location, and radius. Specify search parameters using a request, and then call searchNearby(). Results are returned as a list of Place objects, from which you can get place details. The following snippet shows an example of a request and a call to searchNearby():

TypeScript

// Restrict within the map viewport.
let center = new google.maps.LatLng(52.369358, 4.889258);

const request = {
    // required parameters
    fields: ['displayName', 'location', 'businessStatus'],
    locationRestriction: {
        center: center,
        radius: 500, 
    },
    // optional parameters
    includedPrimaryTypes: ['restaurant'],
    maxResultCount: 5,
    rankPreference: SearchNearbyRankPreference.POPULARITY,
    language: 'en-US',
    region: 'us',
};

//@ts-ignore
const { places } = await Place.searchNearby(request);
index.ts

JavaScript

// Restrict within the map viewport.
let center = new google.maps.LatLng(52.369358, 4.889258);
const request = {
  // required parameters
  fields: ["displayName", "location", "businessStatus"],
  locationRestriction: {
    center: center,
    radius: 500,
  },
  // optional parameters
  includedPrimaryTypes: ["restaurant"],
  maxResultCount: 5,
  rankPreference: SearchNearbyRankPreference.POPULARITY,
  language: "en-US",
  region: "us",
};
//@ts-ignore
const { places } = await Place.searchNearby(request);

index.js
  • Use the fields parameter (required) to specify a comma-separated list of one or more data fields.
  • Use the locationRestriction parameter (required) to specify a radius of up to 50,000 meters.
  • Use the includedPrimaryTypes parameter to specify one or more place types to search for.
  • Use the rankPreference parameter to specify a SearchNearbyRankPreference of either POPULARITY or DISTANCE.
  • See the full list of parameters.

Example

The following example uses searchNearby() to query for restaurants within a 500 meter radius of the center, and populates a map with markers to show the results.

TypeScript

let map;

async function initMap() {
    const { Map, InfoWindow } = await google.maps.importLibrary('maps') as google.maps.MapsLibrary;

    let center = new google.maps.LatLng(52.369358, 4.889258);

    map = new Map(document.getElementById('map') as HTMLElement, {
        center: center,
        zoom: 11,
        mapId: 'DEMO_MAP_ID',
    });
    nearbySearch();
}

async function nearbySearch() {
    //@ts-ignore
    const { Place, SearchNearbyRankPreference } = await google.maps.importLibrary('places') as google.maps.PlacesLibrary;
    const { AdvancedMarkerElement } = await google.maps.importLibrary("marker") as google.maps.MarkerLibrary;

    // Restrict within the map viewport.
    let center = new google.maps.LatLng(52.369358, 4.889258);

    const request = {
        // required parameters
        fields: ['displayName', 'location', 'businessStatus'],
        locationRestriction: {
            center: center,
            radius: 500, 
        },
        // optional parameters
        includedPrimaryTypes: ['restaurant'],
        maxResultCount: 5,
        rankPreference: SearchNearbyRankPreference.POPULARITY,
        language: 'en-US',
        region: 'us',
    };

    //@ts-ignore
    const { places } = await Place.searchNearby(request);

    if (places.length) {
        console.log(places);

        const { LatLngBounds } = await google.maps.importLibrary("core") as google.maps.CoreLibrary;
        const bounds = new LatLngBounds();

        // Loop through and get all the results.
        places.forEach((place) => {
            const markerView = new AdvancedMarkerElement({
                map,
                position: place.location,
                title: place.displayName,
            });

            bounds.extend(place.location as google.maps.LatLng);
            console.log(place);
        });

        map.fitBounds(bounds);

    } else {
        console.log("No results");
    }
}

initMap();
index.ts

JavaScript

let map;

async function initMap() {
  const { Map, InfoWindow } = await google.maps.importLibrary("maps");
  let center = new google.maps.LatLng(52.369358, 4.889258);

  map = new Map(document.getElementById("map"), {
    center: center,
    zoom: 11,
    mapId: "DEMO_MAP_ID",
  });
  nearbySearch();
}

async function nearbySearch() {
  //@ts-ignore
  const { Place, SearchNearbyRankPreference } = await google.maps.importLibrary(
    "places",
  );
  const { AdvancedMarkerElement } = await google.maps.importLibrary("marker");
  // Restrict within the map viewport.
  let center = new google.maps.LatLng(52.369358, 4.889258);
  const request = {
    // required parameters
    fields: ["displayName", "location", "businessStatus"],
    locationRestriction: {
      center: center,
      radius: 500,
    },
    // optional parameters
    includedPrimaryTypes: ["restaurant"],
    maxResultCount: 5,
    rankPreference: SearchNearbyRankPreference.POPULARITY,
    language: "en-US",
    region: "us",
  };
  //@ts-ignore
  const { places } = await Place.searchNearby(request);

  if (places.length) {
    console.log(places);

    const { LatLngBounds } = await google.maps.importLibrary("core");
    const bounds = new LatLngBounds();

    // Loop through and get all the results.
    places.forEach((place) => {
      const markerView = new AdvancedMarkerElement({
        map,
        position: place.location,
        title: place.displayName,
      });

      bounds.extend(place.location);
      console.log(place);
    });
    map.fitBounds(bounds);
  } else {
    console.log("No results");
  }
}

initMap();
index.js

CSS

/* 
 * Always set the map height explicitly to define the size of the div element
 * that contains the map. 
 */
#map {
  height: 100%;
}

/* 
 * Optional: Makes the sample page fill the window. 
 */
html,
body {
  height: 100%;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}

style.css

HTML

<html>
  <head>
    <title>Nearby Search</title>

    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./style.css" />
    <script type="module" src="./index.js"></script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="map"></div>

    <!-- prettier-ignore -->
    <script>(g=>{var h,a,k,p="The Google Maps JavaScript API",c="google",l="importLibrary",q="__ib__",m=document,b=window;b=b[c]||(b[c]={});var d=b.maps||(b.maps={}),r=new Set,e=new URLSearchParams,u=()=>h||(h=new Promise(async(f,n)=>{await (a=m.createElement("script"));e.set("libraries",[...r]+"");for(k in g)e.set(k.replace(/[A-Z]/g,t=>"_"+t[0].toLowerCase()),g[k]);e.set("callback",c+".maps."+q);a.src=`https://maps.${c}apis.com/maps/api/js?`+e;d[q]=f;a.onerror=()=>h=n(Error(p+" could not load."));a.nonce=m.querySelector("script[nonce]")?.nonce||"";m.head.append(a)}));d[l]?console.warn(p+" only loads once. Ignoring:",g):d[l]=(f,...n)=>r.add(f)&&u().then(()=>d[l](f,...n))})
        ({key: "AIzaSyB41DRUbKWJHPxaFjMAwdrzWzbVKartNGg", v: "beta"});</script>
  </body>
</html>
index.html

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