Place Autocomplete Data Predictions

This example demonstrates calling fetchAutocompleteSuggestions() for the input "Tadi", then calling toPlace() on the first prediction result, followed by a call to fetchFields() to get place details.

Read the documentation.

TypeScript

async function init() {
    const { AutocompleteSessionToken, AutocompleteSuggestion } =
        await google.maps.importLibrary('places');

    // Add an initial request body.
    const request: google.maps.places.AutocompleteRequest = {
        input: 'Tadi',
        locationRestriction: {
            west: -122.44,
            north: 37.8,
            east: -122.39,
            south: 37.78,
        },
        origin: { lat: 37.7893, lng: -122.4039 },
        includedPrimaryTypes: ['restaurant'],
        language: 'en-US',
        region: 'us',
    };

    // Create a session token.
    const token = new AutocompleteSessionToken();
    // Add the token to the request.
    request.sessionToken = token;
    // Fetch autocomplete suggestions.
    const { suggestions } =
        await AutocompleteSuggestion.fetchAutocompleteSuggestions(request);

    const title = document.getElementById('title')!;
    title.appendChild(
        document.createTextNode(
            'Query predictions for "' + request.input + '":'
        )
    );

    const resultsElement = document.getElementById('results')!;

    for (const suggestion of suggestions) {
        const placePrediction = suggestion.placePrediction;

        // Create a new list element.
        const listItem = document.createElement('li');

        listItem.appendChild(
            document.createTextNode(placePrediction!.text.toString())
        );
        resultsElement.appendChild(listItem);
    }

    const place = suggestions[0].placePrediction!.toPlace(); // Get first predicted place.
    await place.fetchFields({
        fields: ['displayName', 'formattedAddress'],
    });

    const placeInfo = document.getElementById('prediction')!;
    placeInfo.textContent = `First predicted place: ${place.displayName}: ${place.formattedAddress}`;
}

void init();

JavaScript

async function init() {
    const { AutocompleteSessionToken, AutocompleteSuggestion } =
        await google.maps.importLibrary('places');

    // Add an initial request body.
    const request = {
        input: 'Tadi',
        locationRestriction: {
            west: -122.44,
            north: 37.8,
            east: -122.39,
            south: 37.78,
        },
        origin: { lat: 37.7893, lng: -122.4039 },
        includedPrimaryTypes: ['restaurant'],
        language: 'en-US',
        region: 'us',
    };

    // Create a session token.
    const token = new AutocompleteSessionToken();
    // Add the token to the request.
    request.sessionToken = token;
    // Fetch autocomplete suggestions.
    const { suggestions } =
        await AutocompleteSuggestion.fetchAutocompleteSuggestions(request);

    const title = document.getElementById('title');
    title.appendChild(
        document.createTextNode(
            'Query predictions for "' + request.input + '":'
        )
    );

    const resultsElement = document.getElementById('results');

    for (const suggestion of suggestions) {
        const placePrediction = suggestion.placePrediction;

        // Create a new list element.
        const listItem = document.createElement('li');

        listItem.appendChild(
            document.createTextNode(placePrediction.text.toString())
        );
        resultsElement.appendChild(listItem);
    }

    const place = suggestions[0].placePrediction.toPlace(); // Get first predicted place.
    await place.fetchFields({
        fields: ['displayName', 'formattedAddress'],
    });

    const placeInfo = document.getElementById('prediction');
    placeInfo.textContent = `First predicted place: ${place.displayName}: ${place.formattedAddress}`;
}

void init();

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;
}

HTML

<html>
    <head>
        <title>Place Autocomplete Data API Predictions</title>

        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./style.css" />
        <script type="module" src="./index.js"></script>
        <script>
            // prettier-ignore
            (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: "GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY"
            });
        </script>
    </head>
    <body>
        <div id="title"></div>
        <ul id="results"></ul>
        <p><span id="prediction"></span></p>
        <img
            class="powered-by-google"
            src="./powered_by_google_on_white.png"
            alt="Powered by Google" />
    </body>
</html>

Clone Sample

Git and Node.js are required to run this sample locally. Follow these instructions to install Node.js and NPM. You will also need a Google Maps API key.

The following commands clone the repository, install dependencies, and copy the environment file. 

  git clone https://github.com/googlemaps-samples/js-api-samples.git
  cd js-api-samples
  npm i
  cp .env.template .env

Once you copy the environment file, make sure to open the .env file and replace <Insert your own development API key here> with your actual API key before starting the sample. 

  cd samples/place-autocomplete-data-simple
  npm start