Place Autocomplete Element

This example adds an Autocomplete widget to a web page, and displays the results for each selected place.

Read the documentation.

TypeScript

async function initMap(): Promise<void> {
    // Request needed libraries.
    //@ts-ignore
    await google.maps.importLibrary("places") as google.maps.PlacesLibrary;
    // Create the input HTML element, and append it.
    //@ts-ignore
    const placeAutocomplete = new google.maps.places.PlaceAutocompleteElement();
    //@ts-ignore
    document.body.appendChild(placeAutocomplete);

    // Inject HTML UI.
    const selectedPlaceTitle = document.createElement('p');
    selectedPlaceTitle.textContent = '';
    document.body.appendChild(selectedPlaceTitle);

    const selectedPlaceInfo = document.createElement('pre');
    selectedPlaceInfo.textContent = '';
    document.body.appendChild(selectedPlaceInfo);

    // Add the gmp-placeselect listener, and display the results.
    //@ts-ignore
    placeAutocomplete.addEventListener('gmp-placeselect', async ({ place }) => {
        await place.fetchFields({ fields: ['displayName', 'formattedAddress', 'location'] });

        selectedPlaceTitle.textContent = 'Selected Place:';
        selectedPlaceInfo.textContent = JSON.stringify(
            place.toJSON(), /* replacer */ null, /* space */ 2);
    });
}

initMap();
index.ts

JavaScript

async function initMap() {
  // Request needed libraries.
  //@ts-ignore
  await google.maps.importLibrary("places");

  // Create the input HTML element, and append it.
  //@ts-ignore
  const placeAutocomplete = new google.maps.places.PlaceAutocompleteElement();

  //@ts-ignore
  document.body.appendChild(placeAutocomplete);

  // Inject HTML UI.
  const selectedPlaceTitle = document.createElement("p");

  selectedPlaceTitle.textContent = "";
  document.body.appendChild(selectedPlaceTitle);

  const selectedPlaceInfo = document.createElement("pre");

  selectedPlaceInfo.textContent = "";
  document.body.appendChild(selectedPlaceInfo);
  // Add the gmp-placeselect listener, and display the results.
  //@ts-ignore
  placeAutocomplete.addEventListener("gmp-placeselect", async ({ place }) => {
    await place.fetchFields({
      fields: ["displayName", "formattedAddress", "location"],
    });
    selectedPlaceTitle.textContent = "Selected Place:";
    selectedPlaceInfo.textContent = JSON.stringify(
      place.toJSON(),
      /* replacer */ null,
      /* space */ 2,
    );
  });
}

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;
}

p {
  font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;
  font-weight: bold;
}

style.css

HTML

<html>
  <head>
    <title>Place Autocomplete element</title>

    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./style.css" />
    <script type="module" src="./index.js"></script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <p style="font-family: roboto, sans-serif">Search for a place here:</p>

    <!-- 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

Try Sample

Clone Sample

Git and Node.js are required to run this sample locally. Follow these instructions to install Node.js and NPM. The following commands clone, install dependencies and start the sample application. 

  git clone -b sample-place-autocomplete-element https://github.com/googlemaps/js-samples.git
  cd js-samples
  npm i
  npm start

Other samples can be tried by switching to any branch beginning with sample-SAMPLE_NAME. 

  git checkout sample-SAMPLE_NAME
  npm i
  npm start

Use the Place Overview component

Note: This sample uses an open source library. See the README for support and feedback related to the library.

The Place Overview component displays detailed information about millions of businesses, including opening hours, star reviews, and photos, plus directions and other actions in a premade UI in 5 sizes and formats. It is part of the Extended Component Library, from Google Maps Platform, a set of web components that helps developers build better maps and location features faster.

Place Overview configurator

Use the configurator to create embeddable code for a custom Place Overview component, then export it to be used with popular frameworks like React and Angular or no framework at all.

Get Started

To get started, load the Extended Component library with npm.

For best performance, use a package manager and import only the components you need. This package is listed on npm as @googlemaps/extended-component-library. Install it with:

  npm i @googlemaps/extended-component-library;

Then import any components you use in your application.

  import '@googlemaps/extended-component-library/place_overview.js';

After loading the npm library, get an API Key from the Cloud Console.

  <gmpx-api-loader key="YOUR_API_KEY" solution-channel="GMP_DOCS_placeoverview_v1"></gmpx-api-loader>

Use the Place Overview component tag with a Place ID of your choice. This one is a placeholder for a Google office in Auckland.

  <gmpx-place-overview place="ChIJVVVVnvlHDW0Rwyod-_ddhAw"></gmpx-place-overview>

There are five size variations of the Place Overview component. The default component uses an x-large size variation. In order to get other size variations, add and modify the size attribute.

  <!-- Try setting the size attribute to "x-small", "small", "medium", "large", or "x-large" -->
  <gmpx-place-overview place="ChIJVVVVnvlHDW0Rwyod-_ddhAw" size="small"></gmpx-place-overview>

For more details, check out GitHub or npm. To see components used in sample code, check out the examples page on GitHub.