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Place Text Search

This example uses searchByText to query for taco restaurants in the Mountain View vicinity, and populates a map with markers to show the results.

Read the documentation.

TypeScript

let map;
let markers = {};
let infoWindow;

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

    const center = { lat: 37.4161493, lng: -122.0812166 };
    map = new Map(document.getElementById('map') as HTMLElement, {
        center: center,
        zoom: 11,
        mapTypeControl: false,
        mapId: 'DEMO_MAP_ID',
    });

    const textInput = document.getElementById('text-input') as HTMLInputElement;
    const textInputButton = document.getElementById('text-input-button') as HTMLButtonElement;
    const card = document.getElementById('text-input-card') as HTMLElement;
    map.controls[google.maps.ControlPosition.TOP_LEFT].push(card);

    textInputButton.addEventListener('click', () => {
        findPlaces(textInput.value);
    });

    textInput.addEventListener('keydown', (event) => {
        if (event.key === 'Enter') {
            findPlaces(textInput.value);
        }
    });

    infoWindow = new google.maps.InfoWindow();
}

async function findPlaces(query) {
    const { Place } = await google.maps.importLibrary("places") as google.maps.PlacesLibrary;
    const { AdvancedMarkerElement } = await google.maps.importLibrary("marker") as google.maps.MarkerLibrary;
    const request = {
        textQuery: query,
        fields: ['displayName', 'location', 'businessStatus'],
        includedType: '', // Restrict query to a specific type (leave blank for any).
        useStrictTypeFiltering: true,
        locationBias: map.center,
        isOpenNow: true,
        language: 'en-US',
        maxResultCount: 8,
        minRating: 1, // Specify a minimum rating.
        region: 'us',
    };

    const { places } = await Place.searchByText(request);

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

        // First remove all existing markers.
        for (const id in markers) {
            markers[id].map = null;
        };
        markers = {};

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

            marker.addListener('gmp-click', () => {
                map.panTo(place.location);
                updateInfoWindow(place.displayName, place.id, marker);
            });

            if (place.location != null) {
                bounds.extend(place.location);
            }
        });

        map.fitBounds(bounds);

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

// Helper function to create an info window.
async function updateInfoWindow(title, content, anchor) {
    infoWindow.setContent(content);
    infoWindow.setHeaderContent(title);
    infoWindow.open({
        map,
        anchor,
        shouldFocus: false,
    });
}

initMap();index.ts

JavaScript

let map;
let markers = {};
let infoWindow;
async function initMap() {
    const { Map, InfoWindow } = await google.maps.importLibrary("maps");
    const center = { lat: 37.4161493, lng: -122.0812166 };
    map = new Map(document.getElementById('map'), {
        center: center,
        zoom: 11,
        mapTypeControl: false,
        mapId: 'DEMO_MAP_ID',
    });
    const textInput = document.getElementById('text-input');
    const textInputButton = document.getElementById('text-input-button');
    const card = document.getElementById('text-input-card');
    map.controls[google.maps.ControlPosition.TOP_LEFT].push(card);
    textInputButton.addEventListener('click', () => {
        findPlaces(textInput.value);
    });
    textInput.addEventListener('keydown', (event) => {
        if (event.key === 'Enter') {
            findPlaces(textInput.value);
        }
    });
    infoWindow = new google.maps.InfoWindow();
}
async function findPlaces(query) {
    const { Place } = await google.maps.importLibrary("places");
    const { AdvancedMarkerElement } = await google.maps.importLibrary("marker");
    const request = {
        textQuery: query,
        fields: ['displayName', 'location', 'businessStatus'],
        includedType: '', // Restrict query to a specific type (leave blank for any).
        useStrictTypeFiltering: true,
        locationBias: map.center,
        isOpenNow: true,
        language: 'en-US',
        maxResultCount: 8,
        minRating: 1, // Specify a minimum rating.
        region: 'us',
    };
    const { places } = await Place.searchByText(request);
    if (places.length) {
        const { LatLngBounds } = await google.maps.importLibrary("core");
        const bounds = new LatLngBounds();
        // First remove all existing markers.
        for (const id in markers) {
            markers[id].map = null;
        }
        ;
        markers = {};
        // Loop through and get all the results.
        places.forEach(place => {
            const marker = new AdvancedMarkerElement({
                map,
                position: place.location,
                title: place.displayName,
            });
            markers[place.id] = marker;
            marker.addListener('gmp-click', () => {
                map.panTo(place.location);
                updateInfoWindow(place.displayName, place.id, marker);
            });
            if (place.location != null) {
                bounds.extend(place.location);
            }
        });
        map.fitBounds(bounds);
    }
    else {
        console.log('No results');
    }
}
// Helper function to create an info window.
async function updateInfoWindow(title, content, anchor) {
    infoWindow.setContent(content);
    infoWindow.setHeaderContent(title);
    infoWindow.open({
        map,
        anchor,
        shouldFocus: false,
    });
}
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;
}

#text-input-card {
  width: 25%;
  background-color: #fff;
  border-radius: 5px;
  box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.35) 0px 5px 15px;
  margin: 10px;
  padding: 5px;
  font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;
  font-size: large;
  font-weight: bold;
}

#text-input {
  width: 100%;
  padding: 10px;
  margin: 0;
  box-sizing: border-box;
}

#text-input-button {
  display: inline-block;
  margin-top: .5rem;
  width: auto;
  padding: .6rem .75rem;
  font-size: .875rem;
  font-weight: 500;
  color: #fff;
  background-color: #2563eb;
  border: none;
  border-radius: .375rem;
  cursor: pointer;
  transition: background-color .15s ease-in-out;
  text-align: center
}
style.css

HTML

<html>
    <head>
        <title>Text Search</title>

        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./style.css" />
        <script type="module" src="./index.js"></script>
    </head>
    <body>
        <div id="text-input-card">
            <input
                type="text"
                id="text-input"
                placeholder="Search for a place" />
            <input type="button" id="text-input-button" value="Search" />
        </div>
        <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: "AIzaSyA6myHzS10YXdcazAFalmXvDkrYCp5cLc8", v: "weekly"});</script>
    </body>
</html>index.html

Try Sample

JSFiddle.net

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 https://github.com/googlemaps-samples/js-api-samples.git
  cd samples/place-text-search
  npm i
  npm start