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.

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TypeScript

/**
 * Demonstrates making a single request for Place predictions, then requests Place Details for the first result.
 */
async function init() {
    // @ts-ignore
    const { Place, AutocompleteSessionToken, AutocompleteSuggestion } = await google.maps.importLibrary("places") as google.maps.PlacesLibrary;

    // Add an initial request body.
    let 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.
    // @ts-ignore
    request.sessionToken = token;
    // Fetch autocomplete suggestions.
    const { suggestions } = await AutocompleteSuggestion.fetchAutocompleteSuggestions(request);

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

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

        // Create a new list element.
        const listItem = document.createElement('li');
        const resultsElement = document.getElementById("results") as HTMLElement;
        listItem.appendChild(document.createTextNode(placePrediction.text.toString()));
        resultsElement.appendChild(listItem);
    }

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

    const placeInfo = document.getElementById("prediction") as HTMLElement;
    placeInfo.textContent = 'First predicted place: ' + place.displayName + ': ' + place.formattedAddress;

}

init();
index.ts

JavaScript

/**
 * Demonstrates making a single request for Place predictions, then requests Place Details for the first result.
 */
async function init() {
  // @ts-ignore
  const { Place, AutocompleteSessionToken, AutocompleteSuggestion } =
    await google.maps.importLibrary("places");
  // Add an initial request body.
  let 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.
  // @ts-ignore
  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 + '":'),
  );

  for (let suggestion of suggestions) {
    const placePrediction = suggestion.placePrediction;
    // Create a new list element.
    const listItem = document.createElement("li");
    const resultsElement = document.getElementById("results");

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

  let 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;
}

init();
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>Place Autocomplete Data API Predictions</title>

    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./style.css" />
    <script type="module" src="./index.js"></script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="title"></div>
    <ul id="results"></ul>
    <p><span id="prediction"></span></p>
    <img
      class="powered-by-google"
      src="https://storage.googleapis.com/geo-devrel-public-buckets/powered_by_google_on_white.png"
      alt="Powered by Google"
    />

    <!-- 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: "weekly"});</script>
  </body>
</html>
index.html

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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-data-simple 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