Search "Places near by me" or "where am I" in google maps

[barry76]

Hi, is it possible to search the results "where am I" or "places nearby me" using google API in python
Right now mentioned below Python code is searching the place only.
like when I am mentioning "Hotel in California" then places list has been mentioned in the python shell
But while searching the query "where am i" it does not give any list.

# importing required modules 
import requests, json 
  
# enter your api key here 
api_key = 'Your_API_key'
  
# url variable store url 
url = "https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/textsearch/json?"
  
# The text string on which to search 
query = input('Search query: ') 
  
# get method of requests module 
# return response object 
r = requests.get(url + 'query=' + query +
                        '&key=' + api_key) 
  
# json method of response object convert 
#  json format data into python format data 
x = r.json() 
  
# now x contains list of nested dictionaries 
# we know dictionary contain key value pair 
# store the value of result key in variable y 
y = x['results'] 
  
# keep looping upto lenght of y 
for i in range(len(y)): 
      
    # Print value corresponding to the 
    # 'name' key at the ith index of y 
    print(y[i]['name'])

Note: Right now, I am only using Google maps API, Do I have to use any other API also?

Your leads on this will be a great help

[snippsat]

Hi, is it possible to search the results "where am I" or "places nearby me" using google API in python

That depend of what doc for API say,this may be for mobile(GPS on).
A little rewrite to make it look better,with f-string and get rite of range(len(y)).

import requests

api_key = 'your_api_key'
url = "https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/textsearch/json?"
query = 'Hotel in California'
response = requests.get(f'{url}query={query}&key={api_key}')
json_data = response.json()
for place json_data['results']):
    print(place['name'])