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Thanh Dao
Thanh Dao

Reputation: 1260

How to call Google APIs using SailsJS

I would like calculator distance between 2 coordinates using GMap API. I'm looking for anyway to catch return data from URL

https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/distancematrix/json?origins=Seattle&destinations=San+Francisco&key={{myKey}}

I tried to searching but no any thing I purpose. Please help me or give me keywords. Thanks a lot!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 966

Answers (2)

Shivam Maheshwari
Shivam Maheshwari

Reputation: 116

You can use the super awesome request package

From it's documentation:

Request is designed to be the simplest way possible to make http calls. It supports HTTPS and follows redirects by default.

var request = require('request');
request('http://www.google.com', function (error, response, body) {
  if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {
    console.log(body) // Show the HTML for the Google homepage. 
  }
})

Hope that helps!

Upvotes: 3

Perttu Haliseva
Perttu Haliseva

Reputation: 977

Google's own API documentation should contain everything you need:

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/distancematrix

First geocode your origin and destination from cities (or whatever) to LatLng objects:

Geocoding is the process of converting addresses (like "1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA") into geographic coordinates (like latitude 37.423021 and longitude -122.083739), which you can use to place markers on a map, or position the map.

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/intro

Using the LatLng objects you get in response, call Distance Matrix Service.

Upvotes: 2

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