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Stefan Logue
Stefan Logue

Reputation: 61

Using Google Places Web API to search for business and using results to make a phone call

I'm working on a project, and I'm completely stuck.

I get the user's location using CLLocation and am able to get the place name using CLGeocoder, and using this I've constructed a URL to search the Google Places Web API.

My question is, how can I actually complete the search and return the top place result's phone number? Any help would be much appreciated!

let url: URL = URL(fileURLWithPath: "https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/textsearch/json?query=taxi+" + placeMark.locality!+"&key=" + self.GAPIKEY)

This is the URL I've come up in case that helps

Upvotes: 2

Views: 272

Answers (1)

AndrewR
AndrewR

Reputation: 10889

The first thing you need to do is an HTTP GET on the URL to get the API results. Consult the following SO question for various ways to do that:

How to make an HTTP request in Swift?

The data returned will be a JSON document in the format described in the Google Places API Docs. Look for the formatted_phone_number and/or international_phone_number fields. See Working with JSON in Swift for how to parse the JSON string.

Upvotes: 1

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