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mystackoverflow1212

Reputation: 157

Google Places API Place Description/Summary

Using the Google Places API I cannot seem to get the description of a place whether through a nearby_search or a details_search. Please look at the attached picture for what I am wanting to pull from the JSON. This information must be coming from somewhere, it's just a question of where.

Example Picture: enter image description here

This has been asked here: Displaying a Place Description on Google Places API for iOS but the answers are not adequate and link to documentation that I've read many times over and can't seem to find it.

Upvotes: 10

Views: 4579

Answers (3)

quodlibetor
quodlibetor

Reputation: 8433

This was added to the places API as PlaceEditorialSummary just last month.

It is not yet in any of the SDKs, so you need to do a raw HTTP request to get the info. Examples are here.

I couldn't find any issues tracking adding that field to the SDKs, so I created one.

Upvotes: 0

xomena
xomena

Reputation: 32178

Unfortunately, the mentioned description/summary is not available via the Places API at the moment.

There is a corresponding feature request in the public issue tracker:

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/35827225

Please star the feature request to express your interest and subscribe to further notifications from Google.

Upvotes: 10

Tran
Tran

Reputation: 111

I believe what you're looking for is the review_summary field, part of the extensions parameter which was unfortunately deprecated a little over a month ago.

You could try HTML parsing the section-editorial div class.

Upvotes: 1

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