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hafsa
hafsa

Reputation: 19

How can I use Google Places API multiple times in a location aware app?

I am developing an app which will give you nearby Mosques within 10 km of your current location. Now that the Places API allows a certain number of queries per day, I have used firebase to store nearby Mosques for a certain location and I first check if the data is in database or not before querying. But this still doesn't solve the problem. e.g. if a user is on the go the whole day then the results must be changing every single minute, according to his/her location. How can I achieve the desirable results?

As mentioned earlier, I am saving nearby locations in a database with their relative location (around which they exist). But this doesn't quite solve the problem.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 163

Answers (2)

fdreger
fdreger

Reputation: 12505

Places API is a commercial offering - you are meant to pay for using it, if you want to make applications around it.

There's a certain small number of calls that you can do for free, but this is only meant as testing grounds or private use. I am no lawyer, but I would guess that circumventing the fee by scraping the map (like setting a bot to go around a country to build a database of points of interests) would be illegal and would probably get you a letter from Google saying you should stop.

Upvotes: 1

Kmelliti
Kmelliti

Reputation: 111

Use AutocompleteSessionToken class to generate a token and place it after your key , this token will reduce your usage because you can request the places api multiple times and still it will be considered as a single request. i hope this will help cause i didnt get your question very well. here is sample of the link:

https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/autocomplete/json?input=1600+Amphitheatre&key=&sessiontoken=1234567890.

For more details.see here

Upvotes: 0

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