/Node-Express-Gmaps

Primary LanguageJavaScript

Node-Express-Gmaps

Topics:

  • APIs
  • API Documentation
  • Rate Limits
  • Multiple requests

Objectives

  • Create endpoints
  • Make multpile requests to third-party API
  • Return result

Beginning Project

  • You will notice there is a config file that is ignored in the .gitignore, which you will be using to store your API key. You will need to import that key into your server file. DO NOT store it anywhere that will get pushed up to your repo.
  • Everything else you will start from scratch.

Project Description

  • You will be using the Google Maps Place API to get details about any place provided by the user of your API. When the user provides you a query (example: coffee+shops+in+Austin) you will use that query to make a request to the Place Search service, and will specifically be doing a Text Search Request. You will use the necessary information from the data returned from that first request, and then do a request to Place Details service, returning the detailed information to the user of your API.

Project Requirements

  • Create an endpoint /place that, provided a query, returns the detailed information about the first place that is in the array of places returned to you from Place Search.

Stretch Problem

  • Create an endpoint /places that, provided a query returns the detailed information about ALL places returned to you from Place Search.

Resources