# Google Places Api **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Requests\ **Created:** [April 17, 2020, 7:16pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/google-places-api/7247 "2020-04-17T19:16:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mwachter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Mwachter](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Mwachter)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2020, 7:16pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/google-places-api/7247/1 "2020-04-17T19:16:35Z")
Is there a way to pull in information from the Google Places API (or other similar one) based on the name of a searched place? For example if you’re building a city guide and want people to be able to search for the name of a restaurant and then select that restaurant from a drop-down list with the image, location and website components pulled in through the API or would all of the options need to be pre-loaded into a spreadsheet first? ---
**Author:** ![Robert](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/robert/32/4903_2.png) [@Robert](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Robert)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2020, 9:00pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/google-places-api/7247/2 "2020-04-17T21:00:45Z")
Watching!. Upvoting this feature request ---
**Author:** ![Robert\_Petitto](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/robert_petitto/32/25193_2.png) [@Robert\_Petitto](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Robert_Petitto)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2020, 9:06pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/google-places-api/7247/3 "2020-04-17T21:06:07Z")
There’s a paid Google ad on called Geosheets that might meet your need until then. ---
**Author:** ![Robert](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/robert/32/4903_2.png) [@Robert](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Robert)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2020, 9:09pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/google-places-api/7247/4 "2020-04-17T21:09:53Z")
Thanks Robert. This takes care of doing the geocoding and getting location co-ordinates in the google sheets. Unfotrunately, this doesn’t help do the auto-fill during the search ---
**Author:** ![Robert\_Petitto](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/robert_petitto/32/25193_2.png) [@Robert\_Petitto](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Robert_Petitto)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2020, 9:13pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/google-places-api/7247/5 "2020-04-17T21:13:41Z")
True ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2020, 11:47pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/google-places-api/7247/6 "2020-04-20T23:47:10Z")
No, there is no api functionality in the way you are wanting. The sheet would have to be preloaded, or you would have to integrate a google script or zapier to get the information once a user inputs data. I would be slow and could potentially take a few minutes to get anything back. ---
**Author:** ![gvalero](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/gvalero/32/1037_2.png) [@gvalero](https://community.glideapps.com/u/gvalero)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 12:30am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/google-places-api/7247/7 "2020-04-21T00:30:11Z")
Hi, I’m doing something like what you want. I use a script with some Google Maps API’s functions to find out the closest stores/places to where the user selected on the APP. To avoid the 1.000 Daily Query Limit set by Google, I try avoid “direct” searches from users and their specific locations and improve the throughput of results. Let me finish my prototype and I will show you Saludos Gavp