# How to auto-add Place information (address, phone number)

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-auto-add-place-information-address-phone-number/3967>\
**Category:** Ask for Help\
**Created:** [January 25, 2020, 7:06pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-auto-add-place-information-address-phone-number/3967 "2020-01-25T19:06:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Avery\_Rawlek](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/avery_rawlek/32/1694_2.png) [@Avery\_Rawlek](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Avery_Rawlek)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2020, 7:06pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-auto-add-place-information-address-phone-number/3967/1 "2020-01-25T19:06:01Z")

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I’m not sure if this has been asked/answered elsewhere (I couldn’t find this anywhere).

Is there a way to automatically add details for “places” that are added to the app? Can an apps script (or formlua) be used to look up information from a place’s google business directory, so that someone doesn’t have to manually look-up all of this information (tedious, and potentially causing errors in information submitted).

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I realize importXML won’t work (due to google business webscraping restrictions), but perhaps there’s some integration with google maps that can be used?

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**Author:** ![vijay](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/vijay/32/3259_2.png) [@vijay](https://community.glideapps.com/u/vijay)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2020, 3:08am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-auto-add-place-information-address-phone-number/3967/2 "2020-02-27T03:08:28Z")

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You can use the information in the below article. It shows how to use an API to ImportJSON into the Google sheet and then use glide to show them. In the example, it shows how to show latest news articles from a news API. In your case, you may use a google maps API.

> **[Glideapp Tutorials](https://medium.com/@tahamaddam/glideapp-tutorials-e5aa244d1374)**
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> 👉 Tutorial 1: Creating Category/Subcategory based Home Page(Tab)

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**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:** [February 27, 2020, 3:45am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-auto-add-place-information-address-phone-number/3967/3 "2020-02-27T03:45:56Z")

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I just bookmarked this page earlier today. It may apply:

> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40745503/google-sheets-with-two-data-points-link-to-driving-directions/40769594#40769594>