What problem does it solve?
Quickly find, resolve, and retrieve structured place information and reviews from the Google Places API without building a custom client, enabling both interactive lookups and scriptable outputs.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Text search and discovery: Perform natural-language place searches with options for open-now, minimum rating, and result limits.
- Geospatial biasing and pagination: Bias results by latitude/longitude and radius, and handle pagination tokens for larger result sets.
- Resolve, details, and reviews: Resolve ambiguous names, fetch place details and reviews, and emit JSON for automation.
- Use Case: Gather a list of nearby highly rated restaurants with full place details and reviews to populate a local listings import or travel guide.
Quick Start
Search for nearby cafes with high ratings and return machine-readable JSON using the goplaces CLI and your GOOGLE_PLACES_API_KEY.