Find Places
Search for places within a defined geographic area with optional name and category filters.
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Authorizations
Bearer token in the format: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY
Headers
Query Parameters
Body
Location filter for geographic search.
Location Filter Types (choose exactly one):
- Lat/Lon + Radius: Point-based search within specified radius (default 500m, max 10km)
- GeoJSON Geometry: Area-based search within Polygon or MultiPolygon boundaries
- Locality: Search within a city/town (requires country_code)
- Postal Code: Search within a postal/ZIP code area (requires country_code)
- Region: Search within a state/province (requires country_code)
Place name(s) to search for
["Starbucks", "Peet's Coffee"]Category/categories to filter by. Category Schemas by Source: Reprompt & Overture: Use Overture Maps schema (e.g., 'cafe', 'restaurant', 'hospital'). Foursquare: Use Foursquare category taxonomy (e.g., 'Food and Beverage > Restaurant', 'Retail > Grocery Store'). We will match against all the child categories of parent categories.
["cafe", "restaurant"]Data source to search: reprompt (default), overture, or foursquare.
Reprompt supports multiple backends for finding places:
- Foursquare OS Places - amazing open data project with 100M+ global POIs (Apache 2.0 license)
- Overture Places - open map data from the Overture Maps Foundation with 64M+ places (CDLA Permissive 2.0)
- Our index of places we picked up from crawling the web
This endpoint provides a search experience for finding places of interest (POIs) using various location filters and data sources with optimized spatial indexes for fast queries.
Category Schemas by Source:
- Reprompt & Overture: Use Overture Maps schema (e.g., "cafe", "restaurant", "hospital")
- Foursquare: Use Foursquare category taxonomy (e.g., "Food and Beverage > Restaurant", "Retail > Grocery Store")
- We will match against all the child categories of parent categories.
reprompt, overture, foursquare Destination configuration for the search results. Specify 'workbook' to export to a Reprompt workbook table, or 'dataset' to export to Reprompt batches. If omitted, results are returned directly in the response.
Response
Successfully found places
Unified response model for find_places endpoint.
Results are always returned (up to 500 places). The metadata structure varies based on destination:
- Default (no destination): Basic metadata with total_results and version
- dataset: Includes datasets info with batch links
- workbook: Includes workbook info with table details