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Python client library for Google Maps API Web Services
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Places API for python, location_restriction #518

Open yvesmango opened 7 months ago

yvesmango commented 7 months ago

so i'm well aware that a python client exists for Google Maps package. im toying around with find_place() function on python and i noticed that you have one of the parameters "location_bias" existing in two ways in the curl requests but not in python client. specifically, users can specify locationBias or locationRestriction in their places query - one is more search restricting than the other. i use places API in conjunction with Geocoder API and when dealing with location filters or restrictions, i think it's a waste of tokens to geocode places well-outside the specified area. since i am using python client, locationBias is the only parameter available to me (e.g. location_bias=), i wish to use locationRestriction instead for a more restricted place search.

so i just wanted to write this suggesting to include locationRestriction in the python client if possible.

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/text-search#location-bias

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