Places Autocomplete Only Return Residential Street Addresses In The US

Question

we are attempting to use the new google places api text search to return suggested address completion results as a user types within an input field.

For example, user types In 545 Smi... and 454 Smith Street, Somewhere, Some City, State... appears as an option to select.

Currently we are making a POST request to https://places.googleapis.com/v1/places:searchText?fields=places.id,places.formattedAddress with testQuery and regionCode body keys.

However we are noticing the results returned are very few (and borderline unusable).

Is there a better service to use to accomplish something like this?

Thank you!

Answer 1

If the queries are partial inputs like 545 Smi or even 454 Smith Street you should use instead Autocomplete (New) and send requests to https://places.googleapis.com/v1/places:autocomplete

The Text Search (New) API at https://places.googleapis.com/v1/places:searchText is not designed for such queries.