Search nearby places - Comparing three API (Google Places API, Geoapify API and HERE API)

 In the post, I will compare API from three different providers to search nearby places the three API to compare are: Google Places API, Geoapify API and HERE API.

For each of the platforms, you need to register and get a developer API key to use. All the platform offer a limited free API quota to start with.

Google Places API

import requests
import pandas as pd
from datetime import datetime

df = pd.read_csv('datafile.csv')


YOUR_API_KEY = 'AIza......'

i = 1
for row, col in df.iterrows():
    lat = col['Latitude']
    long = col['Longitude']
    print(i, 'Processing...', lat, long)
    
    url = f'https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/nearbysearch/json?location={lat}%2C{long}&radius=4850&type=laundry&keyword=laundromats&key={YOUR_API_KEY}'

    payload={}
    headers = {}

    response = requests.request("GET", url, headers=headers, data=payload)

    # Get current time...
    now = datetime.now()
    current_time = now.strftime("%Y%m%d__%H%M%S")

    # Write to file....
    with open(fr'JSON folder\\GoogleAPI\\{state_folder}\\{current_time}.json', 'w') as outfile:
        json.dump(response.json(), outfile)

    i = i+1
    
    
print('Done...')

Geoapify API

GeoApify_API_KEY = '378122b08....'

url = 'https://api.geoapify.com/v2/places'

params = dict(
    categories: 'commercial',
    filter: 'rect:7.735282,48.586797,7.756289,48.574457',
    limit: 2000,
    apiKey=f'{GeoApify_API_KEY}'
)

resp = requests.get(url=url, params=params)
data = resp.json()

print(data)

HERE API

HERE_API_KEY = 'WEYn....'
coord = '27.95034271398129,-82.45670935632066' # lat, long
url = f'https://places.ls.hereapi.com/places/v1/discover/here?apiKey={HERE_API_KEY}&at={coord}&laundry'

response = requests.get(url).json()
# print(response.text)

# Get current time...
now = datetime.now()
current_time = now.strftime("%Y%m%d__%H%M%S")


# Write to file....
with open(fr'JSON folder\\{current_time}.json', 'w') as outfile:
    json.dump(response, outfile)
    
print('Done...')