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GET
/
v1
/
geocoding
/
search
Search for a place or address
curl --request GET \
  --url https://api.footstep.ai/v1/geocoding/search \
  --header 'x-api-key: <api-key>'
import requests

url = "https://api.footstep.ai/v1/geocoding/search"

headers = {"x-api-key": "<api-key>"}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

print(response.text)
const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {'x-api-key': '<api-key>'}};

fetch('https://api.footstep.ai/v1/geocoding/search', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));
<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.footstep.ai/v1/geocoding/search",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"x-api-key: <api-key>"
],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}
package main

import (
"fmt"
"net/http"
"io"
)

func main() {

url := "https://api.footstep.ai/v1/geocoding/search"

req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

req.Header.Add("x-api-key", "<api-key>")

res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

fmt.Println(string(body))

}
HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://api.footstep.ai/v1/geocoding/search")
.header("x-api-key", "<api-key>")
.asString();
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.footstep.ai/v1/geocoding/search")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["x-api-key"] = '<api-key>'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
{
  "results": [
    {
      "coordinates": {
        "lat": 51.5074,
        "lng": -0.1278
      },
      "label": "London, England, United Kingdom",
      "name": "London",
      "country": "United Kingdom",
      "country_code": "GBR",
      "region": "England",
      "locality": "London",
      "confidence": 0.95,
      "place_type": "locality"
    }
  ],
  "query": {
    "text": "London",
    "size": 10
  }
}

Authorizations

x-api-key
string
header
required

Your Footstep API key

Query Parameters

text
string
required

Search text (address, place name, landmark)

size
integer
default:5

Maximum number of results. The top match is the strongest hit; ask for more only when you need disambiguation candidates

Required range: 1 <= x <= 40
focus.point.lat
number

Latitude to bias results toward. Supply whenever you have spatial context — viewport centre, last-known location, a prior result. Same-name places nearby float above distant namesakes. Pair with focus.point.lon.

Required range: -90 <= x <= 90
focus.point.lon
number

Longitude to bias results toward. Pair with focus.point.lat.

Required range: -180 <= x <= 180
boundary.country
string

Comma-separated ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country codes to restrict results (e.g. 'GBR' or 'GBR,USA'). Set when the search context is country-bound.

place_types
string

Comma-separated place types to filter: venue, address, street, locality, region, country

Response

Geocoding results

results
object[]
required
query
object
required