Place types

Google Maps place types API and MCP. These are the category names Maps uses, such as restaurant, cafe, museum, and park.

Search Google Maps and Search nearby use these names to separate a restaurant from a museum.

GET/v1/google-maps/place-types

https://api.vee3.io/v1/google-maps/place-types

1 tokens

Authorization

Send your API key in the Authorization header:

Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY

MCP

The same capability is available as an MCP tool on Vee3 hosted MCP.

Tool name

google-maps.place_types

Parameters0 fields

Response1 field

place_typesstring[]

Supported Google Maps place type string values.

HTTP errors: unauthorized, validation_error, insufficient_tokens, payment_required, google_maps_not_configured, google_maps_upstream_error

Example request

Python

import requests

url = "https://api.vee3.io/v1/google-maps/place-types"
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
}
params = {

}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers, params=params)
response.raise_for_status()
data = response.json()
print(data)

Example responses1 example

200Sample place types (truncated).

sample_place_types.json

{
  "place_types": [
    "restaurant",
    "cafe",
    "bar",
    "museum",
    "park"
  ]
}