[Google Maps Places API] - Text Search missing next_page_token in response

[shaunmitchellve]

• which product (packages/*): packages/google-maps-places
• OS: OSX
• Node.js version: 21.7.2
• npm version: 10.6.0
• google-cloud-node version:Place2 1.6.0

Steps to reproduce

• npm i @googlemap/places

const {PlacesClient} = require('@googlemaps/places').v1;

 let response = await placesClient.searchText(textQuery: 'something', {
 otherArgs: {
  headers: {
   'x-Goog-FieldMask': 'places.displayName',  
},}});

console.log(response);

/*
response:
[
  {
    places: [
      [Object], [Object], [Object],
      [Object], [Object], [Object],
      [Object], [Object], [Object],
      [Object], [Object], [Object],
      [Object], [Object], [Object],
      [Object], [Object], [Object],
      [Object], [Object]
    ],
    contextualContents: []
  },
  null,
  null
]

I would expect something like:
[
  {
    places: [
      [Object], [Object], [Object],
      [Object], [Object], [Object],
      [Object], [Object], [Object],
      [Object], [Object], [Object],
      [Object], [Object], [Object],
      [Object], [Object], [Object],
      [Object], [Object]
    ],
    contextualContents: [],
    nextPageToken: ''
  },
  null,
  null
]
*/

[alturda]

can confirm this is a huge issue

[richardmarchant]

I can confirm this too, "nextPageToken" is never included.

[sofisl]

see

Can you try setting autoPaginate: false or using the Async method?

[shaunmitchellve]

Adding in the autoPagination: false into the GAX options doesn't seem to work, unless I'm doing it wrong

import {PlacesClient} from '@googlemaps/places';

const placesClient = new PlacesClient();

const response = await placesClient.searchText(
{
    textQuery: 'something',
    pageSize: 10,
},
{
    autoPaginate: false,
    otherArgs: {
        headers: {
        'X-Goog-FieldMask': 'places.id,places.displayName',
        },
    },
});

console.log('Places: ', response);
// RESPONSE
Places:  [
  {
    places: [
      [Object], [Object], [Object],
      [Object], [Object], [Object],
      [Object], [Object], [Object],
      [Object], [Object], [Object],
      [Object], [Object], [Object],
      [Object], [Object], [Object],
      [Object], [Object]
    ],
    contextualContents: []
  },
  null,
  null
]

import {PlacesClient} from '@googlemaps/places';

const placesClient = new PlacesClient();

const [resultArray, nextPageRequest, rawRespone] = await placesClient.searchText(
{
    textQuery: 'schools in Calgary Alberta',
},
{
    autoPaginate: false,
    otherArgs: {
        headers: {
        'X-Goog-FieldMask': 'places.id,places.displayName',
        },
    },
});

console.log("RESULTS:", resultArray);
console.log("NEXT PAGE: ", nextPageRequest);
console.log("RAW: ", rawRespone);
 

//RESPONSE:
RESULTS: {Places:  [
  {
    places: [
      [Object], [Object], [Object],
      [Object], [Object], [Object],
      [Object], [Object], [Object],
      [Object], [Object], [Object],
      [Object], [Object], [Object],
      [Object], [Object], [Object],
      [Object], [Object]
    ],
    contextualContents: []
  }
]
}

NEXT PAGE:  null
RAW:  null

Also, there doesn't appear to be any searchTextAsync function definition so it errors out when attempting to use that approach.

[bscthartmann]

Yesterday it worked for me but today not. Also in the API Text on Google page, filled with the Demo from the page, the nextPageToken does not appear.

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/text-search?hl=en

The example from the page

 curl -X POST -d '{
  "textQuery": "pizza in New York",
  "pageSize": 5
  }' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H 'X-Goog-Api-Key: API_KEY' \
-H "X-Goog-FieldMask: places.id,nextPageToken" \
'https://places.googleapis.com/v1/places:searchText'

Makes it basically impossible to use this API :(

[LombaxTech]

Also having this issue. I'm sure it was working previously but no longer...

[probablykabari]

I concur with @bscthartmann that this seems to be broken in the API itself. This curl request from the documentation does not return a token as specified:

Docs

Reality

❯  curl -X POST -d '{
  "textQuery": "pizza in New York",
  "pageSize": 5
  }' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H 'X-Goog-Api-Key:  [API_KEY] \
-H "X-Goog-FieldMask: places.id,nextPageToken" \
'https://places.googleapis.com/v1/places:searchText'
{
  "places": [
    {
      "id": "ChIJifIePKtZwokRVZ-UdRGkZzs"
    },
    {
      "id": "ChIJ6xvs94VZwokRnT1D2lX2OTw"
    },
    {
      "id": "ChIJqcgHCJ1ZwokRRmJ-uWL5DAA"
    },
    {
      "id": "ChIJjaD94kFZwokR-20CXqlpy_4"
    },
    {
      "id": "ChIJmcyIPBVZwokRq8rnnNYek0w"
    }
  ]
}

[Hugh-Kane]

I can confirm—everything was working fine for me until around Sunday, August 25, 2024. However, my web app is now broken because the nextPageToken is no longer being returned in the API calls. I'm using the new Places API text search request (endpoint starting with https://places.googleapis.com/v1/places:searchText). I'm considering rolling back to the previous version of the Places API (endpoint starting with https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/textsearch). Can anyone confirm if the nextPageToken is still working with the older endpoint?"

[LombaxTech]

Unfortunately it is not working even with the older endpoint for me. I tried it but no token is returned in both version.

[Hugh-Kane]

Coming back to this thread - as it seems like I'm getting nextPageToken once again in my return as of today (31st Aug 2024)

[acaumartin-cameleon]

I can confirm that the nextPageToken is in the api call, but it's still not showing with PlacesClient

[Ryguy10712]

This is still an issue today, client library does not return nextPageToken, but curl does.