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Syncs Google Places API data to entries.

Requirements

This plugin requires Craft CMS 5.8.0 or later.

Installation

To install the plugin, follow these instructions.

1. Open your terminal and go to your Craft project:

    cd /path/to/project
   

2. Then tell Composer to load the plugin:

    composer require headjamcreative/craft-google-places
   

3. In the Control Panel, go to Settings → Plugins and click the “Install” button for Google Places Sync.

Configuring Google Places Sync

Ensure you add a Google Cloud Console api key in the app settings for this plugin to work. Be aware that this may come with additional cost from Google for the api queries. @see https://developers.google.com/places/web-service/get-api-key

Using Google Places Sync

Add a 'Google Places Sync' field to your entry or global, then in the lookup filed add either a business name, address, or an international phone number (including country code, e.g. +61249291154). At present the plugin only retrieves the first available candidate. If this is not the correct candiate, you can manually lookup the place_id and override the id field. The lookup field is ignored if an id is already present.

Scheduling updates

The default controller action finds all elements with a 'Google Places Sync' field and updates that entry. You can use it in a cron job or similar by hitting the endpoint https://example.com/actions/craft-google-places/default.