Autosuggest Entrypoint
- Last UpdatedJun 30, 2025
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The Autosuggest Entrypoint represents lists of suggested search terms, instants results and refined search links related to a given (partial) search term and location context. This entrypoint is used to help users save time, iterate on their searches, and get the results.
- auto-suggest - exploratory search queries
- disambiguation - providing end-user with contextual information to refine search
- instant results of POI and addresses
- follow link (href) in instant results and refine search results
- highlighted result title text based on what the user typed in
The Autosuggest Entrypoint is a Places (Search) API Core entrypoint.
Entrypoint URI
/autosuggest
Entrypoint Parameters
GET Method
The GET method returns the list of suggested queries, places and address as well as query completions related to the partial search term.
The method allows applications to provide to application users query completion suggestions as they type.
Representation Modifiers
The following options are available in this context:
Parameter | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
size | Number (non-negative integer); optional | The maximum number of result items in each collection. |
tf | String; optional; default: html. |
Text format. Determines how rich text properties such as location.address.text should be rendered. Note: plain text can still be multiline.
In this case newline symbol ("\n" ) is used to separate lines.
Supported values are:
|
For additional information and examples, see Changing Responses with Representation Modifiers.
Response Media Type
Responses to requests to this endpoint will have the urn:nlp-types:autosuggest
media type.
See the urn:nlp-types:autosuggest
media type documentation for details about the structure and content of the response.