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title: "SearchAPI.io - Google Maps Directions Search Along Route API"
description: "SearchAPI.io tool searchapi-io-google-maps-directions-search-along-route on looot: input fields, $0.004 per call, output shape, and code to run it with curl, JavaScript or Python."
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The Google Maps Directions Search Along Route API returns the places Google Maps surfaces along a driving route, for example gas stations, restaurants, coffee shops, or hotels between an origin and a destination. Results are distributed across the whole route corridor (not just near the origin), and each place includes its title, place ID, data ID, rating, reviews, address, phone, opening hours, and GPS coordinates. The route comes from the Google Maps Directions API (`google_maps_directions` engine): call it with your origin and destination, then pass the `search_along_route_token` it returns here as the `search_along_route_token` parameter, along with the place category in `q`.

- **Tool id:** `searchapi-io-google-maps-directions-search-along-route`
- **Provider:** [SearchAPI.io](/providers/searchapi-io)
- **Job:** [Google maps directions search along route search](/reference/jobs/search-google-maps-directions-search-along-route) (`search.google-maps-directions-search-along-route`)
- **Price:** $0.004 per call. A call that fails at the provider costs $0.

## Inputs

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `engine` | string | no | Fixed to "google_maps_directions_search_along_route" for this endpoint. Example: "google_maps_directions_search_along_route" |
| `hl` | string | no |   |
| `page` | integer | no |   |
| `q` | string | yes |   |
| `search_along_route_token` | string | yes |   |

## Output

The run's `result` holds the provider's answer. Signed in, `looot inspect searchapi-io-google-maps-directions-search-along-route` prints its fields.

## Run it

Every call needs your API token in `LOOOT_TOKEN`; [Sign in](/get-started/sign-in#use-the-token-in-scripts-and-agents) shows how to get one. Each run also needs a new idempotency key, so a retry never pays twice. With `wait: 30` the answer comes back inline when the run ends within 30 seconds. Otherwise you get the running run back: poll `GET /v1/runs/<runId>`.

Example input with placeholder values:

<CodeGroup>

```bash curl
curl -X POST "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LOOOT_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d '{"endpointId":"searchapi-io-google-maps-directions-search-along-route","input":{"q":"<q>","search_along_route_token":"<search_along_route_token>","engine":"google_maps_directions_search_along_route"},"wait":30}'
```

```js JavaScript
const response = await fetch("https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.LOOOT_TOKEN}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Idempotency-Key": crypto.randomUUID(),
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    endpointId: "searchapi-io-google-maps-directions-search-along-route",
    input: {
      q: "<q>",
      search_along_route_token: "<search_along_route_token>",
      engine: "google_maps_directions_search_along_route",
    },
    wait: 30,
  }),
});
const run = await response.json();
console.log(run.status, run.result);
```

```python Python
import os
import uuid

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['LOOOT_TOKEN']}",
        "Idempotency-Key": str(uuid.uuid4()),
    },
    json={
        "endpointId": "searchapi-io-google-maps-directions-search-along-route",
        "input": {
            "q": "<q>",
            "search_along_route_token": "<search_along_route_token>",
            "engine": "google_maps_directions_search_along_route",
        },
        "wait": 30,
    },
    timeout=90,
)
run = response.json()
print(run["status"], run.get("result"))
```

</CodeGroup>

To let looot pick among every provider of this job instead, send `job:search.google-maps-directions-search-along-route` as `endpointId`; see [the job page](/reference/jobs/search-google-maps-directions-search-along-route).