Google Maps Search API: popular_times field

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I’ve been using the Google Maps Search endpoint (/google-maps-search) to retrieve popular_times data for places, and it has been working reliably until recently.

As of the last few days, the popular_times field is no longer being returned in the API response for any place I query. The rest of the response (place name, address, etc.) comes back fine it’s specifically the popular_times array that is missing entirely.

Has something changed with how popular_times data is sourced or returned? Is this a known issue, or has there been a change to the API that requires a different parameter or endpoint to get this data?

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hello @frubesss,

Please take a look at the data dictionary. popular times, including live status (e.g. little busy ). Works only for individual searches (see learn more).

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Hi, I am not being able to retrieve popular_times (highlighted in bold) data for a given place. Is there anything wrong with this metric?

{
“query”: “ChIJ3wa3kLdhLxMR7pTdCD59S-w”,
“name”: “Ristorante Crab”,
“postal_code”: “00184”,
“city”: “Rome”,
“state”: “Metropolitan City of Rome Capital”,
“state_code”: null,
“plus_code”: “8FHJVFQV+JM”,
“latitude”: 41.8890587,
“longitude”: 12.4941316,
“h3”: “891e8050cd3ffff”,
“time_zone”: “Europe/Rome”,
“popular_times”: null,
“website”: “http://www.ristorantecrab.com/”,
“phone”: “+39 06 7720 3636”,
“type”: “Seafood restaurant”,
}

Thanks