Several API Updates
Carl Sjogreen
Just wanted to post a quick update on a few API changes we made today
based on your feedback.
* If you do a /search query that includes a lat/lng/radius place page
results will now include a "distance" field that shows distance in
kilometers from the lat/lng specified to that location.
* You can now pass a sort order of "distance" to sort results by
distance. Note that in our experience this often returns lower
quality results that happen to just be nearby, and that its better to
sort by "highest_ranked" and filter by distance (using lat/lng/rad)
but if a pure distance sort is important, here ya go.
* We now return place keywords along with search results so you don't
have do an extra /p query to get these.
* We return largedCachedImageUrl and smallCachedImageUrl for guide
search results, so you can display a larger "cover image" for a
guide. Please display the originalImageSource as per our API terms if
you use one of these larger images.
* We now return return likeCount with places and guides as part of the
search result response.
* You can now filter guide results based on our global "featured
guide" feed (the guides that appear on the home page / explore page)
by passing a featured=1 parameter to search. This parameter is only
relevant for guide searches.
* Guide results that have been featured will include a featuredDate
with the date that they were featured on. You can also pass a
sort="featured_date" to sort guide results by featured_date.