Google API Address Components

Question

I am attempting to obtain the address components using the Google Maps API however am unable to properly parse results. My code is as follows:

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Answer 1

I'm assuming what you are doing is a reverse geocode.

The object returned looks something like this (from the example):

{
  "address_components": [
    {
      "long_name": "Grand St/Bedford Av",
      "short_name": "Grand St/Bedford Av",
      "types": [
        "bus_station",
        "transit_station",
        "establishment"
      ]
    },
    {
      "long_name": "Williamsburg",
      "short_name": "Williamsburg",
      "types": [
        "neighborhood",
        "political"
      ]
    },
    {
      "long_name": "Brooklyn",
      "short_name": "Brooklyn",
      "types": [
        "sublocality_level_1",
        "sublocality",
        "political"
      ]
    },
...

There is no direct way to access a result's street, house number etc. because each part of the address can be several types at the same time. You would have to iterate over the address_components and filter according to what you need.

Here's another Stackoverflow thread covering this topic: get city from geocoder results?