TJBot Places Linrary

Introduction

This library was coded to allow for simplified access into the google places api for use with the IBM TJBot through Watson Assystant dialogs, thus you might find a very small subset of the places API functionality as it is intended to be used through a natural language dialog through voice.

Instructions

In order to use the library one should include it by requiring tjbot-places. Two functions are currently available, one that searches for a place by name getPlace(searchString) and another one that searches for places that are nearby a particular location and that respond to a particular keyword such as restaurant getPlacesNear(latitude, longitude, keyword).

Note: In order to use this library you need to get a Google API kye configured to use the Google Places api

const tjbot_places = require('tjbot-places');
 
const client = new tjbot_places('GOOGLEPLACES_APIKEY');

// Example to get a place by name and then get nearby restaurants
// in this case we will search for IBM Mexico's Offices
client.getPlace('ibm mexico').then(res =>{
    // show the json for the place object
	console.log(JSON.stringify(res));
	console.log("========================");
	var type="Restaurant";
    // query restaurants near ibm mexico
	client.getPlacesNear(res.latitude,res.longitude,type).then(res => {
		//The result is an array of places 
		res.forEach(function (elem){
			console.log(elem.name+' - '+elem.rating);
		});
	});
});