Autocomplete API

• The following are autocomplete APIs, these can be called repetitively for quick searches. The endpoints follow the format /autocomplete/{specificAction} ex: /autocomplete/location for auto completing location info or autocomplete/search for autocompleting service search results

Autocomplete Location

• The autocomplete location API wraps Postmates's/UberEats' Web autocomplete location API

Usage Example:

const url = "http://localhost:8000/api/autocomplete/location";

const options = {
 method: "POST",
 headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" },
 body: JSON.stringify({ query: "los ang" }),
};

fetch(url, options)
 .then((res) => res.json())
 .then((json) => console.log(json))
 .catch((err) => console.error("error:" + err));

Response Example:

[
  {
    "id": "c2523974-0f10-358d-8de9-8de58a6abcd1",
    "provider": "uber_places",
    "addressLine1": "Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)",
    "addressLine2": "1 World Way, Los Angeles"
  },
  {
    "id": "ChIJE9on3F3HwoAR9AhGJW_fL-I",
    "provider": "google_places",
    "addressLine1": "Los Angeles",
    "addressLine2": "CA, USA"
  },
  {
    "id": "72e67e9e-cb47-376c-f40e-df08fb63e1e6",
    "provider": "uber_places",
    "addressLine1": "Terminal 6",
    "addressLine2": "Gates 60 - 69, Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), Los Angeles"
  },
  {
    "id": "71124a11-c28a-3340-b39d-cd887ce01f52",
    "provider": "uber_places",
    "addressLine1": "Terminal 2",
    "addressLine2": "Gates 21 - 28, Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), Los Angeles"
  },
  {
    "id": "863e5e44-1bae-335b-b7bf-0474d7d7d484",
    "provider": "uber_places",
    "addressLine1": "Los Angeles Airport Marriott",
    "addressLine2": "5855 W Century Blvd, Los Angeles"
  }
]

• The above data can be passed into the detail/location api endpoint to get more detailed information about a location such as latitude and longitude info.

Autocomplete Search

The autocomplete search API wraps Postmates's/UberEats' Web autocomplete search API. Location cookies required before performing a search. See api/set/location for more information.

Usage Example

const url = "http://localhost:8000/api/autocomplete/search";

const options = {
  method: "POST",
  credentials: "include",
  headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringiy({"query":"pizz", cookies: {..., "uev2.loc":""}}),
};

fetch(url, options)
  .then((res) => res.json())
  .then((json) => console.log(json))
  .catch((err) => console.error("error:" + err));

Note: for the cookies object, ... means other cookies, note that the uev2.loc cookie is required to be part of those cookies. These cookies can be obtained from the /set/location API.

Response Example

[
  {
    "uuid": "72a3b19e-d91b-4ddd-8524-47f4df6f0e8e",
    "title": "Borgata Pizza Cafe",
    "image": "https://d1ralsognjng37.cloudfront.net/7ed5c1fa-e95c-4ed7-bb86-44ac815acd6f.jpeg"
  },
  {
    "uuid": "d1f32844-e38a-46c0-a045-5b3992223a1f",
    "title": "Donatos Pizza (Mill Run)",
    "image": "https://tb-static.uber.com/prod/image-proc/processed_images/edc3195c76c33da87ba6845b3b0e548b/820883a48567670acbd720bc76391291.jpeg"
  }
]