# Find place

> The Find Place activity takes a text input and returns a place. The text input can be any kind of Places data, for example, a name, address, or phone number.

The Find Place activity takes a text input and returns a place. The text input can be any kind of Places data, for example, a name, address, or phone number.

## Properties

### Input

* **Fields** - The fields specifying the types of place data to return, separated by a comma.

  Data Type: `System.String`

Fields correspond to Place Search results, and are divided into **three billing categories**:

The **Basic** category includes the following fields: formatted_address, geometry, icon, name, permanently_closed, photos, place_id, plus_code, types

The **Contact** category includes the following field: opening_hours (Place Search returns only open_now; use a Place Details request to get the full opening_hours results).

The **Atmosphere** category includes the following fields: price_level, rating, user_ratings_total

Example: "formatted_address,geometry,icon,name,permanently_closed,photos,place_id" (no spaces allowed after comma)

* **Input**: The text input specifying which place to search for (for example, a name, address, or phone number).).

  Data Type: `System.String`

Example: "Prestige Trade Tower"

* **Input Type**: The type of input. This can be one of either textquery or phonenumber.

  Data Type: `System.String`

Example: It’s a dropdown, you can either select textquery or phonenumber

* **Language**: The language code, indicating in which language the results should be returned, if possible. See the [list of supported languages](https://developers.google.com/maps/faq#languagesupport) and their codes.

  Data Type: `System.String`

Example: “zh” for Chinese

* **Location Bias**: Prefer results in a specified area, by specifying either a radius plus lat/lng, or two lat/lng pairs representing the points of a rectangle. If this parameter is not specified, the API uses IP address biasing by default. • **IP bias**: Instructs the API to use IP address biasing. Pass the string ipbias (this option has no additional parameters). • **Point**: A single lat/lng coordinate. Use the following format: point:lat,lng. • **Circular**: A string specifying radius in meters, plus lat/lng in decimal degrees. Use the following format: circle:radius@lat,lng. • **Rectangular**: A string specifying two lat/lng pairs in decimal degrees, representing the south/west and north/east points of a rectangle. Use the following format: rectangle:south,west|north,east. Note that east/west values are wrapped to the range -180, 180, and north/south values are clamped to the range -90, 90.

  Data Type: `System.String`

Example: “circle:2000@47.6918452,-122.2226413”

### Output

* **JSON**: The output in the form of a JSON string. Data TypeData Type: System.String Places: The list of matched places. Data TypeData Type: UiPathTeam.GoogleMaps.Model.FindPlace.FindPlaceResponse

### Common

* **DisplayName** - The display name of the activity.

### Misc

* **Private** - If selected, the values of variables and arguments are no longer logged at Verbose level. For More info follow the [link](https://developers.google.com/places/web-service/search).