Asynchronous by design
Accepted requests return a durable job identifier. Provider work continues outside the request lifecycle.
Durable Google Maps data for software and automations.
API purchases and production scraping are not available in the first Online release. The documentation below describes the planned REST interface, not currently purchasable capabilities.
Idempotent mutations
Supply an idempotency key when creating or changing work so safe retries do not create duplicate jobs.
Bounded result shapes
Search, Reviews, and Photos expose explicit input limits and paginated response envelopes documented in OpenAPI.
How API billing works
One accepted Search, Reviews, or Photos source-page request is one API unit. Validation, authentication, quota, and other pre-admission denials are not billed. A request is billable after durable provider or cache admission even if it later returns empty, partial, or failed.