Search API

Overview

Search API is a RESTful API that allows developers to run a single line fuzzy search for addresses and POIs. Search API returns the latitude/longitude of a specific address, cross street, geographic feature, or point of interest (POI).

Search is a geocoding API from tomtom.com. Requests are authenticated with an API key. It is served over HTTPS. Its OpenAPI description documents 19 endpoints.

At a glance

Authentication

API key

HTTPS

Yes

CORS

Unknown

Category

Geocoding

Base URL

https://api.tomtom.com

Version

1.0.0

Endpoints

19

OpenAPI

Specification ↗

Spec updated

2020-03-22

Make a first request

Replace the placeholders; the documentation says exactly where credentials go.

curl -X GET "https://api.tomtom.com/search/VERSIONNUMBER/additionalData.EXT" \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const response = await fetch("https://api.tomtom.com/search/VERSIONNUMBER/additionalData.EXT", {
  method: "GET",
  headers: {
    "Accept": "application/json",
    "X-API-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
  },
});
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

import requests

response = requests.request(
    "GET",
    "https://api.tomtom.com/search/VERSIONNUMBER/additionalData.EXT",
    headers={
    "Accept": "application/json",
    "X-API-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
    },
    timeout=30,
)
print(response.json())

Endpoints

Questions