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# Search

GET https://data.api.aviato.co/geocoder/search

Allows you to search for a specific location, and returns a list of potential geocoded matches. If you are performing a people/company search, we highly recommend using the Geocoded ID of the location you intend to search for, and filtering by "locationIDList" contains \{geocoded\_id}.

Reference: https://docs.data.aviato.co/api-reference/geocoder/search

## Authentication

- `Authorization` header (bearer token, required) — Bearer authentication of the form `Bearer <token>`, where token is your auth token.

## Request

### Query parameters

- `text` (string, required)
- `limit` (integer, optional)
- `lang` (string, optional)

## Response

### 200

- `list of GeocoderHit`

## Errors

### 401 Unauthorized Error

### 429 Rate Limit Error

### 400 Bad Request Error

- `message` (string, required)

## Types

### GeocoderHit

- `id` (integer, required)
- `name` (string, required)
- `placetype` (string, required)
- `languageDefaulted` (boolean, required)
- `geom` (Geom, required)
- `population` (integer, optional)
- `country` (Country, optional)
- `region` (Region, optional)
- `locality` (Locality, optional)

### Geom

- `bbox` (string, required)
- `lat` (double, required)
- `lon` (double, required)
- `area` (double, optional)

### Country

- `id` (integer, required)
- `name` (string, required)
- `abbr` (string, required)
- `languageDefaulted` (boolean, required)

### Region

- `id` (integer, required)
- `name` (string, required)
- `languageDefaulted` (boolean, required)
- `abbr` (string, optional)

### Locality

- `id` (integer, required)
- `name` (string, required)
- `languageDefaulted` (boolean, required)

## Examples

**Response**

```json
[
  {
    "id": 1,
    "name": "name",
    "placetype": "placetype",
    "languageDefaulted": true,
    "geom": {
      "bbox": "bbox",
      "lat": 1.1,
      "lon": 1.1,
      "area": 1.1
    },
    "population": 1,
    "country": {
      "id": 1,
      "name": "name",
      "abbr": "abbr",
      "languageDefaulted": true
    },
    "region": {
      "id": 1,
      "name": "name",
      "languageDefaulted": true,
      "abbr": "abbr"
    },
    "locality": {
      "id": 1,
      "name": "name",
      "languageDefaulted": true
    }
  },
  {
    "id": 1,
    "name": "name",
    "placetype": "placetype",
    "languageDefaulted": true,
    "geom": {
      "bbox": "bbox",
      "lat": 1.1,
      "lon": 1.1,
      "area": 1.1
    },
    "population": 1,
    "country": {
      "id": 1,
      "name": "name",
      "abbr": "abbr",
      "languageDefaulted": true
    },
    "region": {
      "id": 1,
      "name": "name",
      "languageDefaulted": true,
      "abbr": "abbr"
    },
    "locality": {
      "id": 1,
      "name": "name",
      "languageDefaulted": true
    }
  }
]
```

**SDK Code**

```python
import requests

url = "https://data.api.aviato.co/geocoder/search"

querystring = {"text":"text"}

headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer <token>"}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers, params=querystring)

print(response.json())
```

```javascript
const url = 'https://data.api.aviato.co/geocoder/search?text=text';
const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>'}};

try {
  const response = await fetch(url, options);
  const data = await response.json();
  console.log(data);
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
}
```

```go
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://data.api.aviato.co/geocoder/search?text=text"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}
```

```ruby
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://data.api.aviato.co/geocoder/search?text=text")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
```

```java
import com.mashape.unirest.http.HttpResponse;
import com.mashape.unirest.http.Unirest;

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://data.api.aviato.co/geocoder/search?text=text")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .asString();
```

```php
<?php
require_once('vendor/autoload.php');

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();

$response = $client->request('GET', 'https://data.api.aviato.co/geocoder/search?text=text', [
  'headers' => [
    'Authorization' => 'Bearer <token>',
  ],
]);

echo $response->getBody();
```

```csharp
using RestSharp;

var client = new RestClient("https://data.api.aviato.co/geocoder/search?text=text");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.GET);
request.AddHeader("Authorization", "Bearer <token>");
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
```

```swift
import Foundation

let headers = ["Authorization": "Bearer <token>"]

let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: NSURL(string: "https://data.api.aviato.co/geocoder/search?text=text")! as URL,
                                        cachePolicy: .useProtocolCachePolicy,
                                    timeoutInterval: 10.0)
request.httpMethod = "GET"
request.allHTTPHeaderFields = headers

let session = URLSession.shared
let dataTask = session.dataTask(with: request as URLRequest, completionHandler: { (data, response, error) -> Void in
  if (error != nil) {
    print(error as Any)
  } else {
    let httpResponse = response as? HTTPURLResponse
    print(httpResponse)
  }
})

dataTask.resume()
```