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Yes please :) Along with a more specific definition of how the Popular Times are determined (how much history? done by mobile device activity? check ins?)

Making popular times available by day of the week would be awesome

It already is Jeffrey, you can toggle by day on mobile or desktop

@r22, I think Jeff is referring to the ability to split popular times by day of week in the information released by the API, not the currently existing web GUI.

Maybe the info appears as a nested object? e.g. "popular times" > "day of week" > "hour of day" > traffic count

Would be extremely helpful to have access to this data directly via the API.  Is it maybe available via another API?  

No update on here for a while now... Any news on making this available ?

News? it would be awesome :)

This would be great, we could use for some cool analytics applications...

Would be great to see this opened up so we could use it in app development in iOS and Android.

Hi, those data would be definitely usefull to enable new services like shopping day optimizer and many more.

Any updates?

Would be great!!

Hi Project Team, any updates? We'd love to use that in our apps and systems. It's a VERY powerful piece of data

Can we please see it as an Api for other apps to use.

Hi Project Team, any updates?  Thanks a lot!

Please build it...we will come!

Don't build it, keep the data for yourself its very valuable

Very valuable feature that would get much use and increase spend on places api calls

Would love to see this API exposed

waiting to get popular times info from Google Places API

This would be great! PLEASE ADD OPEN THIS DATA GOOGLE!

Would be very usefull

It would be extremely helpful to get this information to make amazing apps. Please OPEN THIS for us!

Is this API Available yet?

Indeed, would be great if you could include this endpoint within your next update! Thanks

Would love to get access to this data!

I agree - please add to API.

The only thing missing in the Places API! Too bad it was not added with the latest Google I/O batch of changes

I join the chorus of people requesting this feature.

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I too join the chorus for requesting this feature.

And me... But I fear it is too valuable in aggregate to expose back to the masses. We can hope...

Adding to the earlier request(s) for the Places API to provide Popular Times.

Joining the chorus for requesting this feature!

interested in Popular Times data via API

Pleeease add this feature!

Great news Brett. I raised this ticket last sept. When can we expect it to be added to the places api?

As a rule, we don't discuss product road maps. I have added this as a enhancement request for the team to evaluate, but this is no guarantee that this request will be implemented.

ok thanks Brett. If it does get implemented, will we be notified here?

If the feature is built then yes, this enhancement request will be updated as fixed. Thanks!

Plea expose this feature

Is this going to be added??

Hello my name is Michael Luckenbill and I would really love to see this API Exposed. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE with a cherry on top make this happen.

I echo this thread!

This would be so useful to many of us!

Do we know if there is a timeline when this would be exposed? (I see that this issue was accepted)

Does this mean that it's in a Google Product Sprint?

We only know that's it's been added as an enhancement request. As Brett said above (https://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=8581#c55), this is no guarantee it will be implemented, and they don't discuss product road maps externally. :(

Ok thank you for that insight.

This would be an amazing features to have access too. I know that many members in the mobile/web app community would great benefit our users. Thanks for keeping us in the loop Brett!

I will also love this included in the API.

Would be good to have this.

It would be great to have this. I can use this to build heat-maps.

so a year later. what's the word?

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Please expose this data via the api. Purty please...

Interested!

Please make Popular Times data available per place via an API. Time granularity of "per hour" would be sufficient in a first version.

Popular times data available on a relative scale would already be great!

any update?

Please make this info available via API. Pretty please!

I've been wanting to switch to Places API for a long time, specifically for this endpoint. Please make it happen!

I would like an update on this issue.

I would like an update on this issue.

LOL. If only it were so easy.

As a general rule, we do not comment on potential future product developments. We appreciate the attention you are giving our issue tracker, it is used by our product teams to figure out future development. Thanks!

Adding my voice to the please add mob. Thanks for considering it.

popular times, popular times, popular times!

make this available already. how does facebook have this and we dont?

So what's the deal????? I see this issue has been around for more than a year now, and there's still no way for the maps API to includes the 'popular times' data in it's feed??? For shame Google....For Shame ::shakeshead::

adding my voice to expose to API.

adding my voice to expose to API.

Add my vote too.

Thinkwithgoogle would back this request as a be-there moment.  Please expose popular times in api :)

Please make Popular Times data available per place via an API.

You better delete this b4 i report u

Unless I report you first

Huh? Who is reporting whom for what?

Hi Guys I dont know if anyone is interested but I have taken a data set of anonymised mobile phone geo location data (for a small area I acquired in London) and have built an API which also surfaces the Google Places ID.
If anyone wants to have access while we wait for Google to surface their own API please email me at justin@bb1.io

POST

POST to the Https end point

https://client.bb1.io/api/populartimes/prod

RESPONSE

The JSON response

{
   "id": “C6FB1EFE4”,
“googleplacesid": “ChIJrTLr-GyuEmsRBfy61i59si0”
   "time": 20,
   "busy": 4,
   "latitude": 51.24795914,
   "longitude": -0.569657505
 }

please add this to the maps api, especially since the data is now real-time, this could be very useful for an app idea I have

Yes , even we are looking for the same to be used. With Real time being launched , this is a must in the google api!!

Just read an article about real time popular times and wished for an api. Now too am I here with the throngs pleading for the api to be made hastily. I would like to see an actual number also, so that I could say if one place was more popular than another overall. Or if that is asking too much which it very well may, even a metric like a representational piece of data would suffice. Thanks.

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With the latest announcement - a real time popular times API would be amazing!

Yes! I am waiting for this too! please make this available

It would be fabulous to have an API that allowed retrieval of (suitably anonymized) visitor data over long periods, but I'm not holding my breath for it.  How about something as simple as a "tooltip" that shows the magnitude of each bar in the frequency graphs across the days?  Right now I'm counting pixels to calculate relative frequencies, which is a bit imprecise.

getting a live data api would be incredible !

Would love to see this too

I would love to see this too! Please do this Google!!!!

I too join in the request for popular times API

I agree, this would be very useful for an app I am currently making.

Please ! Add popular times to API !

I need this!

Please add this feature!

Adding my +1 for a Popular Times API

PLEASE!, so us developers can keep changing the world!

really wanting to make use of this as well!

would love to have this as well!

Hoping to see popular times as part of API soon as it opens more opportunities for the developers.

Buongiorno, vorrei sapere come si fa z conoscere la distanza tra questi due punti della stessa città. Grazie.

https://www.google.it/maps/@37.4856525,14.0529769,3a,75y,5h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1skRxhXm7rwlgiL1oVb5K_zQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1

https://www.google.it/maps/@37.4924128,14.0536141,3a,75y,12.81h,90.68t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s_YbUL58KlP3ONEFqhUHiiQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1

Yes, that would be awesome :)

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Any news on this subject?

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Agree, that would be great

Please add this!

Will this feature ever come out its been years already

cmon google!

I can't believe this is still an issue. People have been requesting this for so long now!

yeah, pleas add this

Yes please add popular times data to places api

Yes! I am waiting for this too! please make this available

This feature would be fantastic!

Yes, would create high value. Thanks.

Please Google add this feature.

Have you already added popular times data to places api?

It would be a very powerful tool!
It could also retrieve how crowded is the place in realtime.
Please Google, we need you.

Please add

Please add. Can't wait for it any day longer ;)

Waiting for this to build an app - please add soon :)

This would be so useful to many of us!

please add! Or explain if you do not want to add it because of privacy/business sensitive information?

please this to the api.

Bump

+1. I was searching for this very feature.

Agree with Gabriel

Would be very helpful to have popular times.

This is a game changing feature!

Also interested in this

let this happen

Please Google add this feature.

please add ASAP.  many, many useful applications for many, many people.

Dear Google, by making the Popular Times API accessible, you would open the door to lots of great and helpful applications, reaching people all around the world.

Please add the "Popular Times" to your API. It will create tremendous value.

Would be great if you'll add popular times to the API

Continue supported this API would be appriciate!

Adding my voice for requesting this API

Im searching for this too, and to have the scale of the bars. Thanks!

I want this please! Bump

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Super, super interested in the populate times API

Super, super interested in the populate times API

Add my name to this request

Very interested in this.

想要添加

想要添加

I would love to be able to access Popular Times

i'll be glad to access to "Popular times and visit duration"

Sigh...6 months since my last post, and still not even an update. Does anyone else have any updates on how to create a POST/GET request from Google Maps API to get hour by hour or day by day popular times for businesses that you search for? Having to look up this stuff by hand takes entirely too long...

Making this data available through the API would certainly increase sales of the API.

Want

This request is overdue. :(

Must be a business decision to not offer this in their API?

Facebook already has their own version, of course there's no API for it.

https://www.facebook.com/pg/seaspicemia/about/?entry_point=about_section_header&tab=popular_hours

Would like to use this data for normalizing energy use as a proxy for occupancy data. Please add API.

yes please add this!

Please add this feature. Thanks!

Heyyy, Google.

Can I have this feature, please? Thanks.

This feature is needed for our french Centre Georges Pompidou Library customer. Thanks for making it possible in a near future

This data would enable a tremendous realm of possibilities for
technically-minded folks in the urban planning space!

While I know that Google's data science team has done a lot of really
awesome analytical work around this data already, I hope that their
philanthropic leanings eventually persuade them into releasing this data as
part of a public-facing API.

On a related note - if any of the Google data scientists would be
interested in talking further about how some of this data may be able to be
leveraged for the public good, I'd definitely be up for a chat:
kdenny37@gmail.com

Cheers,
Kevin Earl Denny
On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 2:33 PM <buganizer-system@google.com> wrote:

Any idea by when are you going to include the Popular Timings since it is very useful and everyone is looking this data.

Thanks

This would be huge for civic hacking projects

This would be really useful to create cool Analytics application.

Bump

I would love this feature. Please add :)

+1
The urban computing / computational social science community would definitely profit by having this data public!

need this!!

Everyone here wants to do interesting analytics and stuff, but I just want to set something up to notify me know when my local gym is less busy.

nee this!!

I need this!

+1
WE need this.

+1
must have on google APIS .. please add.

+1
Love this feature!

+1

Assigned and Triaged... Yeah!

Yuppie. Assigned. Looking forward

*Regards,*
*Satyakam Ghude*
*(+91 9405076536)*

On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 9:45 PM, <buganizer-system@google.com> wrote:

+1
Would love to have access to this feature.

+1

+1