I try to get some data from google maps to determine the country and county from an address. I do this with a request to the google geocode API by sending an URL that contains the address. I expect a JSON object. This is the backend code that is saved in a file called gapi.jsw: import { fetch }…

Ok, I figured it out: fetch does not like Umlaute (ö,ä,ü). If I enter “Zürich” as a place it returns an error, if I enter “Zurich” then it works. For german speakers: “Zuerich” also works… Thats quite bad… of course I can edit the string to replace the Umlauts. Solution: let myStringWithoutUmlau…

Google Geocode API: Fetch throws Status 400

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amandam February 22, 2022, 1:49pm 4

Ah yes! I didn’t think of that, it does make sense it would need the encoding. I’m glad you figured it out.

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