# MapQuest Place Search API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/mapquest/mapquest-place-search-api/  
**Provider:** MapQuest — https://apis.io/providers/mapquest/  
**Base URL:** https://www.mapquestapi.com/search/v5  
**Documentation:** https://developer.mapquest.com/documentation/place-search-api/v5/

MapQuest Place Search API is one of 10 APIs that [MapQuest](https://apis.io/providers/mapquest/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Place Search, Points of Interest, and Search. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

The MapQuest Place Search API returns places matching a search query, with support for category, location, and bounding-box filtering.

## Machine-readable artifacts (1)

- **Documentation** — https://developer.mapquest.com/documentation/place-search-api/v5/

## Other MapQuest APIs (9)

- [MapQuest Geocoding API](https://apis.io/apis/mapquest/mapquest-geocoding-api/)
- [MapQuest Static Map API](https://apis.io/apis/mapquest/mapquest-static-map-api/)
- [MapQuest Traffic API](https://apis.io/apis/mapquest/mapquest-traffic-api/)
- [MapQuest Search API](https://apis.io/apis/mapquest/mapquest-search-api/)
- [MapQuest Search Ahead API](https://apis.io/apis/mapquest/mapquest-search-ahead-api/)
- [MapQuest Geolocation API](https://apis.io/apis/mapquest/mapquest-geolocation-api/)
- [MapQuest Icons API](https://apis.io/apis/mapquest/mapquest-icons-api/)
- [MapQuest Data Manager API](https://apis.io/apis/mapquest/mapquest-data-manager-api/)
- [MapQuest Directions API](https://apis.io/apis/mapquest/mapquest-directions-api/)

## Tags

Place Search, Points of Interest, Search

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