Create a Saved Location

Create a new Saved Location to begin seeing insights.

Create a Saved Location

post

Authorizations

BearerAuth

Body

application/json

location_codestringOptional

An optional identifier for your location.

The intention here is to use your own identifier for the location if you have one. E.g., you might have stores/hotels/etc in your system with their own ID

• use that ID here to make it easier to lookup the location later.

namestringOptional

Name of the Saved Location.

E.g. My Location

descriptionstringOptional

Description of the location.

labelsstring[]Optional

A list of labels to help you categorize your locations. You can use these labels to search upon.

E.g.

  {
    "labels": ["label1", "label2"]
  }

place_idsinteger[]Optional

You can define the geolocation of the Saved Location either by GeoJSON or Place IDs.

The Place IDs option is typically used when the location covers an entire city, county, state or country.

Use our Places API to search for the correct Place ID.

formatted_addressstringOptional

Responses

201

Location created successfully

application/json

422

Validation Error

application/json

post

/v1/saved-locations

HTTPcURLJavaScriptPython

POST /v1/saved-locations HTTP/1.1
Host: api.predicthq.com
Authorization: Bearer YOUR_SECRET_TOKEN
Content-Type: application/json
Accept: */*
Content-Length: 235

{
  "location_code": "text",
  "name": "text",
  "description": "text",
  "labels": [
    "text"
  ],
  "geojson": {
    "type": "text",
    "properties": {
      "radius": 1,
      "radius_unit": "m"
    },
    "geometry": {
      "type": "Point",
      "coordinates": []
    }
  },
  "place_ids": [
    1
  ],
  "formatted_address": "text"
}

{
  "location_id": "text"
}

Examples

Create Using Point and Radius

curl

curl --location 'https://api.predicthq.com/v1/saved-locations' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer TOKEN' \
--data '{
    "name": "Example of creating a saved location",
    "geojson": {
        "type": "Feature",
        "properties": {
            "radius": 2.23,
            "radius_unit": "mi"
        },
        "geometry": {
            "type": "Point",
            "coordinates": [
                -115.1728484,
                36.1147065
            ]
        }
    }
}'

python

import requests
import json

url = "https://api.predicthq.com/v1/saved-locations"

payload = json.dumps({
  "name": "Example of creating a saved location",
  "geojson": {
    "type": "Feature",
    "properties": {
      "radius": 1,
      "radius_unit": "mi"
    },
    "geometry": {
      "type": "Point",
      "coordinates": [
        -115.1728484,
        36.1147065
      ]
    }
  }
})
headers = {
  'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  'Authorization': 'Bearer TOKEN'
}

response = requests.request("POST", url, headers=headers, data=payload)

print(response.text)

Create Using Place ID

curl

curl --location 'https://api.predicthq.com/v1/saved-locations' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer TOKEN' \
--data '{
    "name": "Test with place_id",
    "place_ids": [ 2750405 ]
}'

python

import requests
import json

url = "https://api.predicthq.com/v1/saved-locations"

payload = json.dumps({
  "name": "Example with place_id",
  "place_ids": [
    2750405
  ]
})
headers = {
  'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  'Authorization': 'Bearer TOKEN'
}

response = requests.request("POST", url, headers=headers, data=payload)

print(response.text)

OpenAPI Spec

The OpenAPI spec for Saved Locations API can be found here.

Guides

Below are some guides relevant to this API:

• Working with Location-Based Subscriptions