Connect Google Maps with Hookshot™ and your stack

Integrate Google Maps to access location data, geocoding, directions, and mapping services in your application.

Tools and triggers

What Agents can do in Google Maps

Available tools and events after Google Maps is connected.

  • Autocomplete Place Predictions

    Returns place and query predictions for text input. Use when implementing as-you-type autocomplete functionality for place searches. Returns up to five predictions ordered by relevance.

  • Compute Route Matrix

    Calculates travel distance and duration matrix between multiple origins and destinations using the modern Routes API; supports OAuth2 authentication and various travel modes. Matrix is capped at 625 elements (e.g…

  • Create Tiles Session

    Tool to create a session token required for accessing 2D Tiles and Street View imagery. Use when you need to initialize tile-based map rendering or street view display. The session token is valid for approximately two…

  • Embed Google Map

    Tool to generate an embeddable Google Map URL and HTML iframe code. Use when you need to display a map (place, view, directions, street view, search) on a webpage without JavaScript. Note: This API only works with API…

  • Geocode Address with Query

    Tool to map addresses to geographic coordinates with query parameter. Use when you need to convert a textual address into latitude/longitude coordinates using the modern v4beta API. Results may match multiple places —…

  • Geocode Destinations

    Tool to perform destination lookup and return detailed destination information including primary place, containing places, sub-destinations, landmarks, entrances, and navigation points. Use when you need comprehensive…

  • Geocode Place by ID

    Tool to perform geocode lookup using a place identifier to retrieve address and coordinates. Use when you need to get detailed geographic information for a specific Google Place ID.

  • Geocoding API

    Convert addresses into geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude) and vice versa (reverse geocoding), or get an address for a Place ID. Uses the Geocoding API v4 (v4beta) which supports OAuth2 authentication…

  • Geolocate Device

    Tool to determine location based on cell towers and WiFi access points. Use when you need to find the geographic location of a device using network infrastructure data.

  • Get 2D Map Tile

    Tool to retrieve a 2D map tile image at specified coordinates for building custom map visualizations. Use when you need to download individual map tile images for roadmap, satellite, or terrain views. Requires a valid…

  • Get 3D Tiles Root

    Tool to retrieve the 3D Tiles tileset root configuration for photorealistic 3D map rendering. Use when you need to initialize a 3D renderer with Google's photorealistic tiles following the OGC 3D Tiles specification…

  • Get Place Details

    Retrieves comprehensive details for a place using its resource name (places/{place_id} format). Use when you need detailed information about a specific place.

  • Get Place Photo

    Retrieves high quality photographic content from the Google Maps Places database. Use when you need to download a place photo using a photo_reference obtained from Place Details, Nearby Search, or Text Search requests…

  • Get Route

    Calculates one or more routes between two specified locations. Uses various travel modes and preferences; addresses must be resolvable by Google Maps. Response `duration` is a string with 's' suffix (e.g., `"4557s"`)…

  • Get Time Zone

    Retrieves time zone information for a specific geographic location and timestamp. Use this action when you need to determine the time zone ID, UTC offset, daylight savings offset, or localized time zone name for any…

  • Lookup Aerial Video

    Tool to look up an aerial view video by address or video ID. Returns video metadata including state and URIs for playback. Use when you need to retrieve a previously rendered aerial video or check the status of a video…

  • Nearby Search

    Searches for places (e.g., restaurants, parks) within a specified circular area, with options to filter by place types and customize the returned fields and number of results.

  • Render Aerial Video

    Starts rendering an aerial view video for a US postal address. Returns a video ID that can be used with lookupVideo to retrieve the video once rendering completes. Rendering typically takes up to a few hours.

  • Reverse Geocode Location

    Tool to convert geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude) to human-readable addresses using reverse geocoding. Use when you need to find the address or place name for a given set of coordinates. A single…

  • Text Search

    Searches for places on Google Maps using a textual query (e.g., "restaurants in London", "Eiffel Tower"). Results may include CLOSED_PERMANENTLY or TEMPORARILY_CLOSED places — filter by businessStatus=OPERATIONAL…

Setup

Connect Google Maps in Hookshot™

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Trigger Access

What can start a Protege from this app.

Tool Access

What a Protege can do after it starts.

Connection scope

Prefer team for production.

Team

Shared credential for production and unattended runs.

Personal

Tied to one user—only when the workflow needs their account.

Chat

Team-scoped for supported chat surfaces.

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