Search By Radius to get locations around a set of coordinates. We are using R to pass the following query, but when we do, we get a 400 error. When we run the same query in the GUI it works

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Hello, we are trying to use Search By Radius to get locations around a set of coordinates. We are using R to pass the following query, but when we do, we get a 400 error. When we run the same query in the GUI here, it works. Anyone can help us figure out what’s going wrong? Thank you!

query radius { search( filter: { by_radius: { latitude: 37.78247 longitude: -122.407752  distanceInMeters: 100} } ) { places { results(first: 10) { edges { node { placekey safegraph_core {location_name } } } } } } }
2

To further explain this.
We have zero issue sending queries of the types

lookup

batch_lookup

exactly as they appear in the API docs. The only difference is when we try to use the

search

queries

3

Here’s an example of the strange behavior I’m seeing.

When I hit the API endpoint with the example query from the SEARCH page of the API docs. https://docs.safegraph.com/reference/search

query {
  search(first: 5 filter: { 
    address: {
      city:"San Francisco"
      region: "CA"
    } 
  }) {
    placekey
    safegraph_core {
      location_name
      street_address
      city
      region
      top_category
    }
  }
}

That works fine when I send that query through the API in R. I get a valid response. But when I send that exact same query through the GraphiQL GUI at the bottom of the page, I get this error

{
  "error": "Query does not pass validation. Violations:\n\nUnknown argument 'first' on field 'search' of type 'Query'. (line 2, column 10):\n  search(first: 5 filter: { \n         ^\n\nCannot query field 'placekey' on type 'SearchResult'. Did you mean 'places'? (line 8, column 5):\n    placekey\n    ^\n\nCannot query field 'safegraph_core' on type 'SearchResult'. (line 9, column 5):\n    safegraph_core {\n    ^"
}

I’m super confused, hoping someone can help

4

Looping in @vchen on this.

5

Thanks! We were trying to implement the same code in Python (Search By Radius) and were wondering how we could pass in multiple attributes — latitude, longitude and distanceInMeters.
We tried using the Python structure that’s on this page, but we get an error

typeError: search() got an unexpected keyword argument 'latitude'

When we run

sgql_client.search(product = 'weekly_patterns', latitude = 37.78247,longitude = -122.407752, distanceInMeters = 100, columns = cols, max_results = 5)
6

hi aadit, the python library sgql is on v1 on the api and is going to be deprecated since we’ve been making a lot of improvements to v2 of the api. you can make that request directly in python with requests , here is an example: https://safegraph.dev/core/store-locator/

7

that seems to have solved it for us

We were querying V1, and when we queried v2 directly it worsk!