Goplaces

**Judgement:** Goplaces is a focused, practical CLI for the modern Google Places API (New), best suited to developers, power users, and ops workflows that need quick place search/details in the terminal or structured JSON for scripts. **Strengths & Fit:** - Excellent for ad-hoc, human-readable place lookups (e.g., "coffee", "pizza" near coordinates) with sensible filters (open now, rating, price). - JSON output mode (`--json`) makes it easy to plug into shell scripts, data pipelines, and other command-line tooling. - Covers common tasks: text search with biasing, resolve human-readable locations, fetch details and reviews, handle pagination via page tokens. **Risks & Limitations:** - Requires a valid `GOOGLE_PLACES_API_KEY`; misuse or leak of this key can incur unexpected billing or quota exhaustion. - Limited to the subset of Google Places API (New) features exposed by the CLI; advanced or niche endpoints will still require custom integration. - CLI-centric: best on systems comfortable with Homebrew / terminal usage; not a plug-and-play GUI or library for all environments. - Depends on Google’s API availability, network stability, and adherence to Google Places terms and pricing. **Recommended Scenarios:** - Developers or data engineers needing quick, scriptable access to place search/details without writing API client code. - Operations and support teams debugging or verifying place data in production systems from the terminal. - Power users planning travel, food searches, or local explorations who prefer command-line workflows with rich output. - Lightweight location-data collection tasks where `--json` output is consumed by other tools (e.g., `jq`, custom scripts).