# Places Search autocomplete **URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/places-search-autocomplete/815084 **Category:** Questions about Thunkable X **Created:** [September 14, 2020, 6:21am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/places-search-autocomplete/815084 "2020-09-14T06:21:51Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 8
### Author: ![tatiang](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/tatiang/32/55482_2.png) [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang) #### Post date: [April 29, 2021, 6:14pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/places-search-autocomplete/815084/8 "2021-04-29T18:14:35Z")
You might find my API tutorial helpful: > [@API JSON Tutorial (Video)](https://community.thunkable.com/t/api-json-tutorial-video/1140575): > > Using APIs in Thunkable and understanding how to parse JSON to get certain data from the API response is both a popular and a difficult aspect of using Thunkable. It’s not so much difficult because of Thunkable but because every API url format is different, every API documentation is different, every JSON response is different, etc. In this video, I spend a lot of time talking you through some best practices. It’s not a quick tutorial because if you rush through setting up an API in Thunkable, … I’m just going to put it out there that it took me about ten hours of work to even start feeling comfortable with APIs and JSON. I think having a tutorial is a good head start but it can be pretty difficult stuff to get right. --- _[View the full topic](https://community.thunkable.com/t/places-search-autocomplete/815084)._