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title: Parameters
slug: serpwow/locations-api/parameters
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createdAt: 2024-08-05T14:13:33.938Z
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# Parameters

<font color="#52c41a">`GET`</font>  `/locations`

The following parameters can be used to refine the results from the Locations API.

| `Parameter`    | `Required` | `Description`                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
| -------------- | ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| `api_key`      | `required` | The API key for your account.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
| `q`            | `optional` | The query to use to search for locations, i.e. `new york` or `mumbai` .                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| `id`           | `optional` | The `id` of a specific location (location ids are returned with all results from the Locations API).                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| `parent_id`    | `optional` | Limits the search to child locations of the given `parent_id` . Useful for retrieving all sub-locations of a given location (all cities within a country, for example).                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| `type`         | `optional` | Limits the results to a specific type of location. Valid values are `city` , `country` , `county` , `dma_region` , `municipality` , `neighborhood` , `state` , `postal_code` or `province` . Multiple location types should be presented as a comma seperated list (i.e. `type=state,city` to include Location results that are of type `state` or `city` ). |
| `country_code` | `optional` | Limits the results to locations in specific countries. See [supported countries ](https://docs.trajectdata.com/serpwow/search-api/reference/google-countries)for a full list of all supported values. Multiple countries should be presented as a comma seperated list (i.e. `country_code=de,fr,us` for Germany, France and the United States).             |
| `limit`        | `optional` | Limits the number of search results returned per page. Defaults to `10` . The maximum number of location results returned per page is `100` . Use in conjunction with the the `page` parameter to implement pagination.                                                                                                                                      |
| `page`         | `optional` | Specifies the page of results to retrieve from `0` (first page) to a maximum page number of `100` (SerpWow does not support paging beyond the 100th page). Defaults to `0` . Use in conjunction with the `limit` parameter to limit the number of results returned per page.                                                                                 |

