How do I get the postal code from google map's autocomplete api

Question

So my issue is that the results are spitting out as:

1980 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

...but I need it to give me the zipcode because when I put it back into google's Geocoder, for some reason it doesn't register the location.

// This is the code I have just the autocomplete input field

var input = document.getElementById('id_address');
var options = {
  types: ['address'],
  componentRestrictions: {country:'us'}
};
autocomplete = new google.maps.places.Autocomplete(input, options);

// This is how I'm using the geocoder

window.onload = function initMap() {
            console.log("{{ task.address }}");
            console.log("{{ location }}");
            var address = "{{ location }}";

            geocoder = new google.maps.Geocoder();

            geocoder.geocode({ 'address': address }, function(results, status) {
                <!-- console.log(address); -->
              if (status == google.maps.GeocoderStatus.OK) {
                var map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById('map'), {
                    center: results[0].geometry.location,
                    zoom: 12,
                  });
                var marker = new google.maps.Marker({
                    map: map,
                    position: results[0].geometry.location,
                  });
              }


            });

        }

I have a working solution, but the user will have to input each piece of the address separately. I'm trying to change it so they can just fill out one input field and then I can spit that address into the gecoder.geocode().

Answer 1

The result returned by the autocomplete contains an address_components array, one entry of which has the type 'postal_code', which for your sample address ("1980 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA, United States"), contains 94103.

Note: a city, county or state usually has more than one postal code, the only way to get a unique one would be to reverse geocode the returned coordinates, whether that is adequate will depend on the use.

proof of concept fiddle

function initialize() {
  var input = document.getElementById('id_address');
  var options = {
    types: ['address'],
    componentRestrictions: {
      country: 'us'
    }
  };
  autocomplete = new google.maps.places.Autocomplete(input, options);
  google.maps.event.addListener(autocomplete, 'place_changed', function() {
    var place = autocomplete.getPlace();
    for (var i = 0; i < place.address_components.length; i++) {
      for (var j = 0; j < place.address_components[i].types.length; j++) {
        if (place.address_components[i].types[j] == "postal_code") {
          document.getElementById('postal_code').innerHTML = place.address_components[i].long_name;

        }
      }
    }
  })
}
google.maps.event.addDomListener(window, "load", initialize);

html,
body,
#map_canvas {
  height: 100%;
  width: 100%;
  margin: 0px;
  padding: 0px
}

<script src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?libraries=places&key=AIzaSyCkUOdZ5y7hMm0yrcCQoCvLwzdM6M8s5qk"></script>
<input id="id_address" type="text" size="100" value="1980 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA, United States" />zip code:
<div id="postal_code"></div>
<div id="map_canvas"></div>