Try it
Every request on this page is real.
Nothing here is mocked and nothing is proxied. Your browser is calling
api.placedb.org directly — open the network tab and watch.
The picker
Country, division, settlement
Three requests, in the order a form asks for them. This is the whole location-picker use case, and it needs nothing else.
Autocomplete
Type, and watch the walk
The line under the field is the actual request that answered, whether the bucket held everything, and how many places carry the prefix. Try ber in Germany, then san in Mexico, where it has to go several characters deeper.
Ready.
Requests
What this page actually fetched
Newest first, with status, decoded size, time, and which side answered:
a HIT came from the edge, a MISS went to the
bucket. Every request the page makes is here, including the ones the
autocomplete made while you typed.
- Nothing yet — use a control above.
Serving release 2026-08-15T0426Z, 1,674,947
settlements. No key was sent, because there is none.