---
title: "Artisan commands — Google Places for Laravel | Roundly"
description: "A preflight check that probes each Google API with your key — as a command or GooglePlaces::check() — plus a section in php artisan about."
url: https://roundly-consulting.com/open-source/docs/google-places-for-laravel/commands
language: en
---

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# Artisan commands

```bash
php artisan google-places:check   # probe Places, Routes and Geocoding with your key
php artisan about                 # includes the package section: API key, cache, logging
```

- google-places:check — sends one small request to each of the Places API (New), Routes API and Geocoding API and prints a table of API, status and detail. It exits non-zero if any API is unreachable or not enabled, so it works as a deploy gate. The key is masked to its last four characters — a key of eight characters or fewer is starred out completely.
- about — the package adds a section reporting whether the API key is SET or MISSING and whether cache and logging are ENABLED or OFF. The key itself is never printed.

## The same check in code

The command is a thin console face over GooglePlaces::check(), which returns one ApiCheckResult (api, ok, detail) per API — ready for a health endpoint or a deploy gate. A Geocoding REQUEST\_DENIED fails even though Google sends it with HTTP 200; probes are not retried, throttled or cached, and a missing key throws PlacesException::missingApiKey():

```php
use RoundlyConsulting\GooglePlaces\DataTransferObjects\ApiCheckResult;
use RoundlyConsulting\GooglePlaces\Facades\GooglePlaces;

$down = array_filter(GooglePlaces::check(), fn (ApiCheckResult $r) => ! $r->ok);

foreach (GooglePlaces::check() as $result) {
    $result->api;     // 'Places API (New)' | 'Routes API' | 'Geocoding API'
    $result->ok;      // bool
    $result->detail;  // 'Reachable and authorized.' or the failure, key redacted
}
```

Both call Google for real against a live key. The command resolves PlacesClient, so under GooglePlaces::fake() it reports the withCheck() seed instead — see Testing.

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