---
title: "Search for bike stations by their name, a bike point's name often contains information about the name of the street
            or nearby landmarks, for example. Note that the search result does not contain the PlaceProperties i.e. the status
            or occupancy of the BikePoint, to get that information you should retrieve the BikePoint by its id on /BikePoint/id."
method: GET
path: "/BikePoint/Search"
tags: ["BikePoint"]
---

# Search for bike stations by their name, a bike point's name often contains information about the name of the street
            or nearby landmarks, for example. Note that the search result does not contain the PlaceProperties i.e. the status
            or occupancy of the BikePoint, to get that information you should retrieve the BikePoint by its id on /BikePoint/id.

`GET /BikePoint/Search`

## Query parameters

- `query` string, required

## Response `200`

OK

- TflApiPresentationEntitiesPlace[]
  - `id` string — A unique identifier.
  - `url` string — The unique location of this resource.
  - `commonName` string — A human readable name.
  - `distance` number, double — The distance of the place from its search point, if this is the result of a geographical search, otherwise zero.
  - `placeType` string — The type of Place. See /Place/Meta/placeTypes for possible values.
  - `additionalProperties` TflApiPresentationEntitiesAdditionalProperties[] — A bag of additional key/value pairs with extra information about this place.
    - `category` string
    - `key` string
    - `sourceSystemKey` string
    - `value` string
    - `modified` string, date-time
  - `children` TflApiPresentationEntitiesPlace[]
  - `childrenUrls` string[]
  - `lat` number, double — WGS84 latitude of the location.
  - `lon` number, double — WGS84 longitude of the location.

---

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