Hi everyone,

I’m currently testing react-geocode but hit a “request denied” error after providing my API key.

Error: Server returned status code REQUEST_DENIED

The solution was pretty simple thankfully – enable the Geocoding API for your project: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/get-api-key

In my case I was re-using a Google maps key from another project where I’d enabled all of the map apis but not the GeoCoding one.