I am facing a weird situation when I sent request to the google geocode JSON API endpoint with the following function inside a Laravel controller

https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=New%20California,%20Ohio,%20United%20States&key=<key>

<?php

// ... class

protected function geocodeCity($city) {
        $client = new Client();
        $apiKey = env('GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY');
        $response = $client->get("https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json", [
            'query' => [
                'address' => $city,
                'key' => $apiKey
            ],
            'headers' => [
                'User-Agent' => 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/98.0.4758.102 Safari/537.36'
            ]
        ]);
    
        $data = json_decode($response->getBody(), true);
 

        if ($data['status'] === 'OK') {
            $location = $data['results'][0]['geometry']['location'];
            $addressComponents = $data['results'][0]['address_components'];

            


            $postalCode = null;
            foreach ($addressComponents as $component) {
                if (in_array('postal_code', $component['types'])) {
                    $postalCode = $component['long_name'];
                    break;
                }
            }

            return [
                'latitude' => $location['lat'],
                'longitude' => $location['lng'],
                'postal_code' => $postalCode
            ];
        }
    
        return null;
    }

It return only 4 key of address_components in the response

but when I sent https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=New%20California,%20Ohio,%20United%20States&key=<key> it return total 6 key including postal_code

Initially I thought that it’s happening due to User-Agent so I added User-Agent but still same, I can’t figure it out why this problem occurring.

I tried using Client URL Library ( cURL ) when I failed using GuzzleHttp but it’s still same to be noted that the project laravel framework version "laravel/framework": "^8.75" and guzzle version "guzzlehttp/guzzle": "^7.8",

I tried to change the version but still same. I wanted to see the 6 key which have postal_code type from there I can get "long_name": "43064", key value.