Global address lookup with Node JS using PostCoder Web from Allies Computing - https://www.alliescomputing.com/postcoder/address-lookup

node-address-lookup.js

/*

PostCoder Web Service V3 example
Allies Computing Ltd 2015
  
This demo shows how to perform an address lookup in Node JS.

*/	
var https = require('https');
 
// This is a test API Key which works for the postcode NR14 7PZ
// Get your API Key from www.alliescomputing.com/postcoder/sign-up
var api_key = 'PCW45-12345-12345-1234X';

// String to use for an address search 
var postcode = 'NR147PZ';

// Note: The test API key above does not work with non UK country codes.
// Once you have signed up for a trial you can query any country
// using their ISO2 country code, such as US, FR, IE etc
// For a full list of country codes visit:-
// developers.alliescomputing.com/postcoder-web-api/address-lookup/international-addresses
var country_code = 'UK';
 
// Set content type to JSON, XML is also available
var headers = {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json'
};
 
// Configure the request options
var options = {
    host: 'ws.postcoder.com',
    path: '/pcw/'+api_key+'/address/'+country_code+'/'+ encodeURIComponent(postcode),
    method: 'GET',
    headers: headers
};
  
// Perform the request
var req = https.request(options, function(res) {
    res.setEncoding('utf-8');
 
    var responseString = '';
    
    res.on('data', function(data) {
        responseString += data;
    });
 
    res.on('end', function() {
     
        //convert the response string to JSON object
        var responseObject = JSON.parse(responseString);
        
        // Output object to console
        console.log(responseObject);
        
    });
});
 
req.end();