Example code for using Postcoder Web in Python. For more information on Postcoder Web visit http://www.alliescomputing.com/products/postcoder-web-api

postcoder_web_example.py

#  PostCoder Web Service V3 example
#  Allies Computing Ltd 2014
#  
#  This demo shows how to perform an address lookup in Python.
#	
  
import json
import urllib
 
searchkey 	= 'PCW45-12345-12345-1234X'; # Test search key, replace with your
searchterm  = 'NR14 7PZ';   # string to use for an address search
 
print ("PostCoder Web V3 Python Client Snippet\n\n")
 
url = 'http://ws.postcoder.com/pcw/' + searchkey + '/address/UK/'
# for other uri options see https://developers.alliescomputing.com/postcoder-web-api/address-lookup/premise
 
try:
    # For Python 3.0 and later
    from urllib.request import urlopen
    url = url + urllib.parse.quote(searchterm)
    response = urlopen(url).readall().decode('utf-8')
except ImportError:
    # Fall back to Python 2
    from urllib import urlopen
    url = url + urllib.quote(searchterm)
    response = urlopen(url).read()
 
structure = json.loads(response)
print(json.dumps(structure, indent=2))