Address Lookup

Find geo-location based on unstructured (single-line entry, un-qualified) or based on structured (qualified) address information. The result is a single record which matches the given geo-location. The response depends on the data quality of the request. If the request contains too many typos the response keys may be empty.

The unstructured query determines each address part by its own and afterwards finds the closest geo-location. It should only be used if you do not know which address information fits in which query parameter.
The structured query provides an additional logic for specific countries to improve the result of the determined geo-location. Please consider that if you do not provide a country name/code the result may end in a different country because the same city + street combination may exist in multiple countries.

Request Url: https://api.datamill.solutions/address/search
Request Method: POST

Table of Contents

Request Parameters

The API uses the POST request method to send data in the HTTP message body to avoid data being stored in the cache of the web server. A request is valid if all parameters are provided as described below (data type, minimum and maximum length). Please note that all data must be UTF-8 and URL encoded.

POST /address/search HTTP/1.1
Host: https://api.datamill.solutions

name1=value1&name2=value2
Parameter Mandatory Data Type Min. Max. Description
license required string 29 29 Your license key used for authentication - keep this key secret!
guid required string 30 40 Your GUID used for authentication - keep this key secret!
requestproof optional string 0 1 set to 1 if you need a unique request identifier as proof for your API request e.g. for VAT checks; default is 0
returnavailablecredits optional string 0 1 set to 1 to get the number of data.mill credits available in your data.mill account; default is 0; a return value of -1 means that you have unlimited credits
responseformat optional string 3 4 format of returned data; possible values are xml or json (default)
address optional string 1 255 Unstructured query parameter. Free-form text containing address elements (e.g. city, postal code, street, house number). Each element is separated using a whitespace. The order of the elements does not matter. You can specify the "address" parameter by itself or you can specify it with other parameters to narrow your search.
country optional string 1 255 Specify the country using the country code (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3) or the country name.
state optional string 1 255 First subdivision level below the country. Specify the state using full or abbreviated notation.
county optional string 1 255 Second subdivision level below the country. Depending on the admin hierarchy in a country this level might not be applicable.
city optional string 1 255 The city name.
zip optional string 1 255 Postal code defined by the government of the country.
district optional string 1 255 Subdivision level below the city. Depending on the admin hierarchy in a country this level might not be applicable.
street optional string 1 255 The street name.
housenumber optional string 1 255 The house number or building name.
locale optional string 0 5 The preferred language of address elements in the result. The locale must be provided according to RFC 4647 standard (language code).

Response

The API returns all data in valid JSON. A few programming languages include native support for JSON. For those that don't, you can find a suitable library at http://www.json.org. Valid requests always returns all response keys listed below. Depending on the request parameters some response keys may be empty.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Server: Apache
Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2024 16:59:57 GMT
Content-Length: 33
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *

{"key1":"value1","key2":"value2"}
Name Data Type Description
country_iso_2 string ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code
country_iso_3 string ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code
country string Country name together with the language information
state string State name/code together with the language information
state_name string State name together with the language information
state_code string ISO 3166-2 state code (if available)
county string County name together with the language information (if available)
city string City name together with the language information
zip string Postal code
district string District name together with the language information (if available)
street string Street name together with the language information
housenumber string House number or building name together with the language information (if available)
additional_data string Additional house number information (e.g. floor, apartment, top)
latitude string Latitude to place a marker indicating the given location on a map (uses a dot as decimal point)
longitude string Longitude to place a marker indicating the given location on a map (uses a dot as decimal point)
navigation_latitude string Latitude of a potential route waypoint (uses a dot as decimal point)
navigation_longitude string Longitude of a potential route waypoint (uses a dot as decimal point)
relevance string Indicates the relevance of the result found. The higher the score the more relevant the alternative. The score is a normalized value between 0 and 100. Every typo or mismatch between the request and response data (e.g. incorrect data, abbreviation, ..) will reduce the relevance.
matchlevel string The most detailed address field that matches the geo-coding query.
  • housenumber: the whole geo-location including the house number / building name was found.
  • street: the whole geo-location excluding the house number / building name was found. Please consider if you do not provide a house number or building name in the request the most detailed address field possible will always be the street.
  • general: our service could only resolve a few address parts above the street level (e.g. only country or country + city, ...).

Response Errors

If the request fails the API returns a HTTP status code according to the reason. A reason may be a missing mandatory request parameter, invalid parameter credentials (minimum/maximum length) or invalid API keys. The response body is a valid JSON containing detail information about the reason (except for status code 500).

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

Server: Apache
Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2024 16:59:57 GMT
Content-Length: 71
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *

{"errorcode":404,"errormessage":"transformation function name invalid"}
HTTP Status Code Reason
401 Unauthorized
The license key and/or GUID key is missing, invalid or inactive.
402 Payment Required
Your /data.mill credit quota is exceeded. You need to get more credits.
403 Forbidden
You need to accept all required agreements of this function to be able to use it.
404 Not Found
The request path in combination with the request method does not exist.
405 Method Not Allowed
The request method is not allowed for the requested path.
412 Precondition Failed
At least one of the given request parameter has invalid credentials (e.g. data type, length).
428 Precondition Required
At least one of the mandatory request parameter is missing or has an empty value.
500 Internal Server Error
An unexpected condition terminated the request.
503 Service Unavailable
The service is currently in maintenance mode and will be alive later.

Batch Mode

The batch mode allows the execution of thousands of records (limited to 5,000) combined in a single request. This API endpoint as described above uses the single mode execution of records. To use the batch mode you need to combine all request parameters above (excluding license and guid) as array, where each array element represents a single record. This array is converted to a valid JSON string and set as value of the new request parameter called batch. The response of the batch mode is a valid JSON which contains the result for each record set in the request. The response keys of each result element are the same as for the single request mode described above.

Batch Request

license=...
&guid=...
&batch=[{"requestproof":"...","returnavailablecredits":"...","responseformat":"...","address":"...","country":"...","state":"...","county":"...","city":"...","zip":"...","district":"...","street":"...","housenumber":"...","locale":"..."},{"requestproof":"...","returnavailablecredits":"...","responseformat":"...","address":"...","country":"...","state":"...","county":"...","city":"...","zip":"...","district":"...","street":"...","housenumber":"...","locale":"..."}]

Batch Response

[{"country_iso_2":"...","country_iso_3":"...","country":"...","state":"...","state_name":"...","state_code":"...","county":"...","city":"...","zip":"...","district":"...","street":"...","housenumber":"...","additional_data":"...","latitude":"...","longitude":"...","navigation_latitude":"...","navigation_longitude":"...","relevance":"...","matchlevel":"..."},{"country_iso_2":"...","country_iso_3":"...","country":"...","state":"...","state_name":"...","state_code":"...","county":"...","city":"...","zip":"...","district":"...","street":"...","housenumber":"...","additional_data":"...","latitude":"...","longitude":"...","navigation_latitude":"...","navigation_longitude":"...","relevance":"...","matchlevel":"..."}]

Pricing

In order to enable the payment of different currencies, we have introduced a system based on credit balance as payment for the individual functions. The currency of the account is called /data.mill credits. To use the functions, the account must be charged in advance. If the credit price of a function is higher than the current balance, the function can not be executed. The credits will be deducted from your balance after executing the function. Your credits have no expiration date.

This functions costs unknown /data.mill credits for each record set in the request.

Code Snippets

We provide some code snippets for multiple programming languages to easily implement this function in your own application. The code snippets below uses the single request mode. If you want to use the batch mode instead of the single mode you need to modify the snippet. Feel free to copy the code snippets for your preferred programming language.

// the following code requires cURL php extension installed on your server (http://php.net/manual/en/book.curl.php) // initialize a new cURL session and store the cURL handler object $curl = curl_init(); // set the url to which the request will be sent curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://api.datamill.solutions/address/search"); // set the HTTP method to use for the request curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST"); // set the number of parameters to be sent to the server curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, 15); // data to be sent to the server // TODO: append your API keys and value(s) and don't forget to urlencode() them curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "license=&guid=&requestproof=&returnavailablecredits=&responseformat=&address=&country=&state=&county=&city=&zip=&district=&street=&housenumber=&locale="); // set a timeout in seconds for the request curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 10); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10); // return the raw data from the server curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); // execute the previously created cURL session $responseString = curl_exec($curl); // close the cURL session after execution curl_close($curl); // convert the response (string) to an array $responseArray = json_decode($responseString, true); // TODO: process the data in the response array (you may process the data in the response string too)
/* Note: We highly recommend to NOT use this code as it is written here. If you choose JavaScript as your preferred programming language, please change the following code to request your own server (without API keys) and further redirect the request from your own server to the API including your API keys. Otherwise everyone will be able to read your API keys and use them for their own purpose! */ // the following code requires jQuery JavaScript library (minimum version 1.8.1) added to your website (http://jquery.com/download/) // perform an asynchronous HTTP (Ajax) request jQuery.ajax({
// set the url to which the request is sent url : "https://api.datamill.solutions/address/search", // set the HTTP method to use for the request type: "POST", // data to be sent to the server (you may use a JavaScript object instead of a string) // TODO: append your API keys and value(s) and don't forget to urlencode() them data : "license=&guid=&requestproof=&returnavailablecredits=&responseformat=&address=&country=&state=&county=&city=&zip=&district=&street=&housenumber=&locale=", // type of data that we are expecting back from the server dataType: "JSON", // set a timeout in milliseconds for the request timeout: 10000, // function to be called if the request succeeds success:function(data, textStatus, jqXHR) {
// {object} data The data returned from the server, formatted according to the dataType parameter. // {string} textStatus String describing the status. // {object} jqXHR A XMLHttpRequest object describing the response. // TODO: process the data in the 'data' JavaScript object
}, // function to be called if the request fails error: function(jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown) {
// {object} jqXHR A XMLHttpRequest object describing the response. // {string} textStatus String describing the type of error occurred. // {string} errorThrown Text portion of the HTTP status, such as "Not Found" or "Internal Server Error". // TODO: process the error occurred
}
});
// the following code uses standard libraries included in Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 or higher using System.IO; using System.Web; using System.Net;
// create an array of bytes representing the data to be sent to the server // TODO: append your API keys and value(s) and don't forget to urlencode() them byte[] Data = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("license=&guid=&requestproof=&returnavailablecredits=&responseformat=&address=&country=&state=&county=&city=&zip=&district=&street=&housenumber=&locale="); // create a new web request resource and set the url to which the request is sent HttpWebRequest Request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("https://api.datamill.solutions/address/search"); // set the HTTP method to use for the request Request.Method = "POST"; // set the request content type Request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"; // set the number of bytes being sent to the server Request.ContentLength = Data.Length; // set a timeout in milliseconds for the request Request.Timeout = 10000; // try to send all data to the newly created web request resource try {
using(var Stream = Request.GetRequestStream()) {
Stream.Write(Data, 0, Data.Length);
}
} catch (Exception ex) {
// TODO: process the exception thrown (e.g. url not found) return;
} // try to read the response from the web resource try {
HttpWebResponse ResponseObject = (HttpWebResponse)Request.GetResponse(); StreamReader Reader = new StreamReader(ResponseObject.GetResponseStream()); // read the whole response as string and store it String ResponseMessage = System.Net.WebUtility.HtmlDecode(Reader.ReadToEnd()); // TODO: process the data in 'ResponseMessage'
} catch (WebException ex) {
// error occurred, http status code != 200 (e.g. timeout or parameter invalid) if(ex.Status == WebExceptionStatus.Timeout) {
// TODO: process the timeout reached
} else {
// read the response from the web exception HttpWebResponse ResponseObject = (HttpWebResponse)ex.Response; StreamReader Reader = new StreamReader(ResponseObject.GetResponseStream()); // read the whole response as string and store it String ResponseMessage = System.Net.WebUtility.HtmlDecode(Reader.ReadToEnd()); // TODO: process the error response received from the server (stored in 'ResponseMessage')
}
}
// the following code requires at least Android API version 10 // import standard Java and Android libraries import java.util.List; import org.apache.http.NameValuePair; import java.util.ArrayList; import org.apache.http.message.BasicNameValuePair; import java.net.URLDecoder; import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost; import org.apache.http.client.entity.UrlEncodedFormEntity; import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient; import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
// create a list of key-value-pairs to store the data which will be sent to the server List<NameValuePair> dataPairs = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>(); // add each parameter to the key-value-pair list (value is decoded to UTF-8 standard) // TODO: append your API keys and value(s) dataPairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("license", URLDecoder.decode("enter value here", "UTF-8"))); dataPairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("guid", URLDecoder.decode("enter value here", "UTF-8"))); dataPairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("requestproof", URLDecoder.decode("enter value here", "UTF-8"))); dataPairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("returnavailablecredits", URLDecoder.decode("enter value here", "UTF-8"))); dataPairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("responseformat", URLDecoder.decode("enter value here", "UTF-8"))); dataPairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("address", URLDecoder.decode("enter value here", "UTF-8"))); dataPairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("country", URLDecoder.decode("enter value here", "UTF-8"))); dataPairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("state", URLDecoder.decode("enter value here", "UTF-8"))); dataPairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("county", URLDecoder.decode("enter value here", "UTF-8"))); dataPairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("city", URLDecoder.decode("enter value here", "UTF-8"))); dataPairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("zip", URLDecoder.decode("enter value here", "UTF-8"))); dataPairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("district", URLDecoder.decode("enter value here", "UTF-8"))); dataPairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("street", URLDecoder.decode("enter value here", "UTF-8"))); dataPairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("housenumber", URLDecoder.decode("enter value here", "UTF-8"))); dataPairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("locale", URLDecoder.decode("enter value here", "UTF-8"))); // create the web resource with pre-defined POST method and set the url to which the request is sent HttpPost request = new HttpPost("https://api.datamill.solutions/address/search"); // append the parameters to the web resource request.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(dataPairs)); try {
// execute the request and read the response string HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient(); String response = client.execute(request); // TODO: process the data in 'response'
} catch (IOException ex) {
// TODO: process the exception thrown
}

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