API Overview

Installation

To install Geocoder, simply:

$ pip install geocoder

Or on any of the supported Linux distros:

$ sudo snap install geocoder

GitHub Install

Installing the latest version from GitHub:

$ git clone https://github.com/DenisCarriere/geocoder
$ cd geocoder
$ python setup.py install

Or on any of the supported Linux distros:

$ sudo snap install geocoder --edge

Examples

Many properties are available once the geocoder object is created.

Forward Geocoding

>>> import geocoder
>>> g = geocoder.google('Mountain View, CA')
>>> g.geojson
>>> g.json
>>> g.wkt
>>> g.osm
...

Reverse Geocoding

>>> g = geocoder.google([45.15, -75.14], method='reverse')
>>> g.city
>>> g.state
>>> g.state_long
>>> g.country
>>> g.country_long
...

House Addresses

>>> g = geocoder.google("453 Booth Street, Ottawa ON")
>>> g.housenumber
>>> g.postal
>>> g.street
>>> g.street_long
...

IP Addresses

>>> import geocoder
>>> g = geocoder.ip('199.7.157.0')
>>> g = geocoder.ip('me')
>>> g.latlng
>>> g.city

Command Line Interface

Basic usesage with CLI

$ geocode "Ottawa, ON" --provider bing

Saving results into a file

$ geocode "Ottawa, ON"  >> ottawa.geojson

Reverse geocoding with CLI

$ geocode "45.15, -75.14" --provider google --method reverse

Using JQ to query out a specific attribute

$ geocode "453 Booth Street" -p canadapost --output json | jq .postal

Using a Session

In case you have several addresses to encode, to use persistent HTTP connection as recommended by the request-library http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/user/advanced/#session-objects you might use the following:

>>> with requests.Session() as session:
>>>    berlin = geocoder.google("Ritterstr. 12, 10969 Berlin", session=session)
>>>    ottawa = geocoder.google("453 Booth Street, Ottawa ON", session=session)

Error Handling

If there is an error in the connection to the server, the exception raised by the requests library will be propagated up to the caller. This will be an instance of requests.exceptions.RequestException.

>>> import geocoder
>>> g = geocoder.osm("Tower Bridge, London", url="http://nonexistent.example.com")
Traceback (most recent call last):

...

requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: HTTPConnectionPool(host='nonexistent.example.com', port=80): Max retries exceeded with url: /?limit=1&format=jsonv2&addressdetails=1&q=foo (Caused by NewConnectionError('<requests.packages.urllib3.connection.HTTPConnection object at 0x7f6b004d9390>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno -2] Name or service not known',))

If geocoder was able to contact the server, but no result could be found for the given search terms, the ok attribute on the returned object will be False.

>>> import geocoder
>>> g = geocoder.osm("Mount Doom, Mordor")
>>> g.ok
False
>>> g.json
{'status': 'ERROR - No results found', 'location': 'Mount Doom, Mordor', 'provider': 'osm', 'status_code': 200, 'ok': False, 'encoding': 'utf-8'}