CleanAddress - Postcoder • Data8 Web Services API Documentation

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Endpoint URLs

Parameters

Advanced Options

Results

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CleanAddress

Cleanse a residential address.

Description

Formats, verifies and corrects a given address into a full address.

Non-UK addresses are also handled and produce a MatchLevel in the result of NOK_Foreign. See the options below to control how international addresses are handled.

Endpoint URLs

This service is hosted in multiple countries. Select your preferred country to see the appropriate endpoint URLs.

Protocol	URL
JSON	JSON https://webservices.data-8.co.uk/Postcoder/CleanAddress.json
OPEN API	OPEN API https://webservices.data-8.co.uk/swagger/Postcoder/swagger.json
SOAP	SOAP https://webservices.data-8.co.uk/postcoder.asmx

Parameters

The following parameters can be supplied to this method:

Name	Description
username	username See the available authentication methods. If you are using username & password authentication, specify the username to authenticate as. If you are using API Key authentication and you are not using the JSON, Javascript or ADO APIs, use your API Key here with the prefix `apikey-`, e.g. `apikey-ABCD-1234-EFGH-5678`
password	password If you are using username & password authentication, specify the password to use for authentication. Otherwise leave this blank.
address	address The address to clean. The best results will be obtained when individual parts of the address are supplied on separate lines or separated within a line by commas, but the service will make best attempts to match data supplied in any format.
options	options An array of options that control further details of how this method operates. See the `Advanced Options` section below, for more information.

Advanced Options

The following options can be specified as part of the option parameter. Each option is specified as a key/value pair. The list of available names is shown below, along with a description of the allowable values for that name.

Name	Description
Common Options
ApplicationName	ApplicationName Gives the name of the calling application - used to break down usage by application in the usage reports on the dashboard.
Address Formatting Options
There are a large number of options to control how the raw address details are combined & formatted for presentation. They are described in more detail with live interactive examples on the address formatting reference. A summary of the available options is also listed below.
Formatter	Formatter Pick from one of the available formatters to control how the raw address is converted into a human-readable address: `DefaultFormatter` `PAFStandardFormatter` `NoOrganisationFormatter`
MaxLines	MaxLines The number of lines to format the address over. An additional line will be included at the end of the results for the postcode
MaxLineLength	MaxLineLength The maximum number of characters that can appear in each address line
FixTownCounty	FixTownCounty `true` to ensure that the town and county are returned in the last two address lines, or `false` if they should appear in the first available line
FixBuilding	FixBuilding Ensures the building name/number is always placed in the first line
NormalizeCase	NormalizeCase Converts all text in the address except the town name to proper case
NormalizeTownCase	NormalizeTownCase Converts the town name to proper case
UseAnyAvailableCounty	UseAnyAvailableCounty Uses any available county to populate the formatted address, not just the postal county
ExcludeCounty	ExcludeCounty Excludes the county, if any, from the formatted address
UnwantedPunctuation	UnwantedPunctuation A string containing any punctuation characters to be removed from the formatted address
Geocoding Options
Note: Geocoding information is not available for all addresses. Some addresses (e.g. PO Boxes) do not represent a physical location, while for some countries the data is not currently available. The information requested by these options will be returned wherever possible, but is not guaranteed for all addresses. Some areas require additional licensing. For coverage of Channel Islands and Isle of Man, please add the "AddressBase Islands" service to your account. Each location retrieved will be charged an AddressBase Islands credit in addition to the standard charge for this service.
IncludeLocation	IncludeLocation Includes location information (latitude/longitude, easting/northing and/or grid reference, depending on country) where possible
IncludeConstituency	IncludeConstituency Includes the UK parliamentary constituency the address is in where possible
IncludeCountry	IncludeCountry Include the ISO 2-character code and full name of the country
IncludeAdminArea	IncludeAdminArea Includes names & codes for the administrative areas the address is in where possible. For UK addresses this can include: `County` `CountyCode` `District` `DistrictCode` `Ward` `WardCode` `Country` For UK addresses, this option sets the `Country` field to the name of the nation within the UK, i.e. "England", "Scotland", "Wales" or "Northern Ireland". This overrides the `IncludeCountry` option that would otherwise set it to "United Kingdom" For US addresses the `County`, `CountyCode` and `District` fields can be populated.
Address Unique Reference Options
Note: Only one unique identifier for each address will be returned. An error will be returned if you set more than one of these options to `true`.
IncludeUDPRN	IncludeUDPRN Set to `true` to include the UDPRN for UK addresses
IncludeUPRN	IncludeUPRN Set to `true` to include the UPRN for UK addresses. This is not available by default and requires additional licensing - speak to your account manager for additional information. When this option is enabled, more accurate premise-level information is also used for the geocoding information used by the `IncludeLocation` option.
Service Specific Options
DefaultCountryCode	DefaultCountryCode An ISO 2-character code for the country to assume the address is in unless otherwise specified.
DetectCountry	DetectCountry Set to `true` to attempt to automatically detect the country from the provided address information, possibly overriding the default country
Country	Country If `DetectCountry` is set to true, this is taken as additional user input alongside the address to influence the country detection function. The format of this is not enforced, so could be provided as `US`, `USA` or `United States`

Results

This method returns an object containing the following fields:

Name	Description
Status	Status Indicates whether the method call was successful, or if some error occurred. If the `Success` field is `true`, the other results described below can be used to get the results of the method. If `Success` is `false`, some error occurred in calling the method, such as the authentication failed or the account is out of credits. The details of the error can be obtained from the `ErrorMessage` field, and any other results should be ignored.
Result	Result Contains the formatted version of the requested address in the `Address` field, and a structured version of the address in the `RawAddress` field
MatchLevel	MatchLevel Indicates how well the supplied address matched to PAF. Possible values are: `OK_Unchanged` - the supplied address matched to PAF without requiring any changes `OK_Corrected` - the supplied address matched to PAF but required some corrections to do so `NOK_Building` - the supplied address could not be matched to a unique address on PAF, but did match to a unique building. More information would be needed to identify a single address within that building. This usually indicates either a commercial building for which an organisation name is required to identify the individual company in it, or an apartment building but no flat or apartment number has been supplied `NOK_Street` - the supplied address could not be matched to a unique address on PAF, but did match to a street. If building information has been supplied it does not match to that on PAF or is ambiguous between two or more different buildings. `NOK_Town` - the supplied address could not be matched to a unique address on PAF. Only the town name could be matched - the street and building information did not match or was ambiguous. `NOK_NoMatch` - the supplied address could not be matched at all to PAF. `NOK_Foreign` - the address appears to be non-UK and therefore has not been matched to PAF.
CountryName	CountryName The name of the country the address is in. This is only populated when the `IncludeCountry` option is set to `true`

Credit Usage

Each request to this method consumes 1 Postcoder credit.

Sample Code

Request Format

{
  "address": {
    "Lines": [
      "Unit 2",
      "Venture Point",
      "Stanney Mill Road",
      "Chester",
      "CH2 4NE"
    ]
  },
  "options": {
    "DefaultCountryCode": "GB",
    "DetectCountry": false,
    "Country": null
  }
}

Response Format

{
  "Status": {
    "Success": true,
    "CreditsRemaining": 1000
  },
  "Result": null,
  "MatchLevel": null,
  "CountryName": null
}

Depending on your chosen authentication method you will need to modify this request slightly:

API Key

Post the request to
https://webservices.data-8.co.uk/Postcoder/CleanAddress.json?key=your-api-key
and do NOT include the username or password properties in the request JSON document.

Username and Password

Post the request to
https://webservices.data-8.co.uk/Postcoder/CleanAddress.json
and include username and password properties in the request JSON document.
Do not use for client-side requests!

JWT Token

Obtain a JWT token for your user and post the request to
https://webservices.data-8.co.uk/Postcoder/CleanAddress.json
Include the JWT token in the request headers as:
Authorization: Bearer your-jwt-token

Live Demo

Parameter	Value
Parameters
Address
address	Lines Add Remove
Common Options
ApplicationName	ApplicationName
Address Formatting Options
Formatter	Formatter DefaultFormatter PAFStandardFormatter NoOrganisationFormatter
MaxLines	MaxLines
MaxLineLength	MaxLineLength
FixTownCounty	FixTownCounty falsetrue
FixBuilding	FixBuilding falsetrue
NormalizeCase	NormalizeCase falsetrue
NormalizeTownCase	NormalizeTownCase falsetrue
UseAnyAvailableCounty	UseAnyAvailableCounty falsetrue
UnwantedPunctuation	UnwantedPunctuation
Geocoding Options
IncludeLocation	IncludeLocation falsetrue
IncludeCountry	IncludeCountry falsetrue
IncludeAdminArea	IncludeAdminArea falsetrue
Address Unique Reference Options
IncludeUDPRN	IncludeUDPRN falsetrue
IncludeUPRN	IncludeUPRN falsetrue
Service-Specific Options
DefaultCountryCode	DefaultCountryCode
DetectCountry	DetectCountry
Country	Country
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