Online APIs for Address Validation, Correction and Autocomplete

<script type="text/javascript" href="/path/to/jquery"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
    ...
    // send API request
    Locale = 'en';
    $.ajax({
        url: 'https://api.address-validator.net/api/verify',
        type: 'POST',
        data: { StreetAddress: StreetAddress,
                City: City,
                PostalCode: PostalCode,
                State: State,
                CountryCode: CountryCode,
                Locale: Locale,
                APIKey: 'your API key'},
        dataType: 'json',
        success: function (json) {
            // check API result
            if (typeof(json.status) != "undefined") {
                status = json.status;
                formattedaddress = json.formattedaddress;
            }
        }
    });
    ...
});
</script>
								

...
// build API request
$APIUrl = 'https://api.address-validator.net/api/verify';
$Params = array('StreetAddress' => $StreetAddress,
                'City' => $City,
                'PostalCode' => $PostalCode,
                'State' => $State,
                'CountryCode' => $CountryCode,
                'Locale' => $Locale,
                'APIKey' => 'your API key');
$Request = http_build_query($Params, '', '&');
$ctxData = array(
    'method'=>"POST",
    'header'=>"Connection: close\r\n".
    "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n".
    "Content-Length: ".strlen($Request)."\r\n",
    'content'=>$Request);
$ctx = stream_context_create(array('http' => $ctxData));

// send API request
$result = json_decode(file_get_contents(
    $APIUrl, false, $ctx));

// check API result
if ($result && $result->{'status'} == 'VALID') {
    $formattedaddress = $result->{'formattedaddress'};
} else {
    echo $result->{'info'};
}
...
								

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.NameValuePair;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.entity.UrlEncodedFormEntity;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.message.BasicNameValuePair;

import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
import org.json.simple.JSONObject;
import org.json.simple.parser.JSONParser;
import org.json.simple.parser.ParseException;
...
HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
String StreetAddress = "...";
String City = "...";
String PostalCode = "...";
String State = "...";
String CountryCode = "US";
String Locale = "en";
String APIKey = "your API key";
String APIURL = "https://api.address-validator.net/api/verify";
try {
    HttpPost request = new HttpPost(APIURL);
    List <NameValuePair> Input = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();
    Input.add(new BasicNameValuePair("StreetAddress", StreetAddress));
    Input.add(new BasicNameValuePair("City", City));
    Input.add(new BasicNameValuePair("PostalCode", PostalCode));
    Input.add(new BasicNameValuePair("State", State));
    Input.add(new BasicNameValuePair("CountryCode", CountryCode));
    Input.add(new BasicNameValuePair("Locale", Locale));
    Input.add(new BasicNameValuePair("APIKey", APIKey));
    request.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(Input));
    HttpResponse response = client.execute(request);
    HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
    String Output = EntityUtils.toString(entity, "UTF-8");
    JSONParser parser = new JSONParser();
    Object obj = parser.parse(Output);
    JSONObject jsonObject = (JSONObject) obj;
    String result = (String) jsonObject.get("status");
    if (result.equalsIgnoreCase("VALID")) {
        String formattedaddress = (String) jsonObject.get("formattedaddress");
    }
    ...
} catch (IOException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
} catch (ParseException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
    client.getConnectionManager().shutdown();
}
...
                                

// C# .NET 4.5
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Net.Http;
...

private class APIResult
{
    public String status { get; set; }
    public String formattedaddress { get; set; }
}

const String APIURL = "https://api.address-validator.net/api/verify";
HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
String StreetAddress = "...";
String City = "...";
String PostalCode = "...";
String State = "...";
String CountryCode = "US";
String Locale = "en";
String APIKey = "your API key";

var postData = new List<KeyValuePair<string, string>>();
postData.Add(new KeyValuePair<string, string>("StreetAddress", StreetAddress));
postData.Add(new KeyValuePair<string, string>("City", City));
postData.Add(new KeyValuePair<string, string>("PostalCode", PostalCode));
postData.Add(new KeyValuePair<string, string>("State", State));
postData.Add(new KeyValuePair<string, string>("CountryCode", CountryCode));
postData.Add(new KeyValuePair<string, string>("Locale", Locale));
postData.Add(new KeyValuePair<string, string>("APIKey", APIKey));

HttpContent content = new FormUrlEncodedContent(postData);

HttpResponseMessage result = client.PostAsync(APIURL, content).Result;
string resultContent = result.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().Result;

APIResult res = new System.Web.Script.Serialization.JavaScriptSerializer().
                    Deserialize<APIResult>(resultContent);

if (res.status.Equals("VALID")) {
    String formattedaddress = res.formattedaddress;
}
...
                                

' VB.NET 4.5
...
Private Sub checkAddress(ByVal StreetAddress As String,
                       ByVal City As String,
                       ByVal PostalCode As String,
                       ByVal State As String,
                       ByVal CountryCode As String,
                       ByVal Locale As String,
                       ByVal APIKey As String)
    Const APIURL As String = "https://api.address-validator.net/api/verify"
    Using client As New Net.WebClient
      Dim postData As New Specialized.NameValueCollection
      postData.Add("StreetAddress", StreetAddress)
      postData.Add("City", City)
      postData.Add("PostalCode", PostalCode)
      postData.Add("State", State)
      postData.Add("CountryCode", CountryCode)
      postData.Add("Locale", Locale)
      postData.Add("APIKey", APIKey)
      Dim reply = client.UploadValues(APIURL, "POST", postData)
      Dim data As String = (New System.Text.UTF8Encoding).GetString(reply)
      Dim res = New System.Web.Script.Serialization.JavaScriptSerializer().
        Deserialize(Of APIResult)(data)
      If res.status.Equals("VALID") Then
        Dim formattedaddress As String = res.formattedaddress
      End If
    End Using
End Sub

Private Class APIResult
    Public status As String
    Public formattedaddress As String
End Class
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