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Address Lookup Credits - Software Development Kit (SDK)
The web service description can be
found at the following location.
http://ws1.postcodesoftware.co.uk/lookup.asmx
When creating the URL to connect to the web service there are three variables that need to be added to it.
Examples of the URL are shown below with the parameters and explanations.
You can use the Account 'test' with password 'test 'to
access the demonstration data including premise data and
the Account 'test1' with password 'test1' to access the
data to street level. The demonstration
data consists of postcodes in the LS18 region.
Examples can be found here.
Premise Level
http://ws1.postcodesoftware.co.uk/lookup.asmx/getAddress?account=test&password=test&postcode=LS185NJ
Street Level
http://ws1.postcodesoftware.co.uk/lookup.asmx/getAddress?account=test1&password=test1&postcode=LS185NJ
Parameter |
Explanation |
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Account is where you will input your account name which is supplied to you when you first sign up. |
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Password is where you will input your password for the account which is supplied to you when you first sign up. |
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Postcode is the postcode that has been entered buy the user |
When the webservice has been called it will send back all the information
in XML. The information is shown below. Please
note the amount of address lines is variable.
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Attributes |
Explanation |
Address1 |
Street name of the postcode |
Address2 |
Locality of the postcode
or dependent street name if exists |
Address3 |
Dependent Locality of the postcode |
Address4 |
Double
Dependent Locality of the postcode |
Town |
Town of the postcode |
County |
County of the postcode |
Postcode |
Postcode that has been searched |
PremiseData |
All Premises under that postcode are returned in one string divided buy semicolons (;).Each premise is split up into Company Name, Building Details and Number. These are separated with vertical bars(|).
Premise column1: Organisation Premise
column2: Building Details (separated by "/")
Premise column3: Number
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Examples
Click on the following links below to download examples in different programming languages.
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