We're proud to announce our sister API has reached a milestone
We're excited to announce that open sourced sister API Postcodes.io has received over 1k stars on GitHub, and has been installed over 1.2 million times. Postcodes.io surpassed 1 billion API requests in a month in June 2021.
Postcodes.io is used by developers who need to extract UK geographic information with just a postcode or geolocation. The API has is used on gov.uk, bbc.co.uk, networkrail.co.uk and other highly trafficked UK websites.
Throughout 2020-21 Postcodes.io has also been used extensively during the pandemic to help developers make DIY COVID19 tracking tools and statistics aggregation.
Postcodes.io
Postcodes.io is a free, open sourced product created to search, reverse geocode and extract UK postcode data.
Postcodes.io returns postcode level data, such as locality data and geolocation with no limits. It can be used via a public API or deployed in minutes using Docker.
Features
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Postcode Lookup, resolve administrative and location data for postcodes and outward codes
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Postcode search & autocomplete
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Reverse geocode postcodes
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Nearest postcode search
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Terminated postcode search
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Outward code lookup
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Bulk postcode lookup and reverse geocoding
Developers using Postcodes.io
I have just discovered https://postcodes.io, a free geolocation api for the UK based on open data. You even can reverse lookup geographic data by placename. This looks incredibly cool.
Just tagged version 1.5 of LaravelPostcodes, an API wrapper around http://postcodes.io - which is great for validating UK postcodes, and pulling back address parts on a postcode.
Listening to @elliottrichmond @WPBhamUK this evening and how have I never come across the http://postcodes.io API before? Looks great.
This is beautiful -https://github.com/ideal-postcodes/postcodes.io. All wrapped up in a nice container as well via @Docker
Useful Links
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Set up the Postcodes.io dataset using Docker
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How data from Postcodes.io can be used
Contact us if you have any questions.