18 January Getting Started Zip Code API January 18, 2022 By Ricardo Rangel Tutorials getting started, tutorial, zip code Overview These instructions describe how to get started with the Zip Code API. The examples in this article use Postman. You can get postman here Pre-Requisites for Zip Code API Making a request for a single Zip Code Evaluating single zip code response Making a request for Zip Codes in California Evaluating search response Pre-Requisites for Zip Code API Before you start using this API, you have to complete the following: Register to Metadapi.com Subscribe to the Zip Code API using any available tier (if you are just trying this API the “free” tier is available). Get your API Key Make sure you have Postman installed. Making a request for a single zip code To get started, let’s get the Zip Code of the famous US city Beverly Hills 90210. We are interested in all of the details of that zip code. The Zip Code API host is https://global.metadapi.com/zipc/v1/zipcodes/{zipCode} and the API Key must be included as part of the header. Let’s get the call started in Postman. First create a new GET request Enter the request url to get a zip code https://global.metadapi.com/zipc/v1/zipcodes/90210 Enter the API Key header where the key name is Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key and the Value is you API key. (get your API key). After you have the request and API Key you can click the “Send” button to execute the request. That’s it. you’ve executed the GET request for the Beverly Hills Zip Code 90210. The JSON response contains the details of the zip code. Evaluating the single Zip Code response The following is the response from the Zip Code object. The response object has 2 properties: links , with a representation of the resouce, and data with the zip code object model. To see the definition of each property of the zip code response visit this link 4. Making a request for Zip Codes in California The endpoint https://global.metadapi.com/zipc/v1/zipcodes has several query parameter options. Let’s use the stateCode query parameter to get a list of all zip codes in California. (Click here for more information on the available query parameters) Create a new GET request using the following endpoint: https://global.metadapi.com/zipc/v1/zipcodes?stateCode=CA Make sure the API Key authorization is set: Click the Send button to execute the request The request is executed and we get the JSON response. Evaluating search response The following is the response from the Zip Code object. The response object has 3 properties: links , with a representation of the resource and links to the result pages. meta with the following objects, count (how many zip codes match the criteria), offset (where in the result set the returned records start) and limit (how many zip code objects are displayed per page. 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