Addressfinder Ruby Gem

A client library for accessing the Addressfinder APIs.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'addressfinder'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install addressfinder

Configuration

Use the configure block to set your api_key and api_secret.

AddressFinder.configure do |af|
  # Required
  af.api_key = 'XXXXXXXXXX'
  af.api_secret = 'YYYYYYYYYY'

  # Optional
  af.default_country = 'nz' # default: nz
  af.verification_version = 'v2' # default: v1
  af.timeout = 10 # default: 10 seconds
  af.retries = 12 # default: 12
  af.retry_delay = 5 # default: 5 seconds
  af.domain = 'yourdomain.com'
  af.proxy_host = 'yourproxy.com'
  af.proxy_port = 8080
  af.proxy_user = 'username'
  af.proxy_password = 'password'
end

Don't know your key and secret? Login to the Addressfinder portal to obtain your key and secret.

For Ruby on Rails: The configure block is best placed in an initializer file (./config/initializers/addressfinder.rb).

Usage

For available parameters and example responses, see the API documentation pages for New Zealand or Australia.

Address Verification

New Zealand addresses

To verify a single New Zealand address, use the following method:

result = AddressFinder.address_verification(q: "186 Willis St, Wellington", country: "nz")

if result
  $stdout.puts "Success: '#{result.a}'"
else
  $stdout.puts "Sorry, can't find that address"
end

You can also verify a batch of New Zealand addresses using the following method. We suggest that you send up to 100 addresses in each batch.

addresses = ["186 Willis St, Wellington", "1 Ghuznee St, Te Aro, Wellington 6011", "bad address"]

results = AddressFinder.address_verification_nz_batch(addresses: addresses, concurrency: 10)

results.each_with_index do |result, index|
  if result
    $stdout.puts "Success: matched '#{addresses[index]}' with '#{result.a}'"
  else
    $stdout.puts "Sorry, can't find address: '#{addresses[index]}'"
  end
end

There is a demo of processing a CSV file of sample New Zealand address in the /demo/batch folder.

Australian addresses

To verify a single Australian address, use the following method:

result = AddressFinder.address_verification(q: '10/274 Harbour Drive, Coffs Harbour NSW 2450', gnaf: "1", country: 'au')

if result
  $stdout.puts "Success: #{result.full_address}"
else
  $stdout.puts "Sorry, can't find that address"
end

You can also verify a batch of Australian addresses using the following method: We suggest that you send up to 100 addresses in each batch.

addresses = ["10/274 Harbour Drive, Coffs Harbour NSW 2450", "49 CORNISH ST, COBAR NSW 2835", "bad address"]

results = AddressFinder.address_verification_au_batch(addresses: addresses, concurrency: 10)

results.each_with_index do |result, index|
  if result
    $stdout.puts "Success: matched '#{addresses[index]}' with '#{result.a}'"
  else
    $stdout.puts "Sorry, can't find address: '#{addresses[index]}'"
  end
end

There is a demo of processing a CSV file of sample Australian address in the /demo/batch folder.

Address Search

The Address Search API supports the following address sets:

New Zealand addresses
Australian addresses from the GNAF dataset only

begin
  results = AddressFinder.address_search(q: '186 Willis Street')
  if results.any?
    $stdout.puts "Success: #{results}"
  else
    $stdout.puts "Sorry, there were no address matches"
  end
rescue AddressFinder::RequestRejectedError => e
  response = JSON.parse(e.body)
  $stdout.puts response['message']
end

Address Autocomplete

The Address Autocomplete API supports the following address sets:

Australian addresses from the GNAF and PAF datasets only

begin
  results = AddressFinder.address_autocomplete(q: '275 high st, bel', au_paf: '1')
  if results.any?
    $stdout.puts "Success: #{results}"
  else
    $stdout.puts "Sorry, there were no address matches"
  end
rescue AddressFinder::RequestRejectedError => e
  response = JSON.parse(e.body)
  $stdout.puts response['message']
end

Address Metadata

begin
  result = AddressFinder.address_info(pxid: '1-.B.3l')
  if result
    $stdout.puts "Success: #{result.a}"
  else
    $stdout.puts "Sorry, can't find that address"
  end
rescue AddressFinder::RequestRejectedError => e
  response = JSON.parse(e.body)
  $stdout.puts response['message']
end

Location Autocomplete

begin
  results = AddressFinder.location_search(q: 'Queen Street')
  if results.any?
    $stdout.puts "Success: #{results}"
  else
    $stdout.puts "Sorry, there were no location matches"
  end
rescue AddressFinder::RequestRejectedError => e
  response = JSON.parse(e.body)
  $stdout.puts response['message']
end

Location Metadata

begin
  result = AddressFinder.location_info(pxid: '1-.B.3l')
  if result
    $stdout.puts "Success: #{result.a}"
  else
    $stdout.puts "Sorry, can't find that location"
  end
rescue AddressFinder::RequestRejectedError => e
  response = JSON.parse(e.body)
  $stdout.puts response['message']
end

Email Verification

This example shows how to request verification of a single email address.

begin
  result = AddressFinder.email_verification(email: 'john.doe', features: "domain,connection")
  $stdout.puts "This email address is verified: #{result.is_verified}"
rescue AddressFinder::RequestRejectedError => e
  response = JSON.parse(e.body)
  $stdout.puts response['message']
end

This example shows how to request verification of several email addresses:

emails = [
  "bert@myemail.com", 
  "charlish@myemail.com", 
  "support@addressfinder.com", 
  "bad-email-address"
]

results = AddressFinder.email_verification_batch(emails: emails, concurrency: 2, features: "provider,domain,connection")

results.each_with_index do |result, index|
  puts "Email: #{emails[index]} - #{result.is_verified ? "Verified" : "Unverified"}"
end

The emails will be verified concurrently, and returned in the same order in which they were provided.

Phone Verification

begin
  result = AddressFinder.phone_verification(phone_number: '1800 152 363', default_country_code: 'AU')
  $stdout.puts "This phone number is verified: #{result.is_verified}"
rescue AddressFinder::RequestRejectedError => e
  response = JSON.parse(e.body)
  $stdout.puts response['message']
end

Advanced Usage

Key and Secret override

What if you want to use another account for a specific query? You can override the api_key and api_secret.

begin
  result = AddressFinder.address_info(pxid: '1-.B.3l', key: 'AAAAAAAAAAAAA', secret: 'BBBBBBBBBBBBB')
  if result
    $stdout.puts "Success: #{result.a}"
  else
    $stdout.puts "Sorry, can't find that address"
  end
rescue AddressFinder::RequestRejectedError => e
  response = JSON.parse(e.body)
  $stdout.puts response['message']
end

Testing

You can run all the specs with the following command:

docker-compose up

You can guard for repeating test runs (while editing new code):

docker-compose run ruby bundle exec guard

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Development

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