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List of Endpoints

Here you can find a list of all current Loqate endpoints, along with brief descriptions of what each one allows you to do.

Please note that this list does not include any Legacy endpoints.

Capture

Pass address information into these endpoints - partial addresses, postcodes, geolocation data etc. - and they will output address IDs and/or address information in return.

Endpoint Description
Find Returns one or more addresses or containers based upon the user's input (use the address IDs generated here to pass to Retrieve)
GeoLocation Returns addresses within a specified radius (based on a latitude/longitude point)
Retrieve Returns full address details based on an address ID
Utilities Returns any addresses matching a specific utility code

 

See the Capture documentation

Verify

This endpoint provides our powerful address verification and cleanse service, including certified and enhanced datasets, geocoding and reverse geocoding, and transliteration.

Endpoint Description
International Batch Cleanse Returns verified, cleansed address data in batches of up to 500 international addresses

 

See the Verify documentation

Store Finder

These endpoints work in combination to create a Store Finder tool, allowing you to combine precise location information for your organisation's stores and a customer's location, then determine the relationship between the two sets of information, and present the results in a visual fashion.

Endpoint Description
Create List Creates a list of locations, including their co-ordinates and their IDs (plus additional relevant information) for use with a Store Finder
Delete List or Point Deletes a list of locations or a particular location within a list
Update List or Point Updates a list of locations or a particular location within a list
Get List Gets a list of locations to see the details of that list and the locations within it
Global Geocoding Takes an input of one or more address strings (or alternatively a postcode or locality) and returns latitude and longitudes for the given locations (can also be used for reverse geocoding)
Global Distance Finder Takes an input of an origin location and one or more destination locations, and returns road-based distance and travel times for each of them
Map Tile Takes an input of your Loqate key and returns a Signed URL that will allow you to visually represent the output from the Distance Finder API on a map

 

See the Store Finder documentation

Email Validation

Use these endpoints to validate email addresses as they're entered using either our Tag install or API, or alternatively validate a batch of email addresses using our API.

Endpoint Description
Batch Validate Synchronously validates up to 100 emails per request
Validate Validates the existence of an individual email address
Bulk Validate Asynchronously validates up to 100,000 emails per request

 

See the Email Validation documentation

Phone Validation

Use this endpoint to validate phone numbers as they're entered using either our Tag install or API.

Endpoint Description
Validate Verifies whether a phone number is valid or not

 

See the Phone Validation documentation

Bank Validation

These endpoints allow you to query whether UK account number and sort code combinations are valid, or check IBANs for most European countries.

Endpoint Description
Batch Validate Validates the bank account/sort code for batches of UK bank accounts. Returns details of the holding branch, IBAN and correct BACS account details
RetrieveBySortcode Returns details of any UK holding branch
Validate Validates the bank account/sort code for individual UK bank accounts. Returns details of the holding branch, IBAN and correct BACS account details
International Validate Validates whether the international bank account number for an international bank account is correct

 

See the Bank Validation documentation

Geocode

These endpoints return direction and/or location information for international locations, including additional data from the Postzon database for UK addresses. 

Endpoint Description
Directions Returns the directions between two points
Distance Returns the distance between two points
International Geocode Returns the WGS84 latitude/longitude data for a given location
International PositionToCountry Returns a country based on WGS84 latitude/longitude data
International RetrieveNearestPlaces Returns the nearest places of interest of a given category to a provided location
International ReverseGeocode Returns the nearest address or location to given coordinates
UK Find Returns locations based on the given input
UK Geocode Returns the OS easting + northing along with WGS84 latitude/longitude for a given postcode
UK Retrieve Returns the OS easting + northing along with WGS84 latitude/longitude for a given location
UK RetrieveNearestPlaces Returns the nearest places of interest of a given category to a provided location
UK ReverseGeocode Returns the nearest address or location to given coordinates
RetrieveByCoordinates Returns the Postzon record nearest to given coordinates
RetrieveByPostcode Returns the Postzon record for a given postcode
RetrieveByPostcodeOrPlace Returns the Postzon record for a given postcode or place name
FindPlaceNames Returns the names of places
RetrieveCoordinates Returns the coordinates of a place found using FindPlaceNames

 

See the Geocode documentation