auspost 0.1.0

A quick module for searching and pulling suburb data from the Australia Post website.

Australia Post data grabber

A quick module for searching and pulling suburb data from the Australia Post website.

Development

This repository now uses uv for package management.

uv sync --dev
uv run ruff check .
uv run ty check
uv run pytest

Usage

Example below, it's pretty simple and yields namedtuples:

import auspost
for data in auspost.search_postcode("Sydney"):
        print(data)
AusPostData(postcode='2055', suburb='NORTH SYDNEY', state='NSW')
AusPostData(postcode='2059', suburb='NORTH SYDNEY', state='NSW')
AusPostData(postcode='2060', suburb='NORTH SYDNEY', state='NSW')
AusPostData(postcode='2060', suburb='NORTH SYDNEY SHOPPINGWORLD', state='NSW')
AusPostData(postcode='2001', suburb='SYDNEY', state='NSW')
AusPostData(postcode='2000', suburb='SYDNEY', state='NSW')
AusPostData(postcode='2020', suburb='SYDNEY DOMESTIC AIRPORT', state='NSW')
AusPostData(postcode='2020', suburb='SYDNEY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT', state='NSW')
AusPostData(postcode='2129', suburb='SYDNEY MARKETS', state='NSW')
AusPostData(postcode='2127', suburb='SYDNEY OLYMPIC PARK', state='NSW')
AusPostData(postcode='1235', suburb='SYDNEY SOUTH', state='NSW')
AusPostData(postcode='2000', suburb='SYDNEY SOUTH', state='NSW')
AusPostData(postcode='2006', suburb='SYDNEY UNIVERSITY', state='NSW')
AusPostData(postcode='2006', suburb='THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY', state='NSW')
AusPostData(postcode='1466', suburb='UNSW SYDNEY', state='NSW')

Errors

It'll raise a RunTimeError if something goes wrong with fetching the data

Changelog

• 2019-11-16 - Changed from a namedtuple response to a dict because... I don't even know why I was returning them at the time.
• 2021-01-23 - Fixed example code typo
• 2022-03-28 - Adding typing, bumped to 0.0.10
• 2022-06-04 - v0.0.11 - Added more typing, more testing.
• 2026-03-24 - v0.1.0 - Switched package management to uv and replaced validation with ruff, ty, and pytest.