locara 0.1.2

Official Python SDK for the Locara Location Data API

Locara Python SDK

Official Python SDK for the Locara Location Data API.

Locara provides standard endpoints to query countries, states, and cities globally, and search them rapidly.

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Installation

Install using pip:

pip install locara

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Quickstart

Here are five typical usage patterns:

1. Initialize Client & Fetch Country Info

from locara import LocaraClient

client = LocaraClient(api_key="your_api_key_here")

# Get a single country by its ISO2 code
country = client.countries.get("US")
print(f"Country: {country.name}, Phone Code: +{country.phonecode}")

2. List Countries with Search Query

# List countries with pagination and filter search
countries_page = client.countries.list(limit=10, search="United")
for country in countries_page.data:
    print(f"{country.name} ({country.iso3})")

3. List States/Provinces under a Country

# Retrieve states of India (IN)
states_page = client.countries.states("IN").list(limit=20)
for state in states_page.data:
    print(f"State Name: {state.name}, Code: {state.code}")

4. Fetch Cities under a State or Country

# Option A: Get cities inside Maharashtra (MH) in India (IN)
cities_page = client.countries.states("IN").cities("MH").list(limit=100)
for city in cities_page.data:
    print(f"City: {city.name} ({city.latitude}, {city.longitude})")

# Option B: Get cities directly under a Country (IN)
country_cities = client.countries.cities("IN").list(limit=10)

5. Auto-Paginate with Generators

Instead of manually handling pages, use .iter_all() to yield results seamlessly.

# Auto-fetches all pages under the hood using a Python generator
for state in client.countries.states("IN").iter_all(limit=50):
    print(state.name)

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API Reference

Country Resources (client.countries)

Endpoint	Method Signature	Return Type
GET /countries	client.countries.list(limit=50, offset=0, search=None)	PaginatedResponse[Country]
GET /countries/{ciso}	client.countries.get(ciso)	Country
GET /countries/{ciso}/states	client.countries.list_states(ciso, limit=50, offset=0)	PaginatedResponse[State]
GET /countries/{ciso}/states/{siso}	client.countries.get_state(ciso, siso)	State
GET /countries/{ciso}/cities	client.countries.list_cities(ciso, limit=50, offset=0)	PaginatedResponse[City]
GET /countries/{ciso}/states (sub-resource)	client.countries.states(ciso).list(limit=50, offset=0)	PaginatedResponse[State]
GET /countries/{ciso}/states/{siso} (sub-resource)	client.countries.states(ciso).get(siso)	State
GET /countries/{ciso}/cities (sub-resource)	client.countries.cities(ciso).list(limit=50, offset=0)	PaginatedResponse[City]
GET /countries/{ciso}/states/{siso}/cities (sub-resource)	client.countries.states(ciso).cities(siso).list(limit=50, offset=0)	PaginatedResponse[City]

State Resources (client.states)

Endpoint	Method Signature	Return Type
GET /countries/{ciso}/states	client.states.list(ciso, limit=50, offset=0)	PaginatedResponse[State]
GET /countries/{ciso}/states/{siso}	client.states.get(ciso, siso)	State
GET /countries/{ciso}/states/{siso}/cities	client.states.list_cities(ciso, siso, limit=50, offset=0)	PaginatedResponse[City]

City Resources (client.cities)

Endpoint	Method Signature	Return Type
GET /countries/{ciso}/cities	client.cities.list(ciso, siso=None, limit=50, offset=0)	PaginatedResponse[City]

Search (client.search)

Endpoint	Method Signature	Return Type
GET /search	client.search(q, type=None, limit=10, offset=0)	PaginatedResponse[SearchResult]

Pagination Helpers (Generator Iterators)

Every list endpoint exposes .iter_all() returning a generator yielding individual objects. There is also a standalone paginate helper.

• Standalone Helper: paginate(method, *args, **kwargs) -> Iterator[T] (e.g. paginate(client.countries.list, limit=10))
• Country Resource Iterators:
  • client.countries.iter_all(limit=50, search=None) -> Iterator[Country]
  • client.countries.iter_all_states(ciso, limit=50) -> Iterator[State]
  • client.countries.iter_all_cities(ciso, limit=50) -> Iterator[City]
  • client.countries.states(ciso).iter_all(limit=50) -> Iterator[State]
  • client.countries.cities(ciso).iter_all(limit=50) -> Iterator[City]
  • client.countries.states(ciso).cities(siso).iter_all(limit=50) -> Iterator[City]
• State Resource Iterators:
  • client.states.iter_all(ciso, limit=50) -> Iterator[State]
  • client.states.iter_all_cities(ciso, siso, limit=50) -> Iterator[City]
• City Resource Iterators:
  • client.cities.iter_all(ciso, siso=None, limit=50) -> Iterator[City]
• Search Iterators:
  • client.search_iter(q, type=None, limit=10) -> Iterator[SearchResult]

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Error Handling

All SDK exceptions inherit from LocaraError. Specific status codes map to custom exceptions:

• 401 Unauthorized: Raises AuthenticationError
• 404 Not Found: Raises NotFoundError (stores the requested .path)
• 429 Rate Limited: Raises RateLimitError (stores the server-provided .retry_after delay in seconds, if present)
• 5xx Server Error: Raises LocaraServerError

Example usage:

from locara import LocaraClient, AuthenticationError, NotFoundError, RateLimitError, LocaraError

client = LocaraClient(api_key="your_api_key")

try:
    country = client.countries.get("XX")
except AuthenticationError as e:
    print("Authentication failed. Please verify your API Key.")
except NotFoundError as e:
    print(f"Path not found: {e.path}. Details: {e}")
except RateLimitError as e:
    print(f"Rate limited. Please wait {e.retry_after} seconds before retrying.")
except LocaraError as e:
    print(f"General Locara SDK error occurred: {e}")

For full documentation and API guidelines, check out Locara Docs.