parseapi

Official parseAPI client for Python.

pip install parseapi

from parseapi import ParseAPI

parse = ParseAPI("your-api-key")
country = parse.country("US")

Get a key at parseapi.com. The client also reads PARSEAPI_KEY from the environment.

Calls

One method per endpoint, named after the route.

parse.ip("8.8.8.8")
parse.ip.self()
parse.email("hello@gmail.com")
parse.vat("DE136695976")
parse.iban("DE89370400440532013000")
parse.npi("1881018208")
parse.phone("+14155552671")
parse.carrier("+14155552671")
parse.caller("+14155552671")
parse.hlr("+14155552671")
parse.postal("SW1A 1AA")
parse.postal("28202", country="US")
parse.postal.nearby("28202", country="US", radius=40)
parse.postal.distance("28202", "10001", country="US")
parse.address("1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington DC", country="US")
parse.address.search("1600 Pennsylvania", country="US", postal="20500")
parse.company("51 824 753 556", country="AU")
parse.city("charlotte", country="US")
parse.city.id("city_mb8mbqrkz8zb")
parse.city.search("char", country="US", limit=10)
parse.city.nearest(35.2271, -80.8431)
parse.city.nearby("denver", radius=8, unit="mi")
parse.country("US")
parse.country.states("US")
parse.state("colorado")
parse.state("NC", country="US")
parse.state.districts("NC", country="US")
parse.district("37081")
parse.continent("NA")
parse.continent.countries("NA")
parse.bloc("EU")
parse.bloc.countries("EU")
parse.currency("USD")
parse.currency.rate("USD", "EUR")
parse.language("en")
parse.name("BILLY OSHALL")
parse.timezone("America/New_York")
parse.timezone("America/New_York", at="2026-09-05T15:00:00", to="Europe/London")
parse.timezone.at(39.77, -104.9)
parse.date("03/04/2026", format="mdy")
parse.date.today()
parse.holiday("US", year=2026)
parse.holiday.date("US", "2026-12-25")
parse.elevation(35.2271, -80.8431)
parse.point(36.0726, -79.792)
parse.weather(40.7128, -74.006)
parse.domain("example.com")
parse.asn("AS13335")
parse.mac("00:1B:63:84:45:E6")
parse.mx("example.com")
parse.useragent(ua_string)
parse.vin("1HGCM82633A004352")
parse.tariff("8471.30.01.00")
parse.tariff.search("sunglasses")
parse.emoji("rocket")
parse.emoji.search("fire")

Responses are plain dicts, exactly the JSON the API returns. country.states("US") requests states directly; it does not fetch a country first. Required inputs are positional and optional behavior uses keyword arguments, leaving room for new options without changing existing calls. Reuse a client across calls. Use with ParseAPI(...) as parse: or call parse.close() when finished.

Async

Same lookup methods and keyword arguments, with await. Use a context manager to close the client when the work is done.

from parseapi import AsyncParseAPI

async with AsyncParseAPI("your-api-key") as parse:
    country = await parse.country("US")

Deep

Pass deep=True to include the nested deep object with richer fields.

ip = parse.ip("52.94.76.10", deep=True)
ip["deep"]["datacenter"]  # True

Errors

Every non-2xx response raises ParseAPIError with status, code, docs, and request_id. Branch on code.

from parseapi import ParseAPIError

try:
    parse.city("atlantis")
except ParseAPIError as err:
    if err.code == "not_found":
        ...  # no such city

Network and decoding failures keep their native error types. Responses such as valid: false are successful API answers, not exceptions.

Options

parse = ParseAPI(
    "your-api-key",
    timeout=10.0,  # timeout for each connect, read, write, or pool phase
)

Requires Python 3.9 or later. One dependency (httpx).

Ordinary lookups retry network failures, 429, and 500/502/503/504 responses twice by default. Carrier, caller, HLR, and email or VAT with deep=True make one attempt by default. Address with deep=True also uses one attempt, reserving the same behavior for future verification.

An explicit client retries setting overrides those defaults; retries=0 always makes one attempt. Another attempt can consume additional usage if the earlier response was lost. Cancelling an async task stops the call and any retry wait. Automatic redirects are disabled.

Docs

Full field reference for every endpoint: parseapi.com/docs