zipcodes-in 0.2.0

Indian Zip Codes

zipcodes-in

✍ Description of the project

Zipcodes-in is a Python library built for querying India zipcodes, post offices and particular state/UT. Py Package can be installed from here.

📊 Data description and preparation

• Data was extracted from here
• Cleaned the data and extracted all the values for India (IN). Script can be found here
• Finally, the data was converted from CSV to JSON. The data can be found here

📍 Functionalities

• Query if a zipcode matches or not
• List random zipcodes
• Validate of a zipcode exists or not
• List top N zipcodes
• List any random N zipcodes
• List all the zipcodes in the dataset (absolutely NOT recommended!)

💻 Installation

# Install the package 
>>> pip install zipcodes-in

Zipcodes-in supports Python 3.6+

👩‍💻 Running Scripts

>>> from zipcode_script import zipcode
>>> print(zipcode)
Zipcode class to validate and fetch data of provided India zipcode

>>> # Zipcode matching
>>> print(zipcode.matching('834001'))
[{'zipcode': '834001', 
'region': 'Ranchi', 
'state_ut': 'Jharkhand', 
'country': 'India', 
'latitude': '23.3505', 
'longitude': '85.2927', 
'post_office': 'Argora.'}]

# Print random zipcodes 
>>> print(zipcode.random())
{'zipcode': '177601', 
'region': 'Hamirpur(HP)', 
'state_ut': 'Himachal Pradesh', 
'country': 'India', 
'latitude': '31.7124', 
'longitude': '76.4841', 
'post_office': 'Badhani'}

>>> # Print N random zipcodes 
>>> print(zipcode.listRandomN(3))
[{'zipcode': '711410', 
'region': 'Howrah', 
'state_ut': 'West Bengal', 
'country': 'India', 
'latitude': '22.526', 
'longitude': '88.0676', 
'post_office': 'Paikpara'}, 
{'zipcode': '585107', 
'region': 'Kalaburagi', 
'state_ut': 'Karnataka', 
'country': 'India', 
'latitude': '17.2967', 
'longitude': '76.6671', 
'post_office': 'Kalaburagi HCB'}, 
{'zipcode': '688539', 
'region': 'Alappuzha', 
'state_ut': 'Kerala', 
'country': 'India', 
'latitude': '9.7869', 
'longitude': '76.3235', 
'post_office': 'Varanad'}]

>>> # Print top N zipcodes
>>> print(zipcode.listTopN(2))
[{'zipcode': '110001', 
'region': 'New Delhi', 
'state_ut': 'Delhi', 
'country': 'India', 
'latitude': '28.6369', 
'longitude': '77.2183', 
'post_office': 'New Delhi G.P.O.'}, 
{'zipcode': '110002', 
'region': 'New Delhi', 
'state_ut': 'Delhi', 
'country': 'India', 
'latitude': '28.6453', 
'longitude': '77.2456', 
'post_office': 'Civic Centre'}]

NOTE: Version 1.0 is tested on Windows10. 
## If you face any issue while running, please raise an issue on this repository

⚠️ The zipcode data was last updated on: Jul. 27th, 2021 ⚠️

Looking forward to make the project better? 🤔

We are open to suggestions and ideas! Feel free to raise an issue and we shall get back to you super soon!

📑 LICENSE

MIT LICENSE