Lookup City and State by Zip Google Geocode Api

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I basically want to retrieve a list of city and state within a zipcode  Is Google s Geocode API capable of doing so  I ve tried looking into the documentation but found the information overwhelming    Any help would be appreciated  If there is another method of accomplishing such task  please let me know   Thanks  EDIT  I was able to retrieve the City and State through  http   maps google com maps geo output xml amp q 14606 but is there a limitation against that

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Use the GeoCoding API For example  to lookup zip 77379 use a request like this  https   maps googleapis com maps api geocode json address 77379 amp sensor true amp key YOUR GOOGLE PLATFORM API KEY

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couple of months back  I had the same requirement for one of my projects  I searched a bit for it and found out the following solution  This is not the only solution but I found it to one of the simpler one   Use the webservice at http   www webservicex net uszip asmx  Specifically GetInfoByZIP   method   You will be able to query by any zipcode  ex  40220  and you will have a response back as the following      lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  UTF-8   gt    lt NewDataSet gt     lt Table gt      lt CITY gt Louisville lt  CITY gt       lt STATE gt KY lt  STATE gt       lt ZIP gt 40220 lt  ZIP gt       lt AREA CODE gt 502 lt  AREA CODE gt       lt TIME ZONE gt E lt  TIME ZONE gt      lt  Table gt    lt  NewDataSet gt    Hope this helps

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function getCityState  zip   blnUSA   true         url    http   maps googleapis com maps api geocode json address      zip     amp sensor true         address info   file get contents  url        json   json decode  address info        city            state            country           if  count  json- gt results   gt  0              break up the components          arrComponents    json- gt results 0 - gt address components           foreach  arrComponents as  index  gt  component                 type    component- gt types 0                if   city        amp  amp    type     sublocality level 1      type     locality                        city   trim  component- gt short name                             if   state        amp  amp   type   administrative area level 1                      state   trim  component- gt short name                             if   country        amp  amp   type   country                      country   trim  component- gt short name                    if   blnUSA  amp  amp   country   US                          city                            state                           break                                              if   city        amp  amp   state        amp  amp   country                            we re done                 break                                     arrReturn   array  city   gt  city   state   gt  state   country   gt  country        die json encode  arrReturn

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I found a couple of ways to do this with web based APIs  I think the US Postal Service would be the most accurate  since Zip codes are their thing  but Ziptastic looks much easier   Using the US Postal Service HTTP XML API  According to this page on the US Postal Service website which documents their XML based web API  specifically Section 4 0  page 22  of this PDF document  they have a URL where you can send an XML request containing a 5 digit Zip Code and they will respond with an XML document containing the corresponding City and State   According to their documentation  here s what you would send   http   SERVERNAME ShippingAPITest dll API CityStateLookup amp XML  lt CityStateLookupRequest 20USERID  xxxxxxx  gt  lt ZipCode ID   0  gt  lt Zip5 gt 90210 lt  Zip5 gt  lt  ZipCode gt  lt  CityStateLookupRequest gt    And here s what you would receive back    lt  xml version  1 0   gt    lt CityStateLookupResponse gt        lt ZipCode ID  0  gt            lt Zip5 gt 90210 lt  Zip5 gt            lt City gt BEVERLY HILLS lt  City gt            lt State gt CA lt  State gt        lt  ZipCode gt    lt  CityStateLookupResponse gt    USPS does require that you register with them before you can use the API  but  as far as I could tell  there is no charge for access  By the way  their API has some other features  you can do Address Standardization and Zip Code Lookup  as well as the whole suite of tracking  shipping  labels  etc   Using the Ziptastic HTTP JSON API  no longer supported   Update  As of August 13  2017  Ziptastic is now a paid API and can be found here  This is a pretty new service  but according to their documentation  it looks like all you need to do is send a GET request to http   ziptasticapi com  like so   GET http   ziptasticapi com 48867   And they will return a JSON object along the lines of     country    US    state    MI    city    OWOSSO     Indeed  it works  You can test this from a command line by doing something like   curl http   ziptasticapi com 48867

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