Thank you all for the feedback. I will take a crack at it.
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There is going to be a public White/Yellow API some time next year - in the
meantime you can probably safely do as suggested, and migrate once there's
an API. (In theory you could get blocked, but if you are just looking for
individual businesses, not scraping, I doubt anyone would notice / care)
Depends on what you want, but that will return the address the business is
registered at, not necessarily the address that customers might visit or
post to when conducting business. Especially if a business has multiple
locations.
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On 05/12/2010, at 7:55 PM, Dmytrii Nagirniak
Hi Gregory,
You can use http://www.abn.business.gov.au/abrxmlsearch/
That's the official government API.
Regards,
Dmytrii Nagirniak
http://ApproachE.com
On 5 December 2010 06:53, Gregory McIntyre wrote:
> Anyone have any ideas on the best way to take business names and turn
> them into addre
+1 to that. I did it for the now defunct whatsforsteaktoday. Upside
it's entirely client side, and since Google just knows everything
there is to know, it's almost impossible it won't return anything.
On Sunday, December 5, 2010, Jason Crane wrote:
> I wrote some code to take a business name, an
On 5/12/10 9:00 AM, Matthew Vickers wrote:
Assuming the business name is Australian I would start with the White
Pages. Using mechanic a simple get request, some xpath and or nokogiri
should yield the
address you need.
Sorry that should be mechanize not mechanic.
Matt.
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On 5/12/10 6:53 AM, Gregory McIntyre wrote:
Anyone have any ideas on the best way to take business names and turn
them into addresses of those businesses, via web API, scraping or any
other means?
Assuming the business name is Australian I would start with the White
Pages. Using mechanic a simp
I wrote some code to take a business name, and a postcode and do an address
lookup via google ajax search. (had local db of postcodes/suburbs and lat/long
co-ords to centre the search). I then present the users with a dropdown to
select their address from a list (after wrangling the json).
The
Anyone have any ideas on the best way to take business names and turn
them into addresses of those businesses, via web API, scraping or any
other means?
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