USPS has a zip code lookup feature on their web site and seems like they would expect a lot of people using it....

Pete Haworth

On Nov 30, 2010, at 2:14 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:

Also be advised that too many hits from one place may result in alarms going off. It may have changes since I thought about doing this way back when, but they offered this site as a way for the every day user to get a zip+4, not for a commercial app to do it on the cheap as a way to avoid paying for the zip+4 database, which back then at least they charged you for.

Bob


On Nov 27, 2010, at 12:50 PM, stephen barncard wrote:

If you want to do it the 'right' way you might consider getting an API key....then you can be sure it will continuously work - screen scraping may
fail if they change the website.

The USPS appears to have extensive APIs available - looks like it talks
XML..

http://www.usps.com/webtools/address.htm

http://www.usps.com/webtools/htm/Development-Guide-v3-0b.htm



On 27 November 2010 09:53, James Hurley <jhurley0...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

I sent this message a while back, but I suspect it got lost in the
RunRev-LiveCode changeover.

At the USPS web site (http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/) it is possible by
entering the street address, the city and the state to obtain the 9 digit
zip code for that address.

This may be naive, but is it possible to do this from within LiveCode by
script?

Jim



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