Yep, makes sense, especially if they sell those zip+4 lists.
Kind of related, has anyone had any experience with selecting zip
codes based on a given zip code and a radius from it? A mailing list
I use has that feature to target newsletters and would be a handy
function to have. I'm guessing it must have some sort of latitude/
longitude calculation in there.
Pete Haworth
On Nov 30, 2010, at 4:42 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
Right, but not a lot from one place. I think their acceptable use
would be under 30 or 40 hits a day from one IP, but if they get
thousands, I think someone might contact you. They have some kind of
published Acceptable Use policy on the site don't they? If not, then
I guess you are in the clear.
Bob
On Nov 30, 2010, at 4:09 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
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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