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API recipes

Practical examples for using the Houski API.

Examples

Get address from latitude/longitude

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Convert coordinates to address
Find the nearest address from latitude and longitude.
Request
Shell session
curl -X GET "https://api.houski.ca/geocoding?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&country_abbreviation=ca&latitude=49.2827&longitude=-123.1207&radius=0.5"
TypeScript code
const houski_geocoding = async (): Promise<GeocodingResponse> => {

    // You must copy the GeocodingResponse type declarations from the 
    // Houski API documentation to strongly type the response

    const url = new URL('https://api.houski.ca/geocoding');
    url.searchParams.set('api_key', 'YOUR_API_KEY');
    url.searchParams.set('country_abbreviation', 'ca');
    url.searchParams.set('latitude', '49.2827');
    url.searchParams.set('longitude', '-123.1207');
    url.searchParams.set('radius', '0.5');

    const response = await fetch(url);
    const data = await response.json();

    return data;
}

(async () => {
let data: GeocodingResponse = await houski_geocoding();

// Log the response
console.log(data);
})();
Response
JSON
{
  "cache_hit": true,
  "cost_cents": 0.119999997317791,
  "data": [
    {
      "address": "1403 5380 Crooked Branch Road Road",
      "property_id": "5b69aa609df6ec92"
    },
    {
      "address": "817 6036 Gray Avenue",
      "property_id": "5aef8cd997c6c2d2"
    },
    {
      "address": "1306 5380 Crooked Branch Road Road",
      "property_id": "e6c69bfb9798beb0"
    },
    {
      "address": "1009 5380 Crooked Branch Road",
      "property_id": "ad62b6fe66b0d6e1"
    },
    {
      "address": "125 5370 Crooked Branch Road",
      "property_id": "fada86033e2236b"
    },
    {
      "address": "1309 5370 Crooked Branch Road",
      "property_id": "46b751cafda07368"
    }
  ],
  "error": "",
  "pagination": {
    "current_page": 1,
    "has_next_page": true,
    "has_previous_page": false,
    "page_total": 1487
  },
  "price_quote": false,
  "result_total": 8921,
  "time_ms": 72
}