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Re: Free Address Verification by EasyPost

#11
post #6

Is it safe to assume that the developers have forgotten that there's a very big world beyond the US borders? The title doesn't say so, the blog post doesn't either, and the website makes no reference to the countries supported. But as the API doesn't take a country field, it's the only conclusion I can come to.

Might want to look at https://rocketship.it/; not an API, but a set of libraries for working with the various carrier APIs.

Re: Free Address Verification by EasyPost

#14
post #6

Is it safe to assume that the developers have forgotten that there's a very big world beyond the US borders? The title doesn't say so, the blog post doesn't either, and the website makes no reference to the countries supported. But as the API doesn't take a country field, it's the only conclusion I can come to.

No! We're a US company so that's where we're starting but we'll be working on international next.

Re: Free Address Verification by EasyPost

#15
post #4

The example doesnt really work $ curl https://www.geteasypost.com/api/address/verify \ > -u cueqNZUb3ldeWTNX7MU3Mel8UXtaAMUi: \ > -d 'address[street1]=388 Townsend St' \ > -d 'address[street2]=Apt 20' \ > -d 'address[zip]=94107' You are being redirected .

Oops, we were forcing SSL for Auth.net and there was an error

Try this:

curl http://www.geteasypost.com/api/address/verify \ -u cueqNZUb3ldeWTNX7MU3Mel8UXtaAMUi: \ -d 'address[street1]=388 Townsend St' \ -d 'address[street2]=Apt 20' \ -d 'address[city]=San Francisco' \ -d 'address[state]=CA' \ -d 'address[zip]=94107'

Re: Free Address Verification by EasyPost

#16
post #6

Is it safe to assume that the developers have forgotten that there's a very big world beyond the US borders? The title doesn't say so, the blog post doesn't either, and the website makes no reference to the countries supported. But as the API doesn't take a country field, it's the only conclusion I can come to.

No! We're a US company so that's where we're starting but we'll be working on international next.

As a side note, the carrier APIs make international rating easy. But, easy is a relative term, quite often there are a number of exceptions that make this area tricky.

Re: Free Address Verification by EasyPost

#17
post #6

Is it safe to assume that the developers have forgotten that there's a very big world beyond the US borders? The title doesn't say so, the blog post doesn't either, and the website makes no reference to the countries supported. But as the API doesn't take a country field, it's the only conclusion I can come to.

No! We're a US company so that's where we're starting but we'll be working on international next.

Then please make that clear in your blog post and home-page.

Re: Free Address Verification by EasyPost

#18
post #4

The example doesnt really work $ curl https://www.geteasypost.com/api/address/verify \ > -u cueqNZUb3ldeWTNX7MU3Mel8UXtaAMUi: \ > -d 'address[street1]=388 Townsend St' \ > -d 'address[street2]=Apt 20' \ > -d 'address[zip]=94107' You are being redirected .

Fixed!

Re: Free Address Verification by EasyPost

#19
post #4

The example doesnt really work $ curl https://www.geteasypost.com/api/address/verify \ > -u cueqNZUb3ldeWTNX7MU3Mel8UXtaAMUi: \ > -d 'address[street1]=388 Townsend St' \ > -d 'address[street2]=Apt 20' \ > -d 'address[zip]=94107' You are being redirected .

This is because their demo uses https, as recommended in their documentation ("We suggest that you make API requests over HTTPS..."). But, if you switch to using the http protocol, the request will return a response correctly. It's a bug. Also interesting because their website redirects http requests to the https protocol (eg. http://geteasypost.com/docs ).

Yes, sorry about that. It's fixed so both work now

Re: Free Address Verification by EasyPost

#20

To be clear, is this CASS/DPV-style validation? Is it certified CASS/DPV? If so, that would be awesome. Any info on usage limits for the free tier, etc? Can we use this for address verification only or is it required to purchase as well?

Indeed it is! And there's no usage limits
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