I think you should have a form where users can try out your address checks. This is just so devs can quickly make sure if you know the difference between good and a bad address before they try out the api.
Free Address Verification by EasyPost
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Re: Free Address Verification by EasyPost
#22Hmm... Does this validate that the address exists, or that an individual lives at that address? Just because someone has entered the incorrect address doesn't mean that the address doesn't exist.
It validates that the address itself is valid and you can mail items to it
Re: Free Address Verification by EasyPost
#23Is 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.
Developer of RocketShipIt here. Thanks :)
Re: Free Address Verification by EasyPost
#24I am curious how you guys are getting around the terms of use of the carriers especially address validation as it strictly forbids serving that information for others not associated with the developer key.
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#25If I was a spammer gathering live addresses, this is how I'd do it.
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#26To 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
What's the preferred request rate to be polite?
Re: Free Address Verification by EasyPost
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
Great, thanks!
Re: Free Address Verification by EasyPost
#28Looks like Shipping/Postage APIs are about to heat up: https://www.postmaster.io/
I doubt it. Carrier terms of service make the SaaS model for this difficult if not impossible. I also don't understand why anyone would pay a percentage per label when the carriers offer free APIs. Sure the APIs are a pain but there are good libraries out there for them.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Indeed it is! And there's no usage limits
What's the preferred request rate to be polite?
For testing - try to keep it reasonable (a few req/s).
If you are worried about exceeding our limits in production (via bulk or your site has that much traffic) feel free to email us: contact@geteasypost.com
Re: Free Address Verification by EasyPost
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's the preferred request rate to be polite?
For testing - try to keep it reasonable (a few req/s). If you are worried about exceeding our limits in production (via bulk or your site has that much traffic) feel free to email us: contact@geteasypost.com
Well within what I was planning (1 request per minute).
Thank you!