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Postcodes.io - Perl Example Postcode Lookup
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#!/usr/bin/perl | |
# Kindly provided by github/@digdilem | |
my $pc = "TQ13 9XT"; # Example postcode (Dartmoor National Park Visitor's Centre, Haytor) | |
use LWP; | |
use JSON qw( decode_json ); | |
my $ll_url = "https://api.postcodes.io/postcodes/$pc"; | |
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new; | |
$ua->agent("Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.15) Gecko/20080623 Firefox/2.0.0.15"); | |
my $req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $ll_url); | |
my $response = $ua->request($req); | |
if ($response->is_success) { | |
my $json = decode_json( $response->content ); | |
my $lat = $json->{'result'}{'latitude'}; | |
my $lng = $json->{'result'}{'longitude'}; | |
print "Lat/lang = $lat / $lng \n"; | |
} else { | |
print "Failure in lookup \n"; return; | |
} |
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