MapQuest Directions API Example

mapquest.py

#!/usr/bin/env python


from __future__ import print_function

import json
import os
import requests
import sys


def main():
    api_key = os.environ.get('MAPQUEST_API_KEY', None)
    if api_key is None:
        print("Environment variable `MAPQUEST_API_KEY` is missing!")
        sys.exit(1)

    params = {
        'key': api_key,
        'inFormat': "json",
        'outFormat': "json",
    }

    data = {
        'locations': [
            {
                'street': "1 Broadway, Cambridge, MA",
                'type': "s",
                'dragPoint': False,
            },
            {
                'street': "24 Yawkey Way, Boston, MA 02215",
                'type': "s",
                'dragPoint': False,
            },
        ],
        'options': {
            'shapeFormat': 'cmp',
            'generalize': 0,
        },
        'mapState': {
            'width': 320,
            'height': 568,
            'scale': 9000, # zoom-level 12
        },
    }
    data = json.dumps(data, separators=(',',':'))

    r = requests.post("http://www.mapquestapi.com/directions/v1/route",
                      params=params,
                      data=data)
    print(json.dumps(r.json, indent=4))


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

When using a recent (11/11/14) version of Requests - line 19 failed for me until I changed it to " 'key': urllib.unquote(api_key)," and imported urllib at line 10.

Also changed line 52 to " print(json.dumps(r.json(), indent=4))".