data.gov.hk Address Lookup Service Python JSON Helper

gistfile1.txt

import requests

'''
Valid language: en, zh-Hant
'''
def address_check( address, language="en" ):
    if language not in ['en', 'zh-Hant']:
        raise ValueError('language is not specified correctly. Either in \'en\' or \'zh-Hant\'')

    headers = {
        'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 5.1; E5363 Build/27.2.B.0.155) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/48.0.2564.95 Mobile Safari/537.36',

        'Accept' : 'application/json',
        'Accept-Language' : language
    }

    ssl_url = "https://www.als.ogcio.gov.hk/lookup?q="
    url = "%s%s" % (ssl_url,address)

    r = requests.get( url, headers=headers )

    if r.status_code == 200:
        return r.json()
    else:
        return None


if __name__ == "__main__":
    print address_check( "IFC 2")