UK Geocoding with PostCoder Web in Node.js

node-uk-geocoding.js

var https = require('https');

// This is a test API Key which works for the postcode NR14 7PZ
// Get your API Key from www.alliescomputing.com/postcoder/sign-up
var api_key = 'PCW45-12345-12345-1234X';

var postcode = 'NR147PZ';

var headers = {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json'
};

var options = {
    host: 'ws.postcoder.com',
    path: '/pcw/'+api_key+'/position/uk/' + encodeURIComponent(postcode),
    method: 'GET',
    headers: headers
};
  
var req = https.request(options, function(res) {
    res.setEncoding('utf-8');

    var responseString = '';

    res.on('data', function(data) {
        responseString += data;
    });

    res.on('end', function() {
        var responseObject = JSON.parse(responseString);
        console.log("Coordinates: "+responseObject[0].latitude + "," + responseObject[0].longitude);
    });
});

req.end();