List of Loqate Endpoints: All APIs by Service Category

Here you can find a list of all current Loqate endpoints, along with brief descriptions of what each one allows you to do. Please note that this list does not include any Legacy endpoints.

Capture

Pass address information into these endpoints - partial addresses, postcodes, geolocation data etc. - and they will output address IDs and/or address information in return.

Endpoint	Description
Find	Returns one or more addresses or containers based upon the user’s input (use the address IDs generated here to pass to Retrieve)
GeoLocation	Returns addresses within a specified radius (based on a latitude/longitude point)
Retrieve	Returns full address details based on an address ID
Utilities	Returns any addresses matching a specific utility code

See the Capture documentation

Verify

This endpoint provides our powerful address verification and cleanse service, including certified and enhanced datasets, geocoding and reverse geocoding, and transliteration.

Endpoint	Description
International Batch Cleanse	Returns verified, cleansed address data in batches of up to 100 international addresses

See the Verify documentation

Store Finder

These endpoints work in combination to create a Store Finder tool, allowing you to combine precise location information for your organisation’s stores and a customer’s location, then determine the relationship between the two sets of information, and present the results in a visual fashion.

Endpoint	Description
Create List	Creates a list of locations, including their co-ordinates and their IDs (plus additional relevant information) for use with a Store Finder
Delete List or Point	Deletes a list of locations or a particular location within a list
Update List or Point	Updates a list of locations or a particular location within a list
Get List	Gets a list of locations to see the details of that list and the locations within it
Global Geocoding	Takes an input of one or more address strings (or alternatively a postcode or locality) and returns latitude and longitudes for the given locations (can also be used for reverse geocoding)
Global Distance Finder	Takes an input of an origin location and one or more destination locations, and returns road-based distance and travel times for each of them
Map Tile	Takes an input of your Loqate key and returns a Signed URL that will allow you to visually represent the output from the Distance Finder API on a map

See the Store Finder documentation

Email Validation

Use these endpoints to validate email addresses as they’re entered using either our Tag install or API, or alternatively validate a batch of email addresses using our API.

Endpoint	Description
Batch Validate	Synchronously validates up to 100 emails per request
Validate	Validates the existence of an individual email address
Bulk Validate	Asynchronously validates up to 100,000 emails per request

See the Email Validation documentation

Phone Validation

Use this endpoint to validate phone numbers as they’re entered using either our Tag install or API.

Endpoint	Description
Validate	Verifies whether a phone number is valid or not

See the Phone Validation documentation

Bank Validation

These endpoints allow you to query whether UK account number and sort code combinations are valid, or check IBANs for most European countries.

Endpoint	Description
Batch Validate	Validates the bank account/sort code for batches of UK bank accounts. Returns details of the holding branch, IBAN and correct BACS account details
RetrieveBySortcode	Returns details of any UK holding branch
Validate	Validates the bank account/sort code for individual UK bank accounts. Returns details of the holding branch, IBAN and correct BACS account details
International Validate	Validates whether the international bank account number for an international bank account is correct

See the Bank Validation documentation

Geocode

These endpoints return direction and/or location information for international locations, including additional data from the Postzon database for UK addresses.

Endpoint	Description
Directions	Returns the directions between two points
Distance	Returns the distance between two points
International Geocode	Returns the WGS84 latitude/longitude data for a given location
International PositionToCountry	Returns a country based on WGS84 latitude/longitude data
International RetrieveNearestPlaces	Returns the nearest places of interest of a given category to a provided location
International ReverseGeocode	Returns the nearest address or location to given coordinates
UK Find	Returns locations based on the given input
UK Geocode	Returns the OS easting + northing along with WGS84 latitude/longitude for a given postcode
UK Retrieve	Returns the OS easting + northing along with WGS84 latitude/longitude for a given location
UK RetrieveNearestPlaces	Returns the nearest places of interest of a given category to a provided location
UK ReverseGeocode	Returns the nearest address or location to given coordinates
RetrieveByCoordinates	Returns the Postzon record nearest to given coordinates
RetrieveByPostcode	Returns the Postzon record for a given postcode
RetrieveByPostcodeOrPlace	Returns the Postzon record for a given postcode or place name
FindPlaceNames	Returns the names of places
RetrieveCoordinates	Returns the coordinates of a place found using FindPlaceNames

See the Geocode documentation

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List of Loqate Endpoints: All APIs by Service Category

Capture

Verify

Store Finder

Email Validation

Phone Validation

Bank Validation

Geocode

​Capture

​Verify

​Store Finder

​Email Validation

​Phone Validation

​Bank Validation

​Geocode

Capture

Verify

Store Finder

Email Validation

Phone Validation

Bank Validation

Geocode