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data.gov.hk Address Lookup Service Python JSON Helper
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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") |
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