A Python library to use the what3words REST API.
The what3words Python library gives you programmatic access to convert a 3 word address to coordinates (forward geocoding), to convert coordinates to a 3 word address (reverse geocoding), and to determine the currently support 3 word address languages.
To use this library you’ll need a what3words API key, which can be signed up for here.
To install what3words, simply:
$ pip install what3wordsInstalling the latest version from Github:
$ git clone https://github.com/what3words/w3w-python-wrapper.git
$ cd w3w-python-wrapper
$ python setup.py installForward geocodes a 3 word address to a position, expressed as coordinates of latitude and longitude.
This function takes the words parameter as a string of 3 words 'table.book.chair'
The returned payload from the forwardGeocode method is described in the what3words REST API documentation.
Reverse geocodes coordinates, expressed as latitude and longitude to a 3 word address.
This function takes the latitude and longitude:
- 2 parameters:
lat=0.1234,lng=1.5678
The returned payload from the reverseGeocode method is described in the what3words REST API documentation.
Returns a list of 3 word addresses based on user input and other parameters.
This method provides corrections for the following types of input error:
- typing errors
- spelling errors
- misremembered words (e.g. singular vs. plural)
- words in the wrong order
The autoSuggest method determines possible corrections to the supplied 3 word address string based on the probability of the input errors listed above and returns a ranked list of suggestions. This method can also take into consideration the geographic proximity of possible corrections to a given location to further improve the suggestions returned.
AutoSuggest is provided via 2 variant resources; single language and multilingual.
The single language autosuggest resource requires a language to be specified. The input full or partial 3 word address will be interpreted as being in the specified language and all suggestions will be in this language. We recommend that you set this according to the language of your user interface, or the browser/device language of your user. If your software or app displays 3 word addresses to users (in addition to accepting 3 words as a search/input) then we recommend you set the language parameter for this resource to the same language that 3 word addresses are displayed to your users.
The multilingual autosuggest-ml resource can accept an optional language. If specified, this will ensure that the autosuggest-ml resource will look for suggestions in this language, in addition to any other languages that yield relevant suggestions.
You will only receive results back if the partial 3 word address string you submit contains the first two words and at least the first character of the third word; otherwise an error message will be returned.
We provide various clip policies to allow you to specify a geographic area that is used to exclude results that are not likely to be relevant to your users. We recommend that you use the clip parameter to give a more targeted, shorter set of results to your user. If you know your user’s current location, we also strongly recommend that you use the focus to return results which are likely to be more relevant.
In summary, the clip policy is used to optionally restrict the list of candidate AutoSuggest results, after which, if focus has been supplied, this will be used to rank the results in order of relevancy to the focus.
http://docs.what3words.local/api/v2/#autosuggest-clip
The returned payload from the autoSuggest method is described in the what3words REST API documentation.
Returns a blend of the three most relevant 3 word address candidates for a given location, based on a full or partial 3 word address.
The specified 3 word address may either be a full 3 word address or a partial 3 word address containing the first 2 words in full and at least 1 character of the 3rd word. The standardblend resource provides the search logic that powers the search box on map.what3words.com and in the what3words mobile apps.
Single and Multilingual Variants
AutoSuggest is provided via 2 variant resources; single language and multilingual.
The single language standardblend method requires a language to be specified.
The multilingual standardblend_ml method requires a language to be specified. This will ensure that the standardblend-ml resource will look for suggestions in this language, in addition to any other languages that yield relevant suggestions.
see https://docs.what3words.com/api/v2/#standardblend for detailed information
Retrieves a list of the currently loaded and available 3 word address languages.
The returned payload from the languages method is described in the what3words REST API documentation.
For safe storage of your API key on your computer, you can define that API key using your system’s environment variables.
$ export W3W_API_KEY=<Secret API Key>>>> import what3words
>>> from os import environ
>>> api_key = environ['W3W_API_KEY']
>>> w3w = what3words.Geocoder(api_key)
>>> res = w3w.forward(addr='prom.cape.pump')
>>> print(res)>>> import what3words
>>> from os import environ
>>> api_key = environ['W3W_API_KEY']
>>> w3w = what3words.Geocoder(api_key)
>>> res = w3w.reverse(lat=51.484463, lng=-0.195405)
>>> print(res)Find a bug or want to request a new feature? Please let us know by submitting an issue.
Anyone and everyone is welcome to contribute.
- Fork it (https://github.com/what3words/w3w-python-wrapper and click "Fork")
- Create your feature branch (
git checkout -b my-new-feature) - Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Add some feature') - Push to the branch (
git push origin my-new-feature) - Create new Pull Request
v2.1.028/03/17 - Added multilingual version ofautosuggestandstandardblendv2.0.227/10/16 - Pusblished on PyPiv2.0.010/06/16 - Updated wrapper to use what3words API v2
The MIT License (MIT)
A copy of the license is available in the repository's license file.