This project aims to create a microservice as a rest api that gets concatenated address and returns as a parsed address object.
For this purpose it uses pypostal and libpostal which is a C library for parsing/normalizing street addresses around the world using statistical NLP and open data. It is trained on over 1 billion addresses in every inhabited country on Earth.
For managing deploy and containarization it uses Docker. Docker installs required packages and installs libpostal C library.
API is created in Python with flask.
Firstly we create the docker image
$ docker build -t libpostalapi . And then we can run this image and bind to 4444 port
$ docker run -d --name libpostalapi -p 4444:4444 libpostalapi We can now open demo page with test addresses, also we can enter any address to input and parse
http://localhost:4444/demoAlso we can use api endpoint to post address and get parsed address
curl -XPOST -H "Content-type: application/json" -d '{
"address":"200 Broadway Av"
}' 'http://localhost:4444/parseAddress'