RESTful API which provides information on official divisional administrative regions of Portugal (based on "Carta Administrativa Oficial de Portugal, 2020", from here). It includes information on mainland Portugal, Azores and Madeira. It also provides information on Postal Codes and Census.
You can use freely the public API at https://geoapi.pt
. The limit per IP is 900 requests per 15 minutes (average of 1/sec).
It uses NodeJS (much faster than Python) to create a HTTP server allowing several GET requests. It also pre-processes all the raw data for fast real-time delivery.
This API follows the OpenAPI Specification, thus you can see all the routes in the file openapi.yaml
file. See also docs/routes.md
or the main page at geoapi.pt.
By default the server replies with text/html
format. To receive JSON format, chose one of these:
- add the query GET parameter
json=1
to the URL (ex.:/municipios/évora?json=1
); - set the HTTP request header
Accept
as JSON, that is,Accept: application/json
; or - in case you're using the public API, use the host
json.geoapi.pt
(ex:json.geoapi.pt/cp/2495-300
)
- Install NodeJS and git
- Clone the project (just the latest version):
git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/jfoclpf/geoapi.pt.git
- Enter the newly created directory and install dependencies
cd geoapi.pt && npm ci
- Start the server
npm start -- --port=8080
For more information run npm start -- --help
For permanent and continuous operation (production) use for example pm2 or forever.
npm install pm2@latest -g
pm2 start src/server/index.js -- --port 8080
DEBUG=geoapipt:* npm start --port=8080