Global Address Verification Quickstart#
Introduction#
Global Address Verification can verify and standardize mailing addresses from across the world with the flexibility and accuracy delivered by Melissa products.
Global Address can be used to:
Verify, Correct, & Standardize addresses from 250+ countries & territories
Append latitude & longitude
Return address as parsed components
Return address in mailing label format according to the standards of each country
Append additional information like unique identifier, delivery indicator, & more depending on the country.
Standardized addresses with extended and UTF-8 characters will return responses with the proper UTF-8 / accented characters.
New to Melissa Cloud APIs?#
We highly recommend first time users of our Cloud APIs to review our Using Melissa Cloud APIs section. It will cover critical topics like:
System Requirements#
SSL/TLS 1.2+
Getting Started - What Can I Do?#
Explore Melissa Lookups#
Check out Global Address Verification lookups here for the full experience.
Address Verification#
Global Address Verification can check and validate a given address.
Endpoint#
/V3/WEB/GlobalAddress/doGlobalAddress
Click here to go to the full endpoint documentation.
Try it Now#
curl -X GET "https://address.melissadata.net/V3/WEB/GlobalAddress/doGlobalAddress?\
&format=JSON\
&id={{customerId}}\
&opt=USPreferredCityNames:ON,OutputGeo:ON\
&t=Test\
&a1=22382%20Avenida%20Empresa\
&admarea=CA\
&ctry=US\
&loc=Rancho%20Santa%20Margarita\
&org=Melissa\
&postal=92688" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Accept: application/json"
curl -X POST "https://address.melissadata.net/V3/WEB/GlobalAddress/doGlobalAddress" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-d '{
"CustomerID": "{{customerId}}",
"Options": "USPreferredCityNames:ON,OutputGeo:ON",
"Records":
[{
"AddressLine1": "22382 Avenida Empresa",
"AdministrativeArea": "CA",
"Country": "US",
"Locality": "Rancho Santa Margarita",
"Organization": "Melissa",
"PostalCode": "92688",
"RecordID": "1"
},
{
"AddressLine1": "Caecilienstr. 42-44",
"Country": "Germany",
"Locality": "Cologne",
"Organization": "Melissa",
"PostalCode": "50667",
"RecordID": "2"
}],
"TransmissionReference": "Test"
}
'
curl -X GET "https://address.melissadata.net/V3/WEB/GlobalAddress/doGlobalAddress?\
&format=XML\
&id={{customerId}}\
&opt=USPreferredCityNames:ON,OutputGeo:ON\
&t=Test\
&a1=22382%20Avenida%20Empresa\
&admarea=CA\
&ctry=US\
&loc=Rancho%20Santa%20Margarita\
&org=Melissa\
&postal=92688" \
-H "Content-Type: application/xml" \
-H "Accept: application/xml"
curl -X POST "https://address.melissadata.net/V3/WEB/GlobalAddress/doGlobalAddress" \
-H "Content-Type: application/xml" \
-H "Accept: */*" \
-d '<Request>
<CustomerID>{{customerId}}</CustomerID>
<Options>USPreferredCityNames:ON,OutputGeo:ON</Options>
<Records>
<RequestRecord>
<AddressLine1>22382 Avenida Empresa</AddressLine1>
<AdministrativeArea>CA</AdministrativeArea>
<Country>US</Country>
<Locality>Rancho Santa Margarita</Locality>
<Organization>Melissa</Organization>
<PostalCode>92688</PostalCode>
<RecordID>1</RecordID>
</RequestRecord>
<RequestRecord>
<AddressLine1>Caecilienstr. 42-44</AddressLine1>
<Country>Germany</Country>
<Locality>Cologne</Locality>
<Organization>Melissa</Organization>
<PostalCode>50667</PostalCode>
<RecordID>2</RecordID>
</RequestRecord>
</Records>
<TransmissionReference>Test</TransmissionReference>
</Request>
'
Inputs and Outputs#
The table below shows the most common inputs and outputs for this endpoint.
For full details on the inputs see the Request Parameters and for a complete list of the outputs see the Response fields.
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