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GlobalExpressFreeForm

The GlobalExpressFreeForm service is provided as a means of retrieving all available address elements using a free form search. GlobalExpressFreeForm returns FormattedAddress, AddressLine1-8, CountryISO3166_1_Alpha2, CountryISO3166_1_Alpha3, CountryISO3166_1_Numeric, SubNationalArea, PremisesNumber, AdministrativeArea, SubadministrativeArea, locality, dependentlocality, doubledependentlocality, thoroughfare, dependentthoroughfare, building, postalcode, and postbox.

Example Call

http://expressentry.melissadata.net/web/GlobalExpressFreeForm?format={FORMAT}&id={ID}&ff={FF}&country={COUNTRY}&maxrecords={MAXRECORDS}&nativecharset={true|false}

Requested Field	Input	Description
Format	{XML, JSON}	The return format of the request.
ID	Text	The License Key or token
FF	Text
Country	Text	The ISO2Code or country name of the address (required, Default US).
Maxrecords	Number	The maximum number of records to return (required).
Nativecharset	True/False/Blank	Optional. Return results in the native character set for the country.

Schema

?format=

The response will be formatted according to the value set here.

Valid values are: XML and JSON.

&id=

The ID element can contain your user ID, a complete License Key, or a token.

&ff=

The service uses this term to complete addresses in Free Form. If the search term exceeds seven characters, subsequent searches will use the allwords option. Also, if no results are found before the seven character limit, the allwords search is used.

&country=

The ISO2Code or full country name of the country to search (Default US).

&maxrecords=

Maxrecords is provided to control the number of results returned from a request to the service.

&nativecharset=

When set to true, return results in the native character set for the country. When set to false, return transliterated results in the Latin character set. When set to blank (‘&nativecharset=’) return results in the input character set.