usps

JavaScript API wrapper for the United States Postal Service (USPS) APIs. The USPS APIs are XML based. This module abstracts away the details of working with XML.

This module exports a constructor function used to interact with the various APIs. This design decision was made because the USPS API requests require a user ID. Instead of passing this ID to every request, it is simpler to construct an object that retains the ID. If you need to make requests using multiple user IDs, simply construct another instance of this module (in the future, it might be possible to override the user ID on a per call basis).

Basic Usage

var Usps = require('usps');
var usps = new Usps({userId: 'your_usps_id'});
var options = {zip: '10001'};

usps.cityStateLookup(options, function(err, results) {
  // results = {zip: '10001', city: 'NEW YORK', state: 'NY'}
});

Running the Tests

Run the following command:

USPS_USER_ID=YOUR_USPS_ID npm test

Where YOUR_USPS_ID is your USPS user ID.

Usps(options) Constructor

• Arguments
  • options (object) - An object containing the following configuration settings:
    • userId (string) - A USPS user ID.

Returns a new instance of the USPS API.

Methods

cityStateLookup(options, callback)

• Arguments
  • options (object) - An object containing the following configuration settings:
    • zip (string or array) - A zip code string, or an array of zip code strings.
  • callback (function) - Callback function triggered after a response is received from the USPS services. This function takes the following arguments:
    • err (Error or null) - If an error is encountered while looking up any of the provided zip codes, it is reported here. If no error is encountered, this is null.
    • results (object or array) - If a string was passed in zip, this will be an object containing the zip code and corresponding city and state. If zip was an array, this will be an array of objects.
• Returns
  • Nothing. See callback function argument.

Given one or more zip codes, this method returns the corresponding city and state(s).