Mexico Zipcodes

Mexico zipcodes micro service with NodeJS & MongoDB using HapiJS framework.

Data taken from the Mexico postal service (SEPOMEX).

Data as of: April 2017

• Total documents: 144,826
• Unique zipcodes: 32,147

You can find and already hosted version of the api here: http://mexico-zipcodes.herokuapp.com/

http://mexico-zipcodes.herokuapp.com/zipcode/03100

Table Of Contents

• Search Types
  • By Zipcode
  • By State
  • By Colony
  • By Municipality
  • By Zone Type
• Pagination
• Setup

Search Types

By Zipcode

• /zipcode/{ZIPCODE} http://mexico-zipcodes.herokuapp.com/zipcode/03100

By State

• /state/{STATE} http://mexico-zipcodes.herokuapp.com/state/Tamaulipas

By Colony

• /colony/{COLONY} http://mexico-zipcodes.herokuapp.com/colony/Centro

By Municipality

• /municipality/{MUNICIPALITY} http://mexico-zipcodes.herokuapp.com/municipality/Benito%20Juárez

By Zone Type

• /zone/{ZONE_TYPE} http://mexico-zipcodes.herokuapp.com/zone/Urbano

All search terms have case-insensitive and RegExp search (not accent insensitive, though)

Pagination

Add at the end of the url:

• ?page={PAGE}&limit={LIMIT} http://mexico-zipcodes.herokuapp.com/zone/Urbano?page=1&limit=5

  You’ll get back the following additional arguments:

  • total (total of documents per the search term)
  • limit (limit of data per page)
  • page (current page)
  • pages (total of pages per the search terms)

Setup

Use instructions below to setup the repo and run the project:

Dependencies

The following dependencies are required to setup and run this project locally:

• NodeJS
• NPM/Yarn
• MongoDB

1. Clone The project

• git clone https://github.com/saraileon/mexico-zipcodes.git
• cd mexico-zipcodes

2. Setup database indexes

From shell run once:

• DB=db_index node server.js

3. Install node_modules

• npm install OR yarn

4. Populate database

If you are in a Linux/Unix shell

• cd data
• for filename in *; do mongoimport -d mexico_zipcodes -c zipcodes --type json --file $filename; done

5. Run the service

• cd ..
• node server.js --port=5899
• Open localhost:5899

Service: localhost:5899/zipcode/03100