Geo::Coder::OpenCage - Geocode coordinates and addresses with the OpenCage Geocoding API
version 0.36
my $Geocoder = Geo::Coder::OpenCage->new(api_key => $my_api_key); my $response = $Geocoder->geocode(location => "Donostia");
This module provides an interface to the OpenCage geocoding service.
For full details of the API visit https://opencagedata.com/api
It is recommended you read the best practices for using the OpenCage geocoder before you start.
my $Geocoder = Geo::Coder::OpenCage->new(api_key => $my_api_key);
Get your API key from https://opencagedata.com.
Optionally "http => 1" can also be specified in which case API requests will NOT be made via https
$ua = $geocoder->ua(); $ua = $geocoder->ua($ua);
Accessor for the UserAgent object. By default HTTP::Tiny is used. Useful if for example you want to specify that something like LWP::UserAgent::Throttled for rate limiting. Even if a new UserAgent is specified the useragent string will be specified as "Geo::Coder::OpenCage $version"
Takes a single named parameter 'location' and returns a result hashref.
my $response = $Geocoder->geocode(location => "Mudgee, Australia");
warns and returns undef if the query fails for some reason.
If you will be doing forward geocoding, please see the OpenCage query formatting guidelines
You should check the always response status
$response->{status}{code}
to ensure you have had a successful response, are not hitting rate limits, etc. Please see the OpenCage geocoding API response codes
The OpenCage Geocoder has a few optional parameters:
please see the OpenCage geocoder documentation. Most of the various optional parameters are supported. For example:
An IETF format language code (such as es for Spanish or pt-BR for Brazilian Portuguese); if this is omitted a code of en (English) will be assumed.
Limits the maximum number of results returned. Default is 10.
Provides the geocoder with a hint to the country that the query resides in. This value will help the geocoder but will not restrict the possible results to the supplied country.
The country code is a comma seperated list of 2 character code as defined by the ISO 3166-1 Alpha 2 standard.
This module always parses the response as a Perl data structure, so the jsonp option is never used.
As a full example:
my $response = $Geocoder->geocode( location => "Псковская улица, Санкт-Петербург, Россия", language => "ru", countrycode => "ru", );
Takes two named parameters 'lat' and 'lng' and returns a result hashref.
my $response = $Geocoder->reverse_geocode(lat => -22.6792, lng => 14.5272);
This method supports the optional parameters in the same way that geocode() does.
All strings passed to and received from Geo::Coder::OpenCage methods are expected to be character strings, not byte strings.
For more information see perlunicode.
Please see the Perl tutorial on the OpenCage site. Many other languages and frameworks are also available.
This module was featured in the 2016 Perl Advent Calendar.
Ed Freyfogle <cpan@opencagedata.com>
This software is copyright (c) 2023 by OpenCage GmbH.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
To install Geo::Coder::OpenCage, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Geo::Coder::OpenCage
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Geo::Coder::OpenCage
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.