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REST API for libpostal

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libpostal-rest

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Project history and usage

libpostal-rest is a small Go REST service that exposes libpostal address parsing and expansion over HTTP. Its history is best understood as a deployment wrapper around the larger libpostal geospatial NLP library.

Project history

The repository documents a Go 1.13+ build, HTTP endpoints for parsing, expansion, and combined expand-and-parse calls, and environment-variable configuration for listen address, logging, and Prometheus metrics. Its go.mod file depends on openvenues/gopostal, the Go binding for libpostal.

Adoption history

The package has a narrow adoption story: it makes libpostal easier to run as a service when callers do not want to link directly to C or language bindings. The related libpostal project has broader adoption for normalizing and parsing international street addresses from open data.

How it is used

Operators run `libpostal-rest` as an HTTP service, then send address strings to `/parser`, `/expand`, or `/expandparser`. Environment variables configure the bind host, port, log format, log level, and optional Prometheus metrics endpoint.

Why package nerds care

The package is useful because libpostal itself has a heavy native build and large model-data footprint. A REST wrapper turns that local native dependency into a network service that other applications can consume with plain HTTP.

Timeline

2022-06-17: The GitHub repository lists a public release around this date.
2022: The README documents Prometheus metrics and structured logging configuration for the service.

Related projects

libpostal is the core C address-normalization and parsing library.
gopostal is the Go binding used by libpostal-rest.
OpenStreetMap-derived data and libpostal's training pipeline are part of the upstream libpostal ecosystem.

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security posture

Risk level: green

library-like package without higher-risk signals.

Risk classifier

green risk · low confidence · appliance

Why

library-like package without higher-risk signals

Signals

metadata:library-like

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executables

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Command	Kind	Exposure	Note
`libpostal-rest`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.

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page generated2026-08-03

manager version1.1.0

manager updated

local dataunknown

upstreamnot available

latest detectednot detected

okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:libpostal-rest
Version	1.1.0
Package manager	Homebrew
Homepage	https://github.com/johnlonganecker/libpostal-rest
Repository	https://github.com/johnlonganecker/libpostal-rest
Bottle	not recorded
Service	none declared

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combined/libpostal-rest.yml

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