使用 Homebrew 安装 libpostal-rest

项目链接

• 主页

命令和别名

• libpostal-rest

项目历史

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.

采用历史

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.

使用方式

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.

为什么软件包爱好者会关心

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.

时间线

• 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.

来源

• https://github.com/johnlonganecker/libpostal-rest
• https://github.com/openvenues/libpostal
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/johnlonganecker/libpostal-rest/master/README.md
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/johnlonganecker/libpostal-rest/master/go.mod
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openvenues/libpostal/master/README.md