usaddress-scourgify

A Python3.x library for cleaning/normalizing US addresses following USPS pub 28 and RESO guidelines.

Documentation

Use

normalize_address_record()

or

get_geocoder_normalized_addr()

to standardize your addresses. (Note: usaddress-scourgify does not make any attempts at address validation.)

Both functions take an address string, or a dict-like object, and return an address dict with all field values in uppercase format mapped to the keys address_line_1, address_line_2, city, state, postal_code... code-block:: python

normalize_address_record('123 southwest Main street, Boring, or, 97203')

normalize_address_record({
    'address_line_1': '123 southwest Main street',
    'address_line_2': 'unit 2'
    'city': 'Boring',
    'state': 'or',
    'postal_code': '97203'
})

expected output

{
     'address_line_1': '123 SW MAIN ST',
     'address_line_2': 'UNIT 2'
     'city': 'BORING',
     'state': 'OR',
     'postal_code': '97203'
 }

normalized_address_record() uses the included processing functions to remove unacceptable special characters, extra spaces, predictable abnormal character sub-strings and phrases. It also abbreviates directional indicators and street types according to the abbreviation mappings found in address_constants. If applicable, line 2 address elements (ie: Apt, Unit) are separated from line 1 inputs and standard occupancy type abbreviations are applied.

You may supply additional additional processing functions as a list of callable supplied to the addtl_funcs parameter. Any additional functions should take a string address and return a tuple of strings (line1, line2).

If your address is in the form of a dict that does not use the keys address_line_1, address_line_2, city, state, and postal_code, you must supply a key map to the addr_map parameter in the format {standard_key: custom_key}

{
    'address_line_1': 'Line1',
    'address_line_2': 'Line2',
    'city': 'City',
    'state': 'State',
    'postal_code': 'Zip'
}

You can also customize the address constants used by setting up an address_constants.yaml config file. Allowed keys are:: DIRECTIONAL_REPLACEMENTS OCCUPANCY_TYPE_ABBREVIATIONS STATE_ABBREVIATIONS STREET_TYPE_ABBREVIATIONS KNOWN_ODDITIES PROBLEM_ST_TYPE_ABBRVS

You may also use the key insertion_method with a value of update or replace to indicate where you would like to insert your values into the existing constants or replace them. If insertion_method is not present, update is assumed.

insertion_method: update
KNOWN_ODDITIES:
    'developed by HOST': ''
    ', UN ': ' UNIT '

OCCUPANCY_TYPE_ABBREVIATIONS:
    'UN': 'UNIT'

get_geocoder_normalized_addr() uses geocoder.google to parse your address into a standard dict. No additional cleaning is performed, so if your address contains any stray or non-conforming elements (ie: 8888 NE KILLINGSWORTH ST, UN C, PORTLAND, OR 97008), no result will be returned. Since geocoder accepts an address string, if your address is in dict format you will need to supply a list of the address related keys within your dict, in the order of address string composition, if your keys do not match the standard key set (address_line_1, address_line_2, city, state, postal_code)

Installation

Requires Python3.x.

pip install usaddress-scourgify

To use a custom constants yaml, set the ADDRESS_CONFIG_DIR environment variable with the full path to the directory containing your address_constants.yaml file

export ADDRESS_CONFIG_DIR=/path/to/your/config_dir

To use get_geocoder_normalized_addr, set the GOOGLE_API_KEY environment variable

export GOOGLE_API_KEY=your_google_api_key

Contributing

Create a new branch to hold your change; no pull requests submitted directly to dev or master will be approved. Please include a comment explain the issue your pull request solves. Make sure all appropriate test, and tox, updates are included and that all tests are passing.

License

usaddress-scourgify is released under the terms of the MIT license. Full details in LICENSE file.

Changelog

usaddress-scourgify was developed for use in the greenbuildingregistry project. For a full changelog see CHANGELOG.rst.