ShipEngine Addresses API

No matter your shipping volume, failed deliveries and address change surcharges cut into your bottom line and damage perception with customers. Our address validation services ensure your packages make it to the right place the first time. Learn how to leverage our address validation services here. ShipEngine supports address validation for virtually every country on Earth, including the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Australia, Germany, France, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Israel, Italy, and over 160 others.

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Operations 2

PUT /v1/addresses/recognize Parse an address #
POST /v1/addresses/validate Validate an address #

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OpenAPI Specification

shipengine-addresses-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Shipengine Addresses API
  version: 1.1.202604070904
  contact:
    name: ShipEngine Sales & Support
    email: sales@shipengine.com
    url: https://www.shipengine.com/contact/
    x-phone: 1-512-856-5379
  license:
    name: Proprietary
    url: https://www.shipengine.com/terms-of-service/
  termsOfService: https://www.shipengine.com/terms-of-service/
  x-logo:
    url: https://shipengine.github.io/img/shipengine-logo-square.png
    backgroundColor: '#FFFFFF'
    altText: ShipEngine logo
  description: 'Operations tagged addresses across 2 of this provider''s published API definitions: shipengine-openapi-docs-bundle.yaml, shipengine-openapi.yml. Each path carries the servers of the definition it was published in.'
servers:
- url: https://api.shipengine.com
security:
- api_key: []
tags:


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# Full source: https://artifacts.apis.io/shipengine/openapi/shipengine-addresses-api-openapi.yml