# La Poste

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/la-poste/  
**Website:** https://developer.laposte.fr/  
**APIs profiled:** 8

La Poste is the French national postal service, offering a developer platform called Okapi that exposes REST APIs for parcel tracking, address validation, geolocation, registered letter ordering, certified document exchange (Digiposte), and open data access (dataNOVA). APIs require an X-Okapi-Key obtained by registering a free developer account.

## Kin Score — 38.0 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 38.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 48.6 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 23.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 39.5 |
| Access Clarity | 39.5 |

Regulatory layer — **Government & Public Sector**: 50.0 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 29.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (8)

- **La Poste ControlAdresse API** — Validates, standardises, and enriches postal addresses for users, customers, or prospects in France. Returns CEDEX-normalised address data including street, locality, postcode, ...
- **La Poste Geolocalisation API** — Returns GPS coordinates for a given French postal address. Enables rapid and simple address geocoding integrated via the Okapi platform.
- **La Poste Geolocalisation Inversee API** — Reverse-geocoding API that identifies the five closest French addresses from a given geographic point within a configurable radius.
- **La Poste LReL (Lettre Recommandee en Ligne) API** — API for ordering online registered letters (LReL) — La Poste prints, envelopes, franks and distributes the physical letter on behalf of the requester. Uses OAuth2 authentication...
- **La Poste Digiposte API** — Enables business applications to send certified documents directly to a recipient's Digiposte digital safe and retrieve authenticated documents with probative value from Digipos...
- **La Poste dataNOVA Open Data API** — Open data portal powered by OpenDataSoft exposing 18+ datasets including postal office locations, street mailbox listings, postal codes (HEXASMAL), business registrations (SIREN...
- **La Poste SlsInternalService : Services destinés aux applications internes API** — The SlsInternalService : Services destinés aux applications internes API from La Poste — 3 operation(s) for slsinternalservice : services destinés aux applications internes.
- **La Poste SlsServiceWS : documentation API** — The SlsServiceWS : documentation API from La Poste — 9 operation(s) for slsservicews : documentation.

## Agentic access (1)

- **La Poste Agentic Access** — 12 operations · 12 acting

## Security (2)

- **La Poste Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **La Poste Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Plans (7)

- **Colissimo Plans**
- **Controladresse Plans**
- **Datanova Plans**
- **Digiposte Plans**
- **Geolocalisation Plans**
- **Lrel Plans**
- **Suivi Plans**

## Tags

Postal, Parcel Tracking, Address Validation, Geolocation, Shipping, Open Data, France

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/la-poste/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.