One of the more common use cases we see is customers looking for a specific property or business using the
The tricky thing about searching by an address is that addresses have multiple parts that can vary from site to site. Think about these examples:
These are just a few examples of parts of an address that can vary. When using a specific address in your query, we will need to remove these variables to ensure you get the specific property or business we are querying.
You can do this in the Portal or with our API. Let's review both use cases.
In this example, we are going to search for this property:
4801 Yucca Hill Drive
Austin, TX 78744
When we format the query, we will remove any parts that can be abbreviated; in this case, the word
Drive like this:
"query": "address:\"4801 Yucca Hill\"",
Now we will want to add additional parameters to ensure that we get the property in the right city and state. However, these values can also have variances in them. In some cases, a website may use a specific variation of a city or may omit the city altogether. To get the highest probability of success, we will add these parameters:
AND province:TXto ensure that the address is in the correct state
AND (city:Austin OR postalCode:78744)to ensure that not only is this address in TX, but it also has EITHER a
When put together, your query will look like this:
"query": "address:\"4801 Yucca Hill\" AND province:TX AND (city:Austin OR postalCode:78744)",
Does this query not make sense to you?
When I run this query in the API using Postman, I get the expected property back!
Using the techniques discussed in the Portal: Advanced Query tutorial, we can take the above query and translate it into a URL request on the portal.
https://portal.datafiniti.co/property?query=address:"4801 Yucca Hill" AND province:TX AND (city:Austin OR postalCode:78744)
You can copy and paste the text from the
Text tab above into a new browser window or tab and it'll show you the same property. In order for the browser to understand it, it'll convert the query into HTML, like on the HTML tab.
Property and Business Data
While this walkthrough has been using the Property database, you can do the exact same things with the Business database as well.
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