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HouseCanary Analytics API Provides All the Information You Need to Value One Property or Thousands

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1curl -G https://api.housecanary.com/v2/property/value \
2	-d address=43+Valmonte+Plaza \
3	-d zipcode=90274 \
4	-u test_0TAQAK5ESOFQ1ZVLQO9M:rTecWozVb3dGkWkdUX7ElAgTFWqvWDHk \

1import pprint
2import requests
34url = 'https://api.housecanary.com/v2/property/value'5params = {'address': '43 Valmonte Plaza', 'zipcode': '90274'}
6response = requests.get(url, params=params, auth=('test_0TAQAK5ESOFQ1ZVLQO9M', 'rTecWozVb3dGkWkdUX7ElAgTFWqvWDHk'))
7pprint.pprint(response.json())

1import java.net.*;
23import org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64;
4import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
5import org.apache.http.HttpHeaders;
6import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
7import org.apache.http.client.methods.CloseableHttpResponse;
8import org.apache.http.client.utils.URIBuilder;
9import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
10import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
11import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
1213/**
14* Example of making a GET request to the HouseCanary API
15* using the Apache HTTP library.
16*/17publicclassHCApiGetExample{
1819publicstaticvoidmain(final String[] args){
20try {
21 String host = "api.housecanary.com";
2223// build up the URI with query params24 URI uri = new URIBuilder()
25 .setScheme("https")
26 .setHost(host)
27 .setPath("/v2/property/value")
28 .setParameter("address", "43 Valmonte Plaza")
29 .setParameter("zipcode", "90274")
30 .build();
3132 HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet(uri);
3334 String auth = "test_0TAQAK5ESOFQ1ZVLQO9M" + ":" + "rTecWozVb3dGkWkdUX7ElAgTFWqvWDHk";
35byte[] encodedAuth = Base64.encodeBase64(auth.getBytes());
36 String authHeader = "Basic " + new String(encodedAuth);
37 httpGet.addHeader(HttpHeaders.AUTHORIZATION, authHeader);
3839 CloseableHttpClient httpClient = HttpClients.createDefault();
4041 CloseableHttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(httpGet);
4243try {
44 System.out.println(response.getStatusLine());
4546 HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
47 System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(entity));
4849 EntityUtils.consume(entity);
50 } finally {
51 response.close();
52 }
53return;
5455 } catch (Exception e) {
56 e.printStackTrace();
57 }
58	}
59}

1namespace HouseCanaryAPIGist
2{
3using System;
4using System.Collections.Generic;
5using System.Net;
6using System.Net.Http;
7using System.Net.Http.Headers;
8using System.Text;
910// Example of making a GET request to the HouseCanary API 11// using System.Net.Http.HttpClient.12publicclassHCApiGetExample13	{14publicstaticvoidMain(string[] args)15{
16using (var client = new HttpClient())
17 {
18 client.BaseAddress = new Uri("https://api.housecanary.com");
1920string queryParams;
21using(var content = new FormUrlEncodedContent(new KeyValuePair[]{
22new KeyValuePair("address", "43 Valmonte Plaza"),
23new KeyValuePair("zipcode", "90274")
24 })) {
25 queryParams = content.ReadAsStringAsync().Result;
26 }
2728string url = "/v2/property/value?" + queryParams;
2930 var byteArray = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("test_0TAQAK5ESOFQ1ZVLQO9M:rTecWozVb3dGkWkdUX7ElAgTFWqvWDHk");
31 client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = 32new AuthenticationHeaderValue("Basic", Convert.ToBase64String(byteArray));
3334 HttpResponseMessage response = client.GetAsync(url).GetAwaiter().GetResult();
3536string body = response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().GetAwaiter().GetResult();
3738 Console.WriteLine(body);
39 }
40 }
41	}
42}

1require'http'23url = "https://api.housecanary.com/v2/property/value"45query_params = {
6"address": "43 Valmonte Plaza",
7"zipcode": "90274"8}
910response = HTTP.basic_auth(:user => "test_0TAQAK5ESOFQ1ZVLQO9M", :pass => "rTecWozVb3dGkWkdUX7ElAgTFWqvWDHk")
11.get(url, :params => query_params)
1213puts response.to_s

1library(httr)
23url <- "https://api.housecanary.com/v2/property/value"45query_params <- list(
6address = "43 Valmonte Plaza",
7zipcode = "90274"8)
910r <- GET(
11url,
12authenticate("test_0TAQAK5ESOFQ1ZVLQO9M", "rTecWozVb3dGkWkdUX7ElAgTFWqvWDHk", type = "basic"),
13query = query_params)
1415print(str(content(r)))

1// Example with Node.js23const request = require('request');
4const url = 'https://api.housecanary.com/v2/property/value';
56request.get({
7url: url,
8auth: {
9user: 'test_0TAQAK5ESOFQ1ZVLQO9M',
10pass: 'rTecWozVb3dGkWkdUX7ElAgTFWqvWDHk'11	},
12qs: {
13address: '43 Valmonte Plaza',
14zipcode: '90274'15	} 16}, function (error, response, body) {
17console.log(body);
18});

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