Zip / Postal Code Scraper 🌍📮

Look up any postal / zip code and get the place name, state, latitude and longitude — for 60+ countries. Or reverse it: give a city and get every postcode inside it. Fast, free data source, no API key, works on datacenter proxies (or none at all).

Perfect for address validation, geocoding, logistics & routing, shipping-form autofill, and enriching customer records — at a fraction of the cost of paid geocoding APIs.

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✨ What it does

Two modes, one Actor:

Mode	You give	You get
postcodes	Country + list of zip/postal codes	One row per place: place_name, state, state_code, latitude, longitude
cities (reverse)	Country + state code + list of city names	One row per postcode inside that city, with coordinates

Coverage spans 60+ countries — US, DE, GB, FR, ES, IT, NL, CA, AU, BR, IN, MX, and many more. Country codes are the usual 2-letter ISO codes (us, de, gb, ...).

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🚀 Quick start

Postcodes → places

{
  "mode": "postcodes",
  "country": "us",
  "postcodes": ["90210", "10001"],
  "maxItems": 100
}

Sample output row:

{
  "country": "United States",
  "country_code": "US",
  "post_code": "90210",
  "place_name": "Beverly Hills",
  "state": "California",
  "state_code": "CA",
  "latitude": 34.0901,
  "longitude": -118.4065,
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-03T00:00:00+00:00"
}

City → postcodes (reverse)

{
  "mode": "cities",
  "country": "us",
  "state": "CA",
  "cities": ["Los Angeles"],
  "maxItems": 500
}

Sample output row:

{
  "country": "United States",
  "country_code": "US",
  "state": "California",
  "city": "Los Angeles",
  "post_code": "90001",
  "place_name": "Los Angeles",
  "latitude": 33.9731,
  "longitude": -118.2479,
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-03T00:00:00+00:00"
}

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⚙️ Input reference

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	select	postcodes	postcodes (codes → places) or cities (city → codes, reverse).
country	string	us	2-letter lowercase ISO country code.
postcodes	array	["90210","10001"]	Zip/postal codes to look up (used in postcodes mode).
state	string	—	State / region code, e.g. CA (required in cities mode).
cities	array	["Los Angeles"]	City names to reverse-look-up (used in cities mode).
maxItems	integer	100	Max output rows. Hard-capped at 1000.

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📦 Output

Clean, flat JSON — one item per place/postcode, ready to export to JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML, or via API. Every field is nullable, so downstream schemas never break on missing data.

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💸 Pricing

Roughly ~$0.50 per 1,000 input lookups in platform usage — dramatically cheaper than commercial geocoding APIs that charge per request with monthly minimums. You only pay for the compute you use; there are no data-source fees or API keys.

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🆚 Why this vs. a paid geocoding API?

	This Actor	Typical paid geocoder
API key	❌ none	✅ required
Monthly minimum	❌ none	💰 often
Reverse city → postcodes	✅ built-in	⚠️ rarely
Cost per 1k	~$0.50	$$$
Export CSV/Excel/JSON/API	✅	varies

Great when you need bulk, batch postal-code enrichment rather than real-time single lookups.

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🎯 Use cases

• Address validation — confirm a zip belongs to the claimed city/state.
• Geocoding — turn postal codes into latitude/longitude for maps and distance math.
• Logistics & routing — build coverage areas, assign delivery zones, plan routes.
• Signup & checkout forms — autofill city/state from a zip; reverse-suggest zips for a city.
• CRM / data enrichment — append coordinates and region names to customer records.

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🔗 Related Actors by this author

• 🧭 Geocoding Scraper — addresses ⇄ coordinates.
• 🌐 Countries Data Scraper — country facts, currencies, languages.
• 📍 IP Geolocation Scraper — locate IP addresses.
• ☀️ Weather Scraper — forecasts by location.

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🛟 Support

Questions, a country that misbehaves, or a feature request? Open an issue on the Actor page or contact the author through Apify. Response is usually within one business day.

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🔎 Keywords

zip code scraper · postal code lookup · postcode api · zip to lat long · city to zip code · geocoding · address validation · reverse postal lookup · zippopotam · postal code database · zip code coordinates · logistics data