📍 GeoNames Places + Postal Codes Scraper

🚀 Pull populated places, admin divisions, and postal codes from GeoNames: lat/lng, hierarchy, population, timezone, alternate names.

The GeoNames Places + Postal Codes Scraper pulls reference geographic data from GeoNames, the most-cited open gazetteer worldwide. Output includes the geonameId, place name (in the requested language), country, full administrative hierarchy with stable codes, latitude/longitude, population, elevation, timezone, and feature classification.

GeoNames covers 12+ million populated places plus 4M+ alternate names, every official administrative division, and country postal codes. Three modes: search by name, list children of a country/admin division, or pull postal codes by country. Use cases include localized dropdowns, address autocomplete, geo-aware search, and OPAC integrations.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Travel platforms, e-commerce checkout, address autocomplete, geo-search, GIS engineers, journalists	Country/state/city dropdowns, postal-code validation, geo-aware search, fact-card population, alt-name disambiguation

📋 What the GeoNames Places + Postal Codes Scraper does

Five filtering workflows in a single run:

• 🔍 Search by name. Match populated places by name with optional country and feature-class filter.
• 🗺️ Admin hierarchy. List every populated place under a country, with admin1/2/3 codes.
• 📮 Postal codes. Pull every postal code in a country with city + admin attribution.
• 🌐 Multilingual names. Place names in 20+ languages with lang parameter.
• 📊 Rich metadata. Population, elevation, timezone, feature class for every record.

💡 Why it matters: clean, server-side filtering and fresh data on every run.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: adminName1, adminName2, countryCode, countryName, featureClass, featureCode, geonameId, lat, lng, name, population, postalCode, timezoneId. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Find the GeoNames Places + Postal Codes Scraper on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Pick filters and maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start.
5. 📥 Download. Grab results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by GeoNames or any contributing geographic-data provider. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available open data is collected.

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