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FindResidents

Retrieves the names of any people who can be found to be living at an address.

Live Demo

To connect to this service you'll need to use one of these endpoints:

JSON
Open API
SOAP

Description

Gets a list of all the people known to be resident at an address.

Note that the list returned may not be complete as some residents may have opted out of the edited electoral roll, and may not be present on the other data sources used to supplement the electoral roll.

Credit Usage

Each request to this method consumes 1 NameAppend credit.

Parameters

The following parameters can be supplied to this method

username

username

See the available authentication methods. If you are using username & password authentication, specify the username to authenticate as. If you are using API Key authentication and you are not using the JSON, Javascript or ADO APIs, use your API Key here with the prefix apikey-, e.g. apikey-ABCD-1234-EFGH-5678
password

password

If you are using username & password authentication, specify the password to use for authentication. Otherwise leave this blank.
address

address

Contains the address lines to get the people from.

Advanced Options

The following options can be specified as part of the option parameter. Each option is specified as a key/value pair. The list of available names is shown below, along with a description of the allowable values for that name.

Common Options
Name Description
ApplicationName

ApplicationName

Gives the name of the calling application - used to break down usage by application in the usage reports on the dashboard

Results

This method returns an object containing the following fields:

Status

Status

Indicates whether the method call was successful, or if some error occurred. If the Success field is true, the other results described below can be used to get the results of the method. If Success is false, some error occurred in calling the method, such as the authentication failed or the account is out of credits. The details of the error can be obtained from the ErrorMessage field, and any other results should be ignored
Results

Results

A list of names that were found at the supplied address.

Live Demo

address

Lines

Sorry, this parameter type is not currently supported in Live Demo
options
Name Value
Common Options

Sample Code