/onthemarket/locations/search

POST /api/onthemarket/locations/search

Price: 1 credit

Resolve a location name (town, district, postcode or station) into OnTheMarket location identifiers. Returns matches with location_id, name, location_type and the parent area. Feed location_id into the onthemarket/properties/search endpoint.

How to use it

Type-ahead resolver for OnTheMarket locations. Pass a keyword (town, district, postcode or station) and get matches, each with location_id (e.g. bath, central-bath, bath-and-north-east-somerset), name, location_type (town, locality, neighbourhood, local-authority, postcode) and parent. Use the location_id with onthemarket/properties/search and onthemarket/agents/search.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• keyword string required — Location text to resolve: town, district, postcode or station (examples: "Bath", "SW6", "BA1 2LR", "Victoria Station"; minLength: 1)
• search_type string — Which listing channel the location should be resolved for. (default: "for-sale"; one of: "for-sale", "to-rent", "new-homes")
• count integer required — Max number of matches to return (min: 1)

Response

• @type string (default: "OnthemarketLocation")
• location_id string required
• name string nullable
• location_type string nullable
• parent string nullable

Errors

• 422 — The request body did not validate Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.
• 408 — The request ran past its time limit Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.
• 412 — The entity was not found, or a precondition failed Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.
• 429 — Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.
• 500 — Something broke on our side Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.
• 529 — Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

Response headers

• X-Error — Error message text (present only on error)
• X-Request-ID — Unique request identifier
• X-Execution-Time — Execution time in seconds
• X-Result-Count — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.
• X-Total-Available-Results — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.
• X-Warning — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.
• X-Retry-After — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.