Google geocoder script

geocoder

"""

assumes you're feeding it a text file of addresses
spits out a pipe-delimited file of coordinates

"""

import csv
import json
import requests

f = open('output.txt', 'wb')

with open('input.txt', 'rb') as csvfile:
    xreader = csv.reader(csvfile, delimiter="\t")
    for row in xreader:
        row = row[0].replace(" ","+")
        r = requests.get('https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=' + row[0] + '&key=YOUR_API_KEY_HERE')
        j = r.json()
        lat = j['results'][0]['geometry']['location']['lat']
        lng = j['results'][0]['geometry']['location']['lng']
        w = "|".join((str(lat),str(lng)))
        f.write(w + "\n")
        print row
        
f.flush()
f.close()