zips 

Light, fast, tree-based way to get cities by zipcode and location.

``bash
npm install zips
`

`javascript
const zips = require("zips");
`

U.S. postal codes only. For now.

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If zipcode is found, returns a place object with zipcode, city, state, lat, long. Returns null if zipcode not found.

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Returns the closest place object to the specified coordinates.

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zips doesn't load its data until the first time a function is called. The longest loading time I've seen is 100ms. After that, sub-millisecond returns can be expected.

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I saw a lot of zip database modules on npm, but I was displeased with three aspects:

- Old data (zips uses US Postcode data from geonames.org, the most up-to-date I could find).
- Huge, raw data (zips' data is pre-processed so it can just load and go).
- List searching (zips organizes its data into trees instead of going down a list until a match is found or a large hash table).

I hope you're happy too.

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1. Download US.zip from GeoNames Postcodes Download Server
1. Extract US.txt to root.
1. npm run update`.

Last update: 2023-02-03