GoogleMaps API -address to coordinates (latitude,longitude)

Question

This is driving me crazy. I have deleted this key 1000 times so far. Yesterday it worked like a charm, today not anymore Here is the python code:

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Answer 1

Since September 2013, Google Maps API v2 no longer works. Here is the code working for API v3 (based on this answer):

import urllib
import simplejson

googleGeocodeUrl = 'http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?'

def get_coordinates(query, from_sensor=False):
    query = query.encode('utf-8')
    params = {
        'address': query,
        'sensor': "true" if from_sensor else "false"
    }
    url = googleGeocodeUrl + urllib.urlencode(params)
    json_response = urllib.urlopen(url)
    response = simplejson.loads(json_response.read())
    if response['results']:
        location = response['results'][0]['geometry']['location']
        latitude, longitude = location['lat'], location['lng']
        print query, latitude, longitude
    else:
        latitude, longitude = None, None
        print query, ""
    return latitude, longitude

See official documentation for the complete list of parameters and additional information.