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I am using geopy.geocoder to get coordinates for a large number of locations. I didn't specify user_agent, I only put my email as a string as "user_agent = 'shuning@xxx.com' ". I successfully got results smoothly this way, but I am wondering what api services I am using.

My main code is here:

from geopy.geocoders import Nominatim

from geopy.exc import GeocoderTimedOut

geolocator = Nominatim(user_agent='shuning@xxx.com')

result = geolocator.geocode(location, timeout = 100)

Thanks a lot!

FrozenAra
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shuningg
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  • The documentation for the class explains and provides a link to the default user agent – Paul H Oct 14 '20 at 15:06
  • Thanks a lot! but what documentation for the class? I am sorry that I don't know where I should go to look for it... – shuningg Oct 14 '20 at 16:46
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    Granted, I've never used geopy. So I typed "geopy documentation" into DuckDuckGo, clicked the link in the first result, expanded the "geocoders" section of the table of contents, clicked on the "Nominatim" section. It was a very quick process. – Paul H Oct 14 '20 at 16:59

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The user agent is not there to request a specific API services, but to tell the Nominatim API who is making the request.

You are sending a request with your the user agent simply so the API can identify the application that is doing the API call.

Edit:

With your use of
from geopy.geocoders import Nominatim
and
geolocator = Nominatim(user_agent='shuning@xxx.com')
you are calling the nominatim API.
The website for that can be found here

You can collect all this information from the docs for GeoPy.
Which you can find here.
You can use different APIs in geopy.
All of the information for that can also be found in the API documentation.

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