Get location coordinates using bing or google API in python

Question

Here is my problem. I have a sample text file where I store the text data by crawling various html pages. This text contains information about various events and its time an

Answer 1

Since September 2013, Google Maps API v2 no longer works. Here is an updated version of great @jimhark's code, working for API v3 (I left out the __main__ part):

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.