🇫🇷 Get INSEE municipality code

Simply provide the postal code and / or name of a French municipality and get the most likely INSEE municipality code

Installation

yarn add insee-municipality-code

or

npm i --save insee-municipality-code

Usage

import InseeCode from "insee-municipality-code"

InseeCode.getCode({ postalCode: "14710", name: "Colombières" }) // "14168"
InseeCode.getCode({ name: "Collonbier", postalCode: "15710" }) // "14168"
InseeCode.getCode({ name: "Lyon" }) // "69381"
InseeCode.getMunicipality("14168") // { postalCode: "14710", name: "COLOMBIERES" }
InseeCode.getMunicipality("96501") // null

Api

Method	arguments	returned value	throws
getCode	params: { postalCode: string? | number?, name: string? }	string: the most likely Insee code regarding your input	will throw if both params are empty
getMunicipality	string, params: { postalCode: string? | number? }?	{ postalCode: string, name: string }?: the corresponding city (if it exists).1	will throw if insee code is not well formated (`/(\d{2}

¹The second argument is optional and used to help decide which postalCode to return when the city corresponding to the Insee code has many options. e.g. : Saint-Maur-des-Fossés has Insee code 94068 and postal codes 94100 and 94210.

Dependencies

• fuse.js : http://fusejs.io/

Limitations

This package loads in memory the name and postal code of 39k+ French towns. You should probably not try to send this package client side.

Contributing

Please fork this package, and run

yarn install
yarn test

Issues

Something is not working as expected? Some result is wrong? Documentation is missing? You need a different feature / API? Please file an issue, we'll be in touch.

References

(in French)

• https://public.opendatasoft.com/explore/dataset/correspondance-code-insee-code-postal/

Financial Support

Gofer 🤝 (the human-centric work-on-demand solution) is the main support of this package.