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Posted by Isaac Hillaker
Isaac Hillaker
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Automatic City Lookup not working? (On my project or in source page's demo).

Hey, all,

Not super important, but I was playing around with the automatic city lookup tool that Anwar mentioned in the video. However, after linking my JavaScript to my index.html file and ensuring all was linked up correctly, it didn't work. I realized that the source page (which was linked in the teacher's notes) had a link to a demo page, near the bottom of the page. I clicked that to test it out, and it was not working either. I typed in numerous Zip codes and the only ones that would appear were the ones my browser had saved for me (I.e. my address that I have used to autofill many forms online).

I also noticed that the city lookup article in the teacher's notes was written in 2016. Is this tool out of date? I think it seems like a pretty cool tool and would like to know how to use it, but I haven't been able to figure it out.

If anyone knows, that'd be great, thanks!

1 Answer

Anwar Montasir
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Anwar Montasir
Treehouse Teacher
Anwar Montasir
Anwar Montasir
Treehouse Teacher

Hi Isaac, good question. It's very possible the article in the Teacher's Notes is indeed outdated.

There's a demo of this feature using an alternate service, the Ziptastic API.

Type a zip code into the form on the demo page and you'll see the form populated with the corresponding city, state, county, and country.

Reading the source code of the demo should give an idea of how the Ziptastic zip code lookup was set up.