Mtaa API Documentation

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Data No Auth Free & Open open_data location

Mtaa A simple REST API to access Tanzania's location information,With mtaa API you can easily query and integrate all the location in tanzania from region level to streets from your programming language of your your choice

Authentication

No authentication requiredFree to use with no key needed.

Sample Requests

GET Returns all regions present in Tanzania

Fetches all regions present in Tanzania and then return a response as json

https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/mtaa-api.herokuapp.com/1.0/{country}

Hover any highlighted part to learn what it does

curl -X GET "https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/mtaa-api.herokuapp.com/1.0/{country}"

import requests
response = requests.get(
    "https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/mtaa-api.herokuapp.com/1.0/{country}",
)
print(response.json())

const url = 'https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/mtaa-api.herokuapp.com/1.0/{country}';

const response = await fetch(url); 
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	targetURL := "https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/mtaa-api.herokuapp.com/1.0/{country}"
	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", targetURL, nil)

	client := &http.Client{}
	resp, _ := client.Do(req)
	defer resp.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
	fmt.Println(string(body))
}

require "net/http"
require "json"

uri = URI("https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/mtaa-api.herokuapp.com/1.0/{country}")

http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
http.use_ssl = uri.scheme == "https"

req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri)

res = http.request(req)
puts JSON.parse(res.body)

<?php
$url = "https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/mtaa-api.herokuapp.com/1.0/{country}";
$opts = ["http" => [
    "method" => "GET",
]];
$ctx = stream_context_create($opts);
$res = file_get_contents($url, false, $ctx);
print_r(json_decode($res, true));

GET Returns all districts in region

Returns a post code and all districts in a specified region

https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/mtaa-api.herokuapp.com/1.0/{country}/{region}

Hover any highlighted part to learn what it does

curl -X GET "https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/mtaa-api.herokuapp.com/1.0/{country}/{region}"

import requests
response = requests.get(
    "https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/mtaa-api.herokuapp.com/1.0/{country}/{region}",
)
print(response.json())

const url = 'https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/mtaa-api.herokuapp.com/1.0/{country}/{region}';

const response = await fetch(url); 
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	targetURL := "https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/mtaa-api.herokuapp.com/1.0/{country}/{region}"
	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", targetURL, nil)

	client := &http.Client{}
	resp, _ := client.Do(req)
	defer resp.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
	fmt.Println(string(body))
}

require "net/http"
require "json"

uri = URI("https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/mtaa-api.herokuapp.com/1.0/{country}/{region}")

http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
http.use_ssl = uri.scheme == "https"

req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri)

res = http.request(req)
puts JSON.parse(res.body)

<?php
$url = "https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/mtaa-api.herokuapp.com/1.0/{country}/{region}";
$opts = ["http" => [
    "method" => "GET",
]];
$ctx = stream_context_create($opts);
$res = file_get_contents($url, false, $ctx);
print_r(json_decode($res, true));

GET Returns all wards in a district

Returns all wards in a specified district and district postcode

https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/mtaa-api.herokuapp.com/1.0/{country}/{region}/{district}

Hover any highlighted part to learn what it does

curl -X GET "https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/mtaa-api.herokuapp.com/1.0/{country}/{region}/{district}"

import requests
response = requests.get(
    "https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/mtaa-api.herokuapp.com/1.0/{country}/{region}/{district}",
)
print(response.json())

const url = 'https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/mtaa-api.herokuapp.com/1.0/{country}/{region}/{district}';

const response = await fetch(url); 
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	targetURL := "https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/mtaa-api.herokuapp.com/1.0/{country}/{region}/{district}"
	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", targetURL, nil)

	client := &http.Client{}
	resp, _ := client.Do(req)
	defer resp.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
	fmt.Println(string(body))
}

require "net/http"
require "json"

uri = URI("https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/mtaa-api.herokuapp.com/1.0/{country}/{region}/{district}")

http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
http.use_ssl = uri.scheme == "https"

req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri)

res = http.request(req)
puts JSON.parse(res.body)

<?php
$url = "https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/mtaa-api.herokuapp.com/1.0/{country}/{region}/{district}";
$opts = ["http" => [
    "method" => "GET",
]];
$ctx = stream_context_create($opts);
$res = file_get_contents($url, false, $ctx);
print_r(json_decode($res, true));

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What can you build with Mtaa API Documentation?

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enriching your app with third-party datasets
building data pipelines and ETL workflows
querying and searching large datasets
powering research, analysis, and reporting tools
syncing reference data into your own systems

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