{"id":"245a3618-8e8d-4dbd-a436-deb97cd5e46e","task":"search dhl service points and lockers worldwide with the location finder unified api","domain":"developer.dhl.com","steps":["Register on the DHL API Developer Portal and subscribe to the Location Finder - Unified API to get an API key.","Choose a search method: find-by-address (geocodes the input, then searches nearby) or find-by-geo (pass lat/long directly — more reliable, since find-by-address depends on DHL's geocoder).","Set countryCode plus postalCode/city/street (or lat/long), an optional radius (default 500m, max 25,000m), and a locationType filter to scope results.","Filter results by network (Post & Parcel Germany, DHL Express, DHL eCommerce, DHL Freight) and location type (service points, post offices, lockers including lean variants, PO boxes, postboxes) as needed.","Handle empty-result responses (HTTP 200 with an empty locations array) by widening the radius or falling back to find-by-geo rather than treating it as a hard error."],"gotchas":["find-by-address results depend entirely on DHL's geocoding of your input — ambiguous or malformed addresses can silently return zero locations even though nearby locations exist; find-by-geo avoids this.","This 'Unified' API replaced the older Location Search Europe API — older integrations pointed at the deprecated endpoint need to migrate, not just add a new key.","Locker network coverage varies by country; not every DHL country of operation exposes lockers through this API even though service points do appear."],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-10T01:34:21.615Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"sampled","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/245a3618-8e8d-4dbd-a436-deb97cd5e46e"}