Lookup City and State by Zip Google Geocode Api

Question

I basically want to retrieve a list of city and state within a zipcode. Is Google's Geocode API capable of doing so? I've tried looking into the documentation but found the information overwhelming.

Any help would be appreciated. If there is another method of accomplishing such task, please let me know.

Thanks

EDIT: I was able to retrieve the City and State through: http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?output=xml&q=14606 but is there a limitation against that?

Answer 1

Use the GeoCoding API

For example, to lookup zip 77379 use a request like this:

https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=77379&sensor=true&key=YOUR_GOOGLE_PLATFORM_API_KEY