How to Batch Geocode with ArcGIS Online using Python?

[TimothyJohnston]

I am trying to figure out how to batch geocode a table of addresses using the ArcGIS Online World Geocoder using Python.  I have an enterprise account. I don't get any errors when I run my script. The result is a point FeatureClass with all the input records but they all have a null shape so nothing displays on a map.  Here is my python code:

import arcpy
from arcpy import env

env.workspace = "C:/TestData/Geocode.gdb" 

try:
  arcpy.SignInToPortal_server("<my arcgis online enterprise userid>", "<my password>", "http://www.arcgis.com/")

  in_table = r"MYTABLE"

  # ArcGIS Online Locator found in ArcCatalog
  locator = r"Ready-To-Use Services/Geocoding/World.GeocodeServer"

  out_table = r"GEOCODE_RESULTS"

  fields = r"Address Address;City City;Region State;Postal Zip"

  arcpy.GeocodeAddresses_geocoding(in_table, locator, fields, out_table, "STATIC")
except Exception as e: 
  print e.message
  arcpy.AddError(e.message)

[TimothyJohnston · Accepted solution]

I discovered the answer on github.  Hopefully this will help someone else with the same question.

https://github.com/deelesh/batch-geocoding-python

http://proceedings.esri.com/library/userconf/devsummit13/papers/devsummit-183.pdf

[Anish_Adhikari]

I tried the github code and I am consistently getting errors with the last function which does the actual geocoding. I have tested and retested and it creates output geodatabase and Arcgis online connection fine(see screenshot). The only thing I have added on the code part is adding my arcgis online credentials.

This is the error I am getting

>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python27\ArcGIS10.4\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin\framework\scriptutils.py", line 326, in RunScript
exec codeObject in __main__.__dict__
File "C:\GIS_Data\geocode\BatchGeocoding.py", line 56, in <module>
output_feature_class)
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcGIS\Desktop10.4\ArcPy\arcpy\geocoding.py", line 220, in GeocodeAddresses
raise e
ExecuteError: ERROR 000010: Geocode addresses failed.
Failed to execute (GeocodeAddresses).

>>>

Any ideas?

[BruceHarold]

You can try this tool in ArcGIS Pro, there is also the arcgis Python API you can use in a Jupyter notebook, for example this example.

[Anish_Adhikari]

Thank You Bruce, 

I ended up creating a model in Arcmap and exported it as a Python script and it is working so far.