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They automagically figure out what country the card is from so they can set the numeric/alphanumeric postal code. Can I get that BIN list from somewhere so I c

They automagically figure out what country the card is from so they can set the numeric/alphanumeric postal code. Can I get that BIN list from somewhere so I can use this even if I'm not submitting to stripe?

legojoey17 9y ago
That either takes a lot of time (and volume) to gather on card usage because it's not available as a list from Visa and co, or you require certain processing rights to access and can't share it due to confidentiality. I forget the details, but I'm pretty sure it's the former, so it's not exactly easy -- which is yet another testament to how much work goes on behind such a seemingly simple new product.
- legojoey17 9y ago
  That's speaking from experience though, I didn't mean to be dismissive of the request of the OP. If there happens to a group who collects this and is able to share this through legal loopholes, power be to them!
sah2ed 9y ago
There's BIN list. https://binlist.net https://binlist.net https://github.com/binlist/data https://github.com/binlist/data
- voiper1 9y ago
  Most bin lists haven't been very accurate or able to be scraped. Looks like the tracker is pretty active. I'll have to check it out. Thanks!
- voiper1 9y ago
  ... it says the github repo "constitutes roughly 2 % of the data." So, not very much is open source?
hiharryhere 9y ago
This is actually quite annoying. I have some Chase cards from when I lived in the US that now have UK billing addresses and therefore alphanumeric postal codes. It's not uncommon for these to be unusable online because the form expects me to have a US address/numeric zip code. I know I'm an edge case, but it's surprising how often sites over-validate form data and exclude all sorts of things like telephone country codes, non-US states, shorter zips etc.