Library for pulling data from the CrunchBase Version 2 API.
MIT License
= Crunchbase API Version 2
Ruby API wrapper for Crunchbase API doc.
If you are using Crunchbase Version 3.0 API, Please use crunchbase-ruby-library
== Installation
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'crunchbase_v2'
And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install crunchbase_v2
== Usage Examples
Config your user_key, debug somewhere like development.rb, Recommended directory config/initializers/crunchbase.rb
require 'crunchbase'
Crunchbase::API.key = 'user_key' Crunchbase::API.debug = false
=== Search
Searching the Crunchbase is possible with the Search class, The Search will return a list consisting of objects of the SearchResult type.
response = Crunchbase::Search.search("facebook") OR response = Crunchbase::Search.search({ domain_name: 'facebook.com' }, 'organizations') response.total_items || response.per_page || response.pages || response.current_page all_results = response.results all_results.each { |r| puts r.name }
=== Organizations && RelationShip List Items
Get information by the permalink, Example:
response = Crunchbase::Organization.get("facebook")
Relationship objects [ competitors customers founders funding_rounds ipos products sub_organizations, acquisitions ]
response.competitors Only return Top 8 items
response.competitors_total_items Return competitors total items count
response.competitors.each do |e|
competitor = (a.fetch ||
puts competitor.name
end
OR
Friendly relationship objects [ past_teams current_teams offices headquarters categories investments primary_images images websites new_items board_members_and_advisors ]
response.websites
If you want all competitors items, Please do:
response = Crunchbase::Competitor.lists_for_permalink(response.permalink)
response.per_page
response.current_page
response.size
response.results Return all competitors items
=== People
person = Crunchbase::Person.get( permalink )
#<Crunchbase::Person:0x007fc95bca3880 @type_name="Person" ..... >
people = Crunchbase::Person.list( page )
people.results
[ #<Crunchbase::SearchResult:0x007fd16ae18b40 ...>, #<Crunchbase::SearchResult:0x007fd16ae18870 ...>, #<Crunchbase::SearchResult:0x007fd16ae185a0 ...>, #<Crunchbase::SearchResult:0x007fd16ae182f8 ...> ...... ]
=== How to use Location & Category ....
Such as a Person
== Contributing
Contributions are welcome. Note that in order to run the test suite, you need to include an API key in +spec/apikey.yml+. This file is ignored by git. An example file is provided for convenience.
== Copyright
Copyright © 2014-08 Encore Shao. See LICENSE for details.