BLZ—Bankleitzahlen in Ruby

Description

BLZ or Bankleitzahlen is a bank identifier code system used by German and Austrian banks (see Wikipedia).

This gem provides for searching and returning the information represented by the BLZ, such as the name of the bank etc.

Installation

$ gem install blz

Command line tools

I provided a command line tool to search for BLZ:

blz exact 70150000

70150000, Stadtsparkasse M

Or search for BIC matches:

blz bic SSKMDE

70150000, Stadtsparkasse M

Or use substring matches:

blz match 4945

49450120, Sparkasse Herford, 32045 Herford, WLAHDE44XXX
49450120, Sparkasse Herford, 32285 R

Or find by city (rather uncommon, but useful):

blz city M

Downloads

You can download the current list of BLZ (free of charge) from the German Bundesbank.

The Bundesbank releases a new list every three months. The last part of the version number of this gem mirrors the last date the provided data is valid.

Now go and build your own BLZ gem ;-)

Contributors

• dmke
• max-power

License

Released under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for further details.