Crunchbase

Crunchbase API Version 3 - Ruby Library CrunchBase Data Hub.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'crunchbase-ruby-library'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install crunchbase-ruby-library

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 Organization OR Person

Retrieve the way, Please use Search Class. The Search Will Return a list consisting of objects of the OrganizationSummary | PersonSummary type. Example:

Query Orgnization

Method 1
response = Crunchbase::Model::Search.search({query: "Google"}, 'organizations')  

Method 2
response = Crunchbase::Model::Search.search({name: "Google"}, 'organizations')  

Method 3
response = Crunchbase::Model::Search.search({domain_name: "google.com"}, 'organizations')  

response.total_items || response.per_page || response.pages || response.current_page
response.results.each { |r| puts r.name }


Query Person

response = Crunchbase::Model::Search.search({query: "encore"}, 'people')  

response.results.each { |i| [i.first_name, i.last_name] }

Get Organization && RelationShips

Get information by the permalink, Example:

response = Crunchbase::Model::Organization.get("facebook")

Relationship objects [ primary_image founders current_team investors owned_by sub_organizations headquarters offices products categories customers competitors members memberships funding_rounds investments acquisitions acquired_by ipo funds websites images videos news ]

response.founders
response.competitors_total_items
response.websites

NOTE: If you want all `past_team` `board_members_and_advisors` items, Please do:

# Methods

past_team = Crunchbase::Model::PastTeam.organization_lists("facebook")
past_team.results.collect { |p| [p.title, p.person.first_name] }

....

Person