Difi

The Norwegian government has started publishing a lot of data through a central API. Information can be found at http://data.norge.no/

This gem makes use of the public APIs to provide easy access to public data.

Such as the Business Registry.

As a bonus, the Difi gem provides Zip codes as maintained by Erik Bolstad: http://www.erikbolstad.no/geo/noreg/postnummer/

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'difi'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install difi

Usage

Example: search the Norwegian Business Registry for a given Business (Voit AS):

Brreg::Enhetsregisteret.search query: "Voit AS"
=> {"entries"=>
  [{"nkode2"=>"",
    "nkode1"=>"62.020",
    "tlf_mobil"=>"",
    "organisasjonsform"=>"AS",
    "ppoststed"=>"",
    "tvangsavvikling"=>"N",
    "forretningsadr"=>"Lyngveien 5",
    "regifriv"=>"N",
    "orgnr"=>"811754862",
    "forradrland"=>"Norge",
    "stiftelsesdato"=>"25.02.2013",
    "forradrkommnr"=>"1805",
    "konkurs"=>"N",
    "regdato"=>"30.03.2013",
    "avvikling"=>"N",
    "regifr"=>"J",
    "forradrpoststed"=>"NARVIK",
    "ppostland"=>"",
    "forradrkommnavn"=>"NARVIK",
    "forradrpostnr"=>"8514",
    "navn"=>"VOIT AS",
    "regnskap"=>"",
    "url"=>"",
    "sektorkode"=>"2100",
    "regimva"=>"J",
    "ppostnr"=>"",
    "postadresse"=>"",
    "nkode3"=>"",
    "regiaa"=>"J",
    "tlf"=>""}],
 "page"=>1,
 "pages"=>1,
 "posts"=>1}

The result is a Hash with the complete public information about the business. This is collected from the public JSON API at http://hotell.difi.no/

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

I would love some help on extending the API support.