igsearch

Igsearch

This is a Ruby gem that makes it easier to talk to the Infogroup API.

The Infogroup API lets you search for people or businesess based on criteria that would be useful for conducting sales activity.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'igsearch'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install igsearch

Usage

1. Configure an API Key

Igsearch.configure do |config| config.apikey = ENV["INFOCONNECT_API_KEY"] end

1. Use the API

person = Igsearch::Person.search({ :FirstName => "William", :LastName => "Gates", :City => "Redmond", :StateProvince => "WA" }).first # .search returns an array

=> {"ETag"=>"bd62003e", "Id"=>"601223668643", "Links"=>[{"Href"=>"/v1/people/601223668643", "Rel"=>"self"}], "Address"=>"1 Microsoft Way Bldg 3", "AddressParsed"=>{"Name"=>"Microsoft", "Number"=>"1", "Suffix"=>"Way", "UnitNumber"=>"3", "UnitType"=>"Bldg"}, "City"=>"Redmond", "FirstName"=>"William", "LastName"=>"Gates", "Location"=>{"Latitude"=>47.639661, "Longitude"=>-122.130606}, "MiddleInitial"=>"H", "PostalCode"=>"98052", "StateProvince"=>"WA"}

1. There is no step 3

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/hayksaakian/igsearch/fork )
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 a new Pull Request