The contact-data gem

Retrieves information about people and organizations from http://public.xenapto.com

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'contact-data'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install contact-data

Examples:

ContactData.search 'John Smith III'

Or you can create an instance if you need to call it several times

contact_data = ContactData::Contact.new

['John Smith', 'Example Inc.', 'Crazy Ventures LLC'].each do |name|
  contact_data.search name
end

ContactData will make an intelligent guess at the type of the name but it's not infallible. ContactData likes it if you tell it whether the name is a person or an organization:

contact_data = ContactData::Contact.new 'Di Doo Doo d.o.o.', contact_type: :organization
contact_data.search

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

1. Thanks to Ryan Bigg for the guide to making your first gem https://github.com/radar/guides/blob/master/gem-development.md