buschbirk / cvrdata

Extract data from danish CVR registry from Danish Business Authority

cvrdata

This is a Python3 package for extracting data from danish CVR registry from Danish Business Authority and inserting in an sql database.

You need to get username and password from the Danish Business Authority to access the data on their servers, alas to use this package for anything.

If you use this script to fetch data for academic purposes please cite it as follows (BibTeX):

@misc{erst_data,
  author = {Allan Gr{\o}nlund and Jesper Sindahl Nielsen},
  title = {Danish {B}usiness {A}uthority {D}ata {F}etcher},
  year = {2017},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/jasn/regnskaber}}
}

Setup

The module can be installed using pip after installing the dependencies mentioned earlier. Run the following command:

pip install git+https://github.com/gronlund/cvrdata

Only works with elasticsearch 6

Command Line Interface

To use the program from the cmd line use

python -m cvrparser <command>

Configuration

To setup database and username and password to use to download from Danish Business Authority servers use

python -m cvrparser reconfigure

Database Tools

To create the database tables use

python -m cvrparser dbsetup -t

Get Data

To update the cvr database run

python -m cvrparser update

Notice that running from an empty database is faster than updating and existing but old version of the data.

To insert DBA registrations run

python -m cvrparser get_regs