liftforward / fullcontact-api-ruby

A Ruby wrapper for the FullContact API

FullContact Ruby Gem

A Ruby wrapper for the FullContact API

Changes

• 0.10.0 - Support for FullContact Company API
• 0.9.0 - Removed Rash gem and replaced with Mashify + Plisskin
• 0.8.2 - Fix for 0.8.0 constant resolution issue.
• 0.8.0
  • Hashie now allowed from [2.2, 4.0) to support a wide range of other applications
  • Default useragent includes version number for our own information
  • Useless XML mode and dep on multi_xml removed
  • Code reformatting & basic code hygiene, prep for new features in 0.9.0
• 0.7.0 - Faraday 0.9.0
• 0.6.0 - Removal of timeoutSeconds parameter. This parameter is automatically stripped from your request if included.

Installation

gem install fullcontact

Documentation

http://rdoc.info/gems/fullcontact

Usage Examples

    require "fullcontact"

    # This could go in an initializer
    FullContact.configure do |config|
        config.api_key = "fullcontact_api_key_goes_here"
    end
	
    # Get information about an email address
    person = FullContact.person(email: "[email protected]")
    
    # Get information about an email address, organized by hashes vs. lists
    person2 = FullContact.person(email: "[email protected]", style: "dictionary")
    
    # You can pass in any arbitrary parameters the Person API supports
    person3 = FullContact.person(email: "[email protected]", style: "dictionary", webhookUrl: "https://...")
    
    # Get information about a twitter handle
    person4 = FullContact.person(twitter: "brawest")

    # Get information about a facebook username
    person5 = FullContact.person(facebookUsername: "bart.lorang")
    
    # Get information from a phone number
    person6 = FullContact.person(phone:[phone])

    # Get information about a company
    company1 = FullContact.company(domain: 'fullcontact.com')
    
    # Get information about a twitter and ensure a 30s socket open timeout and a 15s socket read timeout
    # Can throw a Faraday::Error::TimeoutError if timeouts are exceeded
    person7 = FullContact.person({:twitter => "brawest"}, {:request => {:timeout => 15, :open_timeout => 30}})

    # Get person's family_name
    puts person.contact_info.family_name

Contributions

• Michael Rose (Xorlev)
• Brandon West (bwest)
• Ian Fisher (i-taptera)
• Scott Watermasysk (scottwater)
• Stefano Fontanelli (stefanofontanelli)
• John Bachir (jjb)

License

Copyright (c) 2014 FullContact Inc. and contributors

See LICENSE for details.