Business Research: OpenCorporates Releases New Version of API With Many New/Cool Features

OpenCorporates is the largest open database of company information (over 84 million companies) in the world. In addition to accessing the data using an API, OpenCorporates can be searched directly from their web site.
Now, to some info about the released of version 0.4 of the API.
From the OpenCorporates Blog:

The change in our underlying search engine has also allowed us to introduce much more powerful search features to the API…

• search by registered address (yes, at last!)
• search for companies starting with given phrase (e.g. ‘Barclays Bank’)
• filter by multiple jurisdictions (e.g. Ireland and UK)
• filter by country (e.g. US)
• richer filtering of inactive and branch companies
• a new nonprofit filter, to restrict to/exclude companies with a nonprofit company type
• users with API keys can now get addresses (and dates of birth) for directors/officers
• filtering officers by address, date of birth, position or status
• more powerful date searching
• a completely new way of representing industry codes that is far more granular and allows more powerful search filtering

We’ll be rolling many of these features out to the website over the next couple of months, but in the meantime you can already have fun with such searches as:

• Companies with registered address at the Empire State Building: https://api.opencorporates.com/v0.4/companies/search?registered_address=10%20EAST%2039TH%20NEW%20YORK

• Companies with ‘condominium’ in the name in the US and Canada: https://api.opencorporates.com/v0.4/companies/search?q=condominium&country_code=us|ca

• Officers who were born over 105 years ago, but are still active:https://api.opencorporates.com/v0.4/officers/search?date_of_birth=:1910-04-21&inactive=false&your_api_token {requires API token)

• Nonprofit companies in UK and US with ‘political’ in the name and incorporated in 2014: https://api.opencorporates.com/v0.4/companies/search?nonprofit=true&q=political&country_code=gb|us&incorporation_date=2014-01-01:2014-12-31&api_token=your_api_token {requires API token)

• Companies in the UK or Belgium with tax in the title and with the EU industry code for “Accounting, bookkeeping and auditing activities; tax consultancy”: https://api.opencorporates.com/v0.4/companies/search?jurisdiction_code=be|gb&q=tax&industry_codes=eu_nace_2-692&api_token=your_api_token {requires API token)

Additional Info and Background in the Complete Blog Post
API Documentation
Browse Number of Entries (By Jurisdiction)

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