The Housecanary Ruby Gem

Ruby wrapper for the HouseCanary Data & Analytics API. https://www.housecanary.com/real-estate-data-api

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'housecanary-ruby'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install housecanary-ruby

Configuration

You can pass configuration options as a block:

Housecanary.configure do |config|
    config.api_key = 'your_api_key'
    config.api_secret = 'your_api_secret'
end

Usage

Sales History

Search sales and ownership transfer history. Original documentation.

Example:

sales = Housecanary.properties.sales_history(address: '000 Some Street', zipcode: '01234', limit: '1')

If sales information is found, the sales will contain Housecanary::API::SalesHistory object. sales.result will contain an array of Housecanary::API::Sale objects.

=> #<Housecanary::API::SalesHistory:0x007fa0dd2f3d18
 @api_code=0,
 @api_code_description="ok",
 @result=
  [#<Housecanary::API::Sale:0x007fa0dd2f3b60
    @amount=00.0,
    @apn="000-00-0000",
    @event_type="event_type",
    @fips="11111",
    @grantee_1="Grantee1",
    @grantee_1_forenames="Grantee1forenames",
    @grantee_2=nil,
    @grantee_2_forenames=nil,
    @grantor_1="Grantor1",
    @grantor_1_forenames="Grantor1forenames",
    @grantor_2="",
    @record_book="0000",
    @record_date="1999-01-01",
    @record_doc="00000",
    @record_page="0000">]

Exception Handling

If Housecanary will return anything different from 200 OK status code, Housecanary::Error will be raised. It contains #message and #code returned from API.

For example with invalid credentials you will receive:

sales = Housecanary.properties.sales_history(address: '000 Some Street', zipcode: '01234')
#=> Housecanary::Error::Unauthorized: Invalid credentials

Or with invalid zipcode:

sales = Housecanary.properties.sales_history( address: '000 Sample', zipcode: '0')
#=> Housecanary::Error::BadRequest: not a valid value for dictionary value @ data[0]['zipcode']

Credits

Sponsored by JetRockets.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.