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Get company registration data for the State of Delaware.

Project description

It might be nice if it were easy to get data about company registrations. People tell me that this is a bit hard in Delaware. While much information is available through the General Information Name Search site, a single person is only allowed to make so many requests to the site. (I’m not sure of the exact number; this is just what other people tell me.)

In order to download all of the data, we are thus getting a bunch of different people to all download a small piece of the data, staying within the quota that he or she or ze is allowed. You can help!

You just need to install this program and let it keep running. It will periodically contact a central server for directions, and it will query Delaware’s General Information Name Search accordingly. It does a lot of things to check that you are staying within your quota and to avoid crashing Delaware’s server.

Installing

Two ways of installing are explained below.

Standalone installation

For most people

Installing with Pip

For people who know what Python and Pip and terminals are

Standalone installation

I am going to make a package with PyInstaller and put directions here as to how to install it. So this installation method isn’t available yet.

Installing with Pip

If you are used to using a terminal and already have Python and Pip installed, you can just run this command.

pip install delaware

If that gives you an error about permissions, try this command.

sudo pip install delaware

Running

Once you’ve installed the program, type this into a terminal.

delaware

It’ll ask you a few questions the first time you run it, but you can totally ignore it after that.

If errors come up

If the program stops running, please send the error message to _@thomaslevine.com. Also, please don’t delete the ~/.delaware directory, as it contains files that can be helpful for figuring out what went wrong.

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