vat-validator 0.1.1

VAT validation library

vat-validator

Pythonic VAT validation library 🌍💳✅

Features

• Offline VAT code validation using country specific regular expressions and checksum algorithms;

• Online validation for European Union VAT codes using VIES webservice;

• VAT code sanitization;

• Fully annotated with type hints, for a better IDE and mypy development experience;

• Tested and validated against 1697 different VAT codes.

Getting started

Instalation

vat-validator is distributed as standard pip library, and can be installed by running:

pip install vat-validator

To install the latest development version directly from git:

pip install git+git://github.com/ajcerejeira/vat-validator.git

Usage

>>> from vat_validator import validate_vat, countries_where_vat_is_valid
>>> validate_vat('PT', 'PT 502 011 378')
True
>>> countries_where_vat_is_valid('502 011 378')
['PT']

>>> from vat_validator.vies import check_vat
>>> check_vat('PT', '502 011 378')
CheckVATResult(country_code='PT', vat='502011378', request_date=datetime.date(2019, 6, 8), valid=True, name='UNIVERSIDADE DO MINHO', address='LG DO PACO\nBRAGA\n4700-320 BRAGA')

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome! Please check the CONTRIBUTING file for contribution guidelines.

License

This software is distrubuted under MIT license. See the LICENSE file for details.