How to validate a VAT number in Python
Let’s take a quick look at how to apply a Cloudmersive API to validation of VAT numbers. For Python users, the first step is to add the API client to your pip installer:
pip install git+https://github.com/Cloudmersive/Cloudmersive.APIClient.Python.Validate.gitNext we call the function vat_vat_lookup:
from __future__ import print_function
import time
import cloudmersive_validate_api_client
from cloudmersive_validate_api_client.rest import ApiException
from pprint import pprint# Configure API key authorization: Apikey
configuration = cloudmersive_validate_api_client.Configuration()
configuration.api_key['Apikey'] = 'YOUR_API_KEY'
# Uncomment below to setup prefix (e.g. Bearer) for API key, if needed
# configuration.api_key_prefix['Apikey'] = 'Bearer'# create an instance of the API class
api_instance = cloudmersive_validate_api_client.VatApi(cloudmersive_validate_api_client.ApiClient(configuration))
input = cloudmersive_validate_api_client.VatLookupRequest() # VatLookupRequest | Input VAT codetry:
# Lookup a VAT code
api_response = api_instance.vat_vat_lookup(input)
pprint(api_response)
except ApiException as e:
print("Exception when calling VatApi->vat_vat_lookup: %s\n" % e)
And boom, we are done. The function will return a bevy of useful information about the VAT number in question along with its validity: the name of the company, its physical address, and the code of the country in which it is located.
