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Alessandro Binda

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I built a complete developer ecosystem around 250M company records — here are all the free tools

Every developer tool I ship follows one rule: make company data accessible to everyone, everywhere they already work.

After aggregating 250M+ company records from 40+ government registries, I didn't stop at the API. Here's the complete ecosystem — every tool is free and open source.

The API

score.get-scala.com — Free REST API. No signup, no API key for basic lookups.

curl "https://score.get-scala.com/api/search?q=Tesla&limit=3"
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Returns: company name, country, revenue, employees, credit score (0-100), NACE codes, legal form, VAT, contacts.

CLI Tools

enrich-companies (npm + PyPI)

Enrich any CSV file with company data. Auto-detects the company name column.

# Node.js
npx enrich-companies input.csv -o enriched.csv

# Python (zero dependencies)
pip install enrich-companies
enrich-companies input.csv -o enriched.csv
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company-lookup (npm)

Look up any company from the terminal:

npx company-lookup Ferrero
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vat-lookup (npm)

Validate EU VAT numbers:

npx vat-lookup IT02727330014
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SDKs in Every Language

Language Package Install
JavaScript scala-score-js npm install scala-score
Python scala-score pip install scala-score
Ruby score_api gem install score_api
Rust score-api cargo add score-api
Go company-lookup-go go install github.com/Alessandro114/company-lookup-go@latest
Deno @scala/score import from jsr:@scala/score

Integrations

Live Demos

The Data

Metric Value
Total companies 250M+
Countries 50+
Data points per company 16+
Update frequency Daily
Free tier 50 lookups/month

Data sources: government business registries (Companies House, Handelsregister, Registro Imprese, KBO, etc.) + financial filings + public records.

What's Next

I'm building this in public. Every tool is MIT-licensed and open for contributions. If you want to help:

  • Good first issues
  • Star the repos if you find them useful
  • File issues for features you need

All tools: github.com/Alessandro114

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