Nobel Prizes API - Ruby Gem

Nobel Prizes is a simple tool for getting information on Nobel Prizes. It returns information on various Nobel Prizes.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'apiverve_nobelprizes'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install apiverve_nobelprizes

Getting Started

Get your API key at APIVerve

Basic Usage

require 'apiverve_nobelprizes'

# Initialize the client
client = APIVerve::Nobelprizes::Client.new(api_key: "YOUR_API_KEY")

# Make a request
response = client.execute({
  firstname: "Albert",
  lastname: "Einstein",
  category: "Physics",
  year: 1921
})

# Print the response
puts response

Error Handling

begin
  response = client.execute({ firstname: "Albert", lastname: "Einstein", category: "Physics", year: 1921 })
  puts response["data"]
rescue APIVerve::Nobelprizes::ValidationError => e
  puts "Validation error: #{e.errors.join(', ')}"
rescue APIVerve::Nobelprizes::APIError => e
  puts "API error: #{e.message}"
  puts "Status code: #{e.status_code}"
end

Debug Mode

# Enable debug logging
client = APIVerve::Nobelprizes::Client.new(
  api_key: "YOUR_API_KEY",
  debug: true
)

Example Response

{
  "status": "ok",
  "error": null,
  "data": {
    "count": 1,
    "filteredOn": [
      "firstName",
      "lastName",
      "category",
      "year"
    ],
    "nobelPrizes": [
      {
        "firstName": "Albert",
        "lastName": "Einstein",
        "born": "1879-03-14",
        "died": "1955-04-18",
        "countryborn": "Germany",
        "countrybornCode": "DE",
        "born city": "Ulm",
        "diedCountry": "USA",
        "diedCountryCode": "US",
        "diedCity": "Princeton NJ",
        "gender": "male",
        "year": "1921",
        "category": "Physics",
        "motivation": "for his services to Theoretical Physics and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect",
        "organization": "Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut (now Max-Planck-Institut) für Physik",
        "organizationCity": "Berlin",
        "organizationCountry": "Germany"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Documentation

For more information, visit the API Documentation.

Support

License

This gem is available under the MIT License.