Simple Crunchbase is a terse Crunchbase.com REST API client built for Python. You can find out more regarding the Crunchbase API in the Official Crunchbase.com REST API Documentation.
Getting information from Crunchbase is fairly straightforward.
Once you creat the Crunchbase
object, simply append the Item/Operation ( Organizations, Organization, People, Person, etc. ) you want to query, and provide the paremters needed.
from crunchbase import CrunchBase
cb = CrunchBase(user_key='xXxxXxxXxxXxxXxxXxxXxxXx')
print cb.Organization.get(permalink='eventboard')
from crunchbase import CrunchBase
cb = CrunchBase(user_key='xXxxXxxXxxXxxXxxXxxXxxXx')
print cb.Organizations.get(name='eventboard')
This library was inspired by Simple Salesforce.