Python eVatR Client

A Python client for simple and qualified VAT-number validations.

This is a Python port of the Typescript client that can be found here: eVatR Typescript Client

You can find detailed information on the underlying API here (German): https://evatr.bff-online.de/eVatR/xmlrpc/

Users need to provide a registered German VAT-number (Umsatzsteuer-Identifikationsnummern) to use this client.

This tool is not endorsed by the "Bundeszentralamt für Steuern".

Getting Started

Install dataclass-wizard as a co-dependecy:

pip install dataclass-wizard==0.22.2

Usage

from evatr_client import EvatrClient, ISimpleParams, IQualifiedParams
from dataclass_wizard import asdict

client = EvatrClient()

simpleParams: ISimpleParams = ISimpleParams(
    include_raw_xml=False,
    own_vat_number="DE129273398",
    validate_vat_number="CZ00177041",
)

simple_result = client.check_simple(simpleParams)
print(asdict(simple_result))

qualifiedParams: IQualifiedParams = IQualifiedParams(
    include_raw_xml=False,
    own_vat_number="DE129273398",
    validate_vat_number="CZ00177041",
    company_name="SKODA AUTO a.s.",
    city="Mlada Boleslav",
    zip="293 01",
    street="tr. Vaclava Klementa 869",
)

qualified_result = client.check_qualified(qualifiedParams)
print(asdict(qualified_result))

Example result:

ISimpleResult

{
    "valid": True,
    "date": "07.11.2023",
    "time": "11:40:23",
    "errorCode": "200",
    "errorDescription": "Die angefragte USt-IdNr. ist gültig.",
    "ownVatNumber": "DE129273398",
    "validatedVatNumber": "CZ00177041",
    "validFrom": None,
    "validUntil": None,
    "rawXml": None
}

IQualifiedResult

{
    "valid": True, 
    "date": "07.11.2023", 
    "time": "11:40:37", 
    "errorCode": "200", 
    "errorDescription": "Die angefragte USt-IdNr. ist gültig.", 
    "ownVatNumber": "DE129273398", 
    "validatedVatNumber": "CZ00177041", 
    "validFrom": None, 
    "validUntil": None, 
    "rawXml": None, 
    "companyName": "SKODA AUTO a.s.", 
    "city": "Mlada Boleslav",
    "zip": "293 01", 
    "street": "tr. Vaclava Klementa 869", 
    "resultName": "A", 
    "resultCity": "A", 
    "resultZip": "A", 
    "resultStreet": "A", 
    "resultNameDescription": "stimmt überein",
    "resultCityDescription": "stimmt überein", 
    "resultZipDescription": "stimmt überein", 
    "resultStreetDescription": "stimmt überein"
}

Installation

The source code is currently hosted on GitHub at: https://github.com/CeeDiii/evatr-client

The Python package is available at Python Package Index (PyPI)

$ pip install evatr-client

Development

Install dependencies from the requirements.txt file:

pip install -r requirements.txt

You can scrape the error codes with the script scripts/scrape_status_codes.py. The script has to be executed from the project root directory:

python scripts/scrape_status_codes.py

Testing

To get the actual test results, execute the following command from the root project directory:

python -m unittest

Contributing

Feel free to open issues and pull requests in this repo.

License MIT

Copyright © 2023 CeeDiii

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