How to Authenticate with D&B Direct API Web Service

Step 1: First you have to create an account in D&B using this online form http://developer.dnb.com/register-v2 and get your Username and Password.

Step 2: You can get connected with D&B direct api via SOAP and REST api.

Soap API Call Example:

To get connected with D&B api using soap client call. Follow the below php code.

<?php
$soap_client = new SoapClient(NULL,array('uri' =>'http://api.dnbdirectapps.com/dev/DnBAPI-15/dnbAPI/dnbAPI.wsdl','username' => '********','password' => '********','location' => 'test')); 
//$soap_client = new SoapClient('http://ws-spr1.spexlive.net/service/soap/catalog?appId=226175'); 
echo "<pre>";
$getcat=$soap_client->GetCompanyDetailRequest();
print_r($getcat);
var_dump($soap_client);
?>

After hit this code you can company detail request. As i mentioned this api function in soap client request.

Rest API Example:

To get connected with D&B Direct Rest api, You need an authentication Token to access it. First get the New Token using this POST request.

POST https://maxcvservices.dnb.com/Authentication/V2.0/
x-dnb-user: MyUsername
x-dnb-pwd: MyPassword

After that you Success result with new auth token. Use token in below Curl code to get data from D&B Direct api.

<?php

$api_url='https://maxcvservices.dnb.com/V2.0/organizations/804735132/products/BIR?ProductFormatPreferenceCode=15106';

$dnbch = curl_init();
curl_setopt( $dnbch, CURLOPT_URL, $api_url );
curl_setopt( $dnbch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array ('Accept: application/json', 'Content-Length: 0') );
curl_setopt( $dnbch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 0 );
curl_setopt( $dnbch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'GET');
curl_setopt( $dnbch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0 );
curl_setopt( $dnbch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "Authorization:******New Token Here*****" );
curl_setopt( $dnbch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0 );

curl_setopt( $dnbch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1 );

$response = curl_exec( $dnbch );

$result = json_decode($response);
echo "<pre>";
print_r($result);

?>