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Show Organization data in a public business registry

Many countries have open business registries that gives you a good oversight of a given business's details.details and financial state. In this example we'll use a Finnish registry called YTJ, which allows searching for companies with their business ID and present the business's data.

Get a sample URL

The YTJ registry can be access at https://tietopalvelu.ytj.fi/ where you can search for businesses with a name. Find a sample company, open the details view and copy the URL from your browser's window:

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You will get a URL like this:

https://tietopalvelu.ytj.fi/yritys/1863026-2

The part we're interested in is the business ID at the end (last 9 characters, Finnish business ID format)

xyz

xyz