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Show HN: Free Company Autocomplete API
- tixocloud 11y agoBrilliant idea and brilliant API. Is the company API limited to companies with an online presence/social media account?
- oniiru 11y agoThanks! Not limited there, but we definitely do better with companies that have a strong web presence.
- baseballmerpeak 11y agoHow could a company be added to the database?
- rectangletangle 11y agoImplementing POST /companies/ {"name": "..."} would be nice. Other than that it's a really nice endpoint.
- benologist 11y agoIt'd be great if it allowed domains and hyperlinks as a search filter.
- b2bguy 11y agoIf you need that feature, and are willing to pay, check out the Demandbase API. I can't find any public websites documenting their API, but this Ruby gem gives an overview: https://github.com/leereilly/demandbase https://github.com/leereilly/demandbase.
- oniiru 11y agoAndrew from Clearbit here. You can definitely search by domain using our Company API (http://clearbit.com/docs#company-api http://clearbit.com/docs#company-api). Is that what you are looking for?
- oneeyedpigeon 11y agoI was impressed when it located the tiny company I current work for (The Day News & Media) but less impressed that it couldn't find the enormous multinational I used to work for (John Wiley & Sons). Where does it source the data from?
- rjuyal 11y agoYes, where does this data come from? Somehow I was able to find not-so-popular companies as well.
- oniiru 11y agoGlad to hear it! We are using the dozens of sources that power our other APIs. That's the special sauce. :)
- bestnameever 11y agoMaybe twitter?
- pki 11y agoI find it ? wiley.com is in it.
- oniiru 11y agoAh, looks like we have John Wiley & Sons listed as Wiley, which seems to be how they are typically known. Aliases would be an interesting feature though!
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- mrdustinwhittle 11y agoI have been using clearbit the last few months and it really is a great service with the best api docs and versioning I have seen to date (a la stripe). We use clearbit for company, persona, compliance, and prospect data. Checkout https://svbtle.com/signup https://svbtle.com/signup for a great experience built on clearbit. @maccman + team is killing it. Clearbit is more narrowly focused on business apis, but in my experience Clearbit does a better job with company/persona data globally than orb intelligence, everstring, relateiq, madisonlogic. Feature request: Better api key management to easy manage multiple environments (upgrading api versions between dev/prod)
- oniiru 11y agoThanks for the kind words Dustin! Glad to hear you are crushing it. :) Improved API Key management is on the roadmap!
- sinzone 11y agoCurious.. which tools you used for managing the backend of all these APIs? (authentication, rate limiting, etc)
- harlow 11y agoGreat question. We have loads of Sinatra services running on CoreOS (using Fleet and Git for deploys) http://blog.clearbit.com/servers-part-one http://blog.clearbit.com/servers-part-one. From there we have a contrib Gem to share middleware between the services. These middlewares handle Auth, Rate limiting, CORS, etc.
- phonon 11y agoIf you could combine this with the one https://certsimple.com/ https://certsimple.com/ uses, that would be awesome!
- personjerry 11y agoEither there's an off-by-one error or there's a weird design decision. Typing "y c" doesn't include the "c" in the search (so it lists websites like Yahoo first) but "y co" finds Y Combinator.
- jaz 11y agoDoes anyone know if an API exists that returns whether a company is in good standing with a secretary of state? Checked out the Clearbit API and I didn't see that type of data in there.
- maccman 11y agoWe'd love to do that but unfortunately most states (Delaware) require a filing fee of at least $10 to retrieve that.
- sixdimensional 11y agoYou have a small typo on http://clearbit.com/pricing http://clearbit.com/pricing. "What happens if I go over my plan's alloted requests?" => "What happens if I go over my plan's allotted requests?" Really neat service!
- banderon 11y agoI work for credibility.com (https://credibility.com/search https://credibility.com/search), and we get our data from Dun & Bradstreet. Our search seems to have more results (~18MM docs).
- trialstartup 11y agoNice. Bookmarking it
- hbcondo714 11y agoDo you have plans to add more fields in the response? For example, it would be nice to get the company's ticker symbol if they are publicly traded.