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Ask HN: How do I get a database of businesses for my niche online directory?
A few months ago I worked on a niche online directory and I just finished coding it. However, launching a directory without any businesses listed isn't very useful. Does anybody know where can I get or purchase a database of companies info like emails or telephone?
Also, could you recommend a CRM that tracks the emails that you've sent?
- aioprisan 14y agoApple Maps uses Acxiom, Factual, Localeze, and TomTom for small business listing. They have APIs and you can start querying their resources to build a database out for your local area.
- hisyam 14y agoThanks, they look pretty good.
- orangethirty 14y agoGo offline, meaning that you should loo into non-web resources for this data. There are a lot of viable options, though all require you to input the data by hand.
- hisyam 14y agoDo you have any examples?
- orangethirty 14y agoUse the phonebook, or better yet, scrape it.
- codegeek 14y agoYou might want to check out Google Places API ? I am not sure if your business type is supported but you can see that here: https://developers.google.com/places/documentation/supported_types https://developers.google.com/places/documentation/supported...
- hisyam 14y agoI don't see email attribute in the Place Details https://developers.google.com/places/documentation/details https://developers.google.com/places/documentation/details
- codegeek 14y agoI see that in the detailed results, it has formatted phone number. formatted_phone_number contains the Place's phone number in its local format. For example, the formatted_phone_number for Google's Sydney, Australia office is (02) 9374 4000.
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