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Hey Alex, This is pretty sweet. Nice job! Is there a post where you talk about the tech behind this API? I've been working on a simple API that finds domain

Hey Alex, This is pretty sweet. Nice job! Is there a post where you talk about the tech behind this API? I've been working on a simple API that finds domain names from company names that I use on projects where I use business intelligence APIs like Clearbit and FullContact.

chinathrow 11y ago
Fetch the domain at /, look for favicon/apple-touch-icon/OpenGraph image, fetch the image, store and serve.
- mikepurvis 11y ago
  Looks like it has twitter as a secondary source, eg. https://logo.clearbit.com/spacex.com https://logo.clearbit.com/spacex.com https://twitter.com/spacex https://twitter.com/spacex Maybe other fallbacks, too?
  - artursapek 11y ago
    Good catch, that's pretty hard to deny
  - lips 11y ago
    Also seems like some fairly primitive analysis would identify this as a suspect item, at least enough to be shunted off to some sort of triage. Logos, by and large, will have distinctly different data than images. That, and it also doesn't match their favicon.
maccman 11y ago
Behind the scenes we're using Clearbit's Company API which does a lot of sleuthing: scanning the page for social accounts, meta tags etc. Then we try and return the best logo we can find. https://clearbit.com/docs#company-api https://clearbit.com/docs#company-api
slantyyz 11y ago
>> I use business intelligence APIs like Clearbit and FullContact. When I saw the tagline "Business Intelligence APIs" at the top of the posted link, I totally thought Clearbit's line of business was something completely different-- more along the lines of data warehousing, analytics and reporting.
- porker 11y ago
  I wish Clearbit had a "very early stage" plan - say 1000 requests a month, which I could use with proof of concept or little side project systems. 50 free requests isn't much: by the time you've demo'd to 5 people for feedback they'd be gone.

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Hey Alex, This is pretty sweet. Nice job! Is there a post where you talk about the tech behind this API? I've been working on a simple API that finds domain

by rcavezza 11y ago

chinathrow 11y ago
Fetch the domain at /, look for favicon/apple-touch-icon/OpenGraph image, fetch the image, store and serve.
- mikepurvis 11y ago
  Looks like it has twitter as a secondary source, eg. https://logo.clearbit.com/spacex.com https://logo.clearbit.com/spacex.com https://twitter.com/spacex https://twitter.com/spacex Maybe other fallbacks, too?
  - artursapek 11y ago
    Good catch, that's pretty hard to deny
  - lips 11y ago
    Also seems like some fairly primitive analysis would identify this as a suspect item, at least enough to be shunted off to some sort of triage. Logos, by and large, will have distinctly different data than images. That, and it also doesn't match their favicon.
maccman 11y ago
Behind the scenes we're using Clearbit's Company API which does a lot of sleuthing: scanning the page for social accounts, meta tags etc. Then we try and return the best logo we can find. https://clearbit.com/docs#company-api https://clearbit.com/docs#company-api
slantyyz 11y ago
>> I use business intelligence APIs like Clearbit and FullContact. When I saw the tagline "Business Intelligence APIs" at the top of the posted link, I totally thought Clearbit's line of business was something completely different-- more along the lines of data warehousing, analytics and reporting.
- porker 11y ago
  I wish Clearbit had a "very early stage" plan - say 1000 requests a month, which I could use with proof of concept or little side project systems. 50 free requests isn't much: by the time you've demo'd to 5 people for feedback they'd be gone.