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Re: Show HN: Free Company Autocomplete API

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Post by maccman » Thu, Aug 06, 2015, 11:05 PM UTC

jaz wrote: post #20

Does 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.

We'd love to do that but unfortunately most states (Delaware) require a filing fee of at least $10 to retrieve that.

Re: Show HN: Free Company Autocomplete API

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Post by sixdimensional » Thu, Aug 06, 2015, 11:23 PM UTC

You have a small typo on 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!

Re: Show HN: Free Company Autocomplete API

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Post by banderon » Thu, Aug 06, 2015, 11:55 PM UTC

I work for credibility.com (https://credibility.com/search), and we get our data from Dun & Bradstreet. Our search seems to have more results (~18MM docs).

Re: Show HN: Free Company Autocomplete API

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Post by harlow » Fri, Aug 07, 2015, 12:06 AM UTC

sinzone wrote: post #8

Curious.. which tools you used for managing the backend of all these APIs? (authentication, rate limiting, etc)

Great question. We have loads of Sinatra services running on CoreOS (using Fleet and Git for deploys) 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.

Re: Show HN: Free Company Autocomplete API

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Post by hbcondo714 » Fri, Aug 07, 2015, 4:12 AM UTC

Do 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.

Re: Show HN: Free Company Autocomplete API

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Post by bestnameever » Fri, Aug 07, 2015, 5:57 AM UTC

rjuyal wrote: post #12

oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #5

I 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?

Yes, where does this data come from? Somehow I was able to find not-so-popular companies as well.

Maybe twitter?

Re: Show HN: Free Company Autocomplete API

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Post by trialstartup » Sun, Aug 09, 2015, 12:09 AM UTC

banderon wrote: post #23

I work for credibility.com ( https://credibility.com/search ), and we get our data from Dun & Bradstreet. Our search seems to have more results (~18MM docs).

Nice. Bookmarking it