Show HN: Free Company Logo API • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Free Company Logo API

#31

Post by Kiro » Tue, Jun 30, 2015, 5:24 PM UTC

vmarsy wrote: post #18

Be careful with copyright issues. How do you make it work? Do you scrape them automatically or gather them from the brands marketing materials? I tried different logos, and I find a few issues: https://logo.clearbit.com/mcdonalds.com?size=256 Mcdonalds US logo background should be red ( http://www.aboutmcdonalds.com/mcd/newsroom/image_and_video_l... ) https://logo.clearbit.com/bk.com?size=256 The quality of that one…

I don't see any red backgrounds in your link.

Re: Show HN: Free Company Logo API

#32

Post by markbnj » Tue, Jun 30, 2015, 5:25 PM UTC

Great idea, but something tells me the companies whose logos are available won't like it. It will be interesting to see how they react. Some will probably embrace it, but I can see some of the larger corps acting territorial.

Re: Show HN: Free Company Logo API

#33

Post by maceo » Tue, Jun 30, 2015, 5:30 PM UTC

This has been done before (and posted to HN), and it had the same problem. Way too many false positives, especially with older sites.

https://logo.clearbit.com/starfoods.com

Re: Show HN: Free Company Logo API

#34

Post by iLoch » Tue, Jun 30, 2015, 5:30 PM UTC

This is neat - it could use a background color option along with the ability to fill the logo with white.

Re: Show HN: Free Company Logo API

#35

Post by lowglow » Tue, Jun 30, 2015, 5:36 PM UTC

I honestly thought this was going to generate a free logo and got really excited for some unknown reason? I guess I was wondering how it all worked, then I clicked through and it made way more sense. That was a wild ride!

Re: Show HN: Free Company Logo API

#36

Post by TazeTSchnitzel » Tue, Jun 30, 2015, 5:38 PM UTC

maceo wrote: post #33

This has been done before (and posted to HN), and it had the same problem. Way too many false positives, especially with older sites. https://logo.clearbit.com/starfoods.com

This isn't trying to scrape the page and find something vaguely logo-like. Rather, it seems to be using iOS, OpenGraph and Twitter icons. In this case, the site has a strange OpenGraph image specified in its meta tags. If it produces a weird image it's because the site owner has specified an image which isn't their logo. It's not because the API picked a random image.

For this service, if it can find an image, it's at least an image the site owner wanted to be used to represent it.

Re: Show HN: Free Company Logo API

#37

Post by mmahemoff » Tue, Jun 30, 2015, 5:39 PM UTC

lowglow wrote: post #35

I honestly thought this was going to generate a free logo and got really excited for some unknown reason? I guess I was wondering how it all worked, then I clicked through and it made way more sense. That was a wild ride!

The post mentions Gravatar, so actually it should do the same thing and return a generated image as a function of the domain, if no known one exists.

Re: Show HN: Free Company Logo API

#38

Post by culo » Tue, Jun 30, 2015, 5:46 PM UTC

Just curious.. what do you guys use for API management to handle authentications, logging, rate-limiting, etc..

1. Open-source solutions like KONG (https://github.com/mashape/kong) or similar?

2. Built in house?

3. Commercial services such as Apigee, Mashery?

Re: Show HN: Free Company Logo API

#39

Post by naankari » Tue, Jun 30, 2015, 5:47 PM UTC

Nice job. It would also be great if there is option to get image data that can be used in data-uri.

Re: Show HN: Free Company Logo API

#40

Post by artursapek » Tue, Jun 30, 2015, 5:54 PM UTC

mikepurvis wrote: post #25

chinathrow wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fetch the domain at /, look for favicon/apple-touch-icon/OpenGraph image, fetch the image, store and serve.

Looks like it has twitter as a secondary source, eg. https://logo.clearbit.com/spacex.com https://twitter.com/spacex Maybe other fallbacks, too?

Good catch, that's pretty hard to deny