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High resolution logo for any domain or stock ticker

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Re: High resolution logo for any domain or stock ticker

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Post by RIMR »

So it seems that you found a database of PNG images associated with stock tickers, and added favicon scraping, and then put it together with the false promise of "high resolution logos", when I get severely mixed results and a lot of errors when it can't handle a favicon.

I mean, it works, good job at that at least, but it doesn't work well and it doesn't seem useful.

Re: High resolution logo for any domain or stock ticker

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Post by bnchrch »

maxchehab wrote: post #7

This is a great backlink play, kudos

HOLY! Yes thats what this is about.

I was coming to the comments to ask about this as I noticed a other (finance) companies [1] were providing this for free and I wanted to know what the game was about.

[1] https://www.feylogos.com/

Re: High resolution logo for any domain or stock ticker

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Post by Glant »

mungoman2 wrote: post #10

What is the source for the logos? They are sometimes jpg with bad compression artifacts.

Not sure about stock tickers, but for domains it seems to pull an image from the of a page. Looks like it's trying to find a favicon or the largest application image listed. Seems to skip some things like twitter's meta image tag, so maybe there's a preset list of tags it'll search for?

Re: High resolution logo for any domain or stock ticker

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Post by averageRoyalty »

astrodust wrote: post #14

Free!* * User assumes all liability for use as these are almost exclusively registered trademarks.

I would assume the favicom of the vast majority of domains online are not registered trademarks. And having a copy of a trademarked image isn't illegal in any country I know?
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