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Social platforms scrape the contents of all shared URLs to offer a preview in a feed. With this service I…",{"id":62,"by":11,"text":63},"9807260","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…",{"value":65,"source":55,"evidence":66},"Developers building sites, apps and link previews",[67,68],{"id":58,"by":59,"text":60},{"id":69,"by":70,"text":71},"9806574","Yadi","Brilliant, this is helpful for building MVP products as well!",{"value":73,"source":74,"evidence":75},"Free","commenter",[76],{"id":77,"by":78,"text":79},"9807014","lowglow","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…",[],"unknown","launched",{"praise":84,"objections":109,"requests":174,"questions":206,"alternatives":223},[85,98],{"value":86,"source":74,"evidence":87},"Useful API for developers and MVPs",[88,89,90,94],{"id":58,"by":59,"text":60},{"id":69,"by":70,"text":71},{"id":91,"by":92,"text":93},"9806395","thetylerhayes","Nice, seems super helpful.",{"id":95,"by":96,"text":97},"9807344","gorm","Great work! Very useful :)",{"value":99,"source":74,"evidence":100},"Clean, simple URL-based usage",[101,105],{"id":102,"by":103,"text":104},"9808208","ARolek","Killer work Alex! It's crazy you just rolled this out. We have been in development on something very similar but have yet to make a public push on the product. The main…",{"id":106,"by":107,"text":108},"9807220","treve","Well done!",[110,133,148,163],{"value":111,"source":74,"evidence":112},"Returns wrong or outdated logos for many domains",[113,117,121,125,129],{"id":114,"by":115,"text":116},"9806970","maceo","This has been done before (and posted to HN), and it had the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:\u002F\u002Flogo.clearbit.com\u002Fstarfoods.com",{"id":118,"by":119,"text":120},"9808020","sordidfellow","Yet another (hilarious?) false match: https:\u002F\u002Flogo.clearbit.com\u002Fexxon.com",{"id":122,"by":123,"text":124},"9807606","zatkin","Doesn't work for my domain: zk.gd",{"id":126,"by":127,"text":128},"9807385","Tepix","Works great! Minor nitpick: Returns the old logo for Oculus.com",{"id":130,"by":131,"text":132},"9840605","malcolmocean","uhh... https:\u002F\u002Flogo.clearbit.com\u002Famazon.com",{"value":134,"source":74,"evidence":135},"Copyright and trademark concerns",[136,140,144],{"id":137,"by":138,"text":139},"9806549","alttab","There has to be some level of fair use or copyright involved, no? You are taking corporate images, modifying them, and then distributing their modified brand\u002Flogo potentially…",{"id":141,"by":142,"text":143},"9807339","SeanLuke","Surely there's a trademark protection concern here.",{"id":145,"by":146,"text":147},"9807434","eonw","arent there legal requirements about colors, sizes, and placement for logos? for instance you offer gray scale as a setting, i seem to recall all placement of MS logos requires…",{"value":149,"source":74,"evidence":150},"Poor image quality and scaling",[151,155,159],{"id":152,"by":153,"text":154},"9807420","cstrasen","Hi. Nice idea. Images seem to be scaled not optimally though in same cases seeing jagged edges like here: https:\u002F\u002Flogo.clearbit.com\u002Fmedigo.com",{"id":156,"by":157,"text":158},"9808183","imaginenore","You need a better upscaling algorithm. https:\u002F\u002Flogo.clearbit.com\u002Falexa.com?size=512 Ideally all your logos should be in vector and rendered to any size (or at least powers of 2…",{"id":160,"by":161,"text":162},"9806739","vmarsy","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…",{"value":164,"source":74,"evidence":165},"Privacy concerns about data collection",[166,170],{"id":167,"by":168,"text":169},"9807857","repler","And when you use it, they get to collect all of the data about your visitors.",{"id":171,"by":172,"text":173},"9809142","maxdemarzi","Where do companies like clearbit and full contact get their user data?",[175,186,191,195],{"value":176,"source":74,"evidence":177},"Background color and white fill options",[178,182],{"id":179,"by":180,"text":181},"9806971","iLoch","This is neat - it could use a background color option along with the ability to fill the logo with white.",{"id":183,"by":184,"text":185},"9807101","naankari","Nice job. It would also be great if there is option to get image data that can be used in data-uri.",{"value":187,"source":74,"evidence":188},"Vector output or better upscaling",[189,190],{"id":156,"by":157,"text":158},{"id":102,"by":103,"text":104},{"value":192,"source":74,"evidence":193},"Data-URI output option",[194],{"id":183,"by":184,"text":185},{"value":196,"source":74,"evidence":197},"Document the API parameters more precisely",[198,202],{"id":199,"by":200,"text":201},"9806749","TazeTSchnitzel","Pretty cool! I think the API docs could possibly be a bit more precise, though. Perhaps something like this: ``` You can also pass us the following optional query parameters.…",{"id":203,"by":204,"text":205},"9806651","sanbor","I'd be cool if they would provide some insight on how to make an existing website to work with their API. I always wanted to know what's the \"standard\" way to put a logo in the…",[207,216],{"value":208,"source":74,"evidence":209},"Where does the logo data come from?",[210,211,215],{"id":160,"by":161,"text":162},{"id":212,"by":213,"text":214},"9808528","jstsch","Works great! But I do wonder where it came from... parsed the HTML, grabbed the SVG and converted it to PNG... or simply got it from Twitter? https:\u002F\u002Flogo.clearbit.com\u002Fh5mag.com…",{"id":137,"by":138,"text":139},{"value":217,"source":74,"evidence":218},"Are there terms of service?",[219],{"id":220,"by":221,"text":222},"9807643","apendleton","Are there terms of service associated with this API? I can't seem to find any.",[224,231,242,249],{"value":225,"source":74,"evidence":226},"Tailor Brands logo generator",[227],{"id":228,"by":229,"text":230},"9807511","Hovertruck","Not quite free, but this does exist at a pretty low price point: https:\u002F\u002Fwww.tailorbrands.com\u002F",{"value":232,"source":74,"evidence":233},"Logaster logo generator and API",[234,238],{"id":235,"by":236,"text":237},"9808737","rcraft","Another great option I found recently is https:\u002F\u002Fwww.logaster.com\u002Fcreate\u002Flogo\u002F. Free for low-res small images.",{"id":239,"by":240,"text":241},"9817348","Goliney","Maccman, Logaster offers own API which will generate logos. If you interested read more here https:\u002F\u002Fwww.logaster.com\u002Fabout-logaster\u002Fapi\u002F",{"value":243,"source":74,"evidence":244},"Squarespace logo generator",[245],{"id":246,"by":247,"text":248},"9807813","Yhippa","Squarespace has a logo generator: http:\u002F\u002Fwww.squarespace.com\u002Flogo\u002F. 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