How can I find company descriptions for a long list of companies?

Asked May 09 '16 at 07:50

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I'm going to train an ml algorithm to qualify potential sales leads based upon company descriptions. To do this, I need to find the company descriptions programatically.

E.g. given a long list of company names, how can I find descriptions for these companies. Here are my current techniques, which works ok, but not great:

Using Google Search API to and fetch summary from the results page (Google normally gives the company website as the first result when searching by company name)
Fetch all data from the company's website (includes an about-page and a lot of other less relevant data)
Using the FullContact Company API to get any descriptions the company has on its social profiles (works great if the company has an online precense)

asked May 09 '16 at 07:50

Per Borgen

Hi Welcome to DS.SE. Could you let us know which country you are in, that will help in knowing what companies you are interested in and a better answer – Marcus D May 09 '16 at 08:09
I think you would have better luck posting this question on opendata - http://opendata.stackexchange.com/ – Brandon Loudermilk May 09 '16 at 12:19
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What did you end up doing? – Afflatus Jul 06 '16 at 22:16

How can I find company descriptions for a long list of companies?

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