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victorzheng02 opened this issue Oct 21, 2022 · 1 comment · Fixed by #411
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Implement Crunchbase Helper #402

victorzheng02 opened this issue Oct 21, 2022 · 1 comment · Fixed by #411
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victorzheng02 commented Oct 21, 2022

Description of proposed feature

See additional details in this comment. Given a crunchbase link, we want to be able to retrieve the company name and description.

For example, https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/tesla-motors, we want the function to return

{
company_name: 'Tesla',
description: 'Tesla’s mission is to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy.'
}

we can add more fields later. This will be a helper function, so no commands need to be added.

How can the new feature be used?

This will be used in our .enroll company to get the official company name as mentioned in the comment above. We can also look for additional details in the future.

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@victorzheng02 victorzheng02 added the request Request for a new feature or other modification label Oct 21, 2022
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victorzheng02 commented Nov 7, 2022

This is extremely hard and would probably be a security risk on our end. Linkedin default blocks webscraping agents, but there should be workarounds there. The main issue is that company pages are protected by login, we would need to supply a login before scraping. Allowing users on a public discord channel to be able to use this is probably not a good idea. We might have to do manual approvals and independently add a separate uuid, such as the duns number, which is just a unique id attached to an individual business

@victorzheng02 victorzheng02 changed the title Implement Linkedin Web Scraper Implement Crunchbase Helper Nov 22, 2022
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