Get similar companies

Returns companies similar to a referenced company (by Specter company ID) as a list of Specter IDs; fetch any of them with Get company by ID. Returns 404 if the company ID doesn’t exist.

Costs 1 credit per request.

What you need

A Specter companyId (via Resolve company ID or Search company name).

Behaviour

• Returns at most 100 results per request; set the count with limit.
• Filter by growth stage with the optional growth_stage query parameter.
• No similar companies returns an empty list.

What you do next

• Profile the lookalikes. Follow each returned id to Get company by ID.
• Compare with direct competitors. Pull a ranked set rather than algorithmic similarity with Get company competitors.
• Do it in bulk. For many seeds at once, use Bulk get similar companies by ID.

GET /companies/{companyId}/similar

Get similar companies

cURL

curl --request GET \
  --url https://app.tryspecter.com/api/v1/companies/{companyId}/similar \
  --header 'X-API-Key: <api-key>'

import requests

url = "https://app.tryspecter.com/api/v1/companies/{companyId}/similar"

headers = {"X-API-Key": "<api-key>"}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {'X-API-Key': '<api-key>'}};

fetch('https://app.tryspecter.com/api/v1/companies/{companyId}/similar', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://app.tryspecter.com/api/v1/companies/{companyId}/similar",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "X-API-Key: <api-key>"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://app.tryspecter.com/api/v1/companies/{companyId}/similar"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("X-API-Key", "<api-key>")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://app.tryspecter.com/api/v1/companies/{companyId}/similar")
  .header("X-API-Key", "<api-key>")
  .asString();

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://app.tryspecter.com/api/v1/companies/{companyId}/similar")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["X-API-Key"] = '<api-key>'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

200

[
  "5e3a7f2b0aa7a3270a55f2a7"
]

{
  "errorCode": "VALIDATION_ERROR",
  "message": "Cannot request more than 100 similar companies."
}

{
  "errorCode": "API_KEY_MISSING",
  "message": "No API Key was presented on the header X-API-KEY"
}

{
  "errorCode": "OUT_OF_CREDITS",
  "message": "<string>"
}

{
  "errorCode": "NOT_PERMITTED",
  "message": "You do not have permission to access this resource."
}

{
  "errorCode": "<string>",
  "message": "<string>"
}

{
  "errorCode": "<string>",
  "message": "<string>"
}

Authorizations

X-API-Key · string · header · required

Path Parameters

companyId · string · required

The Specter company ID.

Query Parameters

growth_stage · enum<string>[]

Restrict results to one or more growth stages.

Available options: no_funding, seed, early, growing, late, exit

limit · number

Maximum number of results to return (max 100).

Response

200

application/json

The list of companies IDs