Resolve company ID

Resolve a batch of alternate identifiers — domain, website, LinkedIn URL, or company name — into the Specter company id. Re-use that id with the id-only company endpoints such as Get company by ID.

This endpoint is free — resolving identifiers to IDs uses no credits. The id-only endpoints you call next are charged as usual.

Behaviour

• Pass identifiers under to_resolve (1–50 per request). Each entry must carry exactly one identifier; none, or more than one, returns a validation error.
• The response has one result group per input, in the same order, so you can attribute each set of matches back to what you sent. query echoes the normalized identifier.
• domain matches the primary domain and any domain aliases; website_url is reduced to its domain before matching.
• Exact identifiers (domain, website_url, linkedin_url) return at most one company, with match_confidence 1.
• name is fuzzy-matched and can return several ranked candidates (at most 10). Each carries a match_confidence from 0 to 1, relative to the other results for that query; use the extra fields (domain, HQ, founded year) to pick the right one.
• An identifier that matches nothing keeps its place with an empty matches list.

POST /companies/resolve

Resolve company ID

cURL

curl --request POST \
  --url https://app.tryspecter.com/api/v1/companies/resolve \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --header 'X-API-Key: <api-key>' \
  --data '
{
  "to_resolve": [
    {
      "domain": "tryspecter.com"
    },
    {
      "name": "Rippling"
    }
  ]
}
'

import requests

url = "https://app.tryspecter.com/api/v1/companies/resolve"

payload = { "to_resolve": [{ "domain": "tryspecter.com" }, { "name": "Rippling" }] }
headers = {
    "X-API-Key": "<api-key>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {'X-API-Key': '<api-key>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({to_resolve: [{domain: 'tryspecter.com'}, {name: 'Rippling'}]})
};

fetch('https://app.tryspecter.com/api/v1/companies/resolve', 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/resolve",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
    'to_resolve' => [
        [
                'domain' => 'tryspecter.com'
        ],
        [
                'name' => 'Rippling'
        ]
    ]
  ]),
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Content-Type: application/json",
    "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"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://app.tryspecter.com/api/v1/companies/resolve"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"to_resolve\": [\n    {\n      \"domain\": \"tryspecter.com\"\n    },\n    {\n      \"name\": \"Rippling\"\n    }\n  ]\n}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("X-API-Key", "<api-key>")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

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

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

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://app.tryspecter.com/api/v1/companies/resolve")
  .header("X-API-Key", "<api-key>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\n  \"to_resolve\": [\n    {\n      \"domain\": \"tryspecter.com\"\n    },\n    {\n      \"name\": \"Rippling\"\n    }\n  ]\n}")
  .asString();

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://app.tryspecter.com/api/v1/companies/resolve")

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

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["X-API-Key"] = '<api-key>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n  \"to_resolve\": [\n    {\n      \"domain\": \"tryspecter.com\"\n    },\n    {\n      \"name\": \"Rippling\"\n    }\n  ]\n}"

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

200

[
  {
    "query": {
      "website_url": "<string>",
      "domain": "<string>",
      "linkedin_url": "<string>",
      "name": "<string>"
    },
    "matches": [
      {
        "id": "5e3a8f19040ca7b0c6f03082",
        "name": "Rippling",
        "hq": {
          "city": "London",
          "state": "England",
          "country": "United Kingdom",
          "region": "Europe",
          "continent": "Europe",
          "regions": [
            "London Metropolitan Area",
            "EMEA"
          ]
        },
        "match_confidence": 0.8,
        "domain": "rippling.com",
        "tagline": "Workforce management that unifies HR, IT, and finance.",
        "founded_year": 2016
      }
    ]
  }
]

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

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

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

Authorizations

X-API-Key · string · header · required

Body

application/json

The identifiers to resolve.

to_resolve · CompanyResolveIdentifier · object[] · required

Required array length: 1 - 50 elements

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Response

200

application/json

One result group per input identifier, in the same order as to_resolve.

query · CompanyResolveIdentifier · object · required

The (normalized) identifier this group resolves.

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matches · object[] · required

Matching companies. Empty when nothing matched; several ranked candidates are possible for a name query.

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