Companies Changelog

May 21st, 2025

All notable changes to Lightcast's companies API will be documented in this file.

If you have questions, please contact us by emailing our engineering team at [email protected].

September 2022

1.7.1 (September 22)

Changed

Internal classification changes.

June 2022

1.7.0 (June 23)

Changed

Reduced bulk request size from 500 to 100 companies.

Refactored

Improved performance of normalization requests for the latest version.

May 2022

1.6.1 (May 27)

Changed

Internal classification changes.

April 2022

1.6.0 (April 20)

Added

city, state, and postal_code added as optional company fields.

March 2022

1.5.1 (March 3)

Fixed

Fixed a bug causing the /normalize/inspect to return error on search terms that contain non-alphanumeric characters.

February 2022

1.5.0 (February 18)

Added

Support for q query parameter in the /versions/<version>/companies endpoint.

January 2022

1.4.1 (January 25)

Refactored

Improved normalization in the /normalize/inspect endpoint which now returns more results.

November 2021

1.4.0 (November 10)

Added

website added as an optional company field.

October 2021

1.3.1 (October 26)

Refactored

Preparing for company version 2.0.

1.3.0 (October 22)

Added

/versions/{version} endpoint now returns companyCount to show the total number of available companies.

1.2.0 (October 15)

Added

Added after query parameter to the /versions/{version}/companies endpoint for pagination.

Removed

Removed companies search functionality to evaluate recall performance and accuracy.

1.1.0 (October 8)

Refactored

Improved response time and results of companies search.

1.0.0 (October 1)

Added

Emsi companies API released.