Companies Changelog

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.