More persistent company ID | Feature Requests

More persistent company ID

doing soon

Kade Beem

The id field in the Company Schema changes often due to being derived from a company's LinkedIn URL slug. Creating a more persistent PDL company id will allow for more accurate, targeted ETL during data refreshes as well as trusted analysis across the dataset.

February 10, 2022

Sam Rounds

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doing soon

We're rolling out improvements to how we generated Company IDs to better support records that do not have LinkedIn URLs, and to ensure that a company's ID will change less often than under the current design.

Reach out if you'd like more information in advance of the upcoming broader rollout!

Remote Cobra

Reasons why it's important:
- relate API calls (make them more consistent), e.g. autocomplete shall return IDs
- refresh companies periodically
- billing per new data vs. refreshes
- stability in customer databases: will not force customers to create their own ID systems in the backend

Defeated Amphibian

Kade Beem Turquoise Baboon Once a persistent company ID is created, it would be great if you guys could create an endpoint that allows us to retrieve companies by that ID and not charge quota when the data has not changed since the last fetch

Kade Beem

Defeated Amphibian: I have created a new feature request on your behalf for this: https://feedback.peopledatalabs.com/feature-requests/p/create-a-company-retrieve-api

Turquoise Baboon

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being researched