Companies Repository

1. Project Information’s

This project was an online database, where anyone could search for Portuguese companies through various ways, including related companies by activities.

This was a side project developed only for personal use. As it was beginning to get indexed by Google it started receiving a lot of daily people searching for companies.

This project was later shutdown and now it is available on Github.

The source code for this project doesn’t include any information’s about the companies, you have to get it however you want and add it to the database by yourself.

2. Features

~ 400 ms load time (html + css + js)
REST API to lazy load additional information about the companies
Secure API token to prevent crawl bots from dumping all Database
Cache system to save companies information’s
Contact form and email system to send the form to the website admin
Twitter integration, 1 tweet send for each new company crawled
Cloudflare integration to archive max 400ms load time
Elastic beanstalk for deployments
Automatic sitemap generator
SEO optimization + google structured data to friendly SEO

3. How I got the database

Someday I was search for a company, and I found a website that was really slow and ugly, and I thought to myself that I could do it better. So I decided to build a crawler to fetch all the companies in that same website.

I ended up with little more than 700 000 company records, that included much more that just the company name and address.