One year on: 10 times bigger, masses more data… and a new API
From the post:
Was it just a year ago that we launched OpenCorporates, after just a couple months’ coding? When we opened up over 3 million companies and allowed searching across multiple jurisdictions (admittedly there were just three of them to start off with)?
Who would have thought that 12 months later we would have become 10 times bigger, with over 30 million companies and over 35 jurisdictions, and lots of other data too. So we could use this as an example to talk about some of the many milestones in that period, about all the extra data we’ve added, about our commitment to open data, and the principles behind it.
We’re not going to do that however, instead we’d rather talk about the new API we’ve just launched, allowing full access to all the info, and importantly allowing searches via the API too. In fact, we’ve now got a full website devoted to the api, http://api.opencorporates.com, and on it you’ll find all the documentation, example API calls, versioning information, error messages, etc.
Congratulations to OpenCorporates on a stellar year!
The collection of dots to connect has gotten dramatically larger!