exploring the clearbit apis
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Company API
curl 'https://company.clearbit.com/v1/companies/domain/clearbit.com' \
-u $CLEARBIT_KEY:
Combined API
curl 'https://person.clearbit.com/v1/combined/email/[email protected]' \
-u $CLEARBIT_KEY:
Early Days• Many of our competitors have databases of
upwards of 100M+ email addresses
• Big databases tend to get stale
• What happens when someone lookups up email 100,000,001?
Streaming API(blocking)
client
streaming
person
200 result
query202
query
200
query
person-streaming.clearbit.com
Webhooks
webhook
workers
customer
payload
POST
(async)
youserver.com/callbacks/clearbit
*.clearbit.com
*.clearbit.iorouter (HAProxy)
containersPerson
containersLogscontainersAuth
router (HAProxy)
containersWebhooks
WorkersWorkers
WorkersCache
containers...
containersCompany
WorkersWorkers
WorkersCache
• Funnel optimization (sign up flow)
• Content of email drip campaign
• Give sales team more data on leads
• Surface profile data to end-users of your product
• Underwrite transactions and reduce fraud
Data Usage