Jigsaw company API integration is dead and we're looking for alternatives
About two weeks ago, our integration with Jigsaw broke. Jigsaw is (was) a crowdsourced database of information on businesses, mainly US ones but some in Europe and other places too. It let us provide you with information like this.
We looked into it and discovered that our API key got revoked. We did some digging and realized that Jigsaw had been bought out by SalesForce last year, and Salesforce has decided to kill free access to this API, which apparently became effective around September 1.
The API is still available, if you're willing to pay. We are definitely willing to pay for this kind of data, but the price is $25,000/year. That works out to just over $2,000/month, which would make it our biggest monthly expense, other than payroll. Sorry, can't justify that.
For now, we have modified the links that pulled in this data to instead just open up a Google search page with the organization name pre-filled. In some ways this is actually better because Google will almost always find the company in question, regardless of physical location, whereas with Jigsaw, when I wanted to look up info on a company it was only maybe 50% success rate. With Google you'll have to do a bit of work on your end to find the details that we were previously providing, but at least it's something.
11 comments | Sep 17 2012 2:27pm
We looked into it and discovered that our API key got revoked. We did some digging and realized that Jigsaw had been bought out by SalesForce last year, and Salesforce has decided to kill free access to this API, which apparently became effective around September 1.
The API is still available, if you're willing to pay. We are definitely willing to pay for this kind of data, but the price is $25,000/year. That works out to just over $2,000/month, which would make it our biggest monthly expense, other than payroll. Sorry, can't justify that.
For now, we have modified the links that pulled in this data to instead just open up a Google search page with the organization name pre-filled. In some ways this is actually better because Google will almost always find the company in question, regardless of physical location, whereas with Jigsaw, when I wanted to look up info on a company it was only maybe 50% success rate. With Google you'll have to do a bit of work on your end to find the details that we were previously providing, but at least it's something.
Alternatives?
If you know of an alternative service that is reasonably priced and includes an API, please let us know. We haven't found anything worthwhile as of yet. A lot of these services seem more geared towards providing you with "leads" at these companies, rather than just information about the companies themselves, which is not what we're really interested in at the moment.
11 comments | Sep 17 2012 2:27pm

Recent Comments
Cool beans. We've been using local search on one of our sites for a while and it's ... Shaun Peet, May 16 2013 Not yet. But we will support that. Sean (Clicky), Apr 22 2013 I'll try again... "My search looks like this: http://www.rdo.co.uk/search/ ... Matt, Apr 22 2013 Yeah that's definitely an option. It would probably be a clicky_custom property though ... Sean (Clicky), Apr 19 2013 Yes the utm_custom tracking will be great. You say only apply to certain tags like ... Andy, Apr 19 2013 > Any way to get this to work when there is no explicit parameter in the URL? My ... Jean-Paull, Apr 18 2013 Here is my search string as it appears in browser; index.php?src=search&searc ... Chris Theisen, Apr 18 2013 Ah, so that is why Clicky stopped logging my dynamic sales goals a while ago... Ivan Arnaudov, Apr 18 2013 Nice feature, but.... we dont use search parameters. ( our sites have ajax searches, ... Gerwin, Apr 17 2013 Thanks for the response. I'll wait and check it tomorrow! Darin, Apr 17 2013