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I realize this is an absolutely unhinged thing to ask for: Can anyone direct me to a large database of company names with websites (just those two columns), ideally 100K rows or more, that I can access for free? Basically this database if it had another column with the company name: https://github.com/cygenta/top10million (but doesn't need to be anywhere near 10 million)

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[–] MxRemy@piefed.social 1 points 7 months ago

A lot of public libraries offer access to ReferenceUSA through your library card. I vaguely remember that queries are pretty customizable on there, and exportable to various formats. Despite the generic name, it's specifically for businesses. Would that work?

[–] verstra@programming.dev 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Maybe search for this on kaggle? Or scrape Wikipedia?

[–] friendly_ghost@beehaw.org 1 points 6 months ago

Thank you for recommending kaggle! I found just what I needed there (actually way more data than I needed!). Here's what I went with, if it's useful to anyone else: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/mfrye0/bigpicture-company-dataset

[–] dracs@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Probably don't need to scrape it. Just query WikiData for it

https://wikidata.org